For a company that touts itself as being highly education, seeing as they're the same people who run the television station of the same name, you would assume at least that they would at least try to turn out a high quality product. But we all know what happens when you assume...My very first thought upon booting up this game was that it seemed a little odd that there were only 3 breeds of ponies to pick from. On top of this, the only one I'd of been interested in, the Shetland pony, thanks to the way the markings were animated ended up looking like it had leprosy and was missing a huge chunk of flesh! Instant turn-off. I'd rather not play with a zombie pony... but at the same time, wouldn't that make an interesting premise for a potential new game? (You heard it here first if it ever happens!)
First impressions aside, once I got into the actual gameplay, I began to think that perhaps this is actually a pretty decent game. There was realism in the small details such as not stroking the pony too hard or fast, lest it not enjoy it (resist the urge to make the obvious comment here...I'm biting my tongue so hard right now). The foods were even more specifically fine tuned and realistic to what real horses eat than what most horse simulators offer, the bathing process was more or less accurate, you can teach them tricks (and actually have to memorize just how you got your pony to do them), and what caught my eye as being unique to this game... It appears you're able to teach your pony to pull a pony cart! (I'm biased. Some of my best childhood memories were spent riding along the nature trails behind our house in a pony cart.)
Or at least...you're supposed to be able to do this. What's the problem then, exactly? Well... the game is severely glitched. There's no way for you to end even your first day and put your pony to bed for the night. It won't let you. You're probably figuring I must have done something wrong, or overlooked something, but no. I hit up Google for the answer of how to end the first day, and it appears you can't. The few and far between reviews I found on this game all had the same thing to say about it, that it's glitched and therefore useless. :( Which is really a disappointment when you know that the game had a LOT of potential to possibly be amazing, but is useless. There's no way to update these games with a patch, being on the DS and all, so about all you can do is return them, get your money back, and hope that the company recalls all the glitched games and replaces them with fixed cartridges. But until when and if that happens, this game is getting a rating of 1 out of 10 ponies. I don't feel like I should even be rating it that highly, but what else can you do?
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