I thought it would be a more fair review to get my daughter's opinion on this since she is at the top end of the recommended age category. She is six years old and in the first grade.

She instantly enjoyed the animations of the animals and the sound effects. She had to figure out what to do on her own,which is both good and bad, but it was not difficult for her to grasp the purpose of each screen or task. I thought she would be bored since she is very intelligent, but the various tasks kept her busy for awhile. Her opinion is that it is a fun, cute game that is good for her age and under. She does seem to understand that it would become boring pretty quickly if played for any extended period. She was ready to give the tablet back on her own in about a half hour.

Mom's review: the app ran fine in airplane mode and no in-app purchases are offered. During the startup of game there is a parents' info area. When I selected the parents tab, I was prompted to "tap the lock three times" which proved difficult; the lock wouldn't register being tapped or would disappear before the third tap, causing me to try five times before getting in. Inside parents area is a review us button, subscribe to newsletter, option to set "show promotion screen" on or off, and a like us on Facebook button. Access to Amazon store was unlocked for the review, and Facebook link goes directly to browser so the only lock between your child and other accidental purchases is the 3 tap lock, which wasn't that easy to bypass.

The game itself was extremely cute, gives a Ding when a patient arrives in lobby, click on doors to let patient into lobby. By swiping up or down the child can go from lobby to exam rooms. Each exam room has two beds and lobby can seat four waiting patients. All three rooms have occasional garbage to dispose of by dragging and dropping into the quaking or ribbeting bin. To put a patient into a bed, just tap the patient sitting in lobby and they go to an available bed. Tap on the smiley face near a bed to change the bed type. Tap the patient to begin therapy or exam which includes taking a temperature and treating the fever, give a shot and push plunger before putting bandage on injection site(which is given in the buttocks, but the art is appropriate and giggle inducing especially when you see the attempt to de-grossify an animals butt) , mend broken bones shown in an x-ray, put eye drops in pink eye, toothpick and brush dirty teeth, ointment on pocks or pimples, and a few others. None of them are really scientifically or medically accurate, but at this age the introduction of the procedures and treatments - and preventing fear of them - are far more important than being too accurate, in my humble opinion.

This does seem to be great for young kids but most two year olds will probably need some help as there is no tutorial whatsoever. After successfully treating a few patients, the child is rewarded with their choice of a sticker to drag onto their own sticker page. The stickers will stay and can be collected with more successful treatments. 5 to 6 year olds probably won't play for a long time in each sitting, but replay value is pretty high if you don't let the child get burnt out on it. This was offered as the FAOTD so I went ahead and got it for us, but I likely would not have spent a full $2.99 on it. I feel that it becomes very repetitive very quickly and so recommend a lower price point but it is a good app regardless of the slightly high price. I am removing one star for a total of four stars simply because it starts out so very cute and looks great with no crashes or lagging, and even though there isn't a tutorial it is easy to figure out what to do for each one, but the price is a bit high AND my six year old voluntarily quit after about thirty minutes so it won't keep them busy very long. (but I know she'll still play it again another day, probably as we sit in the doctors waiting room lol)

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Rating	4 (798 ratings)
Price	$N/A
Category	Education

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