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Developer(s) | MTO |
Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
Series | Petz |
Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Windows |
Release | Nintendo DS PlayStation 2 Windows Game Boy Advance
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Genre(s) | Strategy |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Horsez is a video game released by Ubisoft on October 26, 2006, for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PC and Game Boy Advance. This PC game is the sequel to Champion Dreams: First to Ride and is also part of the second series of Petz . The user plays as Flora (the default name), a new member of the Sycamore Academy. Players select a horse from one of five breeds and a range of colours. The player trains their horse in different disciplines, enters shows, cares for the horse, and after a few weeks gains a foal to raise.
Horsez is also known as Pippa Funnell 3: The Golden Stirrup Challenge.
The player arranges a timetable so that they can pass each week. To pass, they must obtain a certain score out of 10 for each of the disciplines, and must train in that discipline at least twice a week. The disciplines are Horse Care, Cross Country, Dressage, Showjumping, and later Foal Care and Learning. The player must also have a high social rating, which is obtained by spending time in the Student Centre talking to other academy riders, performing well in disciplines, taking and displaying photographs in the Student Centre, and purchasing items from the shops. Between training and caring for their horse, foal, and talking to the other riders, the player may go shopping, change their attire in their bedroom, study in the library, and go for a walk with their horse. There is a total of ten secret figurines hidden in the game.
Throughout the game, the player is given free control of the protagonist or the horse. There are numerous cutscenes, events where the player character must find something, and riddles. These events, combined with the contrasting disciplines, ensure variable gameplay.
First, the player must choose a name for the character they will be playing and a mount. The player can choose from 5 breeds: Arabian Thoroughbred, English Thoroughbred, Connemara, Appaloosa and Saddlebred. Each breed has a range of colours including a number of shades of brown, bay, and grey. After the horse is selected and named, the game begins with a journal entry and a cutscene.
The main characters are Flora and her horse. Other characters include the staff at the riding academy, fellow riders, and later the player's rival, Daniela. Daniela's director is Esteban.
In the Student Centre, the player can talk to her friends and learn their stories.
A sequel to Horsez was developed with somewhat similar plots: the main character is a young woman named Emma. She is sent to France to train to become a veterinarian. When the taxi breaks down, she has no choice but to take refuge in a small, quiet town. There, she meets Oliver, a nephew of his aunt's stud farm, who is missing its real owner, Marie. After finding out Emma is a vet, he offers to give her shelter if she helps them deliver a mare with foal. Emma agrees. After meeting Flora, Michael (formerly called Miguel in Horsez), and Carol, Emma is given some objectives. The character delivers a healthy foal, and then is given the choice of the player to stay with the stud farm or leave as a vet. The game continues either way.
In the end, the characters win back the stud farm, though end results are dependent on the player's choices throughout the game. In one part, Emma finds out that Marie is still alive and well. In this ending she leaves the stud farm to Flora, and promises to visit soon, having settled in New Zealand. Other possible endings include Emma getting Oliver (and herself) tickets to the US so she can show him her country, and Emma and Oliver sharing a kiss on the beach.
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