Klara Doll: The Stylist

Dress-up games target a very specific and small demographic, mostly formed out of little girls and presumably incredibly bored adults. However, a lot of work and dedication can go into such a game nonetheless, especially if the developers truly want to create something good. Thus, beside pretty graphics and simple interface, one must also make sure that there is enough content to keep the little players interested for as long as possible.

Klara Doll: The Stylist is a dress-up game with a pretty simple and straightforward purpose: provide the children with the chance to put their fashion ideas into practice, without the need to ruin a real wardrobe in the process. Thus, thanks to the easy controls and highly intuitive interface, it is very simple to dress-up Klara in a variety of outfits and see which colors work best with each other.

To start off with, the game presents the doll in question up on the catwalk, where she can walk back and forth and also rotate every which way, in order for you to get a better look at the outfits from every angle. Whenever you want to change a piece of her clothing, you just have to click on it and a menu pops up, listing all of the available skirts, pants, shirts and shoes. The variety of quite acceptable, although it certainly won't last you more than five or ten minutes.

Thankfully, you can easily expand it by creating your own clothes from scratch, which is arguably the most interesting and fun part of the game. The editor allows you to choose what kind of item to create, such as t-shit, jeans or skirt, after which it displays a pretty hefty collection of tools for you to make use of. Thus, you can paint it with the desired models, apply different kinds of stamps and cut the pieces that do not fit well.

From a technical point of view, the game won't be responsible for any dislocated jaws, but the graphics are good enough to fool the eye, or at least the untrained eye. The model itself is pretty low-poly and not very flexible, while the textures on the clothes are not exactly high-resolution either. Despite that, you can still make out the finer details if you look close enough, which should be satisfactory.

In the end, Klara Doll: The Stylist should manage to satisfy its target audience, especially thanks to the fact that it supports custom-made clothes as well. The game can also keep the children occupied for long periods of time, which is always a good thing.