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Bratz 4 Real for Nintendo DS
Bratz 4 Real for Nintendo DS follows Cloe, Jade, Sasha and Yasmin at Carry Nation High School. The friends want to stay together, but the school's cliques pull them apart. They try to reunite the pupils through a talent show. In this adventure, you walk through a three-dimensional environment, talk to people and complete tasks. You switch between the four girls and discover what help a classmate needs to move the story forward.
You use the stylus to walk, talk to people and open menus. The map shows where to go, while your inventory and task list help you deliver items. Between school activities, you visit shops for new clothes. In the Design Studio, you adapt clothing designs and let the girls wear your creations. You can also care for and train a puppy, so not every activity revolves around the talent show.
There are also nine unlockable minigames, including a rhythm game. The main story is single-player; for the local two-player minigames, each person needs a compatible DS system and their own cartridge. That second cartridge and the systems are not included. Film clips and pictures connect the tasks to the cinema release, while you choose clothes yourself and explore the school surroundings between them.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Bratz 4 Real for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Bratz 4 Real
THQ released Bratz 4 Real for Nintendo DS in 2007. Barking Lizards Technologies developed this handheld adaptation of the live-action film Bratz. Cloe, Jade, Sasha and Yasmin originated in MGA Entertainment's doll range, which had already featured in games. Following Bratz: Forever Diamondz in 2006, THQ worked on several new Bratz titles simultaneously. The cinema release gave 4 Real a school story with familiar characters, social cliques and a shared performance as its final goal.
The same release period also included Bratz: The Movie for platforms such as Wii, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance. Despite its name, that was a different game based on the doll range of the same name and events from the television series. Bratz 4 Real instead followed the cinema film. The Windows edition also had its own developer, AWE Games. Barking Lizards' DS version built the adventure around stylus-controlled walking, conversations and various short tasks.
The handheld edition thus combined a film storyline with activities associated with the Bratz dolls. Choosing and designing clothes became something you could do yourself alongside following events at school. The digital pet and separate minigames broadened that approach. Real film footage appeared between the game's illustrated characters, so the same release showed the four friends both as actors from the film and in a three-dimensional game world.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
Nintendo presents: Style Boutique for Nintendo DS also revolves around combining clothes and choosing your own style. There, you run a fashion shop, purchase stock and select outfits to match customers' wishes. Bratz 4 Real uses clothing as part of a school adventure with four fixed protagonists. Style Boutique's shop management demands more attention to sales; in Bratz, conversations and errands bring the talent show closer.
Nintendogs Labrador & Friends on Nintendo DS makes caring for and training dogs its main focus. Touch, voice commands and daily walks determine what you do there. The puppy in Bratz 4 Real is an extra activity alongside school tasks, clothes and minigames. Both let you interact with a digital animal, but Nintendogs develops that contact much further rather than alternating it with a film story and a talent show.
Animal Crossing: Wild World for Nintendo DS also lets you walk around, talk to residents and choose clothes. Village life follows its own daily calendar, however, and you largely decide whether to fish, decorate your home or visit a neighbour. Bratz 4 Real gives you more specific story tasks in a school setting. Your personal taste matters in both, but in Bratz you work towards a fixed shared performance.
Drawn to Life on Nintendo DS lets you draw things yourself before your creations appear in the adventure. You design a hero, tools and parts of the environment. Bratz 4 Real's Design Studio applies a similar idea of making something yourself to clothes the girls then wear. Drawn to Life uses those drawings in platform levels; Bratz connects designing to shopping, conversations and the appearance of four existing characters.
Cooking Mama for Nintendo DS divides dishes into short actions such as slicing, stirring and frying with the stylus. This connects with the separate activities and minigames that interrupt Bratz 4 Real's story. Mama mainly judges how you carry out individual kitchen tasks and finish dishes. Bratz uses a larger continuing school story: you walk between locations, collect items and choose clothes before playing another short challenge.
