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Games for parents and children: Play together!

2019-09-21T14:34:34.659Z


When parents play video games together with children, they can gain much more understanding of the fascination of these games - and make new conversations at the kitchen table.



Many parents moan about their kids showering too much. Games are more important than the school or friends. Incidentally, I am also one of those parents. Likewise, I moan about a plethora of YouTube movies, Mickey Mouse booklets in the library that block the backpack and then the nursery. Until I then find myself borrowing comic books during work breaks - or am also glad if one of my children wants to play something with me. This brings nice conversations and is a lot of fun and proves that you can have it in common - and in the best case even better understands afterwards. With us, some games for children between 6 and 12 have become established favorites, which I highly recommend.

"Mario Kart 8 Deluxe"

The most difficult test for family ties is probably "Mario Kart 8". This is a racing game in which various characters from the Nintendo universe are put into absurd car-like companions and compete against each other on different routes. It gets difficult because you can make each other's life - or the race - difficult with an arsenal of vicious things. Then fly banana peels, turtle shell, paralyzing a short time, fireballs or rockets around, mushrooms give extra thrust, stars make short invincible.

After only a few laps, in which one wants to push each other off with the meanest tricks, one notices whether the curse vocabulary has been widened in school and has to hold back, not to giggle too mean. Or get annoyed when you get kicked off the track again. It is nice that for each of the four potential riders driving aids can be set individually. So the untrained little ones - or adults - are supported in steering or accelerating. A warning: those who are not careful spend whole afternoons with them - and then continue secretly when the children are in bed.

That connects: to see that in the end all nastiness is balanced again and everyone has the same chances of winning.
System: "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" by Nintendo, for Nintendo Switch
Age (USK): no age limit

"StarLink"

In the store, the space adventure "Starlink" was a flop, with us at home, it is at the top of the list of the most played titles. Both are easy to explain: "Starlink" is only really fun if you have the right equipment. And that could go into the money before the game went on the special offer pile. The highlight of "Starlink" are the toy spaceships, which can be plugged into controllers and equipped with weapons - and can be purchased to the game, if one is not satisfied with the basic equipment. In the split screen we then fly in pairs through space, freeing a star system from the evil forces, changing weapons to adjust to different enemies.

That connects: We explore flora and fauna of foreign planets and plan in the evening before falling asleep still new journeys. Finally, "Starlink" gives us many opportunities to go your own way through its open worlds.
System: "Starlink" from Ubisoft, for Playstation 4, Switch, Xbox One and PC
Age (USK): from 6 years

"Yoshi's Crafted World"

Children who are not yet good at using a controller properly are often frustrated, though they actually like video games. "Yoshi's Crafted World" offers a solution: you play in pairs and the more experienced players can simply piggyback the others in difficult spots. It works because everyone plays a Yoshi. This is an extremely cute mini-dinosaur that eats enemies, excreting them as an egg again - which makes children very happy. These eggs can then be used to shoot hidden paths. "Yoshi's Crafted World" is also extremely popular because it looks like children made cardboard and scraps of cloth. Great for adults: the game is divided into fairly clear levels, which makes pauses extremely easy.

This connects: the weaker helps the stronger - not the worst teaching for life.
System: "Yoshi's Crafted World" by Nintendo, for Nintendo Switch
Age (USK): from 6 years

"Unravel 2"

Being in a game for two is a lot of fun. Especially if you do not do that online but can sit on the sofa with your children. With "Unravel 2" we have a game that looks great, but also a bit scary. After all, we have to guide woolen beings over dangerous abysses and help each other by spinning trampolines out of wool threads or pulling the others along by the thread. The environment does not always seem friendly. We have to cross small streams, run through tunnels or climb tree roots. It all looks like real, the kids find, but just as they imagine little adventure places. After all, they should also be a bit scary.

That connects: hardly a band can be knotted stronger than one made of pure wool.
System: "Unravel 2" by Electronic Arts, for Playstation 4, Switch, Xbox One and PC
Age (USK): from 6 years

Source: spiegel

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