Customer Reviews

Scooby-Doo Case File #2: The Scary Stone Dragon

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My 8 year old loves this new Scooby game. She will play it over and over. The facts on China are cool and the animation is just like the TV show.

I highly recommend this Scooby game. We like them all but this one is definitely a favorite!

We have three of the Scooby Doo Case File Games.
My four year old loves these games. He will play it for a long time. There is problem solving and mazes and other activities in each game.

My problem with this game (and the other Scooby Games) is that there is no variability. Once your child solves the game and plays it again, the puzzles are essentially the same. The clues might change and the villian might be different, but the puzzles are the same and the clues are in the same places.

This is not a problem for my kids though. They both enjoy the game and play it for many hours.

Enjoy.

As a Scooby-Doo enthusiast, my son cannot find too much at fault with this game. It's actually pretty fun. However, I was annoyed with the fact than when I installed it on my computer running Windows XP using the administrator account, you could not use it on any other account (my 6 year old obviously does not have an adminstrator account). Most well written pieces of software do not need to be run as a system administrator and have access to the system registry, but it is not the case with this one. It took forever to figure this out, because it lets you play part of the game without this, but when you send Scooby to the pagoda to get scooby snacks, it just takes you back to the main menu.

That said, I can see some value in this game. It works your memory (e.g. the pagoda exercise), it works your math skills (such as when you make recipes for Shaggy and Scooby), and it works your deductive reasoning skills (such as working to solve the mystery).

The game was great for us adults and was a hit at our dinner parties, but our 19 and 16 yr old children found it too scary and had very bad nightmares at night.

I received this gift for Christmas, and was very dissapointed. The Scary Stone Dragon has a great plot, but I solved it in 30 mins. I have two other ones that I've played for days, and I still can't solve them! Do not, I repeat do not, get this game.