Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search For Grandma's Remedy From:Kutoka Interactive , Kutoka ,
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Kutoka Interactive
EAN: 0632332021202
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Label: Kutoka
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Kutoka
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 130 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 760 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 540 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Mac OS X
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Kutoka
Release Date: 2004-09-30
Studio: Kutoka
Feature:
- Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse
- 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty
- Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia
- Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more
- For kids ages 5 to 9
Product Description:
In Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search For Grandma's Remedy, kids will practice their literacy skills while working to get Mimi the medicine she needs!
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Save your money! DO NOT PURCHASE., 2008-05-27
I bought this game for my two kids 5 and 7 and sat thought an interminable 2hrs while they played it.
The game doesn't come with instructions so you have to find them on the disk. Unfortunately even after reading them I did not find the game very intuitive.
One of the first things to occur is that the mouse gets violently mugged by a Rat. I wasn't expecting that when I bought the game.
It was a complete mystery to me how to save during the progress of the game until (yet again) I looked at the instructions. The progress of the gameplay is not instinctive and I had to look at the instructions (again) several times in order for the kids to progress further.
The complexities of the different mini games are too simple and repetitive, or too hard for the two of them to play without significant help and input from me. I was gritting my teeth much of the time due to the minigames.
On the positive side; the kids were able to handle the interface well, they liked the characters, music and graphics. You can change the complexity level of the game at any time during gameplay by going back to the main menu. It is fairly slick EXCEPT for the save feature which sucks (it should save automatically during the progress of the game).
This is NOT a learning game it is an adventure game with word puzzles, there is NO teaching involved. Since I bought this game expressly for my kids to LEARN I do not recommend it for anything but adventure/ entertainment play.
FYI: For all the "educated" parents out there READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They tell you how to skip any animated sequence (including the intro movie) - hit the SPACEBAR. How to save - hit F3. How to skip a minigame and win while playing it - hit ESC. How to go to the main menu - hit F2. Oy!
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