Needless to say, brushing a traditional plastic pony with an actual brush is a far better and probably cheaper simulation.
You will want to spend hours grooming your rigid, lifeless horse using a magically floating brush/hose Remote pointer icon-even though you (well, the model that represents you) remain stationary on screen, next to your horse. But customization is fairly pointless, as you'll see little more than the rears of you and your horse outside of the customization menu. In the same vein, you can change the color of your horse's coat, mane, and saddle. You can crudely customize how you look by selecting among five generic, blurry, character models and similarly uninteresting clothing (shirts, boots, hats, etc). In fact, you and your horse will not build any sort of relationship at all.
Hopefully potential buyers will avoid the bait: My Horse & Me is a simple, rushed, and wholly uninspired game that fails to follow through on its promise of capturing the bond between horse and rider.īased on the title and point-of-purchase box art, one might expect My Horse & Me to be a pet simulator in the style of Nintendogs. The game greets its victims with a squeaky-clean photo of a tween girl hugging her horse-clearly this game is targeted at unsuspecting parents and horse-obsessed little girls. My Horse & Me attempts to capitalize on the horse sense that many little girls (and probably some boys) are fond of, well, horses.