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Review on ๐Ÿ“š Disney Channel's School Musical Bulletin by Tim Wadman

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Brief enjoyment of DVD games

We got our daughter for Christmas and we really enjoyed playing it with a group of 5 people. The quizzes are a good mix of everything from very basic to fairly obscure, and most of the "Shoot the Scene" questions are pretty obvious (which can be good if you're playing with the smallest of audiences). But dance questions are only for the experienced. We tried playing the game without previewing the DVD variant that teaches you ("crash course") dance moves and we were almost never able to get it right. After watching the tutorial we got a little better, but sometimes you just have to vote on whether the player got the answer right or not, as the answers aren't in the form of moves, just a snapshot of the position, the one marked "pump" is correct". ", for example, so you need to know what it's like. Sometimes a question comes to you so quickly (especially with dance moves) that you're not even sure you asked it, and unfortunately there's no way to hear it again. "You get a 10-second timer." and that's it. My biggest complaint is that the questions get very repetitive. Even in the first game. Once I had the same question twice in a row so I assume it was randomly generated" (My kids were a little frustrated that one of them almost always got trivia questions and the other kept getting dance questions that they couldn't answer correctly.) They played it with friends 3 times during a school break and there were only about 2 new questions arising in all. Mrs. Darvis' voice gets really tiring, but at least you can press Enter on the remote after the question is answered, so you can either move on to the next player or ask the question without listening to her ad nauseam about the same remarks. Overall, I think the biggest selling point is the step-by-step guide to learning the PARTS of dances: Get'cha Head in the Game and We're All in this Together (steps for the chorus and also for the Wildcat Breakdown -Singing). but my kids love to dance. The game is a great idea, but probably would have lived longer if it weren't made electronically. This allowed them to release quiz boosters.

Pros
  • Lots of positive emotions
Cons
  • Almost everything is fine