Giveaway of the Day - Santa Claus

Really, don’t waste your time. I d/l it thinking it would be great holiday fun for my 4 year old. But even she is bored to tears by it! This game is an excruciatingly slow moving platform game where Santa has to jump around shooting snowflakes at evil animated snowmen to freeze them (I can’t figure how freezing harms a snowman, but that’s neither here nor there!) while collecting gifts and ornaments. Tinkly music that drives you nuts in a short space of time. No mouse controls, only keyboard. No instructions seem to be given and many of the menus I found were poorly translated. There is a bug in the code of some sort when you go to create a new player profile and it shows nothing when you type but blank boxes, so forget about creating a recognizeable profile.

I give it credit for being cute in its illustrations and for working in Vista. But otherwise the execution and code are so sub-par I can’t recommend this to anyone, 4 years old or 44.