But the options for this game were so incredibly limited and the graphics so poor that I felt like I was playing a truncated version of Sims 1 instead of Sims 3

i definitely prefer the computer version, if you haven't played that/your kid hasn't then they wouldn't know the difference and probably think its fun.

I love this version of Sims for the DS

The game works well.. even better than the PC version that is always causing her PC to freeze up.

The game works well.. even better than the PC version that is always causing her PC to freeze up.

At least I now know that if the Sims 3 for Wii is anything like this to not even bother, because obviously nothing will ever be as good as the PC version

I noticed a lot of reviews complaining that it's not as good as the PC version - well, there's a reason for that