{"id":17046,"date":"2017-11-20T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17046"},"modified":"2017-10-17T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:46:30","slug":"american-girl-welliewishers-garden-fun-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/american-girl-welliewishers-garden-fun-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"American Girl WellieWishers: Garden Fun (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>AmericanGirl is a popular line of dolls for girls, and now there is a spinoff series called WellieWishers.\u00a0 The WellieWishers are a group of young girls who enjoy playing in their garden, taking care of animals, putting on shows and tea parties, and being kind to one another.\u00a0 And now your girls can join in on the fun with a free-to-play mobile app for iOS and Android (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll explore their garden by swiping on the touch screen (make really big swipes because the game won\u2019t read it if you do small strokes).\u00a0 Visit the club house to read about each girl in the group.\u00a0 Nearby you can grow veggies by watering them each day.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll have to wait 24 hours to play this game again, and all you do is tap on the screen to water and maybe remove a snail or two if you\u2019re lucky.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not very engaging or rewarding.\u00a0 Around the garden you can visit each of the girls in their favorite spots.\u00a0 Use acorns you\u2019ve collected to unlock scenes to play dress up in.\u00a0 Earn acorns by growing in your garden or simply by tapping on objects on the screens.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where all the free-to-play stuff ends.\u00a0 Everything else you have to pay for.\u00a0 To get new outfits you can play dress up with, you need to pay a couple of bucks for each costume set.\u00a0 There are also two mini-games you can buy, a hidden object challenge and a tea party game, but neither of which are very interesting and the preview videos included don\u2019t give very good information on the game to entice you to play them.<\/p>\n

I do appreciate the sentiment and good messages they\u2019re trying to convey with this WellieWishers line, but if I had a little girl at the right age to enjoy this, I\u2019d rather spend the money to get an actual real WellieWishers doll or the books and videos.\u00a0 Or a real live tea set or something.\u00a0 I guess if you\u2019re on a budget this would be a good compromise since the AmercianGirl dolls are pretty pricey and the most you can spend on this game is a little over ten dollars.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve certainly played much better apps for kids than this.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and parental supervision is highly recommended for the in-game purchases. Especially since the security block is to just type in numbers, which kids who can play this game already know how to do anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AmericanGirl is a popular line of dolls for girls, and now there is a spinoff series called WellieWishers.\u00a0 The WellieWishers are a group of young girls who enjoy playing in their garden, taking care of animals, putting on shows and tea parties, and being kind to one another.\u00a0 And now your girls can join in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17046","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\/17046","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=17046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17048,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions\/17048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}