The fact that the rest of the Summer of Arcade are games that will easily take up as much of your attention as a $60 game just highlights this fact. In many ways, Fruit Ninja Kinect feels like a throwback to the Xbox Live Arcade’s early years where the games needed to be smaller than 50 megabytes and generally didn’t get more complicated than pac-man. The game’s full-body motion does offer a better experience than the iOS version (which it should, since it costs about ten times as much), but it’s still a shockingly shallow experience compared to any of the other three Summer of Arcade games already released. Less good if you’re looking for something that will keep you occupied for more than 10 minutes at a time. Great for parties and for overactive six-year-olds you’re trying to tucker out before bed.

Overall, the effect is a frantic, somewhat silly (in a good way) game where you spend two to five minutes acting like a ninja and making hand chops in the air. Activate your Online Access Now Article content

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