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 A fun, QUALITY compliation for kids! Who knew? January 25, 2010
Armando N. Roman (Hillsboro, OR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Face it- a lot of games made for kids, especially on the DS, are embarrassing. When my daughter turned 2 last year, she started to show a lot of interest in the DS, and one of the games I was looking into getting for her was Disney Friends here. It got solid reviews, and the one thing that stood out to me was that it seemed to be made with fun for kids in mind, and wasn't just a 'hey, this is stupidly easy to play. Let's ship it out!' release. Needless to say, I was impressed after playing around in the game a bit myself, and then seeing my daughter play the games after seeing how I did them. Now she's almost 3, and is almost completely able to play it on her own. Yes, there's text, but if you show your child how it's done, and they pay attention, there's nothing here that's too complicated.
You start out by playing with the Alien from Toy Story. This gets you into the basics of gameplay and interaction with your friend. As you progress and make your friend happy, you'll get another, and eventually you'll have the 4: Simba, Stitch, Dory and Pooh. The Alien'll always be around as a tutorial buddy, but he doesn't quite count as a real interactive friend on here when you compare him to the others. You can give your friend accessories to wear, put toys in their rooms, play games with them and more. The coolest part is that they really act like they did in the movies, and respond to your actions as they should. These aren't just rushed character models with a few voice samples, though the voice samples are still fairly limited. So it's good to see that the developer took their time making things right in that department. And you gotta love hearing Stitch play with cars and cardboard buildings after you set them up, and he starts stomping through things, roaring like a monster.
Some of the games you can play include making music, coloring, guessing where an object is, and much more. Again, nothing's too hard for a child to understand once they see how to do it, but older ones that can read, or are learning to, will get more out of it. There's no real object to the game once you get all the friends, but whenever you start it up, you need to try and fill up the happiness meter for each friend, via playing with them, feeding them, etc. You earn money that can be used to buy more accessories and food. If you want Stitch to have rockin' sunglasses, buy some. If you want Simba to have a rainbow afro wig, go for it!
Essentially, this is the kind of game Nintendogs should've been- something with variety that proves its worth for your dollar. To me, the only things that could've made the game a 5 star game would be more spoken lines for the characters and maybe a few more accessories. But when it comes down to it, this is one of the better games for children on the DS. Disney Friends doesn't treat the player like an idiot and should keep one's attention for a good amount of time because of all there is to do with each character. But you should still check the game out for yourself before handing it to your child, or at least sit there with them and make sure they get how to do things before getting frustrated and giving up on it altogether. Give it a shot- it's a hundred times more entertaining than those other virtual pet simulators.
 Not for kids who cannot read! January 25, 2010
Online Bargain Girl (Abington, PA)
I purchased this game from the reviews of people saying it was an easy fun game. My son is 4 and although he found the alien and stitch funny, he was not able to figure out how to open doors or get to the other characters and lost interest in the game completely! I have encouraged him to play it several times since but he says it is hard and boring. Even with me reading the prompts to him this game is still not very clear at explaining what you need to do to please the characters.
Fun and a little challenging August 5, 2009
Jedi Gamer 26 (Willits, CA USA)
In this game, you are the gaurdian to four popular Disney Characters, Pooh, Stitch, Dory, and Simba. You have to keep each character happy, feed them, make sure they sleep, and play with them, kind of like pets. Eventually, you will become each characters best friend, and you earn Gaurdian points, coins to buy various items for each character, and special items that each character will give you as you progress each day. Overall, its a fun game, although the characters may get very "needy" at times, like Pooh for example. That boy never stops eating, and he constantly wants attention, so make sure you have plenty of coins to buy him food. They all like to be pet, but dont poke them, or they get upset. You can also encounter other characters from thier movies as well, and sometimes you can interact with them too.
Overall, its a fun game for any touch screen DS addict (theres one in all of us im sure), so if you are looking for something fun for your DS, this is a good one.
 Disney Friends - DS - Cute game Stitch is the greatest besides from simba! July 3, 2009
Pebbles (young autistic women adult gamer) (Bedrock)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hi I'm an autistic adult gamer.
I like this game. It has Stitch, Simba, Pooh, & Dory in it and has a lot of great aspects to it unlike in virtual pet games. Like you get to take care of stitch and the gang and just sit back and relax with your ds which is nice. I enjoy Stitch and Simba the most there my favorite characters of all time. In the movies and in the games. I like how you get to chill with the characters and take pictures.
Get this game you'll enjoy it I know I do.
Happy Gaming!
 Disney Friends, not so friendly November 26, 2008
Nickola (Heart of, Texas)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my son, he became frustrated within minutes. He passed it off to me and after the long intro with Tinkerbell and the Alien I got to my first "friend", Stitch. According to the directions it was our job to keep our friends happy. We used all of our money to purchase snacks and before we knew it every sandwhich was gone. It took a little work but we finally reached our goal of making Stitch 100% happy. We were stuck, we couldn't move to the next level and we had no more money for snacks. We spent a long time trying to figure out what to do next before we finally put the game away. We've tried again and again but to no avail, we couldn't get to the next "friend".
This is probably a great game if you really have the time to invest in it, which our hectic schedules just do not allow.
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