I rented this game for 5 days and had to help my 5 year old son play it because of all the reading. Every time you go up to a character (and they are standing around all over the place) a balloon pops up that you have to read. He can't read yet, so I had to stay there the whole time and read everything. (I was hoping to get some housework done, lol.I also have a 7 year old daughter. She can read some of it, but it is so much reading, she gets tired of it. Maybe in a few years we'll try it again. I don't know why the characters don't just "talk" instead.