At the beginning of one episode, Chase is assigned to guard a royal crown from thieves (the primary goal of the story), BUT then the crown is stolen by Sweetie, puppy of the princess - Chase knows the culprit, BUT Sweetie locks Chase up and frames him as the thief - BUT, finally, Paw Patrol find Chase and crown and reveal the real thief. Just to make it clearer what I am getting at, I’ll just summarise an episode out of the favourite show of my three-year old child, Paw Patrol (plot spoilers follow). Sure, very small kids will watch Dipsy searching for his hat for the umpteenth time, but eventually they will want more plot.Ī simple and effective method of making a child glued to his screen is what I would call the but-moment (I guess professionals name it the plot reversal). The ultimate fate of this approach is often that the intended audience will eventually get bored. Producers of children entertainment sometimes make the mistake of talking down to their audiences. I know kids often love minigames, but here I can’t imagine even them going voluntarily through this ordeal more than once. I might have settled for 3, if it weren’t for the repetitive lawn mowing. The first Putt-Putt game is a good example, since all its puzzles are fairly pedestrian - here are birds, give them seeds. It’s not so much a question of unfairness, but of complexity - very small children just don’t have the attention span to follow complex chains of puzzle dependence. I have a feeling that not many children’s games can really get high marks in this category - or at least not if it’s a very good children’s game. Still, I will try to be as fair as possible. Clearly they were beloved by many in their target group, but since PISSED-rating has not been calibrated with children’s games in mind, I fear that the final score will not reflect the memories of people who played them in their youth. It will definitely be difficult to give a fair rating to Putt-Putt -games. So they included almost everything from the game on the front cover
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