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Learned
Boosting thread, not resurrecting it, cus gaming with your children shouldn't ever cease...
1. Morphopolis
It's highly stylized, point and click, hidden object game whose theme deals with the life, transformation and passing of insects... It has 5 phases, in which you manage different beetles, from caterpillar to spider, crawling through the thicket to the sounds of aboriginal timpani.. Atmosphere is immersive and presentation colorful, but the controls are wonky and oftentimes unresponsive. We only had minor difficulties with chinese checkers like puzzle at the 4th stage and in the hindsight enjoyed it quite a bit, but that damnable last one was a disaster. I still don't understand why game devs insist on slider puzzles It was pretty fun until that point and instant recommendation for autumn evening with your family, but that last puzzle left a sour taste in our mouth and lesions on our brains... Still I urge you to at least give it a try, cus it wasn't too challenging for our five-year-old, not counting that last abysmal obstacle.
2. Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
We played this one at my son's birthday, and it was fun for the whole gang. The children took turns navigating zany labyrinthine passages in search of a culprit, constantly being distracted by vivid and busy backgrounds. It was amusing watching them squabble (I'd recommend playing it on larger TV screen, so that all the small details would come to the fore), about the ways in which they can progress...
3. Dragon's Lair
You already know the drill... Watching Don Bluth's filmography with my kid and in the light of the upcoming Njetflix live-action adaptation I thought we should try this interactive cartoon, as I didn't have the chance or the inclination to try it before... What should I say!? Can't imagine playing and enjoying it myself, but watching my kid heading Dirk (that didn't sound right) around the castle and how annoyed he could get when missing some sequence of moves made me appreciate it. With its simplistic, but sometimes unfair, gameplay you can't go wrong with this one, especially if your kid enjoys tall tales of fantastical creatures and heros of old. It was priceless to see the elation of a child who feels in control of the events unfolding on the screen, like a little director of animated fairytale. We played it with xbox controller and felt a serious input lag on more than one occasion and I read that the game is nigh unplayable with a mouse, so despite all recommendations, tread carefully my friend
1. Morphopolis
It's highly stylized, point and click, hidden object game whose theme deals with the life, transformation and passing of insects... It has 5 phases, in which you manage different beetles, from caterpillar to spider, crawling through the thicket to the sounds of aboriginal timpani.. Atmosphere is immersive and presentation colorful, but the controls are wonky and oftentimes unresponsive. We only had minor difficulties with chinese checkers like puzzle at the 4th stage and in the hindsight enjoyed it quite a bit, but that damnable last one was a disaster. I still don't understand why game devs insist on slider puzzles It was pretty fun until that point and instant recommendation for autumn evening with your family, but that last puzzle left a sour taste in our mouth and lesions on our brains... Still I urge you to at least give it a try, cus it wasn't too challenging for our five-year-old, not counting that last abysmal obstacle.
2. Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
We played this one at my son's birthday, and it was fun for the whole gang. The children took turns navigating zany labyrinthine passages in search of a culprit, constantly being distracted by vivid and busy backgrounds. It was amusing watching them squabble (I'd recommend playing it on larger TV screen, so that all the small details would come to the fore), about the ways in which they can progress...
3. Dragon's Lair
You already know the drill... Watching Don Bluth's filmography with my kid and in the light of the upcoming Njetflix live-action adaptation I thought we should try this interactive cartoon, as I didn't have the chance or the inclination to try it before... What should I say!? Can't imagine playing and enjoying it myself, but watching my kid heading Dirk (that didn't sound right) around the castle and how annoyed he could get when missing some sequence of moves made me appreciate it. With its simplistic, but sometimes unfair, gameplay you can't go wrong with this one, especially if your kid enjoys tall tales of fantastical creatures and heros of old. It was priceless to see the elation of a child who feels in control of the events unfolding on the screen, like a little director of animated fairytale. We played it with xbox controller and felt a serious input lag on more than one occasion and I read that the game is nigh unplayable with a mouse, so despite all recommendations, tread carefully my friend