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[fourlittletesters]

Tested: Heart Street Market

#Developer: Splashworks.com Inc.

#Website: http://www.splashworks.com/ http://www.hearts4heartsgirls.com/

#Purchase: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heart-street-market/id1216701349?mt=8

#Version: 1.1.0

#Cost: $2.99 (at time of review)

#In-App Purchases

Costumes Pack $0.99

Angel Costumes $0.99

Please note that we received a donation to review this released app.

#Support: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

#Size: 272 MB

#Screenshots:

#Developers Description

Go on a global adventure with four girls! Herd runner ducks, play soccer, make music with a kitten, catch raindrops, dance in the street with mariachi skeletons—and more! Shop in an exotic market and bring the girls’ neighbourhoods to life!

Heart Street Market explores the lives of Nahji (India), Rahel (Africa), Dell (USA) and Consuelo (Mexico). They need your help to make their dreams come true! Can you find what they need in the marketplace?

Heart for Hearts Girls is partnered with World Vision®, for programs that support gender equality, education, infrastructure, and humanitarian aid.

Features

Hours of exploring, collecting, helping, and playing around the world.

Game play patterns that girls love: making friends, collecting, personalization, and helping others.

Vibrant, illustrated graphics with exciting animations.

Music from around the world.

Fashions that can be saved and shared with friends. 

No ads to interrupt game play.

In-App purchases are optional, not needed for complete game play. (IAPs require parental gate confirmation.)

#The Review

Heart Street Market was a pleasant surprise, full of multi-cultural educational content, and very much themed around your child paying it forward by playing games to earn coins to spend on enriching the lives of others. By accepting missions to buy essential products and supplies you help all of the featured girls and their communities (India, Africa, America and Mexico)

The app takes the child on a wonderful journey across the world, opening their eyes up to different cultures, foods, produce and traditions. Based on the Heart for Heart Girls dolls, the characters are extremely well defined, each with their own character, dress style, their own stories to tell, and environments to share.  The child gets a lot of joy from this game through playing games, earning coins and completing missions, all to help the girls grow their community. For each set of missions completed the Child gets to ‘Level up’ at the same time watching the communities flourish as the new buildings and structures go up.  With great little snippets of information and some great imagery, this app was really enjoyed by the both of us. 

#The Test

Poppy had great fun playing all aspects of Heart Street Market, she had lots of laughs playing all the mini-games, she enjoyed looking around the market, finding the food and supplies to buy and completing the missions to help girls and their communities.

The ‘Dress Up’ boutique was a popular favourite for Poppy where she spent plenty of time mix and matching outfits and accessories.

The games were all pretty straightforward and simple enough to allow for her to enjoy some repeat play and achieve high scores, earning coins and levelling up. Poppy’s favourite game was helping Rahel ‘Kick it’ in Ethiopia, this was a game that involved dodging and weaving with a ball and shooting to collect tokens.

Poppy found the general App controls and interactions really easy to work with, and Poppy found it easy to navigate between the games and the marketplace, as the icons were big and clear. It took her a few attempts to locate the right market stall that sold the required food items that she needed to complete the missions, as it wasn’t initially obvious that you could scroll left for many more items.

The app was very rewarding for both of us, and Poppy enjoyed playing the games over and over and was really quite motivated to collect the necessary amount of coins to complete the missions. She enjoyed seeing the buildings get built section by section.

Poppy rated the app 8/10 fingers, which is pretty good, and she is confident that she will play again and again.

#The Verdict

Heart Street Market, a rewarding app, so vibrant and enriching.

#The Rating

Overall: 5/5

Look & Feel: 5/5 - Wonderful, really captures the vibrant colours and styles from around the world.

Enjoyment: 5/5 - Great Mini-games, good gamification and plenty of shops to explore, the ‘Dress-up’ boutique was a big favourite for Poppy.

Playability: 5/5 - The progressive missions made the App really interesting and kept the child wanting to play more games to earn more coins to help the heart street girls.

Value for Money: 4/5 - Lots of Games, Levels, Missions with constant progression