Yep, another Barbie game. This one kept me pretty busy, though, and it'll probably do the same for young children.
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A huge thunderstorm has passed over the community of Green Arbor Park. Many of the family pets and wild animals who live around the are have run away! Even the young animals from the Island Reserve have been set loose by the storm. The residents of Green Arbor Park know what to do: call Barbie's Pet Rescue Center.
Barbie listens to each call for clues to where the animals were last seen and may be hiding. Barbie leaps into action! She must rescue the animals before they get into trouble.
When you start the game, you'll be in the Pet Rescue Center. While you can take a call to rescue an animal, there is already an animal in the play room. If you go in, you'll find an orange cat.
In the play room, you can check out the pet care records and hints, take the animal to the care room, and can also play with the animal, which has you playing one of three mini-games.
In the care room, you can feed the animal, give the animal vitamins, brush the animal, bandage the animal if you have to, and bathe the animal if you have to.
With the pet care hints, which gives out general pet care advice, you have gauges. The more filled up the gauge is, the better the animal will respond to it. You should not bathe the animal or use bandages or vitamins unless the pet car record, which tells you specifics about the animal you're helping, hints that you should.
Cinnamon the Kitten
Cinnamon arrived at the Pet Rescue Center in pretty good condition. Her fur needs some attention, though, and she isn't as peppy as she normally is.
Kittens
They are sweet animals that love to play and receive affection. It's important to feed them on a regular basis.
Bandage: 5
Food: 3
Bathing: 2
Vitamins: 4
Brush: 5
There are two gauges in the upper-right corner: a green health gauge and a brown happiness gauge. You'll want to feed and care for the animal to fill it up, and you'll need to play mii-games to
Thankfully, Cinnamon is pretty easy to nurse back to health. You can either brush or feed her. This will increase the green health meter to maximum. Watch the lower-right corner to see what your actions will do, as you can also accidentally decrease the meters if you do the wrong thing.
To fill up the happiness meter, you'll need to keep playing mini-games. There are three in all, and you'll only get special, animal-specific mini-games with certain animals in the special rescues, which I will mention
For Rascal Run-Around, you'll need to hold the Control Pad to guide the white paw prints to the arrow at the end. Once you get used to how this works, it's pretty easy to do.
For Snacktime Challenge, you'll need to use the Control Pad and the A button to match the animals with their favorite foods. Thankfully, the animals and their fave foods both share the same colors, and once you memorize the cards, this gets easier. You'll have a few seconds to memorize where the cards are before the game begins, and you can only miss three times before you are forced to try again.
For Critter Keep-Away, you'll be moving the paws at the bottom with Left and Right on the D-Pad while pressing A to bat the ball of yarn as it bounce around. If the yarn touches the cat on the upper-right corner, the cat will bat it back. Once again, you can only miss three times, and you'll have to bat the yarn ball at the cat ten times in order to complete the mini-games.
When you fill both of the gauges, you'll need to return the animal home. In the areas where you have to rescue animals and/or return animals home, you can move in eight directions with the D-Pad and jump with the A button. You'll need to jump to avoid some obstacles such as bumps, cones, logs, rocks and other objects, but you'll have to move around to avoid other things, and sometimes you'll have to move and jump.
When you get back to the animal's home, you'll have to play the Parent Match mini-game. You'll get a picture of the animal's mother, then the three segments of the animal will be shuffled. You'll need to use Up and Down to switch sections and Left and Right to change the segments to the animal that you want. You'll only get a few seconds to look at the animal's mother, so pay attention. Press A when you are done.
If you succeed, you'll get a certificate for rescuing the animal. There are fourteen certificates, and if you get them all, you will beat the game.
If you fail any part of the return home or the parent match, both gauges will go down by one and you'll need to fill them up before you can return the animal home again.
After heading to where an animal has last been seen, use Left or Right to walk around and switch screens. When you find the animal, walk up to it and hold Down to pick the animal up. You'll then head back to the play room in the Pet Rescue Center and do what you need to do.
Wendy the Koala
Wendy is homesick and needs extra attention - maybe if we play with her, she'll start feeling better.
Koalas
Koalas eat leaves and plants which gives them the vitamins they need to grow up and be strong!
Bandages: 1
Food: 2
Bathing: 3
Vitamins: 4
Brush: 2
For Wendy, you can do either the food or the vitamins. As for the happiness gauge, you'll need to play a lot of mini-games.
Rosie the Tortoise
Rosie is pretty healthy, but she is also very shy and needs your help coming out of her shell.
Tortoises
Tortoises are gentle and sensitive animals. They need lots of vitamins, but over feeding them is not good.
Bandages: 4
Food: 1
Bathing: 3
Vitamins: 5
Brush: 5
You can use the food or the vitamins, but you'll also need to play a lot of mini-games with Rosie. 5
Brush: 5
You can use the food or the vitamins, but you'll also need to play a lot of mini-games with Rosie.
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