Oh no! Piglet's friends are having a hard time going to sleep because of bad dreams that keep interrupting their slumber. Piglet must help his friends find the objects that will turn their bad dreams into good ones.

Piglet's Big Game for the GBA is an adventure type game that is based on the movie, Piglet's Big Movie. Designed for very young players four and up, the game features simple tasks that involve collecting cookies to buy brave faces to scare away the heffalumps and other scary critters, and finding the object in each area that will help each of Piglet's friends. Piglet is not known for his bravery, but he puts aside his fears for his friends' sakes.

There are five areas to explore, with four arranged around one of the characters: Pooh, Roo, Eeyore, and Rabbit. The final area involves Piglet helping all his friends from a storm. In each area, Piglet must locate the particular object that will help change the bad dreams into good dreams, as in filling a honey pot for Pooh to change his bad dream into a good one full of yummy honey. To find the honey pot and the honey, Piglet must search the entire level and use different tools found to open up new areas in the level.

Because this game is designed for young children, there is always help available. Talking to various friends will elicit helpful clues and information, plus a handy scrolling map feature will show Piglet where all the heffalumps and woozles are, and also objects. Piglet begins each level with three hearts that signify his bravery level, and if kids aren't careful, they may find themselves back at the beginning of the level if he becomes too frightened. Each time Piglet confronts a heffalump or woozle, a "battle" commences which simply entails matching the button moves shown on the top of the game screen. If the creature scares Piglet by getting too close during this battle, then Piglet's bravery levels decrease. Fortunately, each area has an item that will increase his bravery unlimited times, simply by Piglet visiting it.

The different levels are charmingly depicted, as are the characters, as well. All the objects are detailed and brightly colored, and the backgrounds are drawn to a nicety. The music is pretty average, it fits the theme fairly well, but nothing really outstanding in the tunes.

There are a couple of minor drawbacks to this otherwise excellent game, namely the overly difficult password system, and the fact that the in-game hints and instructions are written, which precludes most of the target audience from understanding them. Granted, on a GBA, the amount of audio files is limited, but the fact still remains that most of the kids that are going to be playing this game will not be readers. Parents need to be on hand to read these hints to their kids. Disney did include a great visual aide in finding the main objects in each area with icons that show the object to be found next that appear at the end of the relevant conversation. This enables pre-readers to know what they need to find next.

The password system, on the other hand, has no redeeming features, but is inexplicably difficult for this age group. There are seven symbols to remember, and the color of each symbol will also have to noted. Having a few Pooh characters for the symbols would have been much more appropriate.

This is a delightful game for children ages four-seven! Older kids will enjoy it as well, but the replay value for older kids may be questionable, as there are only five levels. The levels can be played again, but there's not much point other than trying to scare the heffalumps and woozles faster. However, young children delight in reliving favorite activities and will enjoy playing over and over again.