Pros: These horses and foals are cute and lovable, I say taking care of them is very fun the first time you play it. The graphics are ok, not blinding to the eyes, but compared to Nintendogs pretty lame. Overall, fairly good graphics. Pretty much you start out as a new student at a horse school. Your name is Ginger and you are asked ot care for a horse.
The steps for caring are bathing, brushing, cleaning the stall, and picking out the gunk form the horseshoe. Personally, I like doing this in real life. There are certain things you are graded on, including Dressage, Popularity (I don't know why your graded on this O_o) and Stroll. You must plan each day carefully, you are allowed ot do 4 things a day. I find Studying quite useless except when unlocking Dressage jumps and moves. A normal day includes Care (which must be done at least once every day) and some other activities. You must fit in each activity twice each week I think. If you did well, you pass and can go to the next week. I think you're also allowed ot enter contests every week. It's very fun at first.
Cons: I will be honest, this game bores me. I've only played it about twice, maybe three times, and I don't plan on picking it up again soon. Caring for your horse (the normal routine) is a great bore, too repepettive, and although I enjoy this in real life this game does not capture the fun of it. Instead its more like a chore. In fact, I don't think it captures any of the fun real horses are. Riding your horse is BORING, unlike real life, and Dressgae is much too long. It's way too repetitive for me, and I was disappointed when I got it.
There is a foal mode. The foals may be cute, but you can't do much with them. And seriously, Ubisoft was awful with time limits. I'm not going to stand out with my foal playing the same game with it over and over. That's boring! Ubisoft has had better games, atht's for sure.
Overall: Overall to me, its pretty lame and dissapointing, nothing like riding and caring for a real horse. I hope this review helped you, although there are more negatives than positives.
Report Card:
Music/Sound: I found the music and sounds rather...gloomy. They just aren't bright enough like Nintendogs' charming audio. 3/10 Graphics: Well, I'm not very good at judging graphics, but these horses just aren't as realistic as Nintendogs' puppies were. The graphics weren't very impressive, yet it definetly beats Dogz. 5/10 Gameplay: It is much worse in repeptivity (word?) than Nintendogs. It is just too similar, plus the activities don't pull you in. They seem more chorish and aren't very fun anymore after a few tries. 4/10 Overall Score: 4/10
-- Edited by CollarGirl at 10:15, 2007-11-27
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I was hoping I could review this, if I was aloud to, but now it's not even on my list of things to do anymore. Thanks, collar! >=( It was good, from all I read. For cos, dressage would fit! It also messes up your screen and the typing is all messed up. Jumping's fun though. Nice guide, by the way. =)
Thank you. ;D And there can be various reviews form different people, everybody's allowed to share their opinion of a gme! ^_^ then ppl who wnat to buy the game will have many to judge by.
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