Okay, so from an adult standpoint: Graphics are horrible, controls are convoluted. Can only use controller for second player. Confusing game layout and weak gameplay.

My 4 year old girls perspective: Can't play as Rapunzel with controller (doesn't know WASD very well yet), can't navigate to the story line or extra "stuff" with adult interaction. Not really kid friendly game. They really want to like it, but it is just too many problems for them to stay interested.


This is a game that requires I play it with them, which is fine if the game is good, but this is not one. I was hoping for a game they could feel empowered to play on their own, but this is not it. I would pick other co-play games for kids over this one and sadly my girls would as well.

*Sigh* ...Yet another game that was included in the Disney Princess Pack of games that is a misreable gameplay experience. So far out of all the craptastic Disney games that we've tried, this was failed the least. Is that a good thing? No, it's not. It is still a poop show from a UI, storyline, graphics, and overall attempt as a game.

In this game, it's identical to the movie Tangled (as it should be) but after the static animated intro movie, you are thrown into the tower with pretty much little to no instruction of what the hell you are supposed to do. My 4 year old daughter is trying to figure out why enabling a remote control only enables the second player, and going into the options provides no outwardly displayed way to change player 1 to use a controller. We never figured it out and decided to move forward and play the game..except...we didn't know what to do. Let me help out anyone else whjo gets stuck within the first few minutes of the game. You are supposed to open the Map and then travel to your first Journal Entry, "The Frolic". It doesn't tell you that. It doesn't indicate that. You are simply supposed to be a magical effen genie and just know that crap as a kid...I guess.

This is only the fourth Disney game I've watched my daughter play (and subsequently played the game myself) but it's a real consistent pattern. These games are void of any lackluster or dedication to quality or gameplay value. Aside from slapping a Disney logo on it, these games will remind you of crapware that plauged the late 90's and ended up floating in bargain bins in CompUSA's or SILO's across America. It's probably developed by some Indian Ocean outsourced company that held the rights to make a game for Disney. Do not buy this crap anymore. Please. There are so many great indie developers that make amazing games and pour their hearts and souls into every detail of a game. And then there is this utter poop.

If this was made in America, then you should be embarrassed of your work. You probaly have a Disney logo in your portfolio that says you did work for Disney and people probably see that and think you're talented. Boy you fooled them.

Buyers Beware.

I got this game as part of the Disney Princess and Fairy Pack, when it was on sale. I'm not sure whether the whole pack is really worthwhile, but this seemed to be a cute game, and I liked the movie. However, I should have known that the target audience of this game is for 10-year old girls, so the game is incredibly saccharine sweet, which is a bit hard to stomach for an adult. Even so, I managed to endure playing through the first level of the game, "First Frolic".

This game is a bit like the LEGO games in that they require the cooperative interaction between two characters, here Rapunzel and Flynn, each of whom have their special abilities, to navigate through a series of levels with various obstacles and bad guys to overcome. Rapunzel can spin her hair to grow flowers which occasionally results in a little critters that she can add to her drawing book and finds colors along the way to add to her painting palette. She can also use her hair to swing across gaps, and lower her hair so that Flynn can climb up. He can, on the other hand, use his little sword to cut through bushes, climb vines along a wall and find secret treasures with his treasure sense. Both of them can attack bad guys, Rapunzel uses a frying pan and he uses his sword. In this case, you whack the bad guys until they fall asleep and they magically disappear. Very Disney.

One interesting component of this game is the co-op play, where the second player can join in via a game controller. In single player mode, you switch between the two players with the TAB key, but the controller is missing such a button, so you cannot play the game in single-player mode just with a controller. You will keep needing to hit the TAB key to switch between them (which is often), so it makes it impractical to play this game with only a controller. Since there is no way (that I could see) to change controller settings, this effectively means you need to play the game in single-player mode using a keyboard moving around with WASD buttons. While I had no problem doing this, a young girl for which this game seems to be intended, may find this cumbersome.

However, one nice aspect of the co-op play, when you have two players, is once the two players are separated beyond the edge of the screen, the screen automatically splits so that each player can run and go wherever. When the players get close enough together the screen unsplits. This is not the way the LEGO games work, where the two of you must stay within the same screen. This is the first time I have seen this auto split/unsplit screen feature, which is a nice feature that I wish other co-op games had.

Even so, I do not recommend this game mainly for the reason that I found the game to be repetitive, and frankly, boring. The level I played seemed unnecessarily long without really enough stuff going on to make it interesting. Every time Rapunzel approach a cliff, she would "Oh a swing! I can swing across here." I found this sort of thing to be very tiresome after a while. Again, I understand the audience is a 10-year girl, but I really don't see this game as being very playable by someone so young, and anyone older, will find this game tedious at best.

If you're getting this for a young child then let me stop you right there, the first player (plays as Rapunzel) and is forced to use the Keyboard & Mouse, while player 2 uses the controller. There is no way in-game to change this. So unless you have a 3rd party program to map the keys from the keyboard/mouse to a controller then this game isn't worth it.
The Devs really need to fix this, since the intended audience for the game isn't likely to be used to using a KB&M.

This game is horrible. My dad thinks that it has horrible graphics and especially when she goes down the stairs. Her hair is up but it is supposed to be straight, go down, then go sraight again. Her hair has the most horrible graphics we've ever seen. I didn't like playing it at all, we couldn't even see the guards when they were coming. We couldn't jump on the little cliffs - it was horrible.

My sister (21) and I (18) played through this again for a nostalgia trip back when we played it on the Wii and MAN this game aged like milk. I was able to get good laughs for content but this game just reeks of cutting corners and poor game design. I still had fun playing with my sister for old times sake, but don't go into it expecting to have a good experience.

Oh boy, this game is a mess.

First, the graphics are pretty clumsy and dated, even for a game released in 2010. Second, the controls are hot garbage. Although there is gamepad support, Rapunzel can only be controlled by a keyboard. That's unforgivable: she's the main character! It's possible there's some Steam controller magic you could do to fix this, but honestly it's probably not worth the hassle.

That's all a shame, because the game has potential, it just feels unfinished and unpolished.

Avoid: 2 out of 5.

Love the princess, hates the game
The overall design and animation are awful.
They could have done somethings better than that.
I'm kinda sad about it tho :(

Just the fact, that it is not possible switch controller to Rapunzel is reason for giving the worste possible rating.
How you can release a game like that, it looks that nobody from dev team has a daughter.

Bought it for my daughters to play co-op. But because someone with less intelligence than them produced this game, you're required to use both mouse and keyboard, as well as a gamepad. The girl char is forced to use keyboard while the guy char uses a gamepad or else.

This game is a complete waste of time, money, and space. Steam should be sanctioning disney for this ♥♥♥♥.