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MySims Kingdom
- Price: $30-50
- Genre: Simulation
Common Sense Media says
Delightful role-playing game where you build & repair stuff.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this game is a kid-friendly spin on EA's popular
Sims franchise. Instead of being a life simulation of a Sim's adult
life, MySims is a role-playing game where the goal is to build and
repair structures for other Sims. While the game centers on helping others, the
Comic Mischief disclaimer refers to the fact that you can be mean to other Sims
in order to collect Sad Essences for building materials.
What's it about?
The follow-up to last year's MySims, MYSIMS KINGDOM takes Electronic
Arts' wildly popular Sims franchise further away from its open-ended life
simulation roots with a story-driven role-playing game geared towards kids.
After creating and customizing your own Sim, you'll jump into the story to learn
that you're the latest Wandolier, wielders of magic sceptres that are capable of
conjuring objects out of thin air. At the request of the Sims' cupcake-loving
ruler, King Roland, you'll travel throughout the kingdom helping people by using
your magic to build houses, repair bridges and machines, and anything else they
request.
In order to acquire the necessary building materials, you'll have to collect
Essences to unlock scrolls. For example, collecting 25 Metal essences unlocks
the Small Gear scroll, which allows you to use gears to power machines. Essences
are collected performing various special actions and mini-games, such as
chopping trees to get Wood Essences, or hitting rocks with a pickaxe to get
Metal Essences. You can also earn Essences by treasure-finding or fishing. When
you're ready to build a structure, you'll enter a special mode where you can
place scenery such as walls, a roof, chimney, doors, windows, shrubbery, and
interior furniture.
Is it any good?
While the emphasis on building made the original MySims game a bit
of a chore, MySims Kingdoms is kept fresh by the mini-game challenges
and delightful character interactions. You can talk to other Sims and hear them
respond in their unique Sims gibberish language that is actually quite
expressive and cute. Another nice touch is that Sims actually interact with the
environment, including objects that you've added to it. Build a set of drawers,
for example, and a Sim will rummage through them, occasionally turning up a
trinket for you to keep. It's little touches like these that make MySims
Kingdom a delightful and accessible simulation for a younger audience that
perhaps isn't quite ready for the classic Sims games for PC.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about what was more fun to build, houses that let you place
the pieces in creative ways, or structures where you had to follow a rigid floor
plan (the game contains both). Did designing the interiors of the houses give
you any ideas about how to set up the furniture in your own room?
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Little Kids May Have Trouble Keeping Their Patience
This game is amazing. I've beaten it twice and I still play it for eighteen hours straight. It's addictive just like the first game. Even though the game contains no real inappropriate language, sex, nudity, or excessive violence, smaller children may have trouble being patient. The game is very long and requires a lot of thinking and logic that little kids may have trouble figuring out (the game is chock full of puzzles). Overall, it's fantastic!
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Great Game for All Ages
This is a fun, kid-friendly game that almost anyone would enjoy. You can really put your own creativity into it, judging by how you build things and how you decorate them. Once you finish the game, and get your own island, a little fun leaves the game, and it seems a little repetitive. Overall? A great game to use your creativity and create the things of your dreams.
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This is a very fun game!! I can't wait untill I beat it again.
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Great but has witchcraft!!
Great game but, u can hurt other sims and destroy stuff and does have magic thats how u make things, by chanting and waving a wand!
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Kid, 12 years old
April 13, 2011
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It's very fun, slightly addictive, but very fun!
I LOVE THIS GAME! I AM PRACTICALY ADDICTAD TO IT!
you can make your own person, creat your own house,and I am always making up my ownstories on it such as an elf who is pretending to be a pig hearder then finds her way back to her home land (lol)
I have been playing on one user for 56 HOURS!
The only annoying thing is your two 'friends', Buddy and Linsey always follow you everywhere! (But the good thing is if your very luckey or clever they get stuck in certain places such as sides of cliffs, holes and ontop of thing, and they cant, after that, follow you anywhere, not even into a building) But if you, say, build a fence around them, as soon as you go into a building, they can get out and then stay pout of the fenced area!!!
As for the role modle bit. You are the role modle! Helping people around differen islands, helping them to rebuild ther houses and eventualy, their lives!
Out of 100, 100/100! (well... maby 99 as of the buddy and linsey bit, but you can solve that!)
It's very fun, slightly addictive, but very fun!
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REALLY FUN :D
this is REALLY fun. You get to help out other people/sims and create your own world! It might be a little bit confusing for really really young children, though.
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Really cool game!
I love this game very much i beat it many times when i play it on the wii!
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Our family loves playing this game
This game is great. It's fun, it's challenging, it develops problem-solving skills, and best of all, it rewards helping others. The one bad thing is that it requires reading. So if your child doesn't read yet (like my 5-year old), someone older who can read needs to play with him or her.
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Great game, but should be for a better system.
VERY good game, considering it's for the Wii. It would be awesome on the PS3, though, since I have one, and it has better graphics- this game would look awesome if it had more realistic graphics.
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| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Simulation |
| Developer: | Electronic Arts |
| Release date: | October 28, 2008 |
| Price: | $30-50 |
| ESRB rating: | E for Comic Mischief |
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