Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Galen tries to draw his sword on the witch when she enchants Rapunzel.We don't hear it, and only see it play out. Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Rapunzel and Galen walk offscreen talking of their plan to trap the witch.This Is Gonna Suck: Twitter makes a Throat-Slitting Gesture when the prince first climbs into Rapunzel's tower.Later, Twitter spreads a rumor that leads to the witch flying to the tower, and Peep and Cheep steal her broom. They overhear the witch cursing Galen after the former put Rapunzel into an enchanted sleep, and tell the princess after she awakens. Spanner in the Works: The witch never knew about Rapunzel's bird friends.This gives Rapunzel the courage to cut her hair to climb down the tower, travel across the sea, and find her prince. The witch then cursed Galen that only Rapunzel's heart could set him free. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Rapunzel would have been content to stay in the tower since she doesn't have anywhere to go outside of it.This is a good thing, since it means the witch can't climb down without her broom. It Only Works Once: Once she cuts her hair, the long braid vanishes from the tower.The interface in the game is also great and all these features make it a classic in its genre. Twitter points out it will take years for her hair to get that long again, but Rapunzel is fine with that. The graphics in the game are very colorful and gel perfectly with the fantasy theme and the A1 is really good. Important Haircut: When she hears that a cursed Galen needs her help, Rapunzel orders Twitter to get her scissors and cuts her hair to make a rope.To be fair, it does what it does fairly well and I am sure a kid who loves to play with Barbie dolls is going to be entertained here thanks to the variety of the mini-games that are on offer. I am sure for fans of Barbie this must be awesome.Ĭlearly, Barbie as the Island Princess is a game that is aimed at little girls who are Barbie fans. You can earn new dresses and items which you can then dress her up with inside the dressing room. It does at least keep things from getting boring.Īs this is a Barbie game, getting Barbie to look like a million bucks is the ultimate goal. None of the games are what I would call amazing, but with so many on offer and the fact they last a couple of minutes tops. There is even a weird DDR style rhythm game as well. There is a fishing game, a silhouette matching game and a game where you need to take the right food to the right barrel. One will see fruit be thrown by an elephant onto a trampoline and you have to catch it. Well, I would have lost as this is a collection of mini-games and a ton of them at that! I was seriously surprised at how many mini-games make this thing up. Mini-Game Mayhemįull honesty here, before I started my playthrough of Barbie as the Island Princess I would have put 50 bucks on this being a side view platform game. Both that game and this one uses the same kind of animation style to try and make the characters look real. As strange as it sounds the best comparison for visuals is WWE Road To WrestleMania X8 for the Gameboy Advance. It is very, very hard to describe the way that Barbie looks in this game.
What is interesting is the visual style they went for. Title - Barbie as Repunzel A Creative Adventure Region - USA System - Windows 98/2000/ME/XP and Power Macintosh Year - 2002 Languages - English Items scanned - Manual, CD-ROM, Jewel Case Tray Card DPI - 600 Series - Barbie Software Version - 1. With a game like Barbie as the Island Princess, you know that the presentation is a key part of it. The little bit of plot that is here does link things together better than you would think. Still to be fair to the folks behind the game. There is a little bit of plot here, but it is not exactly mind-blowing stuff. Barbie is on an island and she has a lot to see and do and of course, dresses to wear.
The best I can tell, the game tries to in a way follows the plot of the movie. For some reason, a version of the Gameboy Advance was released as well and that is what we are looking at today. What is kind of weird about this is that at the time it was released as well as there being versions for systems like the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.
Barbie as the Island Princess is a video game that was released to coincide with a straight to DVD movie of the same name back in 2007.