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ZTGD | Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster Review

Michael Futter writes: When the dust settled after Microsoft’s Kinect-heavy E3 presentation, one game emerged as the clear frontrunner for demographic and design fit with the Kinect hardware. No, it wasn’t the Fable title and unfortunately, it wasn’t Kinect Star Wars.

The clear winner wasn’t even for the core market, but a studio overflowing with gamer street cred designed it. Double Fine’s Once Upon a Monster is a triumph of writing, presentation and design and, when it comes to the Kinect, you can do no better for the younger members of your household.

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PaladinXII4563d ago

I don't think it's GOTY material, no. But rated against its competition and considering its target audience, there is NOTHING better out there.

Once Upon a Monster is a charming, wonderful, engaging and FUN game for the target audience. Will it compete against Batman, MW3, Gears, Uncharted, Dark Souls, etc for GOTY? Not a chance.

DiRtY4563d ago

Finally a review that accepts this game for what it is. a game for kids.

PaladinXII4563d ago

Thanks! You might notice that we gave it our first "Dad Approved" award.

DMLFury4562d ago

Why would someone disagree on that comment? Show yourself!

PaladinXII4561d ago

Hey remember that .13 guy? I bet he disagrees with us giving it an award.

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GameEnthus Podcast ep352: Ad'd Value or Bond Recollection

This week Mike (@AssaultSuit), Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) talk about: Iron Man 3, Deadpool 2, Avengers Infinity War, Dover ComicCon, Warhammer, Disenchantment, 007 The Duel, Timothy Dalton, 007 Bloodstone, Daniel Craig, Skyfall, Xbox One, Fallout 76, Bethesda, Trials of the Master Sword, Dead Cells, Overwatch, All-Star Fruit Racing, Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster, Kinect Adventure, TMNT Kinect, Kero Blaster, Castlevania Lords of Shadow, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario Kart, Meteos, Radio Hammer Station, Guacamelee! 2, Morphies Law, Parsec, Monument Valley, Tetris, Twitch, Netflix, Cloak and Dagger, Xbox All Access, Extra Life, The Office and more.

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Exploring Double Fine's Kinect Party Through the Eyes of a Child

Next-Gen Gamers is a feature where Twinfinite explores the world of gaming through the eyes of our kids who really are the next generation of gamers

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traumadisaster3666d ago

My kids adore this game and is unreal to watch 4-8 year olds play this.

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Top 5 Xbox 360 Games For Kids

While the Xbox hasn’t traditionally been targeted to younger children, its popularity has made it a centerpiece for most home theater systems. Because of that the little rug rats often want to play with the toy.

Here is our Top 5 Xbox 360 Games For small kids.

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MkaY3985d ago

A good list and the games included are not something I'd consider expensive. Anyone else have better suggestions for Xbox 360 games for kids?

VforVideogames3984d ago

are they for you or your kids? trustme kids really love this games and try kinect party its fun for the whole family and best of all its free from xbox live subscribers.

MkaY3984d ago

For the kids but I don't mind enjoying them too. Thanks for the tip. I just might give it a go.

Snookies123985d ago

Black Ops II. Lol sorry, kidding, kidding...

Lego Harry Potter is actually pretty fun. Although the freaking collectibles are crazy... There are way too many, and being a perfectionist hurts with a game like that.

MkaY3985d ago

Yeah LEGO games in general are good choices. Having a blast also with Nintendo's latest LEGO exclusive.

It's just too bad that most good games for kids are for PS3 or Nintendo and not for Xbox 360.

jeffgoldwin3985d ago (Edited 3985d ago )

Nintendo, but not so much ps3. Bout equal with xbox for kids games. Heck xbox and ps3 have like several hundred games for kids as it is. No way you'd ever play them all anyways.

Kinect does do well on kids games, hardcore...well no. So actually with Kinect Id say 360 holds the advantage for kids games over ps3. But meh w/e.

nigelp5203985d ago

FAIL

Viva Pinata?
Beautiful Katamari?

Bigpappy3985d ago

He is talking very young kids, 2-7. Xbox live arcade has a huge library of these game, from bubble games to fish eating other fish and yeah all the Kinect stuff where they can jump around and yell at the TV (Moms love to see kids doing this. Dads to by the way).

nigelp5203985d ago

Ill replace Sesame Street Once Upon a monster with the lego game

FaSCoRP3985d ago

You can add Fantastic Petz for very young kids