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

This game was actually a gift for my lil sister. She said that she loved the game and beat it so I'm just going off her word. =P

Good wii game for our 5 year old

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We just bought this game for our almost 5 year old daughter and she really likes it. It took some practice to get use to using the wii remote but now that she's got it figured out she loves the game. She's been able to play on the easy, medium and hard levels with little to no assistance from us. I'm very happy with this purchase. The graphics are well done and it's really a great game for her age range.

Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My four year old daughter loved this game, but frankly it was a lot harder in some areas than it should be. The instructions were not that great, and in some situations there is no way the child could figure out how to get task solved. The graphics and sound are very good in the game

Fantastic game for your young girl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game as a gift for my daughter. I'm a long time gamer myself and I have found this to be one of the most well-crafted children's games available. I even went out of my way to e-mail the game developer and let them know what a great experience our family had with it.

There are more than a few things the developer did right that make this game easily accessible to the children (mine is 4): careful placement of the gems in the environment lead to important objectives and location, forgiving Wii controls for the wand, enemies that go down without too much of a fight, goals that are verbally spoken and gently repeated at certain intervals to keep the player focused.. the list goes on.

My daughter had an amazing time with game, and while I was always there to help coach, she was challenged without being frustrated. The only real disappointment to her came when the game ended and the 'bonus' area was simply a brief mini-game in Belle's Ballroom; she had really hoped to play a full level as Belle.

I really can't recommend this game enough for your young girl, especially if she is a fan of the Princesses. She may require a little guidance at first, but the format of the game is easily grasped. The game will surely help build her confidence and puzzle solving abilities as well as encourage exploration of a 3-D environment, one of the things I think my daughter finds most challenging with modern games (3-D navigation, I mean.) I don't regret the full price purchase one bit, if you can get it for less a purchase is a no-brainer.

Have fun!

A fun game for little ones

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Obviously this game isn't for older kids but my 4 and 6 year old daughters love it. They have fun creating their princesses and doing magic with their wands. They've played through the entire game a couple of times now & still want to play it again. Bottom line, it was worth it because they have so much fun playing.

Best Wii game out there for girls (5 year old)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had to give this title some credit, I am a father of two girls, a 5 year old with whom I play wii with and share many special moments with. This game's wii remote features are really great, it works like a magic wand for her, its the best two player game out there so you can play along side her and help her out. The levels are all basically easy for them, and very complete, she gets to play scenes or character from all the mayor disney princess movies. They are very entertaining and educational, and the second best thing about the game is that she can customize her character and change her hair, color, dress, accesories, etc, I think she enjoys this more than the regular game play. The only drawback of this game is that its too short and easy to finish thru and the bad guys slightly scared her even though in my opinion they are inoffensive and even cute.

Defective Game + Unhappy Daughter = Sour Daddy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My wife purchased this game for our daughter's birthday in January. She picked it up on a whim and I *almost* took it back due to spotty reviews and the repeated mention of of short the game is. Well... the game was *very* short for us as it is completely broken.

The game becomes unplayable anytime there is a point in the game where you need to use the wiimote as a pointer. This makes the game basically impossible to play at certain points.

When you use the wiimote to point at the screen the cursor jumps and flickers and is impossible to control. This makes mini-games like the Sebastian/Octopus one COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE. In fact it is seemingly impossible to get out of the mini-game. It's only the pointing part that is broken as the 'Wand' use of the wiimote is perfect.

My daughter was upset she couldn't play the game - but I told her I would take it back and get her another (less buggy) one but of course the local ---mart where we bought it wouldn't take it back 'Because of copyright laws'. This is absurd... how could you know a game is hopelessly buggy without opening it?

I am going to be contacting Disney Interactive and a higher level of Customer Service in an effort to get a refund for this frustratingly broken game.

It's sad Disney let such a buggy product get into the hands of the public and infuriating that you can be told 'Sorry you bought a buggy product but you're stuck with it'.

The game had lots of promise and the voice work and graphics were nice enough to wow my girl... too bad the controls render the rest of the game useless.

I rated the game's fun factor a 1 because we never will know if it's much fun ... and the overall as 1 because it has a game-breaking bug.

