We're supposed to feel like we own the horse and have worked hard to raise them. Nothing tries to grab the player and pull them into the experience, which is what a simulation is all about. It's not that any of these sections don't work, it's just that they're incredibly boring. None of the tracing designs seem to match with what the horse is doing. Only one competition even uses the touch screen, and it's to draw out basic shapes. We're not sure how much fun can be had with a simulation of hosing off horse crap from a stable, but the developers sure managed to show us how little fun can be had.

Almost every single step is just scribbling on the screen. Even taking care of the horse, a multi-step process, is barely hands on. The entire game has as little interaction as possible. There's so little going on that it feels more like watching the even than actually playing it. All the player does is follow an arrow, and hit the A button in front of a jump. The outdoor competition, for instance, has players riding their horse through an obstacle course of jumps. The+best+parts+have+nothing+to+do+with+equestrianism. Sure, we are riding our stallion, Rapidash, but it doesn't even feel like we're controlling that character. Despite the case showing a happy little girl adoring her horse, My Horse and Me make you feel more like a horse coach. Right from the start this game has an odd, detached feeling to it. Players ride their horse in three different types of competitions to earn medals: an outdoor jumping competition, a forest trail time trial, and an arena even that involves doing tricks of sorts. Competitions, Challenges, and Caring for the horse take up the majority of gameplay. Rather than a game aimed toward equestrian enthusiast, My Horse and Me seems more like a game for kids that will never own a horse in their life. Like Horse Life, it focuses on the equestrian lifestyle of raising and competing with a pure-bred horse. My Horse and Me is another equine-based simulation. I imagine a whole generation of Laras, playing this game at school, and becoming so depressed at how bad it is that they immediately give up their dream of being Rodeo Queens. I only thought about her since Mistic Software recently developed My Horse and Me for the Nintendo DS. Now she's a multi-time Rodeo Queen and has earned more money doing that than I have working a year and a half at IGN. We would pull her pony tail, call her 'Klipp-Klopp,' and just generally be obnoxious little boys.

In elementary school my friends and I used to torment this girl named Lara Klopp because she was obsessed with horses.

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