Princess Beauty Salon Game Review

Game name: Princess Beauty Salon

Platform(s): Android

Device(s) tested on:  (Samsung Galaxy)

Genre:  Dress-up

Creator(s): TNN Game

About the game: It’s less of a “game” and more of an application that little kids can play with to pass the time (or something like that), or almost like a digital doll.

Features:

·         Give princess a facial/spa/get rid of her pimples

·         Put makeup on the princess

·         Dress her up with different clothes

When installing: Must allow a Wi-Fi connection and access to photos/media/files (although I have not experienced the app accessing personal files/photos/media). Other than that, it’s a simple install, no real issues.

Game Play: Very simple game-play. All you really do is drag objects like tweezers to the character’s eyebrows, hover over them and it tweezes the eyebrows. Other things are a back rub, massage, etc. Then you dress her up, put makeup on her and then the “game” is over. Not a really big deal. I didn’t really like it; it was too simple for me.

RATINGS:   (Based on a 1-10 scale)

     Art: 4 (I’m not big on “cartoon-y” art, but the art was clean)
     Gameplay:  3
     Concept: 5 (I didn’t like it, but some may, so I set it at average)
     Fun factor: 3 (eh, not my thing)
     Performance:  8 (it was slow in some parts of the game, but mostly quick loading, etc.)

Summary:
                This “game” can be considered a “time-killer”. If you have a little girl (age 3-12-ish?) on a long drive, just for example, this can distract the child for a little while. It’s a very simple application. But it won’t last very long; half an hour at most.

Ups:

·         The art is very clean

·         Good for killing time

Downs:

·         Pop-up ads are slightly irritating, but predictable, so it can be ignored fairly simply

·         Music is very repetitive, it gets very obnoxious very fast

·         There are some areas where I can’t pick up items, and then suddenly I can. Just weird.