Deep Deep Sea

My almost-3-year-old little boy LOVES this app. It feels more like a console game than a puzzle app, but the basic game play involves plugging sea animals into their empty puzzle spots. It's the framework that's so surprisingly engaging, though -- a baby puffer fish (she's "SO cute," my toddler repeats with the voiceover every time) is looking for other little baby sea creatures to play with, and arrows let you "explore" the sea at different depths while searching for a particular set of creatures each round. The female voiceover itself has a pronounced accent, but this turns out to be more endearing than problematic for little ears still learning English words, and there's some jumbled overlap when more than one voiceover activates at once (it would be helpful to have only one at a time). One feature that's both random and adorable is what the baby puffer fish says when you touch her mid-game -- quotes from William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and the like. It's not on toddler level, to be sure, but it's also rather lovely that actual art and wisdom are included in the mix, and no complaints from my little boy who just likes to listen to Dolo the baby puffer fish. I only don't give it 5 stars because the puzzles shapes can be a little on the small side and the shape of the sea snail is confusingly similar to the shape of an octopus.

So cute! Lovely Voice! and Fun!
I love this one, you must have!