After we bought my daughter a Nintendo DS for her fourth birthday present, one of the first games we bought was this Dora the Explorer saves the Snow Princess. It costs roughly £15 from Amazon. The game has an adventure mode where it is a bit like a story and it begins with Dora telling a story and then it is simple stuff like trying to free a bird by touching the locks to break them and that frees the bird. It is fairly simple so a good game for the age range of 3-5, it will give simple instructions like to touch a blue bush and this helps the child to play fairly independantly without asking for help every few minutes unlike most other games. ...  Read the complete review

Dora is a really popular and entertaining character that every 3 year old girl in the world seems to love. My three year old is no exception so I bought this game for her and have had a good go on it. The game uses the voice recognition feature on the ds to teach children basic spanish words. It also focuses on counting and memory skills as well as using the sylus to promote improvement of the fine moter skills. The game is split into two parts you have the adventure game which is fairly similar to one of the dora shows you basically fulfill a variaty of simple tasks whilst working your way through the map all the way through this side of the game the ...  Read the complete review