YMMV / Nintendo Badge Arcade

• Base-Breaking Character: The Arcade bunny: cute, funny, and endearing; or creepy, annoying, and sinister? Especially since in general, his startup dialogue takes a very long time to get through before getting onto the main game itself.
• Broken Base: There's a major rift between people who like the idea of being able to personalize their 3DS with badges to those who refuse to even give the game a chance because of its blatant money grubbing premise, saying it would have been better to just sell the badges up front than thinly veil it behind a luck-based game.
• Fan Nickname: The Arcade Bunny, having no official name (except in Japanese), has garnered a couple. American fans tend to call him "Badgegrab", after a possibly throwaway line in which he referred to himself as such during a Pokémon promotion. In the British version later on, the same line was changed to call him "Professor Hedge" to keep with the Pokémon professors' Theme Naming. That hasn't caught on as much, however. Some fans prefer to call him "Badge Bunny".
• Good Bad Bugs: Machines that start with a badge moving or falling occasionally have one or more of them fall into the catch zone without you needing to use a play. You won't actually get them unless you do use a play though, an Invisible Wall will stop badges from dropping all the way if you haven't put any money in or don't have any free plays.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The arcade bunny is just bound to make a dozen whenever a new set of badges with importance are released. The first day alone, his costume change to a real life bunny (except pink) became a meme immediately.
  • Play coins. Every other post on Miiverse in the Arcade's community complains that plays aren't purchased with play coins.
  • "Be the crane..."
• That One Level: The Bomb Machines and the Stick Machines are quite tricky to complete. You many have to spend a lot of eShop funds to complete them.