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After reading all of these 5 star reviews, I decided to buy a copy of Zoombinis Logical Journey for my 8 year old boy. Once I successfully installed the game, I left the rest to my son. Two minutes later, he came up to me and said he didn’t know what to do. I went back to the screen and all I saw was a little ship, some mountains and what looked like little comical body parts to build a character. There were absolutely NO instruction on the screen. The makers expected a little 8 year old kid to know that they should hit the pink hidden questionmark in the corner for instructions. Once clicked, it puts confusing instructions (confusing for little kids) using “big” words such as attributes and other words a little kid needs to ask mom define. Once I figured out that you needed to build 16 different Zoombinis, the little characters are taken to another screen where the player needs to put them in a certain order. If the player fails to do this, he/she loses all of the little Zoombinis except for 3 or 4 out of the original 16 that were created. And thats it…the game ends.

When a player does complete the task required, they don’t get a “good job” or “Yay! you did it!” Instead the game exclaims, “And the zoombinis move on.” Absolutely no motivation or reward to congratulate the player on a job well done.

On top of that, there is no “Save Game” button. Lucky for me, my older son knew that one needs to press Ctrl+S to save the game.

The “no numbers required — all logic” motto caught my eye when I was looking for a game to purchase. THERE IS ONLY ONE CHALLENGE – The player needs to put the Zoombinis in a certain order where the an “attribute” of the next Zoombini is the same as a Zoombini previous to it. This idea is followed through the entire game except for a couple of mini games. The only difference between levels is the color or characters that need help in completing a task. For example, the Zoombinis need to cross a river. In order to do this, they have to hop on some turtles’ shells to get the other side. Put the Zoombinis in a specific order (explained before). The next level would be a frog that will only row the boat if the Zoombinis put themselves in a certain order – except this time they need to put themselves in an order in such a manner that they form a rectangle. Very little variation.

Worst game ever created. I HIGHLY recommend that you buy a different game.
Rating: 1 / 5

Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista*, Pentium 200 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk space, 8X CD-ROM, 640X480 16-bit color, sound card.
*We tested this program on Windows Vista Home and were able to run successfully.
Macintosh Power PC 180 MHz+, System 8.6 through OS X, 32 MB RAM, 40 MB free hard drive, 8X CD-ROM, 16-bit color.

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