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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
My daughter's favorite DS game!
We have had this game for about two weeks now and my 6-year-old daughter has played nothing else since we bought it. It was easy for her to figure out on her own, which isn't always the case with DS games. She loves to groom the horses and pick out riding outfits for Barbie. But her favorite thing is taking her horse through the jumping course and winning ribbons...
Published 22 months ago by Mom in Kansas City, MO
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
Okay Game but a Little Confusing
This Christmas we decided to buy a Nintendo Wii game system and wanted to purchase a Wii game for each of our children. Our daughter is 5 years old and loves horses. After reading reviews on different horse games, I decided that most would be too hard for her. At the time, I couldn't find a review for the Barbie Horse Adventures, but took a chance anyway and purchased...
Published 20 months ago by Jamie C. Darzi
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
Okay Game but a Little Confusing, January 2, 2009
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This Christmas we decided to buy a Nintendo Wii game system and wanted to purchase a Wii game for each of our children. Our daughter is 5 years old and loves horses. After reading reviews on different horse games, I decided that most would be too hard for her. At the time, I couldn't find a review for the Barbie Horse Adventures, but took a chance anyway and purchased the game for her.
The game starts with Barbie arriving at Riding Camp which has lots of storm damage. She is instructed to pick out some riding clothes and a horse. Afterwards, she is shown how to care for her horse by feeding it and grooming it. This is all easy to follow but somewhat time consuming. Next, the riding instructor gives Barbie her first adventure, to ride around the arena in a timed race. From here, the player finds adventures such as riding events, storm clean-up events, and horse care events. At the completion of each adventure, camp credit is given for purchasing riding clothes and horse gear. You also earn awards for riding events.
Some things about the game were very intuitive and easy for my daughter to pick up. Controlling the horse isn't too bad although my daughter tends to over steer with the Wii remote but I blame that on "operator error". My reasons for giving the game an "Okay" rating is the confusion of finding your way around the island for the adventures. The map is hard to read on the screen and I found myself going back to the game paper insert for help. There are signposts occasionally but they are hard to read when you are riding past them on a horse. I have found that I need to play the game prior to my daughter playing it so that I can help her navigate and pick adventures that she will want to do. That said, it took me a couple of times of play to find our next adventure at the Racetrack. Another downfall of the game is relying on vocal instructions during game play to tell you about different items. For the first few days of playing the game, a virtual cell phone would ring. We had no idea of how to answer it. During one game, we happened to go a route and the instructions for cell phone use popped up as a helpful hint. We found that the cell phone was very important to the game (including how to exit the game) yet we hadn't known how to access it for the first few times we played.
After several hours of play, I think that I can navigate fine through the game but my 5 year old would rather take care of the horses and ride throughout the pastures and not take on the adventures. She does seem to enjoy the game now but it has taken her a while to warm-up to it. In some ways, Barbie Horse Adventure: Riding Camp is like the PC software game, Let's Ride which my daughter loves to play. I think that my daughter does better with the Let's Ride game but of course there is more riding interaction with the Wii controller than with a PC mouse.
I believe this game is for a 6 to 8 year old. Some of the adventures were quite easy and would likely bore someone older than 5 or 6. I think someone much older would find the whole game on the dull side.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
My daughter's favorite DS game!, November 14, 2008
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This review is from: Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp (Video Game)
We have had this game for about two weeks now and my 6-year-old daughter has played nothing else since we bought it. It was easy for her to figure out on her own, which isn't always the case with DS games. She loves to groom the horses and pick out riding outfits for Barbie. But her favorite thing is taking her horse through the jumping course and winning ribbons. There are a bunch of other activities and mini-games too. I would highly recommend this game to young girls, especially those who are horse-crazy like mine!
