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Juegos “avanzados”

Un pequeño listado de juegos que pueden ser interesantes para niños de 9 a 13 años. Una edad difícil: no pueden ser muy infantilones pero tampoco para adolescentes o adultos (como el Call of Duty, el juego de moda):

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• Xenoblade Chronicles, un J-RPG larguísimo y epiquísimo.
• The Last Story, otro J-RPG más comedido pero, en mi opinión, mucho mejor.
• Zelda – Skyward Sword, qué decir de esta maravilla. Lo único, visualmente parece un poco infantil para chavales de esta edad.

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• Star Wars- KoTOR, un RPG occidental casi mítico. Contiene un giro argumental (plot twist)  memorable, sin parangón en la historia de los videojuegos (bueno, está Torment, pero este es para adultos). La segunda parte está muy bien, aunque queda claro que la sacaron antes de tiempo (sólo PC, me temo…)
• Portal, el juego de puzzles 3D sin argumento. Ja ja. Bueno, hay que jugarlo. La segunda parte es también excelente.

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• Under construction …

wii save games region change

So I got stuck in Zelda Skyward Sword. This is actually a bit hard (details below), unless you are stuck in the famous Song of the Hero bug, which is amply covered in the web (with Nintendo offering a channel just to fix it).

Anyway, I think it is interesting to know how to install save games from other people, even from another region. Not only if you are stuck: you can jump straight to advanced stages of a game (or earlier ones) for whatever reason.

 

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Hybrid games

I am basically an “adventure gamer”, in the sense that I play games for their stories. It turns out, there are not so many adventure games (AGs) around, and some have rather weak stories to tell (plus I don’t like puzzles so much, which are hard to avoid in the AG genre.) But! there are other games that may have strong storylines, typically role playing games (RPGs), even though some action games have pretty decent plots sometimes. Here is a list I have painstakingly collected, of such hybrid games.

Console games

I am pretty happy with PC gaming, but there are some games out there that would make me get one of those consoles:

• Katamari Damacy (PS2). Really original game in which you have to roll stuff up to form a star.

Monsieur Michel Ancel

I have tried few games designed by famous designer Michel Ancel: Beyond Good and Evil and Rayman 1 and 2: The great escape (not that he has many more). And I must say, he seems to be one of these designers whose character is imprinted in the final game (like, say, Tim Schafer or Ron Gilbert). His absence is painfully patent in Rayman 3 which completely lacks the innocence and magic of the previous games (I still have to try Rayman Raving Rabbids, but I am afraid the same will apply).

Carcassonne

A board game that appeals both to casual and hard-core gamers; this is quite rare, but rarer is the fact that it can be an excellent 2,3, or 4 person game. Usually, there’s a huge gap between 2 and more persons board games, but not in Carcassonne. Great success, lots of expansions…

A good place to get a copy is in Germany, from amazon.de, or ebay.de.

Action games

I usually dislike action games, but these two I just loved:

• Psychonauts, incredibly original
• Beyond Good and Evil, perhaps not so shocking, but lovable

Not surprisingly, these are games that are close in spirit to my favourite genre, adventure games (AGs).

The same happened with Torment, a RPG with clear AG connections.