Oh, my kids actually like PlayStation's new Lego game
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I thought my kids weren’t enjoying Lego Horizon Adventures, the second of Sony’s two big efforts this fall to make PlayStation a bigger deal for families with young children.
September’s Astro Bot, a cheerful game of running, jumping, enemy-punching and robot-collecting, was their first PlayStation game. They loved it.
But I had an inkling that Lego Horizon was not connecting with them. The clue: Over the weekend, I asked my seven-year-old daughter to play more of it with me, and she said, “I don’t like that game.”
Another hint was her and her twin brother repeatedly asking me this weekend if they could play more Astro Bot. That was Saturday morning. We did. That was Saturday evening. We did. That was Sunday, too. We did again.
They didn’t ask to play Lego Horizon, though they humored me and we played it a bit in between Astro Bot requests. Taking notes about their disinterest, I was ready to write about how Sony’s first Lego-themed game flopped in our household.
Then, I mentioned to my son last night that it would be helpful for my work if we could play the new Lego game just a little more.
“I like that game,” he told me. Huh? I needed to figure this one out.
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