Amazon.com Product Description
Preschoolers can join Pooh in a learning journey as he hosts a special birthday celebration for Eeyore. The little ones will join Pooh and friends as they travel through the Hundred Acre Wood and round up Tigger, Piglet, and the rest to join the party. Along the way, players gain valuable key learning skills, including letter and number recognition, phonics, and sequencing…. More >>
It’s hard to imagine a game more tedious, more uninspired, or less suitable for “ages 2-4″ than this one. In order to make Eeyore’s birthday party happen, preschoolers are expected to complete exacting tasks for each Pooh character, such as coloring paintings for Piglet. Of course, you have to click and color each large painting EXACTLY to match the color example provided onscreen — no room for creativity allowed. Furthermore, the examples are so tiny that it’s often impossible to tell exactly what color, say, Pooh’s earmuffs should be. And if your child can actually discern the correct color, they are then expected to have sufficient command over the game controls so that they can navigate the brush so that its tip falls within the correct 4 or 5 empty pixels onscreen.
In order for Piglet to get to go to Eeyore’s party, your preschooler is expected to complete something like 25 of these “paintings” — a laborious task, made even more painful by the repetitive “encouraging” phrases that Pooh keeps mindlessly intoning. And other challenges are even more tedious.
The animation is poor, and several of the character voices aren’t the same as in the cartoons. The people who made this game don’t love and understand either small children, or Pooh.
Rating: 1 / 5
My son started playing this when he was about 3. He played it with me – sitting in my lap with me moving the mouse etc.- before that, but he was three when he tried it on his own. He’s loved it from the start. The different POOH characters teach various skills, i.e. math, sound recognition, sequencing, alphabet. Once your child has completed the required tasks it lets them do their own thing. In the paint game for example, your child LEARNS to follow directions and pay attention to details by coloring the colors correctly. Honestly, my son loved putting the wrong colors in just for fun ( some were pretty outrageous ), but eventually would do them right in order to advance. After doing the assigned paintings he was free to color ( and decorate the finished paintings ) as he pleased! You’ll want to assist them at first, but it didn’t take long before my son was happy to play all by himself. I’d check on him and found that he’d advanced a LOT further than I had expected. He was counting to 20 and working the mouse like a little pro. He even learned all kinds of vegetables, while helping Rabbitt put his garden veggies in mason jars ( in various quantities to teach counting ). The sounds and graphics are fun, and the characters of course, are ones most little kids know and love. It’s good for giggles as well as learning. Also, it has three different skill levels for each activity area, so it should keep your child interested and challenged for a reasonably long time. It won’t be forgotten in a week or two…
Rating: 4 / 5
Preschoolers and short attention spans are synonimous. There is no direction and too much talking. How the heck is a three year old supposed to know that he needs to complete all three levels of every activity when the activities keep going and going and going. The game was just not planned with young children in mind.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this game for my 5 yr old and he really enjoys playing it!! He has no problems moving around the game & can play it by Himself (other video games I have to sit & help him with the controller, not this one) and being able to pick different levels makes it very challenging for him.
My 2 year old of course doesn’t play video games he can’t figure out the controller (yet) but he Loves to sit in my lap and point at the stuff he wants Me to click on, (he really likes matching the sounds in tigger’s places something any 2 yr old can do) we have a lot of kid video games and this is the ONLY one my 2 year old will actual sit & watch and can interact with, this is a really a great game for kids 2 years & up, my boys like it so much I’m looking into buying the other Pooh games.
The only bad part I wish they’d change is piglet’s place where you have to paint a picture, you have to paint it Just like piglet, you can’t pick your own colors which would be more creative But still my 5 yr old has fun in piglet’s place. And don’t let that stop you from buying it because there is still alot to do on the game like counting at rabbit’s, matching picture at owls, putting a story together at poohs lots of fun and using your noodle in this game.
Rating: 4 / 5
The good news is your child can simply pick which game to play and even the level to play it at, the bad news is that they get stuck on the paint game which is not very challenging once the controller is mastered, but endless, mindless fun. The other games require knoledge of letters, numbers and some simple reading skills. The game doens’t teach at all, but it does ofer reinforcement and practice. A good game to play together, the animated sequences where and unexpected surprise that help draw the child in.
Rating: 4 / 5