Customer Reviews

Horse Life

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4 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

In the beggining of the game, you get to choose a breed. Then the mare has a foal, and the foal is your horse. Then you name your horse, and the game goes to "Two Years Later." Then your guide, who looks a little weird, helps you train your horse and enter it in contests. The things you teach your horse are pretty easy. There are four types of contests, and five levels. Every time you get a diploma, whcich is what you get for teaching your horse things, you can enter in a new contest level. The four types of contests are dressage trial, steelchase, cross-country, and eventing. In the dressage trial, you preform tricks. In the steelchase, you go over a bunch of jumps. The cross-country is like the steelchase, but it has a path, and the eventing is all three. You can also go for rides in the forest, and you can unlock new parts of the forest. You have to clean your horse and muck out the stall. You can visit your horse in the pasture, too. In the gear shop, you can buy clothes, saddles, brushes, shampoo, treats, and food. Also, there is an awsome grand prize. If you complete the natonal contests and start a new game, you can get a unicorn! If you want a horse game, you should buy this one.

I love horses and video games and as such I play a lot of games with horse aspects. This is probably the 6th or 7th game I've played and while it isn't the best, it certainly is entertaining. Like most games made for kids, it is quite redundant (however not as much so as some of the horse games out there). The graphics are nice, the music isn't annoying. The selections are quite limited, though. Few horses, colors, clothes and tack to choose from. I really enjoy the way that the touch screen is used. It gives you a pattern to follow on the screen and if you complete it correctly your horse preforms the move.

Like other games you can brush & shampoo the horse and muck out stalls, pet your horse, train him, ride out in the cross country trail and compete with him. Unfortunately, this is all. Of course, having said that the only horse game I have found that isn't this way is Let's Ride: The Rosemond Hill Collection (that game has many more options).

If you can swallow the fact that the creators called the piaffe a half pass, get around the fact that the horse is preforming FEI level dressage moves while not on the bit, and that the jumps are completely irregular, this game is worth a try.

While I wouldn't pay $30 for it again, I'd recommend it for half that.

This was one of the first games that I got for my Nintendo Ds, and I have to say that from riding for four years(hunter/jumper), this game was not challenging enough for me. I think that even for someone with no experience with horses, this would be an okay game to get but for a real horseperson, not really.
In the beginning you start out by choosing from three breeds, but I didn't think those were enough-I would be satisfied with a little more variety. Also, you immediatly get a gelding-I mean, it's a foal, it has to start out as a stallion or otherwise a mare. Then the screen goes to "2 YEARS LATER". I wish that you get to train your foal; that would be loads of fun.
The eventing (dressage, steeplechase, and cross-country) events are not realistic and eventing is usually takes three days. By the way, the guy who helps you "train", sets a bad example for training-he is way too critical and the animator made him look like Mr.Clean.
Although this game was not what I expected, I enjoyed buying from the gear shop and choosing my outfits!

I was not so sure if I would like this games at first, but now I love it.You can take care of your horses and train them and finally compete with them.When you get the game there is a mystery horse that you can unlock if you play enough ,but I will not say.The only bad thing about the mystery horse is that you can not name it.Anyway this is an awesome game.The details are amazing.Sometimes the reading can be hard for younger kids(i only know beacuse my cousin wanted to play and i had to help her read yhe entire time)and that is NOT fun.I would recomend this game for younger children because of the reading.I have had this game for over 1 year and I have not finished it yet or get tired of it yet.This is the perfect game for horse lovers!

This game is very unrealistic, but it is interesting. The gameplay is decent in the lessons and challenges, but it does not present a proper view of real horse training... or horse life. You begin the game with the choice of 3 breeds, and then name your horse. The game ignores what could have been fun, playing with your foal and raising it... halter breaking, etc, but instead flashes to '2 years later'.

You then proceed to learning 'dressage', 'steeplechase' and 'eventing'. None of these is really accurate, but whatever. In dressage you learn the basics of moving the horse. The controls are not intuitive and you may need to repeat the lessons a few times. What's annoying is the fact that the lesson has to be repeated over and over if you make the slightest mistake. "Steeplechase" doesn't remotely resemble actual steeplechasing... it's more like showjumping, seeing as time doesn't matter, you don't jump hedges and you're alone. Eventing combines the two previous events with a woodsy jumping course in addition, rather like real eventing. (Yay.)

It should be noted that your rival looks like the chick from Transformers and she doesn't really do anything if you lose to her or beat her besides complain that you've cheated or say that she naturally would beat you. You never see her horse or her compete, so it's more of a waste of time.

Besides lessons and competitions, you also have to trail ride, groom, and feed your horse in the morning. You also can visit him in the pasture (it's always a gelding) where you whistle to him and then feed him apples. You could feed him 100 apples. He's the magical non-colicing horse.

The fact that you're jumping 4" and doing high dressage with a 2 year old horse is a little disturbing to a horseperson as well. But it is a game.
The menus are annoying, as well. But it's something vaguely horsey to play while you're waiting for the train.

Got this game for my granddaughter along with many others, but this is by far her favorite Equestrian game. The graphics are great and the animation is hard to beat. I wasn't sure about buying this one, but it was well worth the money. She will spend many years playing this game.

I like riding the horses and picking your own horse. It is very fun to play. It gives me a lot to do, and you just want to keep on playing it to get to the top. Also, you just want to buy everything that is on the game. I play the game all the time since it is so fun to playHorse Life.

My mom got this ds game for me. I loved it.

Stable
You can groom your horse in the stable. You can curry, shampoo, or muck the stalls. I thought that all of them were fun and realistic.
You can also look at your awards in the stable, change saddles, and change outfits. This I don't use that often, but it's good to do sometimes.
You can go into the pasture in the stable. When you do this, you make your horse happy. You can say his name into the microphone, or blow the whistle that they have and he will come over.
You can feed your horse in the stable. You start out with one kind of food, and you can buy more feed that will make your horse happier in the store.
You can train in the stable. You train for competitions here. When you do it, you use the stylus. Is is fun and easy.

Store
In the store you can buy many things. You can buy saddles, horse feed, horse treats, clothes, helmets and boots for you, and different music to listen to.

Competition Place
This is where you can compete. (you have to train first) You get money and prestage points when you compete. If you are not happy with your score, you can do it again. There is jumping, dressage, cross country, and a class where you do all three. The competition place is where you get your money.

Forest
In the forest, you can just go for a free ride. You can buy different music in the store, and you can choose where you go. There are many different routes. In the forest, you can choose whether you want to walk, trot or canter, and there are also jumps set up for you. Sometimes you an decide to go left or right.

Other
At the beginning of the game, you can choose what kind of horse you want and what kind of markings. They are many different ones, including black, chestnut, white and unicorn.

The guy
The guy directs you around. First, you have to do what he wants you to do and nothing else. then you can do whatever you want. At the beginning of each day, you feed your horse. Then you f]get to do about 3 activities. Going to the store does not count. Then there is lunch break (just 1 second of the screen going black). After lunch break you get about 4 more activities. Then it is the end of the day. At this time the screen goes black for about 3 seconds. This is when I usually turn off my ds. Then the cycle starts all over again.

This is a really fun game. If you love horses like me, than this is a great choice.

I got this game for my birthday and started to play it right then and there. It's so easy and it's real not fake. If you love horses like I do you will be in love with game. There are not enough great thing to say about this game.I and you have a guide for the game.

My 11 year old daughter, who loves horses, received this game for Christmas and she loves it. There is so much to do and appears to be quite challenging...keeping her in a mode of trying harder to master it.