iOS – Perfect People – Review
We recently interviewed the developers of the Perfect People app, if you missed that you can read it here. Perfect People is an app similar to a sim style and aimed at the 8-13 age range for girls. I must admit I’ve had a hard time trying to claw back my iPhone from my 9 year old daughter who loves this game. The developers have found though that actually this app has a huge range of followers many of whom are in a completely different age range.
Read our exclusive review below…
Stats
Developer: Enup Games Corporation
Price: $0.99/£0.69
Version: 1.0.1
Released/Updated: February 16, 2012
Size: 6.4 MB
Rated: 4+
Our Ratings
Graphics/Sound: 4/5
User Interface: 4/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Re-use/re-play value: 4/5
Overall Rating: 4/5
What Is It?
It is a sim styled game, the user will soon discover that every decision they make has an impact on how the life of the character being played with develop.
Is It Easy to Use?
Yes, it’s very easy to use, after all it is aimed at younger children but saying that it is not overly simplistic, just not overtly complicated. There are twelve levels in the game and each level is graded slightly higher than the previous one with new achievements.
The goals are fun, things like, make a friend, buying a home, starting a career, making money in the stock market or having a baby. It’s challenging in its own way though as the player must ensure that they maintain their needs to avoid bankruptcy.
As with most things in life, this game is aimed at doing well at school, securing a good career and earning lots of money. But it brings in life balance too, as you need to keep fit, be sociable and make friends too. The pitfalls are there though, if you don’t do well at school in this game, then you will still get a job but with a low salary and of course, it will take longer to purchase a house, dog and trees and flowers, that are also available.
You can take a gamble and try your luck on the stock market, and it’s very easy to do well – at least as an adult. Wish it were so easy in ‘real’ life. Basically, you need to ensure you purchase stock when it’s cheap and sell when it’s high, bringing in the most profit.
There are no in-app purchases with this game and it’s all the better for it, especially for parents.
Is It Fun?
Yes it is very fun and it is also ‘safe’ to allow your child to play it for a while, they’ll only end up learning a few more useful life facts. It also has a great sense of humor running throughout the game.
Is It Pretty?
In a relatively basic way, yes it is pretty, the colors are bright and the sounds excellent and engaging.
Should You Download It?
If you’re looking for a fun, interesting, intriguing game for your child, then yes, you won’t go far wrong with this app. Most will enjoy it, a lot.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
One Comment
MeanMike
Perfect People 2 is out now.
The last screenshot in this review (over-the-hill) was totally changed. Now you can live up to 105 years old.