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Loads of Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: November 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My 6 year old daughter loves playing this game! She plays it mostly on her own, but sometimes needs my help. There are two basic sections to the game: the adventure - where you try to renovate the horse farm and solve a mystery; and the training - where you can practice the courses for the competitions.
You don't have to groom the horses too much (a complaint in other games). The movement of the horses is realistic, you actually can count the strides between jumps at the canter. The graphics are good, except when you are at a full gallop and then they get a bit jumpy, but it's still enjoyable.
You get to choose which rewards (add a pasture, veterinary office, etc.) you receive when you win the competitions. My daughter's favorite part is receiving a new horse when she wins a competieion, she gets so excited!
The more succcessful the horse is in training and competition, the more experience points it earns. When you get enough points, you get to choose how to improve your horse (increase the height or length of its jumping, teach it new dressage moves or increase its stamina).
This definitely is a great game for horse lovers.

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Its a really good game and you should buy it! The only bad things are the game is really short and the compitions are way to easy after you do your first one and get the hang of it. Over all I think this game is awsome!

An excellent horse game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As someone who has been playing horseback riding games since Barbie Riding Club (and everything from Time to Ride to Stablemasters to Let's Ride to Mary King's Riding Star to Equestriad 2001 to Willowbrook Stables and so forth), I was starting to feel like I had played them all and nothing new could be offered. Then I purchased this game, and I was thoroughly satisfied. It was an extremely fun, addictive play, with a good solid plotline, good graphics (who needs perfection? Go to the barn for that.), and realistic play. Choosing the correct gait for jumping, endurance gauges, and caring for the horses are all more accurate than I see in many games. I played it and never tired of it, always interested in the next step. While it was not explicitly difficult, I enjoyed that. If you want a game that frustrates you endlessly as you attempt to win it, this will not suffice because the gameplay is easy enough that you will only fail a few times before you succeed. The plot is so fun and engaging, though, that you are too eager to learn more to desire harder play.
I believe this is an excellent addition to any collection. Take it from someone who has QUITE a collection.

The best horsegame EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Want to have a horsegame with lot's of riding, a good story and not so much grooming every second? Welcome to Saddle up with Pippa Funnel! You play as Estelle and have inherited a farm with one horse. Your task is to make it succesful by winning competitions and earning new horses and new things. To your help there is Davy, the rather cute stable boy, and Rose, his little sister. Or wait... Are they really helping you? Play and find out. The game has levels with a task relating to the story on each of them. To get to the next level you have to complete the task and win the competition of the current level. It's not one of those short games that lasts a day or two. This thing takes much longer. It's all in all the best horsegame ever created! Just remember to save and save and save all the time, because certain tasks have time limits and if you fail the task, you fail the game and have to load from where you last saved. Hope it helped!

Much better than the other Saddel Up title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after playing Saddle Up: Time To Ride. Both games are made by the same company and both have similar interfaces. Many things have been improved - it is now more obvious when a task is done. The controls for jumping the horses are a little finicky at first, but as your horse gets better, it's not much of a problem. The graphics are pretty good, but the "run" feature doesn't work in all places. It would be nice if they used more of a FPS viewpoint as navigating around the village can be a little frustrating. If your computer doesn't have the recommended graphics card, you will be out of luck and the game will be rather unplayable.

This game is a lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun, and is one of the best games i have ever played. if you would like to buy this game, then it would be a good idea to buy the Saddle Up Time to Ride game first, that one is very fun also, but this one is like it just set with a different story and it is a lot better. the sheep part is very very annoying, but all the rest was great.

This game is awesome... but, I have a question.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome, the graphics are great! I love making new renovations to the farm and getting new horses! It is DEFINETLY worth your time and money, then again, everybody has a different oppinion. I think it's great though. The only thing is I'm stuck on one part. I can't find Mr.Blacklock's house. I've searched for at least 2 hours! If anybody can tell me I would be soooo happy! !PLEASE HELP!

Need Help?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To do your "collected canter" you have to be at a gallop and then press "C" on your space bar. If you have anymore questions just ask!

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, this game has pretty good graphics, not the best, but not too bad either. I had a lot of fun playing it and I've finished it twice. The problem about your horse having such a tiny amount of stamina is a problem. Anyway when you're chasing the guy on the dirtbike, you take the shortcuts that you can find on the side of the trail. You use these to cut the guy on the motorbike off. Once you're in front of him, you stop your horse on the trail do it so that the horse is perpendicular to the trail, if you do it the other way the guy on the motorbike will go past you. It's a lot of fun and it's the first Saddle Up game to have eventing (dressage, cross-country and showjumping) I think, it's tons of fun.

How To Find Blacklock

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm 11 years old and it took me a while to find Blacklock also. You take a page out of the phone book. You have to go to the trail of the show jumping course. Keep going down the trail. When you find the arrow that is blue and has a white tree on it, go that direction. When you find the gate, go to the right side and a green arrow will appear. On the phone book page, it has 6 numbers in the middle of the page. Type in the first 5 digits of that number and voila!! You'll find him.

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