In the name of making titles accessible and simple enough that even newer gamers can enjoy them, there’s no question that a certain degree of bar lowering can be in order. Expectations for complex controls, deeper systems, and more meaningful storylines can be thrown aside in order to make room for something any average person could pick up, play, and find some enjoyment in. I have no doubts that Kabuto Park had precisely that sort of thing in mind through its development cycle.

You’ll be playing as Hana, a little girl who is looking for something to keep her busy and entertained over her summer vacation. When she meets a new friend named Midori, she gets roped into the local bug collecting and battling scene, and that pretty much covers the breadth of what the game is about. Your activities will include looking through the different areas of the park, finding bugs, and hopefully catching them. From there you’ll have the opportunity to put together your favorites to battle with other people’s bugs, working to keep your team fresh with new members and using candies to try to level up your favorites as well.

While you can use the Pro controller to play more traditionally, you’ll also be able to tackle play with the JoyCon motion controls if you’d prefer something more simplified or whimsical as well. While it has its simple charms, there’s also not too much depth to find in the end. You’ll go out looking for bugs, work to play the little timing mini games to catch them, and then you’ll do battle which mostly just consists of putting together a decent team, and then choosing which skills they have to try to best your opponents. Of course, if you find yourself on the losing end, you can always go out in the hopes of finding more rare bugs, or at least getting more money or candy to simply help train your squad up to be more competitive. It doesn’t promise to be more than a simple good time, and it mostly delivers on that, even if it’s a pretty humble offering.