Care Bears - Care Quest

"Why should you care?"

Obviously you are not expecting to find an innovative product here, this wouldn't surely be one of those products that will change the world of gaming. However, perhaps it can keep fans from the series happy, if there is still any of them these days...
The music in this title is nothing special at all, and since it is always repeating itself it can perhaps cause you some headaches, at least it did for me. Concerning the graphics, those are nothing special and a random player could even mistake them for those of old Super Nintendo games.

About the game itself, in here you will find a set of 12 different levels with many areas in which one. In each of the 12 levels you will find a different mini-game, and those will be stuff like "matching pairs", "giving a specific item to a certain bear", simplistic (and I mean it!) skate simulations, hitting two (or only one...) characters with a certain thing you can throw at them, and many others. All of them contain titles that seem to have been taken from the series, like "It's good to have friends", "A friendly hand", "I will take care of you", among many others.

All that could seem interesting, but having nothing special to accomplish at the end of the levels, the game becomes really boring easily.

The difficulty level of the game is quite low, and even more unexperienced players won't have any problems in understanding what to do in each level, since the controls are always displayed before of the actual playing section. Also, at the end of each level, after setting your score, you will be prompted to choose from one of the bears. Despite nice, this choice doesn't matter for anything at all, and seems to be have been put in there just for fun.

An interesting thing is that you can pick one out of six languages at the start of the game (including portuguese, my native language!) and everything will be in that language. The bears sometimes seem to say stuff it that language during the levels, but... personally, I think this was just my imagination and I can't confirm it.

So, who should get this game? Well, despite boring it turns out perhaps being a nice product for people who want non-violent games, but all others should stick away from this, unless... they are hardcore "Care Bears" fans. Anyone?

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 11/09/05