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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.

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.

Strangely obsessive ...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: June 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played one of the earlier Saddle Up games and found it frustrating to the point of unplayability. In this one, Ubisoft fixed the problems and left in the thing that made it so much fun: lots and LOTS of horses and reasons to ride them.

Graphics are lovely, with much loving attention paid to the horses and the delightful scenery of a fictional English countryside. Controls are workable and easy enough for anyone to pick up on. The puzzles in the adventure part of the game are mostly very easy with lots of hints, with only two bits that frustrate: herding sheep, something horses don't normally do, and chasing a quad bike. (The way to solve that last one: canter till you reach a short cut, then gallop through the short cut to get ahead of the bike and block its path. Do that twice and you've got your guy.)

This game is so enjoyable it almost makes me want to dig out the old one and see if I can make it work this time.

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!

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.

How to Punch in the Code at Blacklock's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you've gotten to this part, you have to sneak into Blacklock's house. There is a little slip of paper on the piano with letters on it. Put it into your inventory. When you get to the book room, write down the letters on the slip of paper. At the code, there are 4 buttons. One is red, green, blue, and yellow. The letters on the paper are the first letters of the colors of the buttons. Push the buttons as you see the letters. Remember, the letters represent the first letters of the colors.

Good Luck!!

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!

This game is awsome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

1) even if you don't like your first horse train it hard and increase its stanima (you'll need it later) i find using the dressage course is the best way.
2) in the saddler's shop use the ring that rose gave you and you can get a saddle (after you get your saddle you can click the store part again and buy saddle pads and wraps for your horse)
3) when you need to get the keys find the rope in the stable and the magnit on the bird house then press "i" and use them one at a time when there is a blue arrow above rose.
4) when you need to find Blacklock's house follow the blue signs with white trees they are also the only non-square signs (1st be sure to tear page out of the phone book in the village otherwise you'll have to go back to get the pass word)
5) next go the the sheep person (if you go down that path one fork goes to the river otter the other to the sheep feild.) you will have help round up the sheep, it quite easy once you get the hang of it (stay at a walk when you are going to push the sheep with your horse's head facing in the direction you want go then wait for the sheep to come to a full stop before pushing it again)
6) to catch Davy on the bike you need your 1st horse's stanima to be the best posssible this is where traing comes in if you have a full bar of stanima full gallop on the grass untill you are ahead of him the stop you must do this twice (its not that hard if your horse has good stanima)
7) to find your horse's go to the river otter the first one is to your right (i always seem to miss it) the rest are to your left
8) rose is in the middle of the forset not on the trails (her voice will lead you to the section she is in then i find it throws you off so just keep looking you'll find her)
9) to go the back way to Blacklock's house go left out of leaving his fork in the road and click at the gate turn so the green arrow is there again and click, his house is the fist to the right
10) this is where i'm having problems I got what i think are wire cutters (on the bench in the stable)and went the back and right way to blacklock's house (supposed to go back way) and i tried to use them by pressing "use" by Davy and the gate and nothing worked
Did I not get a tool needed? or is it something else please help me!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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!

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