This is a game that I'd expect to be sold in a bookfair for $5 and even at that price, I'd be offended if I paid for it as a kid, especiallyThis is a game that I'd expect to be sold in a bookfair for $5 and even at that price, I'd be offended if I paid for it as a kid, especially considering it came out in 2012, 1 year before the DS' 9-year lifecycle ended.
This game plays like a poorly coded browser flash game. If I paid for it, I'd probably play it for a decent time just so I would justify however much I paid for it. If it were actually a free flash game, I'd quickly close it and play another one.
This cartridge comes with 2 separate games loaded on it, and neither are captivating in any manner. I would somewhat justify this if it were in the least educational, as it is published and sold by Scholastic Books. However even the educational status of these games is very basic.
The amusement park one has the capability of being a decent business simulator, perhaps a game that teaches you about maths, or budgeting, but it doesn't. You just have an amusement park with like 12 lots, you have to select which ride you want to place in each lot, you have to play memory to assemble the ride, and then you have to maintain them. They have minigames that allow you to earn money for more rides, but you lack any basic element you may find from other park simulators that offer a much more engaging experience.
The Digging for Dinosaurs game at least tries to be a bit more educational by providing some facts about the dinosaurs you dig up, but it somehow manages to have gameplay even more grating than the amusement park game.
If I have to about the damn brush one more time I think I may lose my mind.
The music and sound effects the games use are either non-existent or so simplistic and short that they become very repetitive and they play quite loudly.
Even if this is a game intended for young children there are much better games I recall being more captivating than this when I was younger.
Really there is no reason to get either of these titles nor this bundle of each unless you are a completionist collector. Pass if you see it.… Expand
