{"id":14248,"date":"2015-11-20T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2015-11-09T20:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:59:41","slug":"barbie-and-her-sisters-puppy-rescue-wii-u-3ds-wii-360-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/barbie-and-her-sisters-puppy-rescue-wii-u-3ds-wii-360-ps3\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue (Wii U, 3DS, Wii, 360, PS3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BARBIE_BOX\"<\/a>As a guy with six brothers and no sisters, I never had much exposure to Barbie toys. I remember as a kid seeing toy commercials for Barbie\u2019s sister Skipper, but it turns out she has two other sisters as well.\u00a0 See, video games do teach you stuff.\u00a0 So anyway, it seems as though Barbie and her three sisters have started a puppy rescue business (they must have rich parents), and now you can help them find lost puppies, give them checkups, clean them, and find them new homes!\u00a0 Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue is available for Wii U, 3DS, Wii, 360, and PS3, but reviewed on Wii U here.<\/p>\n

So the first thing you\u2019ll do in the game is ride your bike around town as Barbie looking for lost puppies.\u00a0 Shortly after venturing out, Barbie will get a call on her cell phone and then you must follow the arrows and map to where the puppy is located.\u00a0 You might have to do this a few times.\u00a0 Once you find the puppy, you\u2019ll either pick it up or play a mini-game to earn its trust.\u00a0 You might have to match the item it wants, or find it in a hedge maze.\u00a0 Then you put the puppy in Barbie\u2019s bike basket and pedal on back to the rescue center.\u00a0 The bike portion of the game is probably the most confusing because it requires knowing how to read a map in 3-D space, and they don\u2019t give you any instructions about how to move your bike around or how to get off.\u00a0 Luckily there are bike racks everywhere and your bike always materializes near one in case you need to hop off and walk around.<\/p>\n

Back at the rescue center, Barbie gives the puppy to her sister Skipper, who is apparently a trained veterinarian now. Skipper will scan the puppy to see if it has a chip, and if it does, they\u2019ll know who to call to own it.\u00a0 If not, you\u2019ll be able to name the puppy and must find it a good home later.\u00a0 You\u2019ll play another mini-game here where you might have to give the pup a vaccination, spray for fleas, or clean its teeth.<\/p>\n

After that the puppy goes out to the kennel. Before you can do any activity, the puppy will need to rest a bit.\u00a0 When you play mini-games and find puppies a home, you\u2019ll earn bones.\u00a0 You can spend bones to buy more kennels to hold more puppies, and you can also buy items to decorate the kennels with, which will also help reduce the puppies\u2019 rest times.\u00a0 While waiting for the puppies to rest up, you can go out to find more puppies, or take care of the ones you already have.<\/p>\n

Once the puppy\u2019s rest time is up, it\u2019s off for training. Play an obstacle course agility training mini-game with another one of Barbie\u2019s sisters, or you can just play with it out in the yard and pet it or play fetch.\u00a0 After agility training and another rest, it\u2019s off to Barbie\u2019s final sister for grooming and another mini-game where you soap up and rinse off the pup.\u00a0 And finally you must either call the owner of the lost pup, or find a match for a new home.\u00a0 And then you start the process over again.<\/p>\n

The only problem I had with the game is the lack of instructions to do certain things. I don\u2019t know if the physical copy of the game has good instructions, but the downloadable one sure didn\u2019t.\u00a0 The graphics are pretty decent but the puppies\u2019 huge eyes make them look freaky (I named a couple of the puppies things like \u2018Coffee,\u2019 \u2018Espresso,\u2019 and \u2018Red Bull.\u2019).\u00a0 While the game is pretty repetitive, young Barbie fans should enjoy this one anyway.<\/p>\n

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Reading skill is a must with all the text, and younger gamers may need help with some of the parts of the game. But it should please little Barbie fans anyway.\u00a0 And it might be considered educational as it teaches the importance of taking care of pets, taking them to the vet, and getting them chipped so they can be found easier.\u00a0 Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a guy with six brothers and no sisters, I never had much exposure to Barbie toys. I remember as a kid seeing toy commercials for Barbie\u2019s sister Skipper, but it turns out she has two other sisters as well.\u00a0 See, video games do teach you stuff.\u00a0 So anyway, it seems as though Barbie and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}