![]() The film stars singer and actress Halle Bailey (“grown-ish”) as Ariel Jonah Hauer-King (“A Dog’s Way Home”) as Prince Eric Tony Award® winner Daveed Diggs (“Hamilton”) as the voice of Sebastian Awkwafina (“Raya and the Last Dragon”) as the voice of Scuttle Jacob Tremblay (“Luca”) as the voice of Flounder Noma Dumezweni (“Mary Poppins Returns”) as Queen Selina Art Malik (“Homeland”) as Sir Grimsby with Oscar® winner Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”) as King Triton and two-time Academy Award® nominee Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” “Bridesmaids”) as Ursula. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. “The Little Mermaid” is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. In-game, there’s a sub-Wii level of detail. Instructions and tips are text-only, and even the font looks budget. This game’s clearly been put together on a tiny budget, and there is absolutely no visual flair here at all. The animals are cute, but extremely simplistic – the chicks are blobs with eyes. The loading screen is a blinking cow drawing. The game’s opening sequence is a series of slightly wonky, still cartoon images apparently drawn in ten minutes by somebody who can’t quite get hands right. You can give your animals a wee stroke with the Gamepad to increase their happiness, which is sadly pretty pointless – happy animals make more produce, but you’ll never be bothered to take the time to furiously scrub at all your animals with the stylus once you’ve got more than about four of them. Every fifteen minutes or so you can order a new animal, ranging from cows, sheep and chickens in the early stages of the game to llamas and buffalo later on, delivered by a charming stork. Between collecting produce, building things here’s always just enough going on that your mind doesn’t get the chance to think that maybe you’d be better off doing something else. It gets that Farmville compulsion loop exactly right. As your farm starts to run itself more effectively, you’ve got more time to expand and build more stuff. ![]() It’s these machines – a gigantic egg robot that collects eggs for you, a shearer that plucks sheep from the field with its gloved, mechanical hand and relieves them of their wool – that give Funky Barn personality, making it more likeable than the bare-bones presentation initially indicates. Funky Barn puts you in charge of a run-down farm and tasks you with building it up to verdant productivity again, populating the paddocks with cute animals and building various barmy contraptions to make your farming life easier.
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