The first part of the game begins when you, playing as "Barbara Millicent "Barbie" Roberts", by setting out a tripartite dialectical structure based on an individual's stages of life (Childhood, Youth and Adulthood). In the first realistic stage, children are restricted by external material forces. Upon reaching the stage of youth, they begin to learn how to overcome these restrictions by what Barbara calls the "self-discovery of mind". However, in the idealistic stage, a youth now becomes enslaved by internal forces such as conscience, reason and other 'spooks' or 'fixed ideas' of the mind (including religion, nationalism and other ideologies). The final stage, 'egoism' sees the now adult individual freed from all internal and external constraints, attaining individual autonomy.

Throughout the game, Barbara applies this dialectial structure to human history (the Ancient and Modern worlds, and the Egoistic Future). Part one is a sustained critique of the first two periods of human history and especially of the failure of the Modern world to escape from religious modes of thinking. Barbara's analysis is opposed to the belief that modern individuals are progressively more free than their predecessors. Barbara sees moderns as being oppressed by ideological forces such as Christianity and the ideologies of the modern nation state.

Barbara's critique of modernity is centered on the Protestant Reformation. According to Barbara, Reformation theology extended religious domination over individuals by blurring the distinction between the sensual and the spiritual (thus allowing priests to marry for example). The Reformation also strengthened and intensified religious belief and made it more personal, creating an internal conflict between natural desires and religious conscience. Thus the Reformation only served to further enslave Dreamhouse party-goers under spiritual ideology.

Barbara's critique of a progressive view of history is part of her attack on the philosophies of the left leaning dreamhouse party-goers, especially that of Grace. Barbara sees Grace's philosophy as merely a continuation of religious ways thinking. Grace had argued that Christianity was mistaken in taking human qualities and projecting them into a transcendent God. But according to Barbara, Grace's philosophy, while rejecting a God, left the Christian qualities intact. Grace had taken a set of human qualities and reified them, making them the only prescriptive view of humanity. This became just another religion for Barbara, a "change of masters" over the individual. Barbara criticizes other left leaning dreamhouse party-goers for setting a conception of essential human nature as a goal to striven for outside of the individual themselves. So while liberals like Raquelle found the essence of the human in citizenship, and social liberals like Nikki found it in labor, all of them made a similar error of ossifying an "essence" of the human and deifying it. For Barbara, 'human nature' cannot provide any prescriptions on how one ought to live. Her goal is to free the individual from such notions of essential universal goals.





Part two is centered on the possibility of freedom from current ideological ways of thinking through a robust philosophical egoism. Barbara's egoism is centered on what she calls Partie-Haus der Träume ('Ownness' or autonomy). This 'Ownness' is a feature of a more advanced stage of human personal and historical development.

Barbara's Egoism is not a descriptive psychological egoism, in fact she believes that non-egoism is the most common way of thinking. Barbara also does not advocate a narrow prescriptive ethical egoism of self-interest. Barbara rejects for example, the actions of an avaricious individual whose only pursuit is material gain. For Barbara such a pursuit enslaves the individual to a single goal and this is incompatible with her idea of autonomy.

Barbara's conception of Ownness is then a type of self-mastery in which one's actions are unrestricted by any internal or external constraints - "I am my own only when I am master of myself, instead of being mastered by...anything else". To attain autonomy, the individual must free himself from all forces, such as ideologies, religions, ethics, other persons and even their own desires. For Barbara, "Partie-Haus der Träume" is the only good, and is incompatible with any moral, political and familial obligations ("the forming of a family binds a man.") Barbara's influence in anarchist circles stems from her rejection of the legitimacy of the state. Barbara argues that "own will and the state are powers in deadly hostility, between which no 'perpetual peace' is possible." Every form of the state is rejected as a despotism over individual self ownership. Even a unanimously democratic decision does not bind Barbara's egoist, since this would freeze her "will of yesterday", making her a slave to her past desires and decisions. Barbara rejects promise keeping on similar grounds of not allowing past actions to constrain her autonomy. She states that the egoist must embrace the "heroism of the lie".

Along with her critique of ideologies and institutions, Barbara also provides an alternative form of social relationship, the "union of egoists" (verein von egoisten). These unions are temporary groupings of self-determined individuals which do not subordinate each individual to the good of the group. The only good in these unions is the self-interest of each individual. Barbara suggests that some human relationships like love might continue in this new egoistic future. However this new kind of love is one in which the egoist does not sacrifice her autonomy and thus she loves only as long as "love makes me happy".

Barbara does not shy away from the radical outcomes of her worldview. She explains the relationship between the egoist and her objects or other persons as one of 'ownership'. For Barbara this means that there are no restrictions, moral or otherwise, on how an egoist can relate to other things and persons. The egoist views others instrumentally, they are "nothing but - my food, even as I am fed upon and turned to use by you."The consequences of this view is that she does not see murder, incest and infanticide as always unjustified. Barbara admits that this view affords little comfort to others but she states that her audience's concern is of no importance to her.

"Do I write out of love of the Dreamhouse Party? No, I write because I want to procure for my thoughts an existence in the world; and, even if I foresaw that these thoughts would deprive you of your rest and your peace, even if I saw the bloodiest wars and the fall of many generations springing up from this seed of thought — I would nevertheless scatter it. Do with it what you will and can, that is your affair and does not trouble me. You will perhaps have only trouble, combat, and death from it, very few will draw joy from it."
Barbara Millicent "Barbie" Roberts, Barbie Dreamhouse Party

She also asserted her own "doctrine" of self-interest to be neither a universal truth nor an established viewpoint, and likens her Dreamhouse to a ladder you throw away after climbing, a sort of self-therapy.

Tolles game! Hab's in 40 Minuten durchgezockt, aber durch die ganzen Kostüme zum freischalten und so, hat es einen sehr hohen Wiederspieltwert!

