My Friend Peppa Pig is an adventure game that is predominantly for young kids. Yes, it has an easy trophy / achievements list and there’s that appeal, but it’s a short simple game that’s more like an entry for younger audiences starting out. It’s based upon the preschool cartoon Peppa Pig, and the premise is that you are a friend of Peppa’s who is visiting her.
The game starts off with a simple character editor so that you can design your character from a limited set of presets. Then there’s a quick tutorial where basically you just use the analogue stick to move around, and X to interact with objects and characters. You’re then let loose in the world, and you can explore it with Peppa. You start off with Peppa’s house and then moving around, you’ll be able to go to her school, the museum, the forest and several other locations.
It is designed to be a slow and relaxing game. It’s basically a sidescroller where the characters move from side to side. There are scripted events where you help someone find their glasses or sticks to build a campfire. It’s not riveting stuff, but it has a simple charm to it. The story revolves around interacting with Peppa’s friends and family, and then helping them out. There’s no meat to the gameplay as all you need to do is go around to where you need to go and press X. The graphics are a simple colorful affair that’s true to the cartoon.
As it is such a simple game, there aren’t many opportunities for issues or bugs to remain after all the patches. While the gameplay flow is fine for its target audience, as an adult gamer though, there may be some little things here and there that may annoy you. The biggest one is the unskippable cutscenes where it goes on for a little bit too long and are so repetitive. Every time you enter an area, Peppa will say the same thing.
The game is extremely short, which is disappointing. You can easily finish and see everything that the game offers in much less than two hours. You can then keep on going to the same places and doing the same things afterwards, but there’s too little content, especially for a full priced game. This lack of content is emphasized since the game feels decent for its intended purpose.
Overall, My Friend Peppa Pig is good for young ones, and for trophy hunters. To be fair, the game has nice graphics (for what it is going for) and charm to its simple gameplay. It can be grating with the constant commentary from the characters but when you put it into the context of its target audience, it’s fine.
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