American Girl: Julie Saves the Eagles

Julie Albright is a fun-loving girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s. Julie faces big changes in her life and creates a few of her own! In this exciting American Girl adventure, it's up to you to help Julie discover key facts, people, and objects in a quest to save a family of endangered bald eagles.

The gameplay is vaguely reminiscent of Zelda's social interaction side-quests; after attaining strange items (one of which, frighteningly enough, appears to be a crack pipe), the player must guide Julie around downtown San Francisco, trading items for progressively stranger items, ultimately leading to trading for a magic bling. Using the newly acquired blings powers, she can progress to new areas to begin trading for a new bling all over again. But don't worry; the game isn't just a wild goose (or should I say, eagle) chase! Each area contains several mini-games along the same well-meaning-but-horribly-creepy ideals of the main game objective!

In a strange twist of logic, this game with some, well, fairly adult themes, seems to be marketed straight to young girls. The rewards for the mini-games are new outfits to dress Julie in. But like so many other aspects of this game, it seems to start so well-meaning but ultimately becomes... almost depraved. While the first bonus outfits are innocent new t-shirts and dresses, by the end of the game, you are collecting bikinis, miniskirts and at one point, lingerie. Confusingly enough, plenty of the more revealing articles have an image of a brown, smiling cartoon bear next to the two letters "CP." It is never explained what the significances of the bear or the two-letter logo are, but at least the bear looks pretty innocent and in line with the tastes of young girls.