Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey

Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey,

Imagine a game with pictures straight out of your favorite childhood picture finding book. Now combine that with the technology of an iPhone and the great game play from Ludia. Add some cute music, bundle it all together and you get Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey.

This app is a Where’s Waldo book with some extras. The game is set up as an adventure game where you follow Waldo, Whitebeard the Wizard, Wendy, and other characters through a journey to collect the 12 mystical scrolls. When you collect all 12 scrolls, Whitebeard the Wizard will reveal to Waldo an important secret that Waldo has been searching for. At the start you can choose normal game play or kids. The kids version is noticeably easier as it will make sure the item/person you are looking for is always in the area it brings you (in other words, you don’t have to move the screen view around).

The first few levels are tutorials and guide you through the game play. Each level is basically set up the same: you get the entire screen open to search for the characters, then you get parts of the picture sectioned off to help you locate some items. Your companion, Spot, will provide you with hints if you are ever stuck. What made this game interesting was that they also had some items marked with a diamond or star. The diamond would lead you exactly to where one of the hidden items are, and the star would present a mini game where you catch the stars to try and obtain a perfect score. At the end of each level, you get ranked based on speed. You can get 1-5 stars.

As you make your way through the game, you meet more of Waldo’s friends and enemies and face more challenges. The only down side of the otherwise great game is that you can’t zoom in/out. I found that using only your finger and the small screen of your iPhone was a bit challenging to locate some things and would have liked to be able to pinch and zoom in or out so that I could see more of the picture at once. Where’s Waldo is currently $2.99, so if you are looking for a fun app to kill time or something to keep your child occupied during a car trip, you should definitely get this app.

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