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Barbie Princess and the Pauper

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Our Daughter loves this game. Its Very Challenging and entertaining for her.

Wonderful Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My six year old LOVES this game! She has played it over and over and keeps getting better at it. I am so impressed with the graphics and I like the challenges that make her think. ie. making pathways with logs, using colors to decode...stuff like that. I highly recommend this.

One of the best Barbie games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My daughter absolutely loves this game and it is one of her favorites! It's filled with fun and creative activities and lasts a lot longer than most Barbie games do. The graphics are not very advanced, but that does not matter because they are very beautiful and, in my opinion, truly make the game look like a fairy tale adventure. My daughter prefers these classic graphics over those of "Secret Agent Barbie" and "Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses". She had no difficulty moving Erika around. We did receive a couple of errors. One was during the activity where the stained-glass windows are created, but we restarted the game and it took us right where my daughter left off. We did not receive this error after that. Please note that we might have gotten this error because we run the game on Windows Vista. The second error that occured and others have mentioned was during the activity where Erika has to find three singers for the concert. As long as you give the flowers to the right singers you will not get this error. Other than those two errors, the game works perfectly fine on Windows Vista. I highly recommend this game. I do not think your child will be at all dissapointed!

don't buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i have been trying to play this game with my four year old, and it is very frustrating. erika moves oh-so-slooooooooooow, it takes forever to get her to walk across a room. then, you must do the activities in order---if my little girl wants to "find the kitten", she has to start the entire game over to do it. same for "baking a cake", and all the other activities. you can't just click on something and do it.
all in all, it's very aggravating.

This is a great game if you know how to understand read words to you and know how to use the mouse you would be able to play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a game where you are Erika and you have to complete many deeds in order to become the queen in three days. So, you have to complete all these tasks which requires you to go all over the town.
You get to bake cakes, take care of a kitten, grow flowers, and much,much more.
This is probably a great game for a kid ( probably a girl) who is at the age where she knows how to basicaly can understand words ( read to her) and knows how to use a mouse.
This is a really fun game but, as you get older you might still like it at the age of nine you don't have to like the Princess and the Pauper to play this game.
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Best for 8 years old kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Beloved game for any 8 years old kids. Younger or older will love it too. I definitely would recommend it to anyone who asks about it.

A fun and creative game, but requires patience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My daughter played this game for hours and loved it. Some have said that there is a 'bug' that prevents you from finding the singers for the coronation. But it CAN be done.

Hours of fun,fun,fun,with Princess and the Pauper CD-ROM!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE Princess and the Pauper! I love to have fun decoratin'the castle and makin' cakes and stained-glass windows.Overall this game is wonderful and educational!Beautiful,too! My favorite part of the game is the coronation and the little song. Unlike other people, I haven't hit that bug at all. I think it's something about ''no lip-synch data'' and ''giving people flowers''. After all, who would give a bad singer flowers?!?!? (well maybe a few....) PS: I might even buy the movie Princess and the Pauper! Because I love the game soooooooo much!!! This game is definetly #1 ! (: 'BARBIE LOVER' :)

Fun game for older pre-teen girls

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My daughter really enjoyed this game, and did not run across the bug others have mentioned below.

However - please note that she is a "highly gifted" 8 year old and a computer game wizard - and even so, she got stuck a couple of times and needed help. So I can see that for younger kids, this game might not be appropriate. But it is great for girls in that "too old for toys, too young for boys" stage, who are still young enough to love Barbie but don't need to add another doll to their collections.

She played it for weeks (maybe a couple months) before she got to the end, but enjoyed it solidly every time she played. Once she got to the end, she went through it a few more times but has now put it aside.

For us it was a nearly-perfect game, as she got a lot of hours of play out of it.

My main problem with it is that the chores Erika has to do are so stereotypically female - sewing stuff, baking lots of cakes, and so forth. She has to be a kind of "Stepford Barbie" in order to be coronated. But whatever - my daughter enjoyed it, and that's what really matters.

Begging to use the computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well Santa hit the jack pot with this one. My 6 year old loves this game. She has been begging to use the computer since Santa brought it. She even got a barbie computer and this wins hands down. She can play the game by herself and if she has trouble reading anything she can click on the speaker icon and the computer will read it for her. Brilliant, on other games all I hear is Mommy, I need help. So this is perfect. It is even entertaining for me to watch her play. She figures out puzzles, listen to clues to her next task. It is a great game.

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