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Perfect for a non reader because game reads outloud to child, April 14, 2009
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This review is from: Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp (Video Game)
I'm always looking for games that are easy for non reader children. My daughter received her DS system when she was 4 and now that she is almost 5 years old, we have a pretty good collection of games for non readers. In Barbie Riding Camp, there are a lot of great activties to do. We still have not completed the game, but as of where we are now I can tell you somewhat about the game. The person playing the game is the character Barbie. Barbie will talk to several people throughout the game. The instructions are told to you in actual voices, so there is no reading involved (except for one part, the journal area). You start off the game in a week mode, on Monday. At the beginning of the week, you will be introduced to several people around the riding camp. You'll be instructed either by people or arrows, on where to go. You can go to the riding area, or to the barn, to the camp houses and the main manor, plus you can go on walks through the Forest and Beaches. Each day, you will unlock a mini game in the guest house. Here you will meet up with your friends Theresa and Nikki. There are several little mini games, like catch the firefly, round up the puppies and kittens, match game, trace the stars and a few more. In the guest house is where Barbie will change her clothes and also go to sleep. Each day you will be given task to complete, in order to advance to a new day (Tuesday would be next). Each task is shown to you in an example or someone on the ranch talks to you and tells you exactly what to do. Some chores that are given to Barbie (after she designs and chooses her horse), would be to care, feed, wash her horse, plus change her horseshoes and brush her horse. Also, you will take care of the barn, by nailing boards together and so on. Other task assigned to you, is to complete a riding lesson - you have to chase the stars and colect them all, follow the paths and look for the arrows. When it's time to jump a fence or post, you'll see a little popup at bottom of screen turn grey, brown and then green (green for press the pop up, then jump). You'll have to complete each assigment and course to advance. Barbie also gets to go on treks through the Forest to find things like a cottage or watch and along the way, the horse needs to eat apples and carrots. Some days Barbie and horse get to ride on the Beach. We have not completed the entire week yet, but that is pretty much the sum of the game. I'm sure your little girl will love it, it's for sure a girly, girl game
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
'A purchase I wish I hadn't made, August 21, 2009
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We have a wii and the 7 year old never uses it. Most of the games are too fast, too confusing, or too frustrating for her. This game was her pick, and she is still very excited about it. However, after about 4 hours of play (half with her father and half with me), I'm ready to hang myself. As another reviewer has pointed out, the directions are fairly unclear and the map very hard to read and follow. The controls can be frustrating - even for me. The directions are very little help. My daughter would like to earn ribbons that would let her ride another horse, but how this is accomplished is not addressed in the directions. The directions also tell me that the cell phone is useful for a number of different functions, but unless someone calls, the cell phone doesn't seem to be available. Already, she seems to simply be riding her horse all over the fields and trails but not doing anything to actually play the game. I can't imagine that any child could use this game without parental assistance. Overall, a frustrating ride through the brush and into a tree.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Great for ages 5+, January 1, 2009
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This game is a good game. I can see it getting old if you have finished the "assignments". It really is very easy but I think you might need to be 5+ to play without frustration. You basically just ride around and ask your instructor what to do. Hell give you assignments like "run this trail" or "go find the water to water your horse". But my 5 year old probably would give it a 7 out of 10 stars and I think its decent.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Good game, but short...., December 31, 2008
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This is an good game(despite it being Barbie).
There are 5 horses to choose from:
-Palomino
-Arabian(grey)
-Mustang(piebald)
-Holsteiner(Bay)
-Hanoverian(Black)
The only care tasks you have to do are cleaning the hooves, brushing, water and food. Unfortunately the actual task just shows you a video of Barbie doing that task. I thought that was a big downside of the game because I always liked the care part of horse games.
The game is a quest type game: You have no real story line other than earning ribbons in certain events(showjumping, racing, cross country and endurance). After that you can go talk to people all over the island and they will have tasks for you to do.
I do like the free roaming aspect of the game, your horse can even swim for a certain amount of time.
So really my only complaints would be the care portion, the horses walk(looks like a trot), and make it longer.
Good game overall.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
An Average Horse Riding Game for the Wii, December 15, 2009
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I purchased Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp in the hopes of finding a good game for the Wii that let me enjoy riding around on a horse. I had low expectations to start with, but found the game to be better than I imagined. It has enough direction to allow you to progress through the quests relatively easily, yet it also allows you to ride around with no set goal. This game is recommended mainly for the target audience of young girls. However, I think it has enough elements to warrant a play-through for those looking for an open-ended horse riding game. Just be aware that its playability is limited: Once you finish the game, there really is little else to do.
POSITIVES
- The amount of open space available to ride around in is very varied and vast.
- The controls require some getting used to, but are relatively straight forward after mastering them.
- There are many side quests throughout the game, adding to the content.
- The customization options are limited, but should appeal to many players.
NEGATIVES
- The graphics are not very good, even for the Wii.
- Many of the activities require a simple button click, rather than actual actions with the Wii remote.
- Some parts of the game can be tedious and too repetitive.
- The main storyline appears to be too simple at times, and makes the game seem too easy.
- The voice acting can get annoying and repetitive.
Overall, I would say that the game lives up to what it is advertised as, and does not offer too much more. Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp does not disappoint, but expect an average game designed to entertain younger players. Good luck!
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Barbie Horse riding camp - DS - Awesome Barbie game!, June 8, 2009
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Hi I'm a 21 year old Autistic adult gamer...
I love the Barbie video games and yeah I'm 21 and watch all the barbie movies too. I'm a big Barbie fan!
This game is awesome it will keep you busy for hours on end plus it lot's of fun and you get to learn about horses and how to take care of them. I'm playing this game for a second time just because I like it. I learned so much about horses and how to take care of them I would recommend this game to any one of all ages not just younger kids. You can be Barbie fan no matter how old you are!
Buy this game you like it!
Do not buy Barbie 12 dancing princesses unless it's for the GBA the DS version is the same thing to a t as the GBA version so be forwarned. Save your cash and get the cheaper version go with the GBA version for Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses and yes it will work on your Original DS and DS Lite for those of you who didn't know that.
Happy Gaming!
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Great fun for the young horse lover!, January 22, 2009
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This was part of my 7 year old granddaughter's Christmas. What a big hit! She is turned off by many of the WII games; they just don't hold her interest. Logan Grace loves horses and so Barbie's Horse Adventures is the perfect video game for her.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent for 6-10 year old girls!, December 30, 2008
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My six and ten year old grandaughters really enjoy playing the Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp. They both took turns playing it!
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