Bibi & Tina: Das Spiel zum Kinofilm

Summary
The game is based on the Bibi & Tina movie and doesn't have its own plot. The player can choose whether to ride as Bibi or Tina. There is a Mission Mode to complete a set of races, as well as a Riding Out Mode with collectibles.



Game Design
The game world is 3D and in cartoon-style. Humans and horses are made to look like the original Bibi and Tina artwork and animation series, while the game menu is made with photographies from the movie. The game features an open world, also rather cartoony, but with more texture details than the characters.

The game offers an open world to ride in, starting at Martinshof (the stable) and including the Falkenstein Castle as well as the residency of the antagonist, Mr. Crabman. However, these are just environmental assets, not accessible from the inside.

Music is almost the same during Riding Out Mode, with several sound effects, as well as water, birds, wind, etc. (and also a cow at Martinshof and a duck near a pond!).



Gameplay
The player makes a choice of playing as either Bibi or Tina - the other will follow the player around on her own horse.

Riding Mechanics
The game navigation on PC is keyboard only. For steering the horse, use arrows or WASD to go left/right, walk and trot require the UP key to be constantly pressed. For canter/gallop you need to press SPACE at intervals. It gives the horse a speed boost, but without a new one, it will slow down after a short period. Canter/Gallop use up a stamina bar that fills up over time whenever you don't press SPACE for a speed boost. If you ride towards a jumpable obstacle (including some of the fences) fast enough and in a straight enough line, your horse will automatically jump.

Other controls

 * ESC key opens a menu with a reminder of the controls.
 * key opens map.
 * gives a stamina boost, obtained from Horse Care.

Missions Mode
There are 18 missions to unlock, consisting of navigating to the location and then beating the race in time. After unlocking, the race is made available in Training mode. There are different kinds of races: After every race, a photo from the movie is unlocked in a gallery.
 * Racing against an NPC rider - ride through all the checkpoints and reach the last checkpoint before they do.
 * Orienteering Race - figure out the shortest way to get to the destination on a countdown.
 * Jumping Course - ride through all the checkpoints on a countdown, jump all obstacles on the way.
 * Checkpoint Race - on a very tight countdown, race to the finish - checkpoints are not mandatory, but each will give you needed time bonus.

Training Mode
The races unlocked in Mission Mode are replayable.

Riding Out Mode
For Riding Out Mode, the player gets to pick to play as Bibi or Tina, and gets to pick a horse - Sabrina and Amadeus are unlocked from the start, and 4 more horses get unlocked each by finishing a collection of gifts to find around the areas (Horseshoes and Flowers in the Martinshof Area, Leaves and Clovers in the Falkenstein Castle area).

Fun Fact: Picking Sabrina (light grey horse) for Tina does not keep Bibi from riding Sabrina, too.



Horse Care
Horse Care is not mandatory, but gives a bonus to the horse's stamina, giving with. There are three care mini-games: feeding, grooming, and hoof-picking. All of this is keyboard-controlled.

Controller
With Steam, controllers are also available.

Steam achievements
There are also some Steam achievements.

Nintendo 3DS
The first version of the game is on Nintendo 3DS. The world design is less cartoony and does not seem to have the same map. The character and horse models are less bright with no black lines. The riding gameplay (Mission Mode) is almost the same.

Gameplay by Lillys Welt (3DS)

Trivia
Horse models and Horse Care minigames are probably the same as Bibi & Tina auf dem Martinshof, also developed by Independent Arts Software.

The other NPC (Bibi or Tina depending of your choice) can also collect gifts in the map.

System Requirements & Compatibility
Operating system (OS) 	Windows 7, 8, 10 Processor (CPU) 	Dual-Core: 2Ghz System memory (RAM) 	512 MB Hard disk drive (HDD) 	1500 MB Video card (GPU) 	DirectX 9.0a compatible

Languages

 * PC : English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
 * 3DS : German only

Accessibility
Inputs cannot be changed.

Information

 * PC Gaming Wiki
 * MobyGames Entry
 * GameTDB Entry (Switch version)
 * GameTDB Entry (3DS version)
 * Video Games Museum Entry (3DS version)
 * OGDB Entry) (German)
 * Entry on "Bedienungsanleitung" (German)

Availability

 * Pyramide Software (3DS) (German)
 * Steam
 * PlayStation Store
 * US Nintendo page (Switch)
 * FR Nintendo page (Switch) (French)

Review & Gameplay

 * Gameplay by TSM Channel (PC)
 * Gameplay by NintendoGalaxy (Switch)
 * Gameplay by Lillys Welt (3DS)
 * All collectibles location (PC/Switch/PS4)
 * The Mane Quest article