Posts Tagged ‘ds games for kids’

My little Baby (DS): Cute Game Gives Girls Their Own Virtual Baby

Monday, December 14th, 2009

If you are a babysitter and want to improve your skills then the game My little Baby is custom made for you. It is one of the most amazing family friendly games available on this console. You will have to raise a small baby and all without the messes of the real world. The game starts as you will have to create virtual parents who have some unique characteristics. These unique characteristics include eye colour, hair colour, skin tone, etc. You can even determine the physical features of the baby.

After the baby arrives at your place it is totally up to you to care for it. You will have to perform some day to day routine such as cleaning, entertaining, and dressing him. Gradually as the baby will grow he will learn to crawl and walk. You can interact with the baby using the microphone of the Nintendo DS. The baby will even learn to talk which is such an amazing thing. The My little Baby (DS) game also includes a virtual nanny who will guide you and provide some useful tips to raise the little baby. There is an easy to use menu system in the game that will help you to navigate the world for raising a newborn baby.

You can shop for the baby and play some mini games as well. This game is very interactive and you can even take photos of your baby. The best part of the Nintendo DS game is taking your kid for shopping and seeing him grow.

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If You Want to Paint, DS Lite isn’t for that

Friday, May 9th, 2008

paint ds lite

Sometimes game developers make games that just don’t fit the bill. It would have been great to declare that Paint for DS lite would have been an amazing addition to the pool of games for DS lite, but somehow, we were not able to place this anywhere.

Totally, clueless as to whom the game targets — the kids? The teenagers? Adults? Surprisingly, It claims to be for teenagers and adults but I don’t think it will fit the bill there.

The game consists of a considerably good paint engine and allows one to render almost real time painting, using realistic brushes and all, but it still doesn’t fetch you the real feeling of getting dirty swabbing paint all over your body and making a mess out of everything. That feeling of being able to look at your working painting and think; of being able to think, brood and then execute — none of that. A simple touchpad with a nifty gaming device isn’t going to take that painter bug away from me and if paint by DS wants to take this old art rendering practice electronic, it isn’t doing a very impressive job.

The Game consists of little mini-games — simple, trite and unoriginal — even though the painting engine is more powerful than what the games show you. You could unlock some more paintings as you execute the ones available, but the point is lost, isn’t it? Why would I want to use DS lite to paint? I would want it to excite me? Pump my adrenaline up — not make me think about colors!

The game has been designed well and did have something going for them if it wasn’t for the fact that it isn’t really a game - it’s more like a self-indulgent pastime. If you are really into art, you would be surprised at what the DS can do, but other wise, don’t bother. There is some music too, if you wanted it and you could still try it, perhaps if you got it for free or for a grab-me-now price.

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