Let's Ride: Friends Forever

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $9.50

Features:

• Pick your new best friend, choosing from 15 different horses.
• Build a strong bond with your horse as you feed, groom and exercise.
• Keep your own secret diary recording all your feelings & experiences
• Compete for a blue ribbon
• Enter your horse in beauty contests.

Accessories:
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Customer Reviews:

Realistic and fun [Posted on 2008-01-01]
This game is all over all the best horse game out there. I was surprised at how well Let's Ride did this! You can ride on lots of beautiful trails or going riding through meadows, you must take care of your horse correctly, and you can't gallop off right as you mount or your horse will pull a muscle. Very realistic. If you can't play this game without getting frustrated or because your horse is always getting hurt or sick, then you should NOT own a real horse! The only thing I didn't like was that you can't go in the water. The controls are a little odd and hard in the stable, but its a fun game for anyone! Especially if you want the real feel of owning a horse. Thats horse care. Other games leave younger kids with the thought that horse care is nothing, but this game doesn't leave out a thing.
I was worried this was going to be like some other Let's Ride games, being a copy of another with just a description and cover of something else. But it wasn't. This game is not boring, its not easy(which is good, it isn't annoyingly hard, but its not so easy that its boring and stupid) I'm 12, I own a real horse, and this game is my #1 choice to anyone who wants that feeling.

Horrible! [Posted on 2008-01-02]
This game sucks hardcore. All you do is the stupid horse, and forget trying to keep the job at 100%, the condition of the mane and tail decay ridiculously fast. I could groom a REAL horse in less time than it spends to groom the one on the screen. The graphics are horrible,and you can't go anywhere. The show competition only counts the ribbons and bows, and there's no point or story to the game at all. Buy Equestrian Challenge or something like that with your money. This game STINKS

If you have Vista forget it [Posted on 2008-01-23]
I have vista as my opperating system, and guess what... It won't run on Vista. The company the makes the game does not give any tech support if you are running the game on a new computer system. The will direct you to a site that tells you how to change to game properties, which does nothing. As you may be able to tell I am very disappointed with the game, and it was a waste of my money. Beyond that the other reviewers are correct the game is dull.

Nothing Short of Horrendous [Posted on 2008-04-13]
The person who said it would take less time to groom a real horse isn't kidding, and at least you know when you're done.

The graphics are okay, but the gameplay is choppy and you can't move around. You keep dropping things by accident and then you have to go pick them up again, and the horse stands there starving when you've put hay or whatever into the trough, and it won't go to drink from its water trough. It doesn't make any sense. There's no sound effects when there should be, like when it's eating, and the grooming bar goes down faster than you can get it back up again.

But the absolutely WORST thing, by far, about this game is the fact that there is almost NO tutorial. The thing barely gives the player any direction, and I couldn't figure out how to do the different grooming actions. I didn't know if I needed a mane comb or a tail comb to specifically groom anything, and it wouldn't tell me what needed to be cleaned until it was already awful. I couldn't maneuver around the horse well enough to see what I was doing, and the action while trying to walk to the store (very dull when you're first starting out because the scenery isn't attractive enough to hold my attention) was ridiculous.

Rarely have I been so frustrated by a game. It was so frustrating, in fact, that I can't believe they let little kids play this game, given the amount of vicious swearing I was doing.

There's a kid up there that says that if this game frustrates you badly that you should never own your own horse. Well, kid, I've taken care of horses before, and never did it make me want to stab myself in the eye.

Horrible,Horrible,Horrible game [Posted on 2008-06-20]
This game is fun at first but then your horse starts getting sick all the time!!!!!!!!
It is such a waste of money! You can't ride it at least I could not ride!I hate it! Such a waste.

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