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Why does Polly inform you that she's hidden the clues? Why does she hide the clues you need to stop her instead of destroying the clues? At the end she claims the professor programed Botley to obey her, but then why didn't she order him not to try to stop her? And why would Professor Spark order Polly's babysitter to obey her? Honestly, the whole plot of the game makes no sense.Plus, I'm pretty sure that there's no real way to make something as subjective as art fair. So I put a clip art of the boy there and laughed after printing it out because it looked so bloody ridiculous. I do have a memory of the first time I tried it and I drew a boy playing with a car.and Polly kept saying 'okay.so where's the boy?' and I had drawn several arrows pointing to him nearly covering up the whole background, even writing 'LOOK HERE MORON' before realizing I was supposed to use the clip art. But yeah, it was probably a 'gimme' challenge. I always thought it was teaching you reading comprehension myself, since Polly would eventually demand something a bit more complex.Then I could win by just opening the right background and then closing it without changing anything. Eventually, her requests looped around to the beginning, so that she was asking for pictures she still had. I even streamlined it to the point where I had a canvas with each of the backgrounds saved and, whenever she asked for a new picture, I just added the clip art she wanted to the canvas with the right background. I mean, you just have to follow Polly's incredibly easy instructions to win.

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Even as a kid, I wondered what on earth the educational value of the painting game was supposed to be and basically viewed it as a way to get free Invention Points.

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I know, right? I guess they felt obligated to throw in a painting mini-game because the the previous entries in the series had one and they needed a way for you to 'win' it.

Now, I understand how hard it can be to make an AI capable of recognizing what you did enough not to lead to either you having to draw a picture absolutely perfectly by tracing an image you've never seen, much less can replicate or to draw something as simple as a single dot that the game can't recognize as being wrong or right and therefore lets you have it for the hell of it, but if it was just going to lead you to using clip-art to make an image according to what Polly wants without nagging at you, and Polly always makes a request when you enter the Art Gallery even at a time she shouldn't even be there, what was the point of giving you all the tools worthy of a dummied down MS Paint when there really isn't a point to use it without being told your head is in another planet by a certain brat? However, you can make a cheap doodle to a work of the Gods, it doesn't matter that you took the time to draw as convincing an image of a cow skull as possible, Polly will only recognize you made her a picture with a cow skull in it if you've used a clip-art of one readily at hand. The art mini game has pre-made clip-art among your arsenal in making a commission for Polly to get either the Mission Clue or spare Invention Points.

Seeing the reviews of the game brought up something that bugs me, specifically the mini game mentioned in the review a parent gave where their child was driven to cry by Polly's piss-poor attitude (not hard to miss as now it was dubbed the 'most critical' review of the game in said link, although here it is if you can't find it ).