How to Train Your Dragon (Nintendo Wii)

After playing games that make you think and work really hard to stay alive, this simple mixed RPG and fighter game is great for children and adults who would like to have fun, relax, and stay stress free. With so many games focused on just staying alive, it's refreshing to be able to sit back and just play a simple RPG-style game by digging for food and plants, catching animals, and talking to other characters.

The problem is that it is TOO simple. Because the world is so tiny and the varieties so limited, it gets tedious after a few hours of gameplay.

Most of the game is training (as in the game title) your dragon to level up to fight in the tournaments. The training is very step by step and guided, as are the quests.

Fortunately, you can customize your dragon, but it is again, very limited. There are mostly only four different styles per dragon part. The best part of dragon customization are the stats, which actually do make a difference.

There are also minigames which are a much more fun way to train your dragon. But again, they do get slightly monotonous when training all four dragons on the same ~6 minigames.

All-in-all, still a fun game, especially when not wanting to exert oneself. And when finished with the story mode, you can switch over to arcade mode, and fight some dragons, hopefully having unlocked all the extra ones through the story mode.

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My Grandchildren are just loving this game. Worth every penny. Also appreciate that I get fast service and good prices from Amazon.

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I think my grandson is already bored with this game but the graphics were interesting and the movie was so charming it was fun for him to stay engaged with the spirit of the movie playing this game.

the movie was great.

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