Beginners Guide to Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children

Game Review of Virtual Villagers 2

Marsha J
Virtual Villagers: A New Home ended with the golden child opening the entrance to a cave. The game hinted that there might be more to the cave and in Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children, the cave does hold more secrets. A man and woman from the original Virtual Villagers decide to check out the cave and suddenly fall to the other side over a waterfall. They are suddenly surrounded by children and the game begins.

Finding Food

The Virtual Villagers 2 has the same game play as the first game but there are a few different things this time around. The villagers still have to find food but you no longer have to worry about the well and water. Food for your villagers can be found in the coconut trees, fish from the ocean and a patch of land that you can grow crops on.

Children

Unlike the first Virtual Villager game, you begin with only two adults and a few children. One of the kids is old enough to start working but the rest are too young and you will have to wait until they turn 14 or 15 before you can put them to work. Children can harvest mushrooms to eat and they are the only ones who can pick up special items such as shells for your collection.

Puzzles

Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children has a whole new set of puzzles that you have to solve if you want to win the game. There is no golden child this time around but some of the puzzles include building a fire, finding another source of food besides the ocean, learning how to make stew using difference recipes and creating a building just to name a few. One of the hardest new puzzles in the game is making one of your villagers a master in three different skills. This is hard to do because villagers eventually age and die or they can die suddenly if you run out of food, or if they become sick for too long.

In this new Virtual Villagers game another problem I noticed is that the school is no longer an option in the game to teach the children a skill before they become adults. This is a problem when your villagers begin to breed on their own and you have a lot of children. It becomes very difficult to teach each new working child to go learn a new skill. Some villagers will not do certain skills and this means that you will have to move around the island trying to figure out what skill this villager will accept to learn.

The school is replaced with a hospital that I find unnecessary. If a villager becomes sick, it is simple to have another villager heal them, so having the hospital replace the school made the game harder in this aspect.

Overall Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children is a fun game and will bring days or weeks of enjoy because it is played in real time.

Published by Marsha J

Marsha grew up in Bronx, NY before moving to florida at age 17 in 1997. She loves to write, read great novels, stay on the computer all day long, listen to music and play video games like Metroid, Spyro, or...   View profile

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  • Ashley 1/17/2011

    I need help on how to plant crops plz my people r dieing

  • Mel 1/8/2010

    i have finished everything. got all of the gong pieces, completed all the puzzles, have 5 totems. what do i do now. theres no ending?

  • vanitycane 10/18/2009

    how do you plant crops to grow food?

  • chacha 5/10/2009

    finished all puzzle but 1.........having putt my all totems on the middle of mosaic....nothin appear, nothin revealed.....what shld i do cuz that's the only thing left unfinished....pls ;)

  • Trudy 4/30/2009

    you can only use master scientists to get the algae-eating fish and the more you have the better because you need about 20 fish. you drop them in the pond, they go to the ocean and you put them again in the pond and continue ike that. :D

  • Lucho 9/10/2008

    The same happens to me, I drop the totems in the center of the mosaic and nothing happens. I had already solved all the others puzzles, and I have very much totems, like 7 or 8, and I dropped all of them together in the center and nothing, I dropped one by one in the center and nothing, I put and elder villager "admiring the mosaic" with his correspondent totem in the center and nothing... I dont know what else to do, please help! ;)

  • mohuddin 8/31/2008

    just wait for sometime.........it will come again

  • Andrea 7/31/2008

    "I lost the cauldron when i completed a puzzle everyone went celebrating and the guy who was retrieving the cauldron dropped it.. do i have to start over??????"

    This happened to me also. what do i do?

  • Star 6/30/2008

    hello you need to make a potion to get the gong piece in the bottom of the pond

  • hello 5/30/2008

    i need a little help with the green algae thing when my villagers look for the gold algae its not their in the pond (and they always get out of the water) and they dont work in the pond they enjoy it -_- a little help GUYS!!!!!!!!!

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