is the son of the Grim Reaper his friends include a girl with stigmata and a boy who lives in a jar.
GRIMGRIMOIRE PROBLEM CHILDREN SERIES
and the Science Fair of Doom" (Konami, for the Nintendo DS, $29.99): Every school has its freak contingent, but in this series all the students are freaks. "Grim Grimoire" is a lighter version of a PC-style strategy game, but it's no less challenging.
You can't just summon a bunch of high-level monsters and rush the enemy, though usually, you'll need a good mix of familiars to win. The familiars start out wimpy (elves and fairies), but before long you'll be summoning deadlier troops, such as golems and dragons. You use your grimoires (spell books) to generate mana, which you then use to summon familiars that you send into battle. Learning their secrets is essential to saving the academy.Įach level is a war between good and evil. The faculty members are intriguingly weird ? the sorcery teacher is a devil, while the alchemy instructor is a lion ? and they interact in surprising, sometimes perverse ways. Happily, "Grimoire" quickly develops its own personality. There's even a headmaster named Gammel Dore. The echoes of "Harry Potter" don't end there: In "Grim Grimoire," a young student of magic has to contend with an evil force who has powers far greater than her own.
N "Grim Grimoire" (NIS, for the PlayStation 2, $39.99): This quirky strategy game is set in the Silver Star Tower, an imposing gothic castle that will remind many of Hogwarts. After a semester at one of these institutions, the real thing might not look so bad. Now is as good a time as any to start getting them ready ? perhaps with a visit to a virtual school. Most American children are well into summer break right now, barely conscious of the nightmare that awaits them after Labor Day. To students, schools are fraught with danger, intrigue and barely controlled chaos.įew of us went to a squeaky clean facility such as the one in "High School Musical." My alma mater was more like Sunnydale High in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," with bloodsuckers (OK, metaphorically speaking) lurking behind every locker. The people who actually go to them know better.
Adults tend to look at schools as places of learning, safety and discipline.
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