My Ballet Studio

by 505 Games

Product Features

• Balance Board compatible
• Learn new moves and perform them for the crowd!
• Study real ballet moves in movements lessons, position lessons and performance modes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002NXSRCA
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,688 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #36 in Video Games > Wii > Simulation > Life
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Become a Prima Ballerina Learn to become a graceful dancer as you are judged on your sense of balance, flexibility and your stability! You can use your Balance Board or Nunchuck and Wii Remote, to dance and practice real ballet moves that will amaze your friends.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No useful instructions, December 28, 2009

By 

Kate E. Flippen "Kate" - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: My Ballet Studio (Video Game)

In theory, this COULD be a good game. It would be nice, for example, if there were some sort of video instructions indicating what motion is to be made. I expected this to go through the basic ballet positions, and maybe progress to more movement around the floor off the balance board. Instead, you select one of four characters, choose from movements, positions or performance, and are shown a character that is dancing around the floor and you have to figure out what they want you to do with your arms and legs. It's pretty obvious that you can't do what the dancer is doing while on the balance board, and so far, after a half an hour, I can't figure out why sometimes I seem to be doing the right thing and others I am not. Any movements I make that score points have nothing whatsoever to do with ballet.

I looked through the booklet that comes with the disc, and it wasn't much more helpful. There was a grainy photo or two, but I couldn't make out from the photo what exactly the "positions" are supposed to be. There is also something listed in the book as "mimicry" that doesn't seem to be anywhere on the disc. If anyone else has played it and figured it out, I would be interested in finding out what to do. (I'm usually pretty good at figuring these things out!)

All in all, I have to say this was a big waste of time and money. Wii Fit and Wii Active were much more fun.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor programmed game, December 30, 2009

By 

Me, Myself & I (Driggs, ID USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: My Ballet Studio (Video Game)

After buying/playing the wii fit plus, i can see this came COULD have had SO much potential! Being an ex-dancer I thought this would me more like a ballet workout where you use position/exercises/stretches and the balance board in combination with ballet. Boy was I wrong. Like the other reviewers, I can agree that there is no instruction as to correct position except for a dumb dancing doll in which you attempt to copy.

Wii fit plus utilizes the board and your movements on the board to amazingly detect where your body position is and whether it is correct/incorrect. That technology was not applied to this game. There is major lack of instruction, no "trainer" or "teacher" to teach learning dancers correct posture and positioning and clearly one cannot dance the don qixote pas de deux on a balance board. I don't know why they'd think to include preformances as an option to this game. One can not preform on the balance board.

For those attempting to use with wiimote and nunchuck, you will have better results, however don't expect to learn anything of core value for reall ballet skills. this will show you poor examples of routines and positions and will not help any dancer become more refined. If anything, it will create poor habits if used without any reall class instruction or prior knowledge of ballet positioning.

PLEASE NINTENDO and 505 Games, use your programming skills and make a dance game worthy of what the balance board is capable of.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not really dancing - pretty lame, December 28, 2009

By 

hrb - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: My Ballet Studio (Video Game)

First off, I don't know how other WII dancing games are, but it's not really dancing - and in fairness, I guess how could it be, right? The game breaks down into 2 sections - positions and movements. Once you've passed enough lessons (at least 20 in each, not sure how many as more are unlocked as you move thru them) you can then choose to dance a performance number. My dd has done about 10 of the movements lessons and basically it wants you to mimic foot position and hand positions (think DDR) that are shown on screen for the balance board and the controller. So you basically shift your weight and swipe the controller left, righ, up, down based on what the graphic does. Lame, lame, lame. The doll on screen does all these really cool dances while my dd does her Travolta disco-error arm points - lol! She didn't even want to try the positions section and quit after 10 lessons. I don't know if she'll play it again after her first day experience. I'll have to go back to my rule of not buying games that haven't been reviewed. And tho this review is for the WII, I can't even imagine playing this game on the DS, which is also available. Snore.........