Funfair Party Games is like visiting your own personal amusement park right on your 3DS. It includes 11 carnival-like games. All of the mini-games were score based, and competition is what Funfair Party Games is all about. It will include online leaderboards as well as both local and online multiplayer. And though the game allows for button-based controls, the game prides itself in using gyro controls, to the point that we were outright told that it was the optimal way to play.

A few of the games include:

• Shooting Gallery, which tasked players to use the motion controls to aim and shoot at various targets. Reloading was performed by tilting the 3DS down and quickly back up.
• Strike the Bell, which was the classic carnival game where a person slams a hammer down in order to launch a piece of metal up to hit a bell. To do this the player had to rhythmically lift the 3DS up and down before hitting X.
• Slam Dunk, where you shoot basketballs into the 5-feet-away arcade-style hoop. Like all other games, the gyro controls are used to shoot the basketball.
• Tin Can Alley, another classic carnival game of knocking down cans by throwing a ball at it. It's straightforward, but the physics of the cans falling looks nice.
• Claw Crane, which used the motion controls in order to navigate a crane inside a claw machine.
• Camel Derby, Ball in Glass, and Ball Roll all controlled similarly. They all require the player to push the 3DS forward in order to launch a ball in the same direction. The objectives are different in each game, but they all felt similar.

Overall, we thought the motion controls were problematic. While moving the 3DS around, we often felt the top screen of the 3DS was wiggling around too much, which made us fear for the safety of our 3DS's. That said, Joindots showed an earnest commitment to the game and promise that the gyro controls offer a learning curve rather than a problematic playstyle. Though we don't entirely agree, only time will tell if the public will share Joindot's stance on the matter when the game releases this summer.