Moon (Nintendo DS)
common sense media says
This lunar experience is deeper than many console games.
parents & educators say
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that playing this game feels like you're in a science fiction movie. While there's violence, it's always for the greater good and for solving the mystery. What makes this an outstanding experience is not only the lack of gore, but the attention to story. There is a minor drug reference to the fluid in glass canisters you use to regain your health. The music adds to the drama, which can be somewhat scary. This is also one of the rare first person shooters that doesn't make you dizzy, even if you're prone to motion sickness in games.
Educational value:
Although the game is set in the future world that is 2058, you do get a feeling of what it might be like to live (and fight) on the moon.
Violence:
While there is a fair amount of shooting from various guns, you're mainly shooting robots. So there is no blood. But, you do see the carnage left by the aliens. In those cases, you'll see a pool of dark blood around a body. It's not animated, though.
Sex:
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Language:
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Consumerism:
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Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
The drug reference surrounds canisters filled with mysterious liquid that you pick up to regain your health. In addition to reviving your weakened state, they do put you in various other states. The first time you take one, you get dizzy and then go unconscious.
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Synchronicity
teen, 18 years old
teen, 18 years old
Ambitious game that gets it right
Moon is from Renegade Kid, who developed the horror-FPS Dementium: The Ward. I have actually played that game, unlike CSM, and it's quite good. But Moon improves on the Renegade engine used in Dementium, and looks extremely realistic for a DS game, with a frame rate of 60fps. The story's also a very good one: in the year 2057, you are a man named Major Kane, the leader of a task force sent to the moon to open up a sealed hatch that was found while men on the moon were excavating objects. The gameplay is innovative, because you move with the d-pad, look around by sliding your stylus across the touch screen, shoot with the L button, and open doors, etc. with the R button. Objectionable content is minimal. There's typical FPS violence, but unlike Dementium, Renegade Kid's previous game, there's no blood; also, there are minor drug references involving your main source to regain health, and the first time you use it, you pass out (just like tobacco), but you basically get used to it. Overall, Moon is a very good game, just like Dementium: The Ward, and I can only wonder what other innovative FPS experiences Renegade Kid will create. Thumbs up.
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s.stormer
teen, 13 years old
teen, 13 years old
Solid ds game
One of the few ds games I like.It is a fps but has a mild amount of violence.Much less than star wars in my opinion.It has laser guns and robot slaying so to say.It says the d-word once or twice but my mom(a teacher) let's my little brother play it.
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