Decent first game for young girls, could have been so much better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Summary:
Great for younger kids (ages 4-5). Older kids will find it too simple. Adults will find it buggy, overpriced and frustrating.

With a brand new Wii in the house and a princess-mad 4 year old it seemed like a perfect match. And it was; she loved the game. But it could have been so much more.

The game is made up of four "worlds" each with three "chapters". The difficulty and length of each chapter varies but each one takes 10-30 minutes to complete. You could easily complete the game in a couple of hours if you tried so we rationed our daughter to one chapter at bedtime.

Play requires the nunchuk - you move around with it and press the Z button to interact, and that's difficult for a 4 year old to grasp. Fortunately the "cross" also moves the character, so the parent can hold the nunchuk and help the player move around.

Similarly the two player mode requires a second nunchuk. Be warned that if you try to start a two player game without a second nunchuk you'll end up having to reset the game. Bug.

You start by customising your character. That's rather like building a Mii. You can go back and change your outfit during the game, but the path back to the changing room isn't obvious to a kid (it's the other staircase).

Having done that there's a simple training exercise to show you how to use the remote. Since it's supposed to be a magic wand there are three ways to wave it and cast different spells. This is the only part of the gameplay that makes use of the Wii's unique capabilities.

In each chapter there are objectives to accomplish which involve playing mini-games. The mini-games are weak and typically involve following a sequence or moving a container to catch falling objects. They are pure padding, and my daughter found some of them frustrating.

In two player mode you run around together casting spells but players complete each of the mini-games alone.

Within the chapter you move around and are guided by gemstones that you collect. The game keeps a total, but when you get to 999 it stops counting. You can also get gems by opening locked chests and helping people in the game, but since the gems mean nothing there's very little point. Similarly you can jump by pressing the A button, but there's no actual need to do this at any point in the game other than to reach locked chests.

Once all the chapters are completed there'a a final scene and the credits roll. Beyond the credits there's an extra "bonus" chapter, but it's the shortest of all and not worth the expectation. You can also revisit the four worlds, but there's nothing to do.

Clearly Papaya have built a game engine that they plan to put to much better use in future games. You can "interact" with characters that you meet by pressing the Z button, but in this game they just speak a line of dialog; they serve no useful purpose.

They do need to work on the graphics engine; there's some nasty jagged lines in many scenes.

Overall I'm resaonably happy with the purchase. It's kept my daughter occupied and having completed it she wants to play it again. Clearly it's overpriced; the PC version is only $20, has bugs and could have been a lot better. But she's only 4; she doesn't know that and since she's happy with it, well, that's the main thing.

Expensive, poor controls, but good for a 5 yr old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my daughter for her 5th birthday. I also bought her Catz2 for Christmas. Catz2 was unplayable for her (despite being a fairly easy game... it also requires reading). This one started out as being hard for her to control, but she started to actually grasp it and after completing a few levels, she can actually hold both the wiimote and nunchuck herself. She still has a bit of trouble maneuvering the girl with the nunchuck's joystick, but overall she can do it on her own.

She finds all bad guys to be scary... the bogs in this game she freaks out a little and they scare her, but they've been easy enough for her to defeat (no dying) and she doesn't have to aim, just wave the wiimote up and down.

She really loves the game though, and is happy to go into the levels (without the scary bogs) and wander around.

The bad part about the game is that whenever you need to point the wiimote at the screen, the pointer is VERY finicky and it's difficult to do, even for an adult. You would think for $40 for a game, that Disney could release a game without a bug like that.

Also, once you go back IN a level after you've done all 3 "chapters", you can't get out again without going to the main menu and choosing "return to castle".

Collecting Gems means nothing, and the counter stops at 999. It would've been nice if there was a Princess Store or something you could buy outfits with or something.

I think after playing this game, that she'll have a better grasp about the Wii's controls and will be able to play other games without as much frustration. Too bad this one was expensive though, I'm not sure it's worth the money for a learning kids game without a ton of replay value.

Daughters Delight

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was a bit skeptical at first when I ordered this game, but my six year old daughter cannot keep away from it. It is very age appropriate and has tasks that can be difficult for her, but she has been able to do just fine. If you are a disney fanatic and your daughter is too, this is a perfect game for all.

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