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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.

Way too expensive for what you get...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 7 and 8 year old daughters, who love the Disney Princesses.
Neither of them are expert video game players and generally prefer sim-like games such as Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing. They loved the game play of Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey but it was over within 2 1/2 hours...and part of that included customizing their character before the game started.
For $20 it might have seemed like a good purchase, but at twice the price it is a disappointment.
Essentially, it would be a good game for very young children who have short attention spans, but any older than 5 or 6 and it's just not worth it.
Hopefully Disney Friends for DS will provide more replay value.

Great for Little Ones.... Except for the Bugs!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 4 year old loves this game, but it's got some serios problems that My 4 year old loves this game, but it's got some serious problems that prevent her from being able to play it without assistance. The most notably is the fact that if you have to use the Wii remote as a pointer it only works well if you are VERY close (with in 4 ft) of the sensor bar.

This is not the case with any other Wii game that we have. This "bug" requires an adult to complete various tasks simply because the game's pointer is so finicky.

Too short - otherwise good gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We received this game as a Christmas gift for my 5 year old. She loves Disney Princesses and we had just bought our Wii, so this is one of the first games she played on it. Together, we finished the game in roughly four 30 - 40 minute game sessions. One bonus level that is over in five minutes is available after the game is won. The Wiimote controls for waving the wand were great, but the game creators could have done much more with the unique aspects of the Wii controller. Overall, a very well done game that looks good and smaller girls (I would have trouble recommending to girls younger than 5 and older than 7) can play easily. But, the major problem was its brevity and almost zero replay value. Would not purchase if it were over 20 dollars.

Not worth the money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We bought this game so our five year old daughter would have her own game for the Wii. Boy, do I wish we'd gone with the Barbie one instead. The graphics on this are horrible. She did finally figure out how to play it some by herself, but it is tricky, even the big people couldn't figure out the right moves for some of it. It was really disappointing.

Lura

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We rented this game along with others to see what we wanted to add to our list for Santa. It was great fun for my 5 yearold who loves Disney Princesses and we just returned from Disney in October but she was dissapointed as was I that after you design your costume and play through Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel and Jasmine to unlock Belle that is the extent of the game. I kept fiddleing with it to see if there was more but no there was not. I would recommend it as a rental but not as a purchase unless the price is 19.99.

Mommy & Me Game Play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We got this for our 4 yo daughter for Christmas. She and I have had so much fun playing together. In 2 player mode, you are helping each other and helping the princesses. My only complaint is that it just isnt long enough. We have already played through the game once. We are certain to start again really soon. I agree that older more game savvy children would get bored easily but small ones will love it.

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.

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.

Good game for young girls, overpriced for what you get

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is a lot of fun for our four year old daughter.

Pros:
-The graphics are pretty good
-The voices are good
-Young girls will like the interaction the games provides

Cons:
-The game has problems with the Wii remote reading the infrared on the parts when you have to point at the screen
-The worlds of the game are very small, Disney should have given us a lot more for $40

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