Score: 6
"Well done...but too difficult."
date: August 12, 2007
I'm giving you a lower score than I feel the game deserves due to the difficulty alone. The last 4 plantets were a bear, and I actually quit before bringing together the last two. I can't imagine many 8-10 year olds are going to have the patience or skill to finish this.
The meteor's actually seemed to having a homing feature on them. If they had a decided orbit it'd seem I'd be able to avoid them by changing direction or launching the thrusters. However, there's times it seemed I could do nothing to avoid them. Near the end finding an unexplored planet was a little bit like finding a needle in a haystack (even with directions from the explored planets). By the time I'd find an unexplored planet, I'd have to catch it without getted slammed by an asteroid, and changing course could be enough to completely lose track of the planet. On top of that, I could be right on a planet's trail only to be stopped by the artificial border.
I have to say, the general gameplay was a lot of fun, and I thought the questions were appropriate and thought-provoking for the age group you specified. Were the difficulty also appropriate for kids I would have scored this an 8 or 9 out of 10. Make the necessary changes and I think this'll be a great game.
