American Girl: Julie Finds a Way

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $12.84

Features:

• American Girl comes to the DS
• Play as Julie at the time of America's bicentennial (1975-1976)
• "Looking Back" section
• Local Multiplayer for up to 2 players
• Follows the American Girl: Julie series of books

Customer Reviews:

Pre-teen Pleaser [Posted on 2008-01-02]
My 10-year old niece LOVED receiving this game, collects AG dolls and received Julie from another relative. Games within DS included "making crafts" like beading a necklace, she thought it was interesting to do this via the DS when she enjoys making crafts herself.

Really Fun! [Posted on 2008-01-05]
This game was really fun,but it was a little too easy. I finished it a day or two after I got it. There was a few negatives. The graphics were a little strange,& I had a little trouble moving aroud in the game. I highly recommend this game.

Great for 9-12 year olds [Posted on 2008-01-14]
My girls got this game for Christmas. The game requires a lot of reading and can be challenging at times. My 9 year old is 85% through the game. She likes the story mode better than the mini games. Some of the activities through out the story really require puzzle solving skills and creativity.

Unless you plan on playing it with your child, I recommend this to good readers only. You can read more about the game at http://www.dolldiaries.com.

Fun for girls, but doesn't take very long to play - [Posted on 2008-01-28]
I gave this game to my daughter for her 12th birthday. In one day, she's played it about 3 or 4 hours. She really likes it, but she's about 2/3 of the way through the story. I don't think she'll play it much once she's finished, so I think she'll get at most about 10 hours of play from it.

My daughter is one who has never cared much for the American Girl books about the characters (though she likes the magazine, dolls and accessories), but she said this is much more fun than the "Meet Julie" book would be. She likes getting to choose what Julie wears, and completing the various missions. She says the mini-games aren't too hard, and some of them are pretty fun.

The only other DS game she really likes is Animal Crossing.

She said her 8 year old brother wouldn't like it because the most violent thing that happens is a plant falls out a window!

boring! [Posted on 2008-07-30]
I gave this to my nine year old and she is bored with it after two days. The mini games are really mini....way to short. I like the fact that there is a lot of reading, but my daughter said if she wanted to read she would pick-up her book, not her DS.
My four year old doesn't like it either...she can't read, and the games are just too short to keep her attention.
I would not recommend this product.

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