#the legacy of rosemond hill

[liaratisoni]

Holy shit, I found a site for downloading old games for free and they have Legacy of Rosemond Hill! I was obsessed with that game as a kid.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

for the ask: 2, 5, 6, 14!

2. Game(s) you're currently playing: Answered!

5. Game(s) coming out that you’re looking forward to: Answered!

6. A series you’ve enjoyed since your early days of gaming and still enjoy to this day whether it still has games coming out or is one you return to: Answered! However I will add: the Barbie games <3 My favorites were always Barbie Secret Agent and [exact menu intonation] Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride CD-ROM! I also played Rapunzel, Sparkling Ice Show, Pet Rescue, Ocean Discovery, and whatever was on Barbie.com from about 2003-2009.

14. A song that’s sure to hit your nostalgia buttons: This one from Legacy of Rosemond Hill, a horse game I was absolutely terrible at but boy I sure did love watching the credits for this song alone!

[thedragonduchess]

Well, Hello There!

Just a small PG gaming streamer, playing games and being a little silly. I primarily play Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and other sandbox games. My current livestream platforms are Twitch and Kick.

Here's some fun facts about me!

I have two kitties who you will occasionally hear through my mic

My first console game was Thrillville: Off the Rails for the Wii and my first overall video game was Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill (for PC on disc only)

I only ever played games on disc or for the Wii until college when my friends introduced me to Steam

My Minecraft Hardcore series is the first time I've ever played Hardcore

My favorite streamers are GoodTimeswithScar, Awesamdude, and SolidarityGaming.

Go get your snacks, and come hang out!

Twitch:

Kick:

[juni-ravenhall]

i have shared this game many times in various places, but when speaking of lowpoly, lq texture horse games, this one rly stands out to me! its very cute and for being so old i think its still an interesting game

[boxartcomparisons]

Box art comparison (US/UK/DE/SCN): The Legacy of Rosemond Hill.

[arctic-whisper]

Reviewing Old Horse Games: Conclusion (for now)

Man, I miss Adeline. So now, I’m going to put these in a numbered list with rankings and a verdict, so to speak, because that’s what you do on the internet.

Lucinda Green’s Equestrian Challenge (2006) ~ Graphics: 9/10 | Gameplay: 8/10 | Replayability: 5/10 | Horse customization: 9/10 | Would I recommend: Absolutely / 10

Legacy of Rosemond Hill (2000) ~ Graphics: 4/10 | Gameplay: 6/10 | Replayability: 5/10 | Horse Customization: 2/10 | Would I recommend: Yes, if you can look past the graphics / 10

Barbie Mystery Ride (2003)~ Graphics: 7/10 | Gameplay: 6/10 | Replayability: 7.5/10 | Horse customization: 7/10 | Would I recommend: If you’ve got a few hours to kill / 10

3 Day Eventing (I can’t find a release date)~ Graphics: 5/10 | Gameplay: 4/10 | Replayability: 3/10 | Horse customization: 0/10 Would I recommend: Only if you have the nostalgia or you see the charm / 10

Barbie Riding Club (1998) ~ Graphics 6/10 | Gameplay: 4/10 | Replayability | 4/10 | Horse customization: 4/10 | Would I recommend: Great for its target age / 10

Equestriad (2001) ~ Graphics: 2/10 | Gameplay: 3/10 | Replayability: Doesn’t really apply | Horse customization: 4/10 Would I recommend: Just play Lucinda Green’s / 10

Riding Star (1999)~ Graphics: 2/10 | Gameplay | 3/10 | Replayability: Hard to say | Horse customization: 0/10 | Would I recommend: Hell no / 10

Royal Horse Show (2003)~ Graphics: 5/10 | Gameplay: 2/10 | Replayability: 1/10 | Horse customization: 4/10 | Would I recommend: Literally only for toddlers who just learned how to use a mouse / 10

Detailed notes under the cut.

Lucinda Green’s was the closest that came to feeling like actually riding. Although the gameplay itself can be a bit repetitive, it’s still a good feeling gameplay. Horse animations are the best out here and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were motion captured. You can see that the most in the dressage.

