Help just got animal crossing for DS's DS and.....

[Katherine]

REally fed up. DS got a load of vouchers for christmas so I suggested he used them for another game for his new Ds. After looking at reviews and mumsnet etc I decided that animal crossing looked really good. I trailed round town today as it seemed out of stock in most places and finally got it. I was really excited for him but I've just put it in and it has loads of speech bubbles asking questions. Now DS is 8.5 and can read OK but he's not that keen and we think he might be dyslexic altough the school disagrees (long story)... anyway DS just randomly clicked the answers and when I tried to slow him down he just shut the whole thing down and stormed off.

So I'm really fed up now. I contributed quite a lot more to the cost of the game and I'm worried he won't play it now.

Anyone who is familiar with this game does it have lots of reading in it? I mean it says age 3+ so I would have thought it was geared at younger kids. Is it doomed or does he just have to get through the first bit. I was going to have a closer look but I can't even see how to turn the dratted thing on

I refuse to get too involved in my kids DS's tbh but my dd has Animal Crossing and loves it. But she is a very good reader for her age (9). Maybe get your ds to show you how to turn it on and then see if you can go through the first bit with him - sometimes you have to input personal information first on these games - maybe that is what it is about?

There is a bit of reading but it is mostly fairly basic chit chat and gets repetative. I think it's a great game and I hope your DS gives it a try. Perhaps he was just in a hurry to get on with the game and felt the reading was slowing things down. I found myself telling DS1 (7) off yesterday for randomly clicking answers instead of reading them first. I think that's just the way boys attack games! He can't read all the words but enough to get the gist . You can write letters to other characters and I am hoping DS1 will get into that and it will be good practice for him as he doesn't like writing.