Review #793: Carebears Care Quest

 Baby's first game.

 I used to watch the Carebears when I was a wee lad, which is why I decided to get CareBears: Care Quest. Obviously, it's pretty bad, even by licensed game standards. It's a 12 mini-game collection that has you playing as a different bear on each.... although most mini games share mechanics in one way or another.

 Most mini games come in two varieties: Flying and walking, with a couple of outliers. The game is clearly made on the cheap, as there are very few assets and animations are very minimalistic. The first game is a memory matching mini game that, I kid you not, starts with four options, very slowly adding new pairs. There's a silly hide and seek mini game in which bears keep popping their heads, and they even reuse hiding spots. There are like six similar flying games in which you must drop things below: Hearts on top of Bears, Rainbows to make trampolines for Starbuddies, Sleeping powder on Bears, Lucky Clovers to make bears jump and, lastly on in which you actually shoot laughing beams horizontally. In this latter one, there's a funny bug on the last level: next to the rightmost elevation there's an opening on the floor on which you can go through.... and get stuck on the environment. There's a Volleyball mini game in which you only need to walk towards the ball, a platformer in which you avoid water droplets, a game in which you must collect the right present for the right Star Buddy... and when successfully delivering a gift the most annoying maraca sound plays and a skater platfomer which happens to be the only game that uses both A and B button, since the other games at most use only the A button. Lastly, there's another gift-giving game, the 12th minigame, in which bears tell you what they want and you have to grab it as it falls. I saved this one for last because it's so poorly made that it's entirely based on luck and sometimes the right gift won't pop in time, and there's nothing you can do about it.

 CareBears: Care Quest is broken at its worst and incredibly boring and its best. Kids will hate this game, fans will hate this game and people who are in it for the nostalgia, like me, will also hate it. Absolutely no redeeming qualities.
 1.5 out of 10