Overall I am tearing my hair out waiting for an Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon Wii port because I never got to play the originals and I’m jonesing for a new original sim-y girlie game. Raving Rabids would be a little tough for my kids but the adults in our family enjoyed it very much…the minigames were hilarious. She also liked Super Paper Mario, but that needed some problem-solving assistance. Sims2 Pets also used the nunchuck but the interface was more complicated and was a little frustrating for her, too many layers of menus and more complex two handed controls. My 4 year old’s motor skills make approaching a door or person correctly to interface with difficult, but thankfully she thinks its hilarious to watch her Sim fail to succeed with a simple door. Several of the problems she’s run into in the game are bad design: like making you click on an unlabelled icon when you want to work on a task in the workshop, but she’s getting somewhere with it. She loves building the furniture and changing the Sims outfit and can navigate the plot because she can read (I swear playing Mario Party 8 with her 4 year old sister sealed the deal on reading) the dialogue boxes. That said, I handed my 6 year old daughter the wii-mote for My Sims expecting a fine motor skills failure and was met with success. Bad repetitive animation, all games are essenitally point-the-wiimote-and shoot, with no humor or even a story. We rented Carnival Games for a test drive last week and I was shocked at how thoroughly it sucked.
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