Mia Goes for Great is a gentle, sweet computer adventure for girls. And to win competitions, you must hit the arrow keys in the right order as they appear on the screen while Mia skates. Deciding on the music for your competition routines means going to the library to listen to music to match a melody sung to you by the coach. Girls can also design Mia's performance routines by selecting jumps and spins and dragging them into a timeline to see what the routine looks like. Other fun activities include cleaning off the ice at the rink, a Magnetica -type game about shooting beads into a moving spiral to make them disappear. You play by swapping snowflakes that are next to each other so that you create three-in-a-row matches. Sweeping snow is actually a fun match-three-in-a-row-type game involving different shaped snowflakes on a large grid. And to get him lunch, you need to earn a pizza coupon from another of Mia's brothers by helping to sweep snow off the ice on the pond. But Skip won't help you until you bring him lunch. Because the car is being repaired, you need to persuade Mia's brother Skip, who works at the repair shop, to retrieve the book for you. Similar in game play to the Nancy Drew computer games but a lot easier to play, the game revolves around talking with and helping others so that they will help you.įor example, before your coach can tell you about the new requirements for your performance routine, you need to go to the auto repair shop to retrieve the new rule book from the coach's glove compartment. You have a backpack in which to keep things you find, and a diary that automatically keeps track of things you discover and generates a "To Do" list that helps you figure out what to explore next. You can talk to each person by selecting conversational sentences from a drop-down menu of possible things to say. You will help her to select music, secure costumes, design programs that comply with the competitions' requirements, practice and compete.Īs Mia, you walk around her town and meet its inhabitants, including her parents, three brothers, friends, the town's librarian, her skating coach and store owners.
Against a beautiful backdrop of snowy landscapes and detailed interiors, Mia prepares to compete in her first two figure skating competitions. The game takes place during the winter months in a small upstate New York town.
In this Windows-based game, THQ lets girls control 10-year-old Mia by simply pointing and clicking (or by using the arrow keys). American Girl: Mia Goes for Great is a puzzle adventure that follows Mia on her journey to become a competitive figure skater. In addition to having her own books, she also has her own computer game. Clair is this year's Girl of the Year doll from the American Girls.
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