Living Books: Arthur's Birthday

Living Books: Arthur's Birthday

released on Jun 24, 1994

Living Books: Arthur's Birthday

released on Jun 24, 1994

Arthur is having a big birthday party on Saturday, and all his friends are invited. What will he do when he finds out that Muffy is having a party at the same time? In the Great Gift Mystery DW has pulled all the tags off of Arthur's gifts, and it's up to you to use the clues to match up Arthur's gifts to their givers. As kids gather clues in the Great Gift Mystery, they are stored in a notebook. When you've gathered enough clues, click on the gift to return to Arthur's party and solve the mystery! Kids will also entertain themselves as they tap their shoes and play along with the Musical Pin the Tail on the Donkey activity. Can you pin the tail on the donkey?


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Another of the Living Books titles ported to iOS it's basically more of the same - more nice looking animation, more clicking about and things to do and more of the voice actors sounding incredibly bored.

oh to be five years old playing arthur's birthday for the millionth time on the family PC

The story is not very good. I love children's picture books and I've always been a fan of Arthur, but beyond making very little sense, there's just not much to this story at all. Arthur is planning a party the same day as someone else but neither of them can reschedule for some reason? Why? Why can't you reschedule? This seems like a super solvable problem, but the solution they come up with in the end is terrible, it doesn't solve anything, it's basically just ignoring the issue entirely. Am I critiquing a story meant for children? Yes. But I generally hold Arthur to a higher standard than this. HOWEVER, this is still a very good interactive story just for the bizarre world of clickable background elements that are so standard with these types of programs. And the pixel art is seriously so charming, I really love it. I only wish I had played the version that had the extra minigames like the interactive "pin the tail on the donkey" and all that. I'll have to revisit this some time and check out that version. This was nice. (6/10)