I don't know why I played this
First game my mom ever bought for me. I was 3. She said the water level sucked. I remember a pogo stick.
an underwater adventure? holy fucking shit
(thats not what they say in the game in case you were wondering i do not use my platform with the intent of spreading misinformation)
(thats not what they say in the game in case you were wondering i do not use my platform with the intent of spreading misinformation)
A friend brought it to a group hang-out. We had a bunch of more obvious picks for party games, but I wasn't gonna let this pass us up.
Elmo's Letter Adventure is a simple edutainment game with a very narrow scope: reading comprehension by learning and recognizing letters. Gameplay consists of moving around environments and pressing a button near letters of an opposite case as the one given. After you find all the letters, you move on to the second stage, which does the same thing with the same letter. After that, you find letters to complete words' spelling. Repeat this cycle three times, and the game is over.
I don't object to having a narrow scope for teaching, as there's often a lot you can do within that narrow scope. But Elmo's Letter Adventure isn't doing much within that framework. If we break the game down into three sequences of three stages, a full two thirds of the game isn't even concerned with what you're doing with letters, just rote memorization of what they look like. Now, I don't know Sesame Street very well, but I know that a big part of how it teaches numbers and letters is through scenarios involving character interplay, surrealism, or humor. This has the benefit of (1) presenting the material in a memorable context, (2) teaching application of the material, and (3) being fun. I think that's what they're going for here with each set of levels being based around a different type of adventure (visiting the farm, going to space, an underWATER adventure), but the game doesn't do anything with those; mechanically, there's no difference between hopping on a pogo stick, driving a moon buggy, and piloting a submarine. About the strongest moment of teaching comes when you're looking for letters to start words, where you can accidentally spell the wrong words by picking the wrong letters, but these sequences are over and done with too quickly, they disincentivise this learning through a limited try system (overly-lenient as it is), and they're not even uniquely themed across all three level sets. And you don't have nearly enough gameplay to get through all the letters!
I know this is a game for 3-year-olds, but there's so much more you can do with games for 3-year-olds than this.
Elmo's Letter Adventure is a simple edutainment game with a very narrow scope: reading comprehension by learning and recognizing letters. Gameplay consists of moving around environments and pressing a button near letters of an opposite case as the one given. After you find all the letters, you move on to the second stage, which does the same thing with the same letter. After that, you find letters to complete words' spelling. Repeat this cycle three times, and the game is over.
I don't object to having a narrow scope for teaching, as there's often a lot you can do within that narrow scope. But Elmo's Letter Adventure isn't doing much within that framework. If we break the game down into three sequences of three stages, a full two thirds of the game isn't even concerned with what you're doing with letters, just rote memorization of what they look like. Now, I don't know Sesame Street very well, but I know that a big part of how it teaches numbers and letters is through scenarios involving character interplay, surrealism, or humor. This has the benefit of (1) presenting the material in a memorable context, (2) teaching application of the material, and (3) being fun. I think that's what they're going for here with each set of levels being based around a different type of adventure (visiting the farm, going to space, an underWATER adventure), but the game doesn't do anything with those; mechanically, there's no difference between hopping on a pogo stick, driving a moon buggy, and piloting a submarine. About the strongest moment of teaching comes when you're looking for letters to start words, where you can accidentally spell the wrong words by picking the wrong letters, but these sequences are over and done with too quickly, they disincentivise this learning through a limited try system (overly-lenient as it is), and they're not even uniquely themed across all three level sets. And you don't have nearly enough gameplay to get through all the letters!
I know this is a game for 3-year-olds, but there's so much more you can do with games for 3-year-olds than this.
Holy fuck
An immersive walking sim with a little bit of wild education in thrown in. Similar to the legendary sonic school house but with Elmo.
An immersive walking sim with a little bit of wild education in thrown in. Similar to the legendary sonic school house but with Elmo.
Sesame Street revolutionized the walking sim genre
I know it's a children's game, but believe me, children deserve better.
GOAT
Bro I had to go back into the farthest reaches of my memory to remember this game LMAO
Hey, guess what? turns into a pixel nightmare
0/10 couldn’t even spell lettuce
My childhood brain couldn't handle it.
Great meme educational game
It's meant for 3 year olds
This review contains spoilers
it has weirdly good music and a supremely epic space stage which is like rainbow road but with flipping elmo.
Eu não estava muito fora da faixa etária planejada pra esse jogo... e COMO ERA CHATO, MEU DEUS DO CÉU!