The Powerpuff Girls: Princess Snorebucks
You won't be seeing the Powerpuff Girls streaking across the skies saving Towensville
because Princess Morebucks has put them to sleep with her evil sleep machine. Theirs is
not a happy sleep - Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles are having nightmares. To awaken
them you must complete various educational tasks. Better than the previous Powerpuff
edutainment game, these learning sets are well balanced and quite fun.
Blossom needs help with sentence construction that hss been scrambled by roaches, Bubbles is learning Spanish by whacking
piņatas and you need to work with Buttercup to divide up her garden to plant flowers.
As with many Learning Company/Riverdeep products, there is attention to levels of
difficulty and tracking progress. The standard setting for the games is for Auto-Leveling
to be on. This means that the game gets harder as your skill improves. I've been known
to turn it off. Most importantly there is a printable manual on the disk.
Reviewed by: Editor - 12/03
Wow, if your kids like the Power Puff Girls, they are really going to
like this one. This is a game we will keep around for a while because some
of the math and learning activities are geared for ages up to around 9 or
10. As the girls progress the story of Princess Snorebucks, they had to help
the Power Puff Girls do different activities to further the story. From math
and reading, to learning another language (Spanish), the difficulty ramps up
the further the story progresses. You can select, to an extent, the age range
of the problems, but even so, we found that the better you do, the more
difficult they become....which is a good thing. This title will definitely
require help from mom and dad, especially if your children are younger.
Lindsey was actually doing fractions (she's 5) with this game. Pretty
difficult ones too. I don't know if she really comprehends that 1/2 is the
same thing as 3/6 or 4/8, but by durn she could play the game and tell you
that when 4/8 or 3/6 showed up in a problem, the answer was 1/2!
Caelyn: I really like Bubbles. Lindsey liked this game more than I did, but
I thought the Spanish lessons were fun when I had to hit the pinata.
Lindsey: This game is fun! I liked helping Blossom in her garden! (the
fraction game). I liked it when I made the man on the tractor fall off!
Reviewed by: Dad and Caelyn - 7 & Lindsey - 5 - 02/04
Ages: Everyone