Unfortunately, the timing of the game feels a tad unforgiving, particularly in the tense turns. No steering necessary, just push or pull back on the gas to race your slot car against all the StreetPass folks you tagged. Based on the real-life hobby, this minigame takes all the pressure out of racing games. Slot Car Rivals should be more fun than it is. Also, Henry the Toucan is an exceptional assistant, but he doesn’t have as colorful a personality as the sidekicks in the other games. Mii Trek‘s journeys are fun, but get repetitive quick, and you’re really in trouble if you have the bad luck of StreetPassing folks who didn’t walk all that much today. Mii Trek makes novel use of step counts to send you and up to tend StreetPass friends on a trip through the jungle searching for crystal skulls and fighting alligators. Mii TrekĮven the worst StreetPass game of 2016 is still lots of fun. Here are the best new 3DS StreetPass games. Now, after playing the fresh downloads for days at PAX West 2016, let’s rank the five new titles from worst to best. There have been some great minigames in the Mii Plaza that use StreetPass, but this is the first real addition of games since more than a year ago.
StreetPass is one of the best (if underused) social features of the 3DS, allowing owners of the handheld to pass information to other users quickly.