[NekoNekoChan]

I just got shaman king for the ps2 and am at the final episode, and I can truly say that your kids will like it. However, the game does stray completely from the original story around half way through the game. It's kind of one of those alternate universe stories. There a few minor points within the game where things can get hard, but you do get unlimited continues if you happen to get game over.

The system is a tactile one, except, when you battle with yoh, you actually get to control yoh and the game becomes sort of a fighter. You'll see what I mean once they start playing.

Also, one last bit of information. ESRB rates games according to age, not by gameplay and difficulty, but content. Just in case you didn't know. I've actually run across a few E games where I found the game impossibly hard for a 6-7 year old. And I've also found some games, rated mature, where it was definatly playable(difficulty wise) but were filled with tons of gore, blood, cussing, and other suggestive themes. I might suggest renting games before you buy them if you're not sure if your kids would be able to play it. Sometimes the backs of games don't give a real impression of difficulty, or any impression of how a game is played at all. Take Genji for example, it basically says control 2 characters in an epic story. It's really alot more in depth than that.