Rosemond Hill is an unpolished potato but it’s definitely the best out of those around the time it was published. Biggest gripe is the invisible walls on the cross country course and the clipping that’s so bad you have to restart. Also, every time I wanted to save, I had to restart the game because it wouldn’t screenshot the save file properly, but I won’t hold that against it.

Barbie Mystery Ride is a fun afternoon. Cutscenes are skippable, puzzles are easy, and they’re fast. Biggest aspect of the replayability for me was making new saves to see what kind of winner’s circle prizes I’d get. If you’re not into that part, it’s still a good one-shot.

[nova-rogue]

i want to play a good horse game so bad

[stopgorepeat]

I love having weird random deep dives into Google to try and find something that I barely have memories of xD tonight's gem is Let's Ride: Legacy of Rosemond Hill. Which I rarely ever actually played because I was so shit at the controls. But I Loved watching my older sister play. 😍 We love shitty angular early 2000s graphics

[andersmauritz]

Legacy Of Rosemond Hill - AndersMauritz

[anneleah]

oh my goooddddddd. I used to play this game called The Legacy Of Rosemond Hill. like... honestly. I’ve destroyed my room, the media room and the bird room closet trying to find that fucking cd. i miss it lol 

do you guys realize how long it took me to google the name of that game and I found it HERE under old horse games. -_-

but now I am downloading stronghold crusader LOL

[arctic-whisper]

Reviewing Old Horse Games part 1: Legacy of Rosemond Hill

A classic, an absolute BANGER of a game. Ancient as hell, 10/10 for nostalgia. These potato horses are just amazing. This is one of the ones I officially completed for the first time at the ripe old age of 26.

Something I was very surprised to see in this old fossil was that the horses are actually different heights?

She’s so tall!

Anyway, gameplay is... Fine For What It Is. Only one movement speed, which is painfully slow. You can only carry one thing at a time, so there’s a lot of walking back and forth. Easily the worst part is cleaning out the stalls; the wheelbarrow’s turning radius is terrible, the doorway is very tiny, the door closes on its own, and one wrong move gets you stuck in a wall with no choice but to reload. Hell on earth.

This game taught me (incorrectly) that the three events in 3 Day Eventing are show jumping, steeplechase, and cross country. There wasn’t any dressage in the game. I did like taking my horses out on “trail rides” to the beach.

Something that stuck with me is how there was a “pulse” meter when the horse was galloping. If it ran at full tilt for too long, it would begin to breathe heavily and if you overexerted your horse in a competition, you’d get kicked out by the vet.

Not a lot of story going on. There’s a bit, something about the legacy, but nothing outstanding. Impress the boy, beat your rival, but even beating her isn’t necessary. No difference in ending.

See that little triangle? That’s a loose stone. Honestly for all of these games I was just thinking “I wish I could go back and revolutionize 3d Modeling with my mediocre concept of shapes.”

This is Melissa. She’s your rival. Her horse is named Comet.

Which reminds me, I’m going to go over some horse names at the ends of these. Alpha is the starter horse, he’s a reddish chestnut. Comet Melissa’s black horse, he is very fast. Then there’s Rocky (love interest’s horse) and Speed (the one that had the baby). The horses I acquired in this run were Darling (grey), Mosaik (appaloosa), and Sunny Girl (palomino).

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

deep memory for early 2000s horse girls only

[arctic-whisper]

Reviewing Old Horse Games: A series nobody asked for (introduction)

I’m going to be talking about horse games that I played when I was little. I’m also bad at words. This should be fun. The games I’m going to be looking at are:

Legacy of Rosemond Hill

The Let’s Ride Championship Collection (Mary King’s Riding Star, Equestriad, 3-Day Eventing)

Barbie Riding Club

Disney’s Royal Horse Show

Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride

Lucinda Green’s Equestrian Challenge

I also plan on looking at The Stud Farm Inheritance and Let’s Ride: Corral Club once I am in a place where I can unpack those CDs... the downloads aren’t working.