Customer Reviews

CINDERELLA'S DOLLHOUSE LG

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

When I first heard that Disney was working on Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, I instantly searched for merchandise based on this new film coming to video and Disney DVD in February. Seeing this cd-rom made me very happy. I waited a rather long time for it, and now that I have it, I doubt even going to Disneyworld could make me any more joyful. As soon as it was loaded in, I discovered that there were two trailers for some disney movies, Cinderella II, and Snow White and the Seven dwarves. In the opening of the cd-rom is the title of the game, Cinderella's Dollhouse, with a bird flapping it's wings around it. Then Cinderella's fairy godmother appears. She speaks all in ryhms, and explains that before you can enter, she must use her wand to turn you into a princess. Now, I'm a boy, so this affended me a bit, but the box did say that the game was for girls ages 5 & up. After you are "sprinkled with pixie dust", the fairy godmother shows how to play the game. You get to decorate six different rooms, place what character you want in that room, and than see them interact with each other. This game is rather beautifully done, and even though it is a little easy, I, a thirteen-year old, enjoyed it very much. The game is designed so that it understands depth, and when you place a character on a chair or sofa, they sit instead of stand. I love this game, even though I'm a boy, and if your a little skeptical at first, keep in mind that you can download even more accesories from the official website at www.disneyinteractive.com, which is a great site by the way. I think this came is great for Cinderella fans of all ages, and not just for little minds. You get exactly your money's worth, and it's very creative. I suggest if you like Walt Disney's classic, Cinderella, you should get this cd-rom.

We bought this game two months ago, along with two other kids games, and this one is by far our favorite kids game! When I say we, I mean my 7 year old who bought it with birthday money, her two sisters who are old enough to play computer games, me, my friend who lives with us (age 21), even my husband has sat down and messed around with it. It is just addictive, and fun.

Not only do you get to decorate 6 rooms (Step-mother's parlor and kitchen, the mice room, and the bedroom, ballroom, and garden in the castle) then you can place people in the room and they will talk to each other. You can place items in their hands (such as flowers, food, a brush, a flute, much more) and hear them talk about what they are holding. Talk, and sometimes more! I love to have the flute out and people sitting at the piano in the step-mothers parlor. Hand something to Anastasia, and she'll say something (or sometimes say and do something), sometimes Cinderella will answer her, sometimes it will be Drizzella, the step-mother, or the Prince. It is totally fun and sometimes very funny to hear what they say to each other and see what they do with the items you give them. The game is also very easy to play and navigate, my five year old has no trouble playing all by herself.

I do have three complaints against the game, one that was resolved by another persons review (thanks!). First off, we have been frustrated by the Fairy Godmothers long introduction to the game, which we did not know we could skip by hitting the space bar. They never told us that, we would sit through the whole long poem, which isn't bad, but if you have heard it 20 times already you would rather just get to the game. Problem solved now, though. The next thing that frustrates us is that occasionally one of the characters decides to look around (they don't say anything, they just look around) and you can't do anything while they look. It is a minor annoyance, just as you go to place an item into the scene, the Prince just has to look around a couple times, and you have to wait about 30 seconds or so until he is done. The third thing that frustrates us is that we are supposed to be able to download new decorative items from online, but we try and try and can not make it work. Even with these annoyances, it is still a great game that we love and play a lot.

My 5 year old enjoys this very much. She got it last year from Santa, so she was able to navigate it at age 4. This is her favorite of the Princess Games. However, she gets very frustrated with the Fairy Godmother telling her "No Room There", because while you can drag and drop the furniture, you cannot overlap it. When the room is full, nothing else will go in.

However, she has spent countless hours with this program, and overall enjoys it quite a bit.

this game is great im 13 years old...and its really hard to find games for kids our age...cinderellas dollhouse is a great game i played it at my little cuzins house...the fairy godmother is just like the movie...and designing rooms in the house was really fun!!! especially since u can change the patterns of the furniture and wallpaper and stuff...i recomend this as a gift for girls...also what u can do is you can put characters from the movie into your scenes and make them come to life...by putting food in the hands or props...its a really enjoyable game...just a little bit slow...but its worth the wait...the game is just great!!!and the music...!!! the music is sweeet

So nice. The characters sounded just like they did in the original movie (loved the Fairy Godmother). Very good graphics..The game gave our friend's daughter hours of fun. Thank you Disney for another great inter-active experience.

The game lives up to its name, its a dollshouse. You pick the furniture and put it where you like almost as a number of things refuse to allow you to place them where you want even when there is plenty of room. You cannot place an object or person behind another item unless you put the back item in first.
The fun part is decorating the rooms and seeing the characters you place in the rooms interact. It would have been nice to have had more variety in the characters as you only get two cinderellas, anastasia drusella and the stepmother, the prince, three mice, a dog, aa cat and a couple of birds.
You can change the wallpaper, floor, ceiling, curtains etc (three choices of each) Also the furniture has three choices.
Disappointing is the promised downloadable decorations, they downloaded but wont run.
Overall the game is click and point, so the kids are not amused long and seldom return. It came in a package with three other games otherwise I probably would not have purchased it but games geared towards girls a few and far between with disney and barbie being almost the only ones.

Our three very computer literate daughters (ages 3 to 5) didn't respond to this game. The graphics were much slower to come up on screen than other games of this type and you don't get to be very creative with where you put the items in each room. They also didn't like that the click and drag didn't work as well as it does in the Little Mermaid II game. Overall, we wouldn't recommend this one.

My three year old daughter enjoys this one very much. It has helped her drag and click more than her other games which do it for her. She loves to make the scenes change and wants to play with it every day. All the rooms have great color and detail.

This game will not work on a Mac with OS X 10.5 or above! It must run in classic mode. See Disney's support page:
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Also this game will not work if you are running Window's XP and your system has more than 1 GB of memory (and what PC doesn't these days). If you do you will see this msg : Error: Dollhouse.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Again see Disney's support page:
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So, a house full of Mac's and PC's and this game will not run on any of them! Stay away from this out of date game!!!!!!

this game is labeled as working on mac or pc - it does not work on a mac - I am sending it back