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(More customer reviews)I just played this game with my 7 year old son (going on 8). Overall, I would say the game play is somewhat stale. You essentially move around the board as one of the characters. The characters do have special abilities but overall they are not very important to the game. You get to move the white-witch and the wolves around the board to try and confront the characters but this did not seem very engaging. I think if you play with all 4 characters, the game may be more eventful and play better. However, if you are looking for a two-player game that is engaging to both child and adult, I would say you may not want to buy this one.
We have another game aimed at the same age range. The other one is the The Lord of the Rings game by Eagle Games. I liked this game even with 2 players (although the directions are a bit more complicated). I asked my son which one he likes more, and he just said he liked Narnia more. He says that in the LOTR game, the hobbits do not have special abilities and there are no cards to read. For me, I liked LOTR better. Now it remains to be seen if my son's preference will remain (we just played Narnia for the first time and we have had LOTR for a while) but my 7 year old likes it... so I would take that as an endorsement.
Logistics - with 2 players it is a pretty quick game (30-45 minutes). It does have some educational value in the sense of rolling dice, and reading cards (although the wording is a bit small). The directions are relatively easy although I had to look back at them a couple of times.
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Based on the live-action and animated motion picture, this game lets you race around the board through Narnia as Peter, Susan, Edmund or Lucy. Use your special abilities, but watch out for the wolves. And beware of the White Witch, who can turn you into stone. With Asian's help, be the first to reach the lamp post and go back to the wardrobe to win the game. Includes game board, fully decorated character tokens of Lucy, Susan, Edmund and Peter, cardboard White Witch pawn, dice and ability cards.
