I purchased this for my three year old daughter to play on my DS as it was rated for ages 3+ but she certainly could not have played it by herself as there is a lot of reading to do and also for part of the game you need to sing song notes the same as ariel which my daughter did not really understand. She had great fun laughing at me singing them instead!

The story line of the game is that are some strange underwater currents caused by the nasty sea witch which are making things go wrong so Ariel helps out various sea characters to set things right. Ariel also collects Golden seashells along the way and collects human items for her secret cave.

When you find objects you want to collect you have to blow the sand off - my daughter enjoyed this and collecting the seashells the most during the game.

This can be a single player game or multi-player - we only played the single game but will definatley be playing multi player at some point.

We played this game over a few days and completed it in about a week which I think was good as it would get a bit boring for a child if it was too long and complicated.

I paid £10 for the game on ebay a few months back and am glad I didnt pay anymore. You can probably get it cheaper if you shop around.