Customer Reviews

Disney Princess Royal Horse Show

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

 

 

We checked this software out of the library, thank goodness. I'd be unhappy if we'd spent money on it.

My five year old enjoys playing with it but I suspect she will tire of it before it's due back at the library as there is really nothing to do. You can decorate your horse, decorate the show ring, and run around a track. That's about it.

There does not seem to be any educational value whatsoever unless you're trying to teach a child how to click a mouse.

My 4 yo can operate much of this game. I'd rate it more for a 6 yo though... not any older. It's fun to dress up the horses. Not really a learning game, just for fun.

This is an okay game. Boring. All you do is ride around in a circle, and "decorate" your horse. All that means is the sadle and bridle. And who said anything about grooming? If you want to save your money and your pashince, don't get this game.

This is a Christmas gift for my daughter and I know that she will LOVE IT!! I can't wait to see her reaction on Christmas Morning!

Of course, Disney puts horses and princesses into one game in hopes of selling a successful game, but this one is terrible. Only a few activities are given, which basically amount to decorating your horse and running around the show ring. The decorating part is extremely generic and is basically limited to the saddle. The "show" part is running around the show ring in a first-person view. A bird chirps and you hit the space bar, but the window you have to time it is huge. The princesses themselves don't do much except annoy you in the constant tutorials. Overall, this game is a complete waste of time for someone of any age.

Okay the only reason this game was funny was because my nephew and I couldn't stop laughing at how stupid this is. How dumb Snow White sounds. I mean come on Disney what the heck? What is this? Its garbage and you don't get to really do anything. Where is Belle's horse, what about Snows, Cinderellas, and Auroras. No we get generic looking horses.

No matter how horrible we make them look the princess exclaims. HOW BEAUTIFUL! And you give the generic ugly horses stupid names. I mean come on! Make some effort.

Michelle

PS If you haven't taken the hint do not buy it!

This game doesn't deliver on any of the promise of its packaging. It is perhaps the simplest game I have ever seen, with almost no content whatsoever. As mentioned in another review, the only options on this game are to go to one of four areas. The activities can be completely described here:

1. Decorate a horse - you see a view of the outside of a stables with six horses standing there. You select one horse and watch it walk into the stable. Then you are presented with a side view of the horse in the stable and you select different regions of the horse; for each region, you are given a selection of one of 8 different decorations for that region of the horse (such as 8 different colored saddles). You select it and it appears on the horse. There are 6 regions to decorate on the horse. That's it. It takes all of a few minutes to completel exhaust any replayability of this screen. And this is the most complex part of the whole game!

2. Decorate the stables - you are presented with a view of the stables and can select one of four regions to change (banner, sash, flowers, and music). Each one has 8 choices. That's it, you can't do anything else except select a couple of things.

3. Ride the track - you see a first-person view of riding the horse around a track. The horse's head is right in front of you and blocks most of the screen. When you approach one of the four jumps on the track, a bird chirps and you are supposed to press the down arrow to jump. But this part didn't work on my computer. No matter when I pressed down, or whether I held down pressed down for the whole time or just pressed and released it - the horse would never jump. There appear to be three tracks to choose from, but I think you have to complete one track to be able to select the next, and since the horse would never jump, I could never get past the first track.

4. Trophy room - there are some books and posters that presumably would hold records of your achievements; but because of the problems I had with step 3, nothing ever appeared here.

This is the singular worst game I have ever seen. Of course I did not play this myself, I played it with my four year old daughter. It's only her intense love of Disney Princesses that gave this game any appeal at all. And that is probably the one singular good part of this game - there are Disney princesses that are very well animated and voice-acted at every screen of the game giving introductory instructions and saying nice and encouraging things. Those are actually well done; but the rest of the game, is complete and utter garbage. I am going to try to get my money back for this if at all possible and would recommend that you steer clear of this game.

My daughter loves this game. She picked it out and bought it with her own money. It is her first computer game and she could spend all afternoon on the computer, if daddy and mommy let her :) She is 6 years old and it is easy enough for her to use with out our help, but it also keeps her thinking. Plus this way we don't have to answer the old "Mommy will you buy me a pony?" question, as the computer game has many to choose from.

Don't give your money to Disney for the Royal Horse Show. I'd hardly call this a game, more precise it is a vehicle to promote Disney princess characters. And even the promotion gained from this was probably a waste for them as my daughter's interest in the limited activities wained quickly.

There are only 4 options to choose from.
1-decorate your horse (this is probably the most engaging feature for my daughter but she lost interest quickly as there seem to be dead end options - you are told that you can show your horse in the ring but no path to do so is ever provided)
2-decorate the royal horse ring (my daughter had no interest in this)
3-ride your horse around the ring (the view is awkward - the top of the horse's head blocks most of the picture)
4-in the craft cottage there are the most awkward features of all (an empty scrapbook which you fill with your escapades - this never caught on with my daughter, a growth chart [what this has to do with the game I have no idea and because her computer is not hooked up to a printer the option just caused the game to hang], a box for horse cards to collect [we are still not sure what this is] and the value of any of this is lost on me).

This is a very bad game because when you ride your horse all you do is jump(a bird chirps when you have to jump)boooring i should have know better to have the pictures fool me. yes they are colorfull and sound fun but trust me there not. this is just a cute game no challeng involved! i only love the part were you pick a horse and decorate her. i am obssesed over horses i guess thats why i bought it. you should get barbie mystery ride. that is a better game. see my review for it!!! you will know its me because my name is melisa.

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