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Xbox X|SWe've documented 26 accessibility features for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, including Large Subtitles, Large Text, Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions and Select Difficulty. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Reading but it also has features in Visual, Getting Started, Difficulty, Navigation and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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External examiner, Angela Hickman Newnham, first checked Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle accessibility 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 5 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
There is a slight depth-of-field effect applied on very far away objects, but it is barely noticeable due to the camera perspective used. The opening cutscene has significant screen-shake effects.
Although you can complete the main story without the need for quick reactions, some levels have challenges you need to complete in a certain amount of time, which is both high pressure and demands fast and precise reactions and inputs, so to get 100% completion of the entire game, not just finishing the story, fast reactions are needed.
You can't save mid-level, so if you lose, you need to start the stage again.
Game Details
Release Date: 29/08/2017
Price: 43% off
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1-2
Genres: Battle, Strategy (Sequencing, Shooting and Traversal)
Accessibility: 26 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass
Controls
We've documented 7 accessibility features for Controls in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Gamepad
Can play with the following:
Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.
Remap Controls
Can customise the controls for the game as follows:
Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons for prolonged periods (a second or more) is not required or can be switched to toggling the action on and off. This is in addition to the movement stick/button which is not considered a hold for this purpose.
Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Controller Vibration
Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.
Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates events or interactions in the game, echoing visual and audio cues. This can provide additional information about progress, approaching enemies or hitting a target.
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If you want to play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Controls accessibility:
- Marvel's Midnight Suns (9 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.
Difficulty Options
Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.
Adjust After Setting
Adjustable Between Levels: You can adjust the difficulty between levels/rounds. Although you have to restart your checkpoint or level, this enables you to adjust the difficulty after selecting it at the beginning of the game.
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If you want to play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Difficulty accessibility:
- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (3 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Reaction-Time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions, or there are settings to lower the requirement for quick reactions. This means you don't need to quickly press a button in response to an on-screen prompt, target a fast-moving target or skillfully complete a scenario against the clock.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.
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If you want to play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Transformers: Battlegrounds (8 Getting Started Features)
- Beastieball (7 Getting Started Features)
- Rabbids Coding (7 Getting Started Features)
- Rivengard (7 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Reading in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.
Text Visibility
Large Clear Text: All essential text is large and clear or can be adjusted to be. The general text used throughout the game in menus, instructions and other key information (excluding subtitles that are assessed separately) is at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height on landscape screens and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters.
High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.
Subtitles
Large Clear Subtitles: Subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast. They are at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height of a landscape screen and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens, or can be adjusted to be. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters. Considered separately from the general text of the game, the subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast.
All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.
Captions
Speaker Indicator: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
Navigation
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deals with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.
Menu Navigation
Menu Audio Cues: Navigating menus provide an audio cue for each selection.
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- Wargroove 2 (5 Navigation Features)
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong (5 Navigation Features)
- Beastieball (4 Navigation Features)
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Visual
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Visual in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Contrast
Medium Contrast: Game uses generally well contrasting and bright visuals, or has a slider to make this the case.
Visual Distractions
No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.
Audio Cues for Visual Events
Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.
Menu Audio Cues: Navigating menus provide an audio cue for each selection.
Motion Sickness Friendly
Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.
Colour Options
Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
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If you want to play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Not Chess (7 Visual Features)
- Transformers: Battlegrounds (7 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- King Pins (3 Audio Features)
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System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Andy Robertson, @growingupgamers, Jo Robertson and Ben Kendall
