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Summary: A terrible follow up
Review: I ordered this for my five year old against the advice of other reviewers. We have all of the other Fredddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Putt Putt and Spy Fox games and my son loves them all. I felt that I should keep his collection up to date, so ordered the new PJ Sam. It's awful. Sam's mouth doesn't match the words, it takes far to long to get from location to location, and it took forever to load into the computer! My nephew, who is eight, attempted to play this with my son because he loves to play my son's games. Both got tired of it very quickly. Instead, we all played a game I had found in a store for $4.00 (Hokus Pokus Pink - a Pink Panther game) It was similar to the Humongous games and a lot of fun. I hope Atari makes some improvements and continues producing these games the way they were made before.
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Summary: Pajama sam
Review: I really love all of Pajama Sam's games, but this latest one from Atari really [is bad]..."Life is Rough When you lose your stuff" explains the latest PC software. Pajama Sam lost his stuff when Atari took over. They made this one too fancy like the Atari Video game for TV, not computers. What ever happen to Infogrames??? Check with someone who has this software before buying. Because you might not like this one. I didn't...
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Summary: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Favorite Game Series
Review: I waited a long time for whatever company now makes this line of software to continue where the other left off, but I was really disappointed with the product. It does not change every time it's played, unlike the first three, but it claims to on the box. The biggest problem with this game is that it's somehow been programmed in a different manner than the others. You have to install the game, which takes a long time, and it takes up a lot of hard drive space.(550 MB) In the earlier games, you just put the CD in and played it. At first I thought this was because it was updated, which often slows down previously simple games, but the animation looked slightly worse, at least to me. I liked the old style, no matter how modern this one is. And the complication of this game only got worse as I played it - the transitions from one area to another take about five seconds, even on fast computers, and you can't skip through them easily as with other PJSam games. The plot and gameplay are okay, and the dialog is kind of humorous in some parts, but it's really distracting to see the mouths move so off the audio track, which was not a problem before this game got all fancy. The puzzles are in some places strange and, I thought, harder to figure out than before, and it's annoying to go back and forth now that it takes several minutes of frozen images to do so. There's no help file to give you hints, either. The side game was to collect the trading cards lying around, but the music changes every time you pick one up, so you never really hear an entire song if you collect them. And if you get to the end of the game and have one or two missing, it's nowhere near worth it to go back and get the few missing with all the time it takes. I miss Pamela Segall (Sam's old voice, known for playing Spinelli in Recess) and Carrot was only in a cameo on a poster, breaking the tradition of having him in each game. The now abandoned spacebar feature was nice, too, because you could pause at anytime and quit quickly, which I almost wanted to do after sitting there and not accomplishing much for how long it took. I really liked Pajama Sam before this (I run groups.msn.com/theunofficialpajamasamfanpage) but I hope that they go back to the old way of making these, whatever it was, though it isn't at all likely. I would recommend the first games much more.
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Summary: It's Rough Cause I Lost My Stuff...er Money!
Review: I'm disappointed with this fourth Pajama Sam. My six year old son and I loved the first three titles of Pajama Sam. So when he wanted the "It's Rough When You Lose Your Stuff" one, I said, "sure". There were no arguements from me, the previously satisfied customer.He wanted me to hurry up with my shopping, so he could get home and start playing the CD. I helped him install the game, and we sat back to enjoy our favorite animated character. The first thing I noticed was that Sam's voice sounded different. Also, his mouth did not match with the dialogue. It looked like a Japanese karate movie that had been redubbed with English words. How could the producers have missed that? Secondly, the ESC keep did not work to help you zoom through the scenes on your way around the map to find the missing objects. (It does on the first three versions. Call me spoiled? But why do away with a great feature? Sam does a lot of running around). So, we waited as he walked from this path to that path...waited...waited and waited.... Thirdly, the game lags! I thought my new computer (purchased this year, mind you) was messing up. How could it lag? This is not a multiplayer game on the internet for crying out loud. It's as if the professional people turned this product over for elementary school children to produce. It's that far down quality wise from the first three. I'm disappointed and disgusted. I wish I had read the earlier Amazon reviews, but I TRUSTED the quality of Humongous Entertainment and didn't dream of reading the feedback. I learned my lesson. No more buying of any software without listening to those who've already been suckered or thrilled. Listen--if you want to buy quality fun games for your kids, go with Pajama Sam 1-3. Leave number 4 in the store. Believe me, it's Rough When You Lose Your Money. Thanks. PS. I did like one thing, the sock song. That's it...:(
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Summary: kids in tears
Review: I, too, wish I had read the Amazon reviews before I purchased this for my son. The game is so-o-o-o slow, when Sam moves from scene to scene. The dialog is out of sync with the pictures. And the biggest drawback is that there is really only one game. The Shoe, Shirt and Socks are always in the same place and need the same things in order for Sam to retrieve them. The other games had variations to challenge our 4 year olds. I wish that I had never bought it.
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Summary: Technically poor
Review: I, too, wish I had read the Amazon reviews before I purchased this for my son. The game is so-o-o-o slow, when Sam moves from scene to scene. The dialog is out of sync with the pictures. And the biggest drawback is that there is really only one game. The Shoe, Shirt and Socks are always in the same place and need the same things in order for Sam to retrieve them. The other games had variations to challenge our 4 year olds. I wish that I had never bought it.
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Summary: Simply not as good
Review: It is tough when your 5 year old observes that "they don't make games like they used to." Atari has slowed Pajama Sam down to the point of tedium. The gameplay is very slow and no longer features the ability to skip scenes already played through by use of the ESC key. This leads to a lot of staring at the screen waiting for something to happen or rote repetition that is no fun for anyone. Shame.
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Summary: Life is Rough When You Play This Game
Review: Like one other review of this game, I must say I am disappointed. I bought this game for my 6 year old nephew to play when he visited. He was so excited when we loaded it onto the computer. He was excited when the screen came on. Then he started playing the game. There were constant interruptions in gameplay no smoothness of movement between scenes as we have come to expect from the other Pajama Sam games. We adjusted the computer running speed to see if that would help, it did a little bit. However, when he completed it the first time, he decided to try it again. The only change in location of anything was the jar for the fireflies and the trading cards within the scene. No other changes were apparent. He gave up after two times and has not touched the game since. After purchasing this game, my nephew says that he "likes the first ones better". We will be sticking with the first three games, thank you very much. Very disappointed in the game.
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Summary: Poorly executed and buggy.
Review: My 4 year old son has the previous Pajama Sam games and enjoys them a lot. They run directly from CD-ROM, are very smooth and have excellent gameplay. This game needs to be loaded onto the hard drive (takes 500MBytes). The voice is out of sync for the entire game. There are numerous times when the game will pause unexpectedly for several seconds while the game loads from disk. When Sam moves from one screen to the next, he will freeze in mid air, only to appear several seconds later in a different screen. As a result, there is absolutely no continuity in the game. Frankly, I am shocked that this game was published at all given its incredibly unpolished state. It is a very poor effort; especially since Humungous used to be capable of executing games close to perfection. I won't be buying more Pajama Sam products from Atari. I suggest you save your money and prevent your childs disappointment by not buying this game.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointed
Review: My 4-year-old son and I both love the "old" PJ Sam games. So needless to say I was very excited to see the new software in store. I picked one up and gave to my son for Christmas and much to my dismay, it just wasn't the same. Moving from scene to scene is so slow. It seems like the new game is less sophisticated than the older ones. Very disappointing for me and my son.
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