In the end the game just doesn’t work as an action or role-playing game and the result is an unfortunate black mark on the company’s resume.

But the real deal breaker for Winx Club Join the Club is a very familiar problem for PSP owners: load times. Players will spend more time watching the game load than they will actually playing the game. And these load times are ridiculously long.

With better pacing, some deeper activities to partake in and a more finely tuned interaction system Brooktown High could have been a lot of fun.

Something I cannot forgive is the combination of the camera, controls, and the lack of serious fun playing the game. My niece found it more amusing to chew on the controller after all.

The game is an unmitigated mess of technical issues and features sewn together like Frankenstein, and about as appealing as the sum of its miss-matched parts.

Thankfully, the game is nice and short. I know that when I put thirty bucks down for a game, four hours is right on the money as I have things to do, man. I'm like, important. Unfortunately that's still about three hours and fifty minutes longer than you'd want to play this game, but at least when you're done you can watch the interviews and look at the concept art, and maybe try and figure out how the concept art could look so good, but the game could be so bad.

Outside of battles, the rest of the game is a complete bore. The game was clearly rushed to meet the movie’s release date, as there’s very little to do outside of combat.