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Summary: Ok game, but poorly written software
Review: As a Scooby-Doo enthusiast, my son cannot find too much at fault with this game. It's actually pretty fun. However, I was annoyed with the fact than when I installed it on my computer running Windows XP using the administrator account, you could not use it on any other account (my 6 year old obviously does not have an adminstrator account). Most well written pieces of software do not need to be run as a system administrator and have access to the system registry, but it is not the case with this one. It took forever to figure this out, because it lets you play part of the game without this, but when you send Scooby to the pagoda to get scooby snacks, it just takes you back to the main menu.
That said, I can see some value in this game. It works your memory (e.g. the pagoda exercise), it works your math skills (such as when you make recipes for Shaggy and Scooby), and it works your deductive reasoning skills (such as working to solve the mystery).
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Summary: Scooby Dooby Dooooo!!
Review: I bought this game for my daughter when she was six years old. She's seven now and still loves it and the other Scooby games! She especially enjoys the carpet matching game and the machine in the pizza place. I had to help her some with the math game at first, but now she is really beginning to understanding fractions!
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Summary: hard but no replayability
Review: I brought this for my daughter and played it myself first. I enjoyed the difficulty that the game play provided but was extremely dissappointed to find that the second time I played was exactly the same, all the items in the same place, the game play the same, it was easy. The only thing that really changes is the villan and the clues.
The kids have played once, with helpful hints from me to get them going when they got stuck. They havent been back which dosent surprise me as they tend not to replay games that do not have some varability.
It could have been a great game as it has the difficulty but without varibility it is not as good as it could be.
Solving the villian and clues does not play a big enough part in the game to make it replayable.
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Summary: A Dog-gone good game!
Review: I know that I'm outside the target age range for this product, but I'm such a big Scooby Doo fan that I just couldn't resist grabbing this game. Ideally, it's for children ages 5-10 but that didn't stop me from having a great time playing it! The animation is a bit rough and the puzzles very easy to solve, but this game is for kids after all. The games in the levels are simplistic fun and can be played endlessly. Your reward? Scooby snacks of course! If you're a fan of the original series or have a child within the target age group you're both sure to have a ball with this one.
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Summary: My 4 year-old loves it!
Review: I purchased this game a couple of weeks ago for my daughter, who is almost five, and she loves playing it. It has different levels of difficulty and she is ecstatic that she has been able to solve the first level mystery so far. She needs a little bit of help with the reading parts, but she loves the matching games and the ones for scoring scooby snacks. She often plays with her Dad and they enjoy trying to solve the mysteries together. The only negative with the game is that the animation is a little jerky; but, at her age, she doesn't seem to mind.
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Summary: Great fun but...
Review: I would rate this a middle of the road four or at the very least a high three. First the positive- the scooby gang are in a museum and a green glowing bug man has messed up the displays. They have to put the displays back together in order to earn clues. The clues point to a villian. Each of the 'games' or displays involves a different part of the brain- in one scooby has to jump on a conveyer belt to earn scooby snacks and collect bones, another is a puzzle, another is a matching game and so on. There are three different levels so you can have it fairly easy to fairly difficult. My five year old was able to play the easy with no help and the medium level with only a little bit of help. The Negatives- The games are the same. The villians change but the games are the same- you are always doing a puzzle in the dinosaur room and it's always the same puzzle. The placement of the boxes in the puzzle might change but the idea is the same. I would have also liked to have seen the ability to change the levels of the puzzle as individual games, not the whole game. However, it's a fun game.
I would also suggest the Freddy Fish games if your child likes to solve mysteries. Enjoy.
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Summary: Thank goodness it was a gift!
Review: I wouldn't buy this for my kids. Thankfully it was a gift for my 8-year old daughter. She tried to play it on her own at first and couldn't really figure out what to do, I guess she didn't read or listen to the instructions. The instruction file was enormous and complicated to follow for the specified age group. I played it on my own later to see what in fact this was all about. I solved the mystery and actually enjoyed myself, then my daughters(4&8) played it and the mystery was exactly the same for the next 3 times they used it. Maybe I haven't found how to change the level of difficulty, but I felt that everything was too obvious and not really a "mystery". I felt the kids were being humored and this game was really dumbed down. We haven't picked it up again since then, it has been a couple of weeks now. They'd much rather stick to "Clue Finders" and other such programs or the written word than play this game. They may give it another shot soon. Bottom line, this game just doesn't suit our tastes.
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Summary: Close, but not the best.
Review: If any of you have expierienced past Scooby Doo games of this style, then you will understand this. In comparison, the voice acting in this is sub-par. The vocal animations are so generic that every word they speak looks just like the last. The load times between screens is a lot longer in this one than in past games. However, the puzzles are clever, and the background animations and layouts are very colorful and creative. Dropping you in many foreign locales. A good representation, and learning tool, of different cultures. My 5 year old enjoys this. But, myself, as a Scooby Doo fan, did not think that much of it. It was a bit shorter than previous games as well. Good game. Just not great. Hope the next volume shows more promise.
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Summary: Great Scooby fun!
Review: Jessica our 9 year old daugher said "this game is great, in one room you visit the cafeteria and you are challenged to blend different flavors of ice-cream until Shaggy gets the perfect cone. In each room you visit you need to find the clues to match the suspect until you find the glowing bugman". Hannah our 7 year old daughter said "this game is perfect, we both had fun with it and I think lots of people should have fun with it just like us"
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Summary: This is a lot of fun!!
Review: Look, it may not be the best PC game, but over all this is a lot of fun! My niece (age 2 1/2) and I play together and we have a great time. The screen images are very crisp and clear. There are all sorts of clues that you need to find and the more we play, the more clues my niece remembers. She gets a big huge grin on her face when she remembers what we need to do next! She's really into trains right now and there is a very cool train ride where Scooby and Shaggy are being chased by "the bad guy". The sounds are fun and come on, IT'S SCOOBY! Oh, and the best part is, the only time you see Scrappy is when you go to the menu screen. :)
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