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There is a spooky movie with kids dealing with all sorts of spooky things, and of course there will need to be a game coming out with kids dealing with all sorts of spooky things and it's called Spiderwick Chronicles and comes from Nickelodeon Movie Studios which isn't really spooky. But this is a game primarily for children, but take note of that PG rating - this is not a completely soft game.

You can unlock and explore a hidden world of the seen and unseen while you do battle with strange and enchanted creatures in this spellbound world eerie adventures as you fight to stop a rising evil, so, pretty standard stuff then, but the joy is in the detail and this is pretty good. There may be prettier looking games out there and some with different control systems, but Spiderwick is pretty darn good.
There are three children, all from the Grace family, who have to use their unique abilities to unravel the mystical mysteries of the Chronicles. And of course don't forget Thimbletack the Brownie, as if you would.
There are plenty of quest to be run, and solutions to be found, and of course that combat, although clever, is child friendly, generally against nasty goblins.

Some of the mini-games are also two player, making it a little less solitary.

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