Game Time! Ada's Kindergarten Game Review

Ada's Kindergarten

Last Updated: 2011

Company: Triniti Interactive Limited

# of Levels: 50 (There are 150 additional levels for purchase)

Price I Paid: Free (50 levels), $1.19 each (3 additional schools with 50 levels each)

Time Spent Playing: 7 hours and 27 minutes

Review:
+ When you shake the phone, it clears all of Ada's assigned tasks. This is much more helpful then just having a "X" button for tasks.

+ You are able to buy "helpers" that will assist you in completing tasks with the children (such as reading a bedtime story, or cleaning up when messes are made).

+ You can buy 3 additional locations which will include new levels to play. 

- Every time you have to complete an action with a child it requires a mini game. This makes the game play a lot slower. In fact, by the time you get to the end of the 50 levels, each level takes around 11 minutes each to complete. This is WAY too long! 

- At each station every child can require up to three different needs. (For example, the little blonde girl will require that Ada picks a toy for her, Ada plays with her and then Ada hugs her when she cries but some of the other children might want to go from painting to bed and skip the food stage). Because of this it's very hard to program Ada's tasks in advance like I normally would. 

- The painting mini games (see picture 3) are the hardest for me because they involve so many similar colors that it really takes a minute to register which colors are needed where when I'm trying to be speedy.

- One of the main problems I had with this game was the fact that all the upgrade items were so expensive and I couldn't afford many of them during the first 10-20 levels of this game, which meant that I had to re-do more than a few levels because they were crazy hard to reach the target amount. Later in the game (levels 40-50) when I upgraded all the items that I could, I ended up with a perfect game almost every level because things went faster and the children had more patience.

- I really wish that the mini games would change. After playing the same mini games for 50 levels, they became extremely boring. Every 10 levels should of had different mini games to play because if you are playing the same mini game with every child in every level that's approx 400 times you will play the same mini game.

- You can't use the pause button during any mini-game play.

Overall:
This wasn't a terrible game to play but it wasn't one of my favorites either. 50 levels is too many when there is nothing that changes to the game play. There should have been mini game switch ups or different stations or something every 10 levels to make them different but instead the game becomes boring and repetitive. All of the mini games also make the game play much longer than needed (appox 11 minutes per level by the end). Although you can buy additional helpers to assist with tasks you can't program many of Ada's actions ahead of time like with other games because you never know how many times a child will require help at each station. Initially the upgrades are pretty expensive and I had to re-do many early levels (0-20) multiple times just to pass them. But once you have all your upgrades at the end levels (40-50) the game becomes much easier and I scored almost all perfect games.

C+

Game Play Tips:
- When you are helping the children with their evolution study chart, make sure that you drag the ape pieces halfway over the section. It seems to click into place better that way then when you try and drag the ape right over where it needs to go.
- Make sure you buy the extra help as soon as possible. Although they are pretty expensive, they will help you move the children through the areas a lot faster.

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