Living Classics
By Christopher Healy,
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Fun puzzle game for young kids; too bad it's on Facebook.
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What’s It About?
LIVING CLASSICS is a new twist on the popular \"hidden object\" game genre -- it's a \"moving object\" game. You open one of several storybooks (only two of which, \"Alice in Wonderland\" and \"Wizard of Oz,\" are based on real books -- the rest are generic fantasy settings, like \"pirates\" and \"wild west\") and study the colorful, lively illustrations for items that are moving ever-so-subtly. Find them all in time and you win. But you're also out to find a family of missing foxes that are lost in the books. Those foxes don't always appear, though; to lure them out, you'll need to spend coins on cookies for them, thereby increasing the probability that they'll pop out during your hunt.
Is It Any Good?
Fans of I Spy-style hidden object games should love the animated twist that Living Classics provides. It's a fun and very attractive game, which is unfortunately targeted at an entirely wrong age group. It's existence as a Facebook game is puzzling. Young kids who would delight in it are technically not allowed to play it, while the teens and adults who have access to it are likely to think its cartoony fairy-tale nature is too babyish. It's true that there is a social aspect, but the "feed your friends' foxes" part feels superfluous, tacked on solely to make it fit better on Facebook. In the long run, Living Classics is a very good game that's on a very wrong platform.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about internet safety. Why can it be dangerous to befriend strangers on Facebook if you won't need to interact with them during the game?
Families can talk about in-app purchases in games. Do you want to spend real cash through in-app purchases?
Game Details
- Platform: Facebook
- Subjects: Math: money
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning: analyzing evidence, decision-making, thinking critically, Emotional Development: empathy, Collaboration: teamwork, Self-Direction: work to achieve goals
- Pricing structure: Free
- Available online?: Not available online
- Publisher: Amazon Game Studios
- Release date: August 6, 2012
- Genre: Puzzle
- Topics: Fairy Tales
- ESRB rating: NR
- Last updated: August 26, 2016
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