Pony Friends

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Product Description

MODEL- 40042 VENDOR- EIDOS

FEATURES- Pony Friends DS
You are a brand new pony owner who looks after your stable of
ponies. You soon learn that owning a pony is a big responsibility,
but with great rewards. Learn the joys of taking care of and
training your very own pony! Groom and train your pony, enter your
pony into competitions, go on trail rides and find hidden gifts,
explore the wilderness and chat with other stable folks. Enter
your pony into competitions where your pony must be the prettiest,
healthiest, most obedient and well-groomed to win!
Experience the joy of owning, caring for and training your very own
beautiful pony! Pony Friends is a "virtual pet" game for the
Nintendo DS that is every girl's dream! Choose from 6 horse breeds
or create and customize your very own pony! Make sure your pony is
well groomed, clean and happy. Take your pony for trail rides to
keep it fit while watching out for birds, animals and hidden gifts
to collect. Make your pony beautiful with decorations and matching
sets of accessories to ensure your pony is the best in the whole
stable!

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-03-31 horse lovers My daughter loves horses so I got her this game. It is fun but she gets tired of playing it fast

Reviewed on 2008-03-01 Finally got my pony!!!! I am a 46 year old that had to try DS. I am not a gamer, but I love my Ds system. I absolutely love this game. It really makes me laugh at all you can do with the horses. Riding on the trails and taking pictures is a hoot. I've always wanted a pony and this is great, no cleanup!!! Enjoy.

Reviewed on 2008-02-03 i just dont understand i bought this game cause i like ponys some reviewers say they have problem with money for those i have bought ten horses over the year and i never had problems with my money ever running out. i don't understand what you people are doing. i have about 6000 dollars and i play my game every single day and i never get tired of it

Reviewed on 2008-01-14 Great game! My daughter absolutely loves this game. She wanted it so it would help her learn to care for her real horse. The game is very enjoyable for her.

Reviewed on 2007-11-01 Flaws Pull This "Nintendogs for Horses" Up Short PROS: > Beautiful and imaginative trail-ride scenarios, easily the best part of the game. > Lovely introductory video clips to each section CONS: > One bug that I've found: The chores list from which a player derives income often refuses to credit the player with chores done. > Money for horse care accrues so slowly and in such small amounts that it's far too easy to run out of money. PRO OR CON: This is not an action game and lacks the interactive contests of "Nintendogs." Winning a horse race, for example, comes down to shouting into the microphone; that's the only contest in the program. Players who like caring for and walking their "Nintendogs" will enjoy similar activities here, particularly the superior trail rides, with their lovely scenery. Players who want more excitement may be disappointed. * * * THE FLAW: I'm an adult who's played the game extensively over the last week, and I've encountered the same problem on two different cartridges. A player earns daily money by performing three chores for the ponies owned. Supplementary income and possessions come from finding items on trail rides. Unlocking such an item, however, may freeze the "chores checklist" so that you get no further credit (or money) for chores you perform. This effectively shuts down your primary income to support your horses. The only solution I've found is to erase all progress and start again from scratch. The first time this happened, I called the developer and left a message but heard nothing either via phone or email. In subsequent play I've found that often a player gets no credit for the feeding chore when owning multiple horses. That said, people who like "Nintendogs" will find the same relaxed pace in this game. There are a number of trail rides, and the graphics for these are pleasantly scenic and to me the best feature of the game. So long as your horse is rested and healthy, you can take any number of trail rides, and I used this feature of the game the most as a quick relaxer. A player gets the full view of a horse only when it's being cared for or in the field. Don't expect the quality of the horse figures to equal that of the "Nintendogs," and multiple horses grouped in the field do not interact in the way multiple "Nintendogs" do at home. If you're interested in practicing delayed gratification, this game will help! Money accrues in modest amounts ($27 to $43 for daily chores), and though I never hit a zero balance, I can see how you could, as a previous reviewer did, have a sick horse and no money, thus stalling out the game. Once a day a trail ride will offer a small reward for a completed task; the unlocked items, as mentioned above, sometimes locked the chores checklist; the photo assignments about half the time were hard to complete and in one case never registered. There's no way to resell items to get extra money. A lucky and canny player might accrue enough to get a second horse in ten days or so (Horses cost from $200 to $230. The fact that money comes slowly to a player and must be so carefully managed can be either a drawback or a plus, depending on your point of view. Another patience-tester is that most of the trail rides must be unlocked by either opening a gate on an already-open trail or riding a certan number of trails, and finding the gates requires swiveling your viewpoint and thus at least two rides. This gets pretty time-consuming, and a child might find the wait too frustrating. The game is good at teaching basic horse care, requiring the player to periodically groom and wash a pony and clean its hooves. However, the cost of washing and feeding your horse may eat up half your daily allowance. Similarly, the game warns you via a meter if your horse is getting too tired or ill to ride, and an ill horse might need treatment every two to three days (more money). I can't comment on the advanced game features: what happens when a pony achieves all goals, because the flaw I found made it necessary to restart twice long before I reached that point.

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