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Four and 1/2 year old finished game in 3 hours with some help

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We have a 4 1/2 year old girl (in preschool). She had seen the movie so knew the characters and the goal of the game. That is... to make the wand of light and conquer Winlock. She completed most of the game on her own. She did need help with the moving icebergs. She got frustrated when trying to move Annika onto the icebergs as they moved quickly. Other than that, she really enjoyed the game. There are lots of puzzle type games. There are matching games and I must say they made them challenging, which is good. It really makes the child analyze the pieces to find out which two are alike. Your child must have good hand and eye coordination to get through this game.

So, I say, buy this game if your child has had previous experience navigating using a mouse AND using the arrow keys on the keyboard. Your child also needs to know what the "space bar" is as it is used in the game to "jump" and "collect" things.

In comparison to Barbie Mermaid, this was definitely more challenging. Good game for 4 year olds and perhaps 5 year olds.

Great for preschoolers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We LOVE this game at our house. My little ones are 4 and 5 and play it over and over again. We have the CD-Rom version and the graphics are nice. The puzzles and games are age appropriate for 4 and 5 year old children. The game recommends age 5 and up, but I can see why so many reviewers were disappointed. This is not something an older child would like. The puzzles are a little on the easy side--matching, etc. and perfect for younger children. Great if you have a little Barbie fan or two. Parents of older children should skip this one.

My girls love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 5 and 3 year old girls play this game constantly and they both can win it without assistance. Great game.

Don't Be Fooled by a Deceptively Boring Beginning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This a "more" 3D game than the Swan Lake game because you actually move around in 3D environment.

At first I thought this game was really boring (compared to Swan Lake). BUT my four-year old daughter persisted and continued to play, and she eventually figured out amazing parts of the game that the beginning had completely belied.

cool barbie game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have seen the bad reveiws and i have no idea what there talking about! its a nice game that has some hard games and some easy games. the graohics are a little bad but once you start the game you wont even care. it extremley cute and nice and well worth the money.

We loved it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My 2 5-year-olds and I love this game. A few of the scenes had difficult controls, like the log jumping, but the games were just hard enough to be challenging for them, but not so hard that they couldn't eventually get them, after I'd helped them a couple of times. They improved their mouse control with the map-through-the-shelf puzzle and the crystal-through-the-caves puzzle. The matching games were also at a good level for them. And the mazes were again challenging but not frustrating. They played this for many hours - there are many games in each area, rather than just the 5 of some of the other Barbie games. The graphics seemed fine most of the time. My only irritation was the inability to make a backup copy of the disc - kids are rough on CDs, never mind I had twins and they had to take turns.

OK,but 'blocky' graphics.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was OK,but the graphics? ugh. I mean it looks like everything-and everyone-was made of blocks! The beginning won't work that well on my Windows XP,but other than that,it's pretty fun to play.(I like to play the gem through the tunnel maze and the maze on the giant's table) I guess I have to get a new video card for the graphics problem. Anyways, one time I played the game and I got to the guy-that-has-the-ice-jewel's house the screen suddenly went blank.A few minutes later an error message popped up and said 'your computer has a serious error'.have you ever seen that? anyways,very fun to play,just make sure you have the right video card,(a 32-bit will do,maybe). Please vote on my review! PS.Its very fun to play,but i never saw the movie before. 'BARBIE LOVER'

Another Barbie Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You know folks, this is what IT IS - It's Barbie. This is a fun game that my 6 and 8 year old girls love to play. It is not an indepth game that will challenge their cognative skills. Its a fun, girly kinda game. But, they like to play it over and over again. What more can you ask? True, the graphics seem to be a step back. (OK, may be two or three steps backwards) but the game itself is fun and That Is What I Wanted. After seeing the amazing graphics of my husband's new game, Far Cry, it really acsentuates the disparity between the graphic quality of a 'grown up game' vs. a 'kids game'. I'd love to see such detailed graphics on a Barbie Game....wishfull thinking. But the game is fun. Simplistic, yes. But fun!

Lots of fun for my granddaughter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This computer game is lots of fun for my granddaughter. It took her a while to get into it, because in the beginning she got a bit frustrated with the program, going round in circles, but eventually she got through the intitial stages and then she loved it. She is 10 years old and pretty handy with her computer games.
I can recommend this game based on her experiences with it.

Good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think it is worth 3 1/2 stars in fun and overall. It's a pretty good game. I wish you could go farther when flying the pegasus - off into the distance...oh nevermind! My point is you can't go very far from the star road. I like the "move things without bumping into anything" thing-a-ma-bobbies. I like the maze where you are on the giant's kitchen table. I like when you build the fire but sometimes I go to a bundle of sticks and she says it's the wrong size and then I go to a bundle of sticks the same size and she says it's the right size. But something I don't like even more is griffins are bad. I love griffins! They're cute! ~(...)

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