Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children Review
Virtual Villagers The Lost Children Review by Meryl
This is my first encounter with the Virtual Villagers, but not the first time I’ve played a SIM-style game. I’ve played Populous, Sim City, The Sims — years ago. This game’s objective is to complete the 16 puzzles with other tasks along the way. This game stands out from many adventure games in that every time you start a new tribe (new game), the experience doesn’t feels like a repeated experience.
In the first tribe, I had a couple that had babies as soon as the mother finished nursing a baby. The second tribe ran into trouble very early on with the ocean rendered useless for food thanks to the algae build up. One of the villagers in the third tribe refused to swim in the ocean. He ran away every time I tried to put him in there to fish.
In other words, each tribe has personable characters and different timing of events. While playing, I thought to myself things like, “Oh it’s that annoying villager who won’t do anything,” “That’s a sweet villager who loves to tell stories and teach the children,” “I appreciate the villager’s dependability” and “Are these people ever going to master anything???”
I celebrated when the villagers completed a project, I got mad when villagers hadn’t mastered a job when I checked on them, I smiled when the children discovered a new item and I felt sadness when two elderly villagers passed away.
One thing I had to learn in playing Virtual Villagers The Lost Children: Patience. Sometimes there wasn’t anything to do except keep an eye out for items — that means I needed to let them take care of themselves for a little while. Even when the game wasn’t loaded, the villagers continued to go about their business. Those who have little time to play games, but long to play one will find this a perfect fit. It doesn’t take much time to check on the villagers and do a few things.
A good way to play the game is check in on them a couple of times a day and take care of things. The game isn’t meant to be played on a continuous basis like the arcade games as time is an important factor. Sure, you could change the clock on your computer, but you might miss important events.
The official web site has a great guide that provides hints without giving anything away. It also contains the details for the puzzles, but it warns you when you’re about to read the spoilers section. The community forum is another great resource for the game. This community is careful not to spoil anything since many users put (Spoiler) or (Possible Spoiler) in the subject.
Anytime I got stuck, I went to the forums where I found most of the answers. You just can’t control some things in the game — after all, the developers did a superb job of ensuring the experience isn’t the same each time you start a new tribe.
The island-style music fit beautifully with the environment without getting old after playing for a while. You can also rename your villagers — I had to, since several of mine received the same name. You can get creative and name them after your family as I did by giving an island-like version of my ancestors’ names.
Time to check on my tribes. It’s hard to stay away from them for too long as I miss my people and helping them discover new things. Fabulous game.
We give Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children a 5/5 diamond rating
System Requirements:
- Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- 800MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- DirectX 7 or higher
can someone please tell me where the last gong is at or how do u get it thanks
The last piece of the gong hint is available on our forum, check their by clicking the link!
gostava k me dessem sugestões pa jogar…..pk n consigo avançar….
gostaria k me ajudasem a jogar pk nao consigo avançar….a comida akaba….por favor
how do you get the algae out of the ocean
the last gong is under the mosic use bilders to uncover it then take a totam pole from a villager who has 3 masters, then sat the totam in the middle of the mosic. there is a cheet sheet type in v v lost children tips and youll find it
Is there cheats or hints for virtual villagers the lost children like in the first one where it helps out with the puzzles.
take a builder to the wood near the cave he will build a scarecrow
I am looking for a site that will give me hints as to where some of the secrets are located. I am down to one puzzle and can’t find the answer. When the original Vitrual Villagers came there was a place to go to print up hints to the puzzles that is all I am looking for.
I think this games rocks. It’s a lot better than the original.
Is there any place that I can download Virtual Villagers 2 the lost children thats not big fish games??
Can someone please tell me how u make them unblock those rocks from the pond so that patch thing can grow plants>?>>>>?????????????? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THX
yeah,,,how do u gert the algea out of the ocen too??
you have to build a dam you buy engineering and take a villiger the rock
My adept scientist is stuck as just that. I can’t seem to get any more research skill for him. What do I do to get more skill?
It takes TIME to go from adept to Master. Be patient!
After purchasing the third level of farming take a master farmer to the pond. They will catch “golden fish” then they will place them in the ocean. It takes about 10 fish to clear the ocean so you can fish again.
How can i open the crate ????? pls help
everytime I try and make them build a dam the pesentige of it being done always stays at 0
how do you get the gong out of the poud
how do you get the bird milmstoune
I only know how to get past the first puzzels im after playing alot but cant figure it out
After you solved all of the puzzles is that all to the game?