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More fun than Harvest Moon GBC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Great game for everyone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. In my opinion, there are two different parts to it: the puzzles and the survival. The puzzles are how you win the game, and they're the type that you have to think for a long time before you figure them out, sometimes weeks. The puzzles include how to merge (put together) items you find correctly into to tools, how to get somewhere (i.e. up a cliff), and how to find the seven gems to win the game. If you're having trouble with the puzzles or think that they're too easy, it doesn't stop there. You have to find enough food, water, and sleep for yourself to keep alive. Every four or so steps, your fatigue(tiredness), food, and water counters go down by one (each of these has a max of one hundred). If any counter reaches zero, you begin to lose Life Points with every step. You can also lose Life Points when you are poisoned or hurt by animals. If your Life Points goes down to zero, you're dead. There are also 8 different endings, some of which involve another kid you can find on the island, so once you've beat one you're not done.

Survival Kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is my favorite game out of all of the others I own. You play as either a boy or girl who gets stranded on a deserted island. You start off with only a pocket knife and you need to find food, water, shelter, etc in order to survive. With some objects you can create others, for example you can create a fishing pole to catch food. Anyway I love this game, I can play it for hours. I highly recommened, but it's a shame that they don't make it anymore.

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