The controls in
Pretty in Pink are all mouse-driven. You simply click on objects to remove them from the list of objects you need to find. In the matching games, you'd click to reveal two items and if they matched, they'd disappear. If not, you had several minutes to keep on trying or could skip it all together, if you desire. Cooking required that you click and drag an item into the pot. That's about it.
However, the game locked up on me twice during my gameplay. The first time, it actually blue-screened by brand new computer, which was really disappointing. I was forced to reboot, losing all of my game progress. I restarted the game and replayed the 5 or so levels I had completed and it didn't lock up at the same spot. I figured I had better save in case it happened again, although there is no obvious way to save between levels. When I went to the Main Menu button, I thought I would be given the option to save, but it asked me if I wanted to leave the game and go into the Main Menu, so I didn't because I didn't want to lose my progress. I continued playing and I guess I got about halfway through the movie/game when during a game where I had to click to remove the empty soda bottles littering Steff's home, the game started it's tricks again. I clicked to remove a bottle and the pink sparkling particle effect that happens when you correctly select an object kept on going. Strange. Then I clicked on a rubber duckie (which is a bonus item, along with sports cars, supposedly to determine who you go to prom with, Duckie or Blane) and the audio sound indicated that the game gave me credit for finding the duck, but the duck remained, all the while the carpet is still emitting pink particles. Then I finally found the last soda can and the carpet twinkle froze as did the screen. I realized my timer hadn't been counting down for the last 30 seconds. Happily, the game progressed on to the flash animation which progresses the story and I was tasked with creating a food dish. However, instead of going to that page, it reverted back to the frozen page with my timer still at 2.49 minutes, the duck still there and the now static pink sparkles on the carpet. And there it stayed, locked like a bank vault. Thus ended my experience with Pretty in Pink and the entire OMG High School Triple Play Pack.
While Clueless and Mean Girls weren't technically broken, Pretty in Pink definitely was. My PC is quite new and has really high specs, so there's no reason a game with such low specs should freeze up, but that's what happened. While the hidden object and matching games weren't terrible, they just weren't all that much fun and having the game crash on me twice and lose all of my progress was definitely a mood killer.
I honestly can't recommend this title. Yes, you get three games for $20, but we've all seen these type of games before and done better. If you are a crazed fan for the movies, go to Legacy Interactive's website and download a trial version before investing the money and don't say you weren't warned.
