They’re all easy to understand and play, and suit the target demographic.
Minigames range from dancing, window washing and fishing (all done with gyroscope movements), to racing (which essentially works like a toy car racing track), photography (press x to shoot!) and shape picking. There’s a simple narrative about invitations that went missing to tie all the minigames together, but Pocoyo Party is mostly just a collection of simple minigames where children are rewarded with stickers and said invitations after playing.
Playing myself, I also had a few cases where I felt the gyroscope controls weren’t as responsive as I would have liked, but this didn’t seem to bother the little ones at all. In many games, a core mechanic is moving the gamepad in a certain direction, which to youngsters is quite intuitive – though watching them play makes you wish they had wriststraps for the DualShock and DualSense. The thumbsticks aren’t really used outside of menus, and the only button that’s ever required in the minigames is the X. The control scheme for Pocoyo Party is diverse (across its six different minigames), but never complicated. We cover a lot of family-friendly titles and publishers like Outright have a great catalogue of them, but games like Crayola Scoot, Ice Age of even Paw Patrol are still too difficult for most 3 or 4 year olds, who haven’t yet mastered controlling a thumbstick with one hand and pushing buttons with the other. Part of that is that it caters to the same audience as the TV show. It’s a massive success for the 3-to-5 demographic, and although earlier videogame adaptations for the Wii and DS never saw the light of day this one is actually a title worth checking out.
You might not be familiar with Pocoyo yet, but the originally Spanish-developed show is available on over 150 television channels and its Youtube channel received a staggering 5.5 billion views last year alone. We tried out the PS4 version on a PS5, with which it’s also compatible. A tie-in to a popular TV show for pre-schoolers, Pocoyo Party was just released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
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