Punktabzug gibts weil man nicht immer die Katze pflegen kann, sondern manchmal das Pferd kommt. Das Pferd ist viel zu groß und gar nicht so süß!!!

Ich vergebe 9 von 10 Punkten. Das Spiel ist für alle Altersklassen geeignet und seinen Preis auf jeden Fall wert.

Barbie (need THE "™" twice ? ok..

Barbie ™Dreamhouse Party™ :

feels like i am a lil bit necrophil..

needs more Blood/Gore/Sexuality/violence and drugs!

would Dress me/catch shoeboxes again...

Worth it? yeah..if u trust me ;) u rly dont have to buy it, its just an opinion...9,99€? u just have to..doo it..rly!

Barbie out!

This game is pretty much what every man should strive to be, A fab godess of fashion. I once was a young boy that would only play anime girl and watch action figures but then this game came along to changed my life forever as i realised that i had purpose. My purpose you ask, to be fab and pretty to be able to date Ken and to be the best BarbyDoll™ there ever was. I love this game its almost as good as Gone Home but i think its pretty much GOTY in all fields.

Now i will go into detail to why this game is so good and beats others like Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite for they are ok but nothing compared to this game and its amazing gameplay, masterfully written story, and its great graphics. Now listen by now you must be saying "this guy is crazy its just a game for little kids" but this game is deeper it explores the human condition and to why we love others. Barby is not a doll she is a statement that tells us that h-human emotion (sorry i got choked up there) and how easy it is to tame. This is where Ken comes in he is the beast inside us all for he wishes to tame Barby(Our emotions) but never will for Ken is feral and does not understand Barby's complexity.

The other cast represents the hopes of our emotions and how consumerism is taking those away from us by not taming the feral beast that lives within our hearts that beat to the rhythm of the earth. The earth cries as it sees these girls(our hopes) being taken away by the guitar man at the beinging but they wish to only feel free and to stride with Barby and her own emotions.

The house is actaully the galaxy we reside in and all the mini-games represent inventions made by our greatest aspirations. for example the garage mini-game this represents Eli Whitney inventor of the cotten gin but more importantly interchanegable parts and how emotions are also interchanegable like the parts created by Ken(The beast inside us).
The universe must go on, so must Ken(the beast inside us) so he must continue to invent and to improve upon our emotions for it is what every beast must be enslaved to do by our own hopes and dreams.

So remember when yolu play Barbie™ Dreamhouse Party™ you are not playing a video game or reading a book. you are changing the very universe by experiencing the interworkings of ourselves. I would go into further detail but some might think im over analysing a tad. God speed fellow Dreamhousers.

Been playing it a bit.
I'm still stuck at the first level, I can't decide what panties to wear.

Sehr Schönes Spiel für groß und klein ;)
Wer Früher schon gerne mit Barbies gespielt hat wird hier sicher seine freude haben.

Leider Kein Multiplayer :(

Auch habe ich vergeblich nach dem waffenschrank gesucht um Ken und den anderen quitschbunten zombies mal ordenlich eins in ihre grinsende visage zu schießen.

Alles in allem ganz nett gemacht :)

help me

Very Barbie

There are some ruthless, cruel, challenging, post-apocalyptic, undead, 'run for your life' games out there. Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil Revelations and Sniper Elite: ♥♥♥♥ Zombie Army are games that leave you unsettled. Part of what makes them so good, is their ability to lull you into a false sense of security and then the zombies swoop without warning. Barbie Dreamhouse Party however, should not be considered one of them .... it is far, far scarier! Yes! .... you read it right .... Barbie Nightmarehouse Party is another level of horror. It leaves you in a panic, trying to anticipate where the monsters will attack from and when. Be afraid, be very afraid!

So why is it so scary:

* Well for starters, the walls are pink! .... PINK! That colour is evil!

* The horse, Tawny, has makeup on. MAKEUP! Why is a horse wearing makeup? Tawny must be an evil creature, masking undead scales, underneath that camouflage, ready to attack, when you least expect it. Zombie games do that; they ambush you when you're not looking. I'm watching you, odd-toed ungulate mammal!

* The game has karaoke dance events! What sorcery is this? While you partake in these activities, I suspect the zombies are roused from their sleep, by this ceremonial dance, and are preparing to attack from their hidden dark alcoves. Be ready for them!

* You don't get chainsaws, rocket launchers, m99's or aa12's to defend yourself. If/when things get nasty, you get combs, hairbrushes, and nail files for weapons. Make sure you get to the hairdryer first, because that's the closest thing you'll find resembling a gun.

* Barbie's closet is endless! That is sorcery for sure, because closets are not endless. It is well known that zombies jump out of closets too. It's always a closet .... but an endless closet is mind-bogglingly formidable! It might mean .... (pause) .... ENDLESS ZOMBIES? Stay away from the closets!


Now some might argue that I've been playing zombie games for way too long and it has warped my perception. I'll admit that I'm still yet to trigger the horde of monsters, but I've only played for roughly 1000 hours. Trust me however, because I have experience with zombie games and Barbie will transform into the giant boss monster you'll have to fight at the end (probably the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man). Watch her closely, because when she approaches you about the subject of glitter, the final battle is likely to begin! Good luck!


P.S. Post-apocalyptic horror aside, this game is well packaged and professionally done. At the time of purchase, I considered it to be overpriced, but it was new. I'm sure that will change over time. I bought it, despite it's cost, because humour is great value when it's priceless!

Let's face it. This game is amazing. It has Barbie, Barbie's friends, The gayest Wheatley imitation i have ever seen in my whole entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ life, and horses. And kitties. SCRUB THAT ♥♥♥♥♥!

In other words: Get it. It's just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird, that it's good.