{"id":14339,"date":"2015-12-16T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:36:59","slug":"horse-life-4-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/horse-life-4-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Life 4 (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HORSE_BOX\"<\/a>Ride, compete, and take care of your equestrian companion with Horse Life 4, a downloadable title for Nintendo 3DS.\u00a0 Honestly I\u2019ve never even heard of Horse Life 1-3, so I don\u2019t know what kind of improvements were made here.\u00a0 So is Horse Life 4 hot to trot or a stinky pile of horse dung?\u00a0 Giddyup and read on to find out!<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is design your rider and horse.\u00a0 Right off the bat there is a big problem.\u00a0 You can only play as a female rider.\u00a0 I know this title is probably targeted toward girls, but boys can enjoy riding horses, too!\u00a0 You can choose your hair and skin color and outfit, as well as customize your horse.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be able to buy more outfits and customization options later at the shop after you\u2019ve earned enough money doing quests and completing competitions.\u00a0 Sadly, you also can\u2019t name your horse.\u00a0 And I so wanted to name it Turbo Horse, too.<\/p>\n

In story mode, the main part of the game, your aunt has given you her farm, and you can ride your horse around it and perform quests and tasks and compete in races.\u00a0 You\u2019ll ride around in 3-D space, and can make your horse go faster by tapping the A button.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t let it get too tired.\u00a0 You can find spots on the map like your stable, shop, competitions, and quests you can do, but the map is a bit difficult to read at times.<\/p>\n

As you ride around, keep an eye on your horse\u2019s needs.\u00a0 There are three things you need to watch out for: Mood, Hunger, and Hygiene.\u00a0 When any of those gets too low, take your horse back to the stable and play mini-games to take care of your horse.\u00a0 Tilt the 3DS to pour feed in bucket, use the stylus to stir it, and then tilt again to pour it evenly into the trough without spilling.\u00a0 You also use the stylus to brush dirt of its hooves and tap to pick clods out, and you can also pet it to improve the horse\u2019s mood.\u00a0 Most of the mini-games work well, but I could never get the feeding game quite right, as my horse would never get full!<\/p>\n

The competitions include races around a rodeo stadium and gates on the farm, but they are really hard.\u00a0 You can also compete locally with three other players.\u00a0 Sometimes you must complete competitions to move the story mode along, and this is the biggest fault of the game, as the races are very difficult.\u00a0 You can level up your horse to learn to jump and stand on it and other tricks, but I never got to do that because the competitions were so difficult.\u00a0 I can only recommend this game if you are very patient and really like horses.<\/p>\n

\"HORSE_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my cousins has always loved horses, and when she was little, she would make me play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time until you got to the part where you could ride a horse.\u00a0 The she would make me stop playing so she could just ride the horse over and over again.\u00a0 That\u2019s kind of what this game is like, except nowhere near as fun.\u00a0 Just go play a Zelda game that lets you ride a horse instead.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the confusing map and high difficulty.\u00a0 Horse Life 4 is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ride, compete, and take care of your equestrian companion with Horse Life 4, a downloadable title for Nintendo 3DS.\u00a0 Honestly I\u2019ve never even heard of Horse Life 1-3, so I don\u2019t know what kind of improvements were made here.\u00a0 So is Horse Life 4 hot to trot or a stinky pile of horse dung?\u00a0 Giddyup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14339","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\/14339","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=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14341,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}