Pferd & Pony – Lass uns reiten 2

Summary
The player slips into the role of young Marie (Amy in "Let's Ride! Dreamer"), who unexpectedly is allowed to look after her dream horse on a horse farm. But everyday farm life is anything but boring, and Marie finds herself in an exciting adventure. The outcome of this adventure is uncertain and so the question soon arises whether she can keep her dream horse in the end.

Game Design
“Let's Ride 2” is a 3D, fascinating, realistic equestrian simulation with the disciplines of dressage, jumping, and cross-country riding, each with different levels of difficulty. The player can go on long rides in the forest, be enchanted by the breathtakingly beautiful winter scenario, train numerous hoof figures with their horse in their own dressage hall, care for it, clean it and decorate it according to their taste for the important dressage and jumping tournaments.

With the course editor, they can create any number of varied jumping courses and thus design their own tournaments to which they can invite their friends and contest them via LAN and Internet multiplayer.

Gameplay
The main game takes place in a courtyard of the stables, where you can enter the clubhouse, dressage and jumping arena, a free-ride and cross country area, a horse trailer, and the main horse stall.



Horse Stable
In the horse stable, you can clean your horse's stall, check their stats in the book, pet and groom your horse, and go to another room with supplies. In this other room, you have the feed, water, ribbons you've won, and your tack. Your horse needs at least 2 buckets of food and water daily for proper care.

Club House
In the clubhouse you can check high scores of all competitions and free-rides, a clothes locker for outfits to wear, a bonus screen, and a horse lexicon.



Horse Lexicon
The horse lexicon has pages on grooming, feeding, and watering, saddling and unsaddling, bridling, a riding introduction, types of riding, paces, jobs involving horses, horse anatomy, and common horse breeds.

Trivia
A French PC version, "Cheval Star - Marie la cavalière - Jeu 3D", was released as a free supplement with the n°207S of Cheval Star, a French magazine for young rider.

Differences Between Releases
Although they are both in English, there are minor differences between "My Pony Club" and "Let's Ride! Dreamer," mostly in the translations. The largest one is the change of the player character's name; Marie in the former and Amy in the latter. In "Let's Ride! Dreamer", one of the pre-made horses is named Sonya, from the Dreamworks Movie: Dreamer. This is the only in-game reference to the movie, other than a title card and opening quote from Cale Crane herself. "Lass uns reiten 2 - Special Edition" includes some extra features: day and night setting for trail rides, new trail ride areas (fields, forest, lake), more space in the stable, adding foals and train them, more types of show jumping obstacles, new map in competition mode, more outfits.

GBA version


The GBA version has the same story plot, but the graphics and (maybe) gameplay are different. The game is top-view and there is less choice for horse coat and no horse description.

No multiplayer mode.

GBA Titles
 * Pippa Funnell 2 (UK)
 * Pferd & Pony: Lass uns reiten 2 (DE)
 * Paard & Pony: Paard in galop! (NL)
 * Alexandra Ledermann: Aventures au Galop (FR)

Note: The Alexandra Ledermann: Aventures au Galop (AGB-BYPX-EUU cartridge) is Pferd & Pony – Lass uns reiten 2 and not Pferd & Pony – Mein Gestüt as Wikipedia said.

 GBA External links
 * GBA Entry on MobyGames
 * GBA gameplay by Christian Rheinnecker
 * Review on Jeuxvideo.com (French)
 * Video Games Museum Entry (box-art of Alexandra Ledermann : Aventures au galop is Pferd & Pony – Lass uns reiten 2, but screenshots of Pferd & Pony – Mein Gestüt)

Differences with PC version

In Pippa Funnell 2 (English), the main character is named Amy. In Alexandra Ledermann : Aventures au Galop (French), the name is Elodie.

Horses are globally the same as My Pony Club (PC), with slight differences - except the ponies, which are not available. The black horse Sancho becomes a mare and Louis a stallion. The third horse is named Taras.

Manuals




System Requirements & Compatibility
Operating System: Windows 98 SE/ME/2000/XP Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz Memory: 128 MB RAM Graphics: GeForce 2 MX Storage: 800 MB hard drive space Audio: DirectX compatible sound card

Unfortunately, I have not managed to get this to run again on a Win10 (64 bit) system. It gives an "error loading x64 driver. did you forget to reboot?" message, that I have already encountered for Die Reitakademie and given up on. "Let's Ride! Dreamer" does run on Windows 10 without crashes.