Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper

Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper

released on Sep 28, 2004

Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper

released on Sep 28, 2004

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is based on Barbie's home video take on the favorite fable. Erika are Anneliese beauties from two different worlds -- one a girl about town, the other a princess high in the land. When trouble starts in the kingdom, the two will have to solve puzzles and jump across dangers in 20 stages of adventure. Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper features two-player minigames and the ability to play as Erika, Anneliese, and even the royal cats Wolfie and Serafina!


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I played this one as a kid, and was so excited to play it again when delta emulator came to iOS, it’s soo fun and cute!! Totally enjoyed the nostalgia

Honestly not a bad game at all. Good sprite art and animations. I think its downfall though is its clunky controls and the difficulty scaling. Each level is a one-screen mega map where you control two characters by switching between them and using their different abilities to solve puzzles, and each level is completed when you find 10 of that level's special item. It can be a bit tedious sometimes catching one character up to the other since you can't play as both of them at the same time.

As for the difficulty, it's almost like this where the things that you take damage from kinda just appear, at least in the later levels. Some of them, like the frogs jumping out of the water, are easily visible and you can see their trajectory. But then there's also stage hazards that spawn off screen and fall down onto you, even though you can't see where they're coming from, so you have no idea that they're even there until you get hit. In earlier levels, it's fine, and you can usually remember where they are. But in later levels, they become so frequent and mixed in with other hazards like birds and bugs that fly incredibly fast so you get double smacked. It's also important to note that only three of the four playable characters have damaging moves, and of those damaging moves, you only get one per character and they are very limited, so you can't just clear all the enemies and traverse that way. To my knowledge, different enemy types don't have specific pathways or behaviors other than maybe their speed.

But again, not a bad game. It's just weirdly boring for the first 2-3 levels and then gets way hard out of like nowhere.

The GOAT
It was my sister's game, but i don't care.
Best Barbie movie and good game.

this game is about women supporting women and i find that so beautiful!!