{"id":1628,"date":"2008-12-09T04:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2008-12-09T04:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:45:56","slug":"game-review-tropix-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/game-review-tropix-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Review: Tropix (DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_screen.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1629\" title=\"tropix_box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_box-150x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Has the glut of games this holiday season got you worn out? Tired of slaying radioactive zombies and saving ungrateful princesses? Then what you need is a gaming vacation on a tropical island. Tropix for the DS is a smorgasbord of nearly a dozen relaxing casual games with a tropical twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tropix is just a collection of around 11 mini-games. There are puzzlers like a Zuma clone and a match-three-fruits-in-a-row challenge. Familiar classics like Solitaire, Sudoku, and bowling. And a few light action games like vine swinging and parasailing. With the exception of one game, all others control with the touch screen and stylus and all work well.<\/p>\n<p>By playing the games you can earn sand dollars to buy more things for your islands. The more stuff you buy, the more games you can unlock. You can also play a few with a nearby friend with a DS in single or multi-card play. All the games play well and are easy to pick up and understand. Tropix is great for people who enjoy casual gaming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1630\" title=\"tropix_screen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_screen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_screen.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tropix_screen-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor<\/strong><br \/>\nTropix is rated E-10 for Everyone 10 and up with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief, Simulated Gambling, and Use of Alcohol. There is no violence. If your monkey falls off a vine in the Jungle Jump game, he just drops to the ground and says &#8220;Ouch!&#8221; I guess the simulated gaming comes from you winning sand dollars by playing the games. And the alcohol reference is just a picture of a mug of beer you can buy for your island. Reading skill is helpful but the games are so simple that anyone can figure them out. Even though it&#8217;s rated E-10, I&#8217;d let any kid play Tropix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the glut of games this holiday season got you worn out? Tired of slaying radioactive zombies and saving ungrateful princesses? Then what you need is a gaming vacation on a tropical island. Tropix for the DS is a smorgasbord of nearly a dozen relaxing casual games with a tropical twist. \u00a0 Tropix is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}