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Summary: Outstanding
Review: It's loads of fun. Both of my kids (4 & 6) loved the software. It requires planning and critical thinking, although it's a one-time-only game (it's exactly the same game the second, etc., time you play it).
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Summary: 3 year old LOVES this game
Review: My 3 year old granddaughter really loves this game. She is a "do it myselfer" and needed very little help in learning to move around in this game. She is always very excited when she masters a new "chapter" She evens plays out "Ollo" with her toys. Telling them, now you can't go to chapter 2 until you finish chapter 1, etc.
The game has helped her with reasoning skills- the giant tomato has knocked off the clown's wig, where is it. Then in another screen you see the wig being used by a bird as a nest. To get the wig, you need a ladder, and so, you have to find where the ladder is in another screen, unlock the shed - first finding the key to the shed, and take the ladder back to the tree before you can get the wig. She quickly learned how to move from screen to screen and back, and just really loves solving the different puzzles.
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Summary: My 3 year olds love this game
Review: My 3 yr old daughters love this game and keep asking if there are other Ollo games, and I really hope there will be some new games about Ollo soon. I think that this game is unique in that it develops analytical skills rather than focusing directly on number and letter skills like many other products do. It is also interesting to have one major story for a player to follow through the entire game instead of short vignettes for each skill/game level that are loosely tied together.
Each "chapter" or level of the game is slightly more difficult, but I think most 3-1/2 year olds would be able to enjoy the entire game. I think that it helps if you play with your child the first time through so they can get the basic understanding of the concepts involved and also see how the story ends. I bounced back and forth between my daughters the first time they played the game so that I could help them when they got stuck, but once we finished the game they couldn't wait to try it completely on their own.
We also appreciate that it runs natively on Mac OSX.
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Summary: My daughter loves Ollo!
Review: My daughter is only 18 months old, but she LOVES Ollo, and asks to play every day. She obviously can't work the mouse, but she points at the monitor to let me know what she wants to do. After watching me play though it a couple of times, she knows where all the 'little fun stuff' is like the bugs that hop and count, or the birds that pop out of the bushes and tweet.She is able to walk me through Chapter 1, which includes getting a key, unlocking the shed, getting the net, and giving the net to the bunny. Beyond that, she just likes to point at things and have fun. She is also beginning to count, and learn colors and new words. In this game, she likes to say TOMATO, UP, DOWN, MAIL, DUCK, and especially BALLOON. She loves the opening song, hidden on the title page, too. I'll admit, I think this game music is better than most. For as many times as I've played Ollo, I still like the music. I also like the voice acting, which is better than many 'grownup' games I've played. Another thing that I personally like about this game is the look of it. Instead of a 'catoon' look, this game seems to be made of clay elements. It's a lot more attractive than many of the kids games I've tried. I will agree that the map is large, and some of the quest items are found in illogical places. But overall, we enjoy playing Ollo again and again.
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Summary: My daughter loves Ollo!
Review: My daughter is only 18 months old, but she LOVES Ollo, and asks to play every day. She obviously can't work the mouse, but she points at the monitor to let me know what she wants to do. After watching me play though it a couple of times, she knows where all the 'little fun stuff' is like the bugs that hop and count, or the birds that pop out of the bushes and tweet. She is able to walk me through Chapter 1, which includes getting a key, unlocking the shed, getting the net, and giving the net to the bunny. Beyond that, she just likes to point at things and have fun. She is also beginning to count, and learn colors and new words. In this game, she likes to say TOMATO, UP, DOWN, MAIL, DUCK, and especially BALLOON. She loves the opening song, hidden on the title page, too. I'll admit, I think this game music is better than most. For as many times as I've played Ollo, I still like the music. I also like the voice acting, which is better than many 'grownup' games I've played. Another thing that I personally like about this game is the look of it. Instead of a 'catoon' look, this game seems to be made of clay elements. It's a lot more attractive than many of the kids games I've tried. I will agree that the map is large, and some of the quest items are found in illogical places. But overall, we enjoy playing Ollo again and again.
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Summary: Can't believe this is so much fun!
Review: My son is 3 and he wanted me to order this game after seeing an ad for it on either noggin.com or nickjr.com (I forget which). He liked the picture of Ollo. Well, we bought it and it's great! After a few maneuvers Alex was able to figure out that he needs to pick up unusual objects in his 'bag' for future use and with a little coaching he was able to figure out which item helped in each situation. The only drawback is that sometimes you have to backtrack a loooooooooooong way to get the next item you need, and Alex lost interest a few times while going from one end of Sunny Valley to the other. But he solved this by saying, "Mama, you do it!" and after I did a few clicks he was back at it with his mouse. A cute game, which is well done. The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of five is because of the drippy Southern accents.
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Summary: Great game: my three-year-old loves it
Review: My son is 4 and a half, and this game is the best I have seen! They also do Putt Putt, which we liked, but was slightly too complicated for him. There were too many places to remember, while this game has you finding objects from 5 or 6 locations. My husband and I are also playing along with him, and having a ball!
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Summary: FABULOUS GAME!
Review: My son is 4 and a half, and this game is the best I have seen! They also do Putt Putt, which we liked, but was slightly too complicated for him. There were too many places to remember, while this game has you finding objects from 5 or 6 locations. My husband and I are also playing along with him, and having a ball!
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Summary: 3 year old LOVES this game
Review: Ollo is not only our family favorite game for our 4 year old, it also has turned into the neighborhood favorite. My daughter's 5 year old friend comes over to play it while my daughter is off doing something else! The chapters are great because the girls can go right to the activites they want. The open-ended marble game is also wonderful because it allows freeform exploration. The clickable areas are large, and although I had to play with my daughter the first dozen times we played it, she now has mastered the mouse at age 4 and can play it all by herself. As an artist in a game-programming family (my husband is a game designer/programmer for a major playstation/xbox game maker), Ollo has impressed me with the quality of the visual style, and my husband with the straightforward interface design and carefully created activities and games that seem to exactly fit our daughter's interests and abilities. The game doesn't crash, it runs well, and most importantly, it's incredibly fun. A+, Hullabee! Keep up the great work! Make another Ollo!
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Summary: High Quality, Great Gameplay.
Review: Ollo is not only our family favorite game for our 4 year old, it also has turned into the neighborhood favorite. My daughter's 5 year old friend comes over to play it while my daughter is off doing something else! The chapters are great because the girls can go right to the activites they want. The open-ended marble game is also wonderful because it allows freeform exploration. The clickable areas are large, and although I had to play with my daughter the first dozen times we played it, she now has mastered the mouse at age 4 and can play it all by herself. As an artist in a game-programming family (my husband is a game designer/programmer for a major playstation/xbox game maker), Ollo has impressed me with the quality of the visual style, and my husband with the straightforward interface design and carefully created activities and games that seem to exactly fit our daughter's interests and abilities. The game doesn't crash, it runs well, and most importantly, it's incredibly fun. A+, Hullabee! Keep up the great work! Make another Ollo!
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