You can hit a decent speed before it even starts to drain, and when the speed is maxed out, the meter still drains slowly enough you barely need to concern yourself over it and can always slow down for a few seconds and soon have enough stamina for another long ride. Your horse can run at variable speeds, but even if you have it galloping at full tilt the stamina system meant to discourage it is not much of a worry. One odd absence is a satisfying sound for the galloping, or even much of a sound at all as I had to turn my volume quite high to hear it and it still seemed barely present at times after I cranked it up. I won’t pretend to be an expert on horses in video games, you can check out The Mane Quest for that specific niche, but there are some basics one should expect in a game where you spend most of your time on a horse to the point the game’s camera seems to actively resist you being indoors, getting stuck on walls and at bad angles quite easily just while you’re moving around. It has a bit of a turning radius you might need to account for and backpedaling is sort of sloppy when you just overshot something you’re trying to pull up next to, but The Unicorn Princess isn’t really trying to be realistic with its horse-riding so much as functional. It’s a reasonable child-like fantasy to want to live this style of life and you are given a horse for free at the start to ride around on, and guiding the horse is easy enough. The Unicorn Princess has you playing as a young girl named Leila who seems to not yet be an adult but she lives on her own in a two-story house with a stable with space for quite a few horses. For this game though, think of this more as a buyer beware, as this innocuous fantasy horse game is counting on you not caring that it’s awful to make its sales. When I went to play The Unicorn Princess I expected at least something like the My Friend Peppa Pig game that caters to its audience enough that it at least feels like it has a place. The Unicorn Princess uses its title as a lure, it presenting some stereotypical feminine interests and hoping the twenty dollar price tag makes it more appealing even though that will still feel like overpaying for the level of quality it offers. It has obvious technical problems, and while a video game should nominally hold a child’s interest for quite a while, this three hour journey even has things in place to make exploring what little freedom there is unnecessarily annoying. The Unicorn Princess does feature horse-riding, but you can likely find a more solid simulation of that for free on a phone or tablet. In this comparison, a game like The Unicorn Princess is a raggedy old bear you found at the top of the trash can where you can maybe wipe some of the garbage off of it even if the smell won’t go away. that you likely played around their age despite it not being labelled as a “children’s game”. And if you want it to be more personal, you can maybe hand down a classic from when you were a kid like Super Mario Bros. If you want to spend a bit less, games like Crystal’s Pony Tale or Finding Nemo on GBA aren’t great but they are decent games the child will likely get something from. If a young girl asks for a video game, perhaps you’ll get her a game from the Kirby series, a full price but excellently made game that is enjoyable for players of all different ages. Now let’s take this and apply it to the world of video games. ![]() Maybe instead you try to do something more personal and buy one from a brand you loved as a child or even just hand down a bear you still own. Now you can go the expensive route and get a nice custom-made bear with top of the line materials, or maybe the budget is a bit tight so you instead try to find a decent one available that still does the job. Imagine a little girl asking you for a teddy bear as a gift. However, let’s reframe our mindset for a moment and consider instead how we would approach other products meant for kids. For some reason there is a cultural belief that it is okay for media aimed at children to be low quality, so doing a long review tearing down a game for little girls can seem unnecessarily harsh. At first glance it might seem a bit like I’m singling out The Unicorn Princess because it’s an easy target.
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