I got this for my 8-year-old daughter because she is really into environmental causes lately and I thought she would like this game. Most DS games she has been able to figure out on your own, without any help from me or needing to read directions. Not this one! She barely started playing it and said it was too hard. I had to read the directions to understand it, and the concept/storyline is a lot more complicated than I thought. She's not really interested in continuing to play to figure it out, so I guess this game is going to sit on the shelf until she wants to spend the time to learn it.