Customer Reviews

Survival Kids

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The premise of the game is to survive on an island after you've been shipwrecked, and hopefully escape. True to life, you don't have much of an idea of what to do when you first start out. You have to figure things out, sometimes the hard way. But that's half the fun! The graphics looks nice on GBC and the sounds of nature is a nice touch although it does get repetitive. Nice points: Three game slots (saved games), nice gradual change in colours to signify a change in time (on the GBC, on regular GB, it changes from day to night). Realistic game play. (such as food spoils over time, you get hungry, thirsty and fatigued, if you get sick you don't immediately recover etc.) Very nice! Highly recommended!

Imagine you as a kid ore on an ocean liner with your dad who is a great explorer. The ocean liner crashes while you are sleeping and when you wake up your on an island with no other humans to help you. What can you do? I love this game because it is a mix of harvest moon (which is also great) and the book Lord of the Flies. you use the concept of being hungry, thirsty, and tired instead of having health. At first you can only eat berries and get water from a stream but you can come up with other means. If you find a stick and a metal piece you can merge them into an axe. This concept provides ways to make usful items to help you survive. Once you are comfortable with your food and water supply you canthink about getting home. You can also find other items such as a radio ( batteries included in your backpack which you brought with you and other things...) to use. The other thing is that you can not only merge, eat, sleep, and drink but other means of fun are to be had. If you merge yourself a bow and arrow you can shoot game like Link in Legend of Zelda: Links awakening. Anyway it's a really fun game and it's great for the average kid in New York who has never been on an Island. ( kind of like a show on cartoon network called Mike Lu and Og but that is irrevelent...)

It's your birthday. You are going on a cruise with your dad. You two are the only people on the ship. At night, when you are sleeping, it crashes. When you awake, you are alone on an island. There are no humans on the island, just you and the animals. You have to get your own food and water. You might want to improve your lifestyle as you go along, so merge items to create hunting tools, fire, "pleasure" objects (fan) and other items. Sometimes, you need to use one of your objects to move something (knife cuts down grass) or to create something. There is a "timer" for day and night, which passes gradually, and for how long until you need to eat or start losing hit points and other stuff like that. The game is fun in the beginning (sometimes frustrating) and interesting. But once you have played once and you are stuck (or you've beaten the game) then it gets boring. Once you've beaten it, you can't really play it again for awhile with out being really into it, because you know how to make everything. Then it isn't challenging. I recommend this game for the older group because sometimes you get annoyed when you can't get past a certain part. Still, it's a pretty good game.

I bought both this game and Harvest Moon from Amazon, expecting that it would be less entertaining than the highly praised HM. To my surprise, Survival Kids outclasses Harvest Moon in entertainment value. Harvest Moon GBC lacks the most fun aspect from the SNES and N64 versions, the dating sim, making the game seem quite empty. Survival Kids is missing nothing, and I find it quite faultless. The controls are all right, nothing to be excited about, but not a detriment to playing, and the minigames have the right amount of difficulty. The realistic aspects of survival are measured by 4 different levels you must maintain, that of health, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and keeping these high are not unnecessarily hard, so that progressing in the game is not impossible. I do have a slight quibble about the fatigue rating because the character becomes tired a little too quickly and that limits your ability to explore.

The most inspired part of the game is the ability to merge items, so that seemingly useless things you find during your travels such as the big leaf, the stick, or tree bark become something that you can use to go further in the game and possibly find your way back home. Sometimes you might be annoyed because you wasted items making something useless, like the mask or big fan, but don't worry, once you use an item, it will reappear at the spot you found it, so you can find endless supplies of ivy and rocks, if you accidentally created something useless.

There are many surprises to find in the game, and the possibility of getting different endings (eight of them in total) raise the replayability of this title, but the repetitiveness of beginning the journey again and again will probably keep you from playing it nonstop until you find all of the endings. You'll probably only care about getting the good ending, rather than trying to get them all.

Finding a good ending isn't that hard, however, because the puzzles in the game aren't that hard and are linear, so that you must do a certain action (like find or make a certain item) to make progress. If you don't perform a certain action in the game, you cannot go on, so you sometimes might get stuck, which is frustrating, but the puzzles aren't as hard as those in some puzzle-oriented games, like Zelda.

All in all, this is a fun game. So, if you're looking for a cute but challenging rpg/sim for your portable, try out Survival Kids.

WOW WOW and WOW! This game is awesome! I really like that there is night and day(unlike pokemon) also how you merge things: Stick + Rock = Baseball Set, Stick + Bark = Kindling to make fire(but not in rain), Flextree + Ivy = Bow, Metal + Stick = Ax,and Flextree + Fishing Tackle = fishing rod

Right now, the monkey stole my backpack and I can't get it back. All in all this is a Great game!

I heard about it from a friend a while after it's release, so I went online to check out some of the reviews it's gotten. This game is wonderful. You take the role of the little anime-style superdeformed charachter as in most every RPG. In this, you find stuff and "merge" things to get better things. I got a broom once. Some items created (such as the previously mentioned) serve almost no purpose at all (that I have found). On occasion, you will run into little critters that will most likely try to attack you. Use your knife or another weapon you have created to kill it. Then you can cook and eat it. I guess I made this game sound simple, but it's a bit more complicated. If you have any doubts that you should buy this game, this game is a wise investment (as my dad calls stuff he wastes money on) and should be purchased immediately. Sure, the title isn't that great, but that doesn't really affect the gameplay, does it?

Survival Kids is not really an RPG, it is more of an adventure game with a bit of action. But regardless of what genre it falls in, it is really, really good. It has the same kind of charm that Treasure Island or Robinson Crusoe do, you even get to have a pet monkey! Also don't be fooled by the age suggestion, I think anyone would enjoy this.

This game is an origainal,that actualy has the element survival in it!When you and your father are ship wrecked you get washed up on an island and have to use the few items you have in your backpack to create other items in order to survive.Some of the items include a radio and a hunting knife that your father had gave you before the ship wrecked.You have to experiment with different kinds of food and combine items to advance in the game.

Because you need to have a little knowledge of nature in order to make vital items such as fire to survive,I do not recomend this game for children younger than 11 or 12.It may frustrate younger children when their charecter gets sick or fattiged and dies.

Over all,this game is excellent and is one of a kind.The realistic-ness of this game is wonderful and is aprecciated for being on this system and giving Game-Boy a new rep.

Good Job Konami!(Creaters of Survival Kids)

This game may not be famous but it's a lot of fun. I like the fact that I can make the character a boy or a girl. The graphics are wonderful, so is the color. I still don't know how to get past the rocks so I'm wandering around trying to think of it. I also like how if you take your time, you won't die because you take too much time.

This is a fun game.I just got it and I can't get passed a monkey who get your knapsack and it won't let you move on to you get it back.All over the island there is things laying on the ground.You get to put things together to make a new idem. Like you can collect a flextree and ivy to make a bow to go hunting.Then you have to find feathers and sticks to make arrows.Your father gave you a knife for your birthday and matches and a radio. You can hunt and fish all over the island.The one thing I can't make is a fire.You have to make a fire because there is one point in the game but its dark and you can't go through without a fire. This is a fun game and thats why I rate it 5 stars