Could be SO much better – Build and Play - Construction Play Scene Review

This is another good app that could be a great app if the developers worked with a [better] sound technician. I love so many things about this app, like kids being able to create their own building sites and scenarios, putting men and machines to work on realistic looking projects, using machines that sound the way real machines do. What great ideas these are. And how cleverly employed. But why the developers thought it was a good idea to overlay the game with an irritating, unnecessarily loud, repetitive, and oddly incompatible musical score, I cannot understand. This game would be a thousand times better without any music, just highlighting realistic construction site sounds! I can't see how it enhances anything to have that awful, loud music playing! As far as I'm concerned, it seriously detracts from the experience. If the developers wanted to get REALLY clever, a good sound technician or composer could perhaps turn the sounds that men and machines make (at varying pitches) into an interesting (possibly harmonic) score, adding them together, one at a time, as each person or piece of equipment was employed by the child playing. But, even if that were done, there should be an option to play or not to play background music, without having to sacrifice all sound if one chooses not to play music. Finally, it would be brilliant if, once a construction site were designed by a child, that scene could be "brought to life" somehow - either by animation, or by starting a video of real men at work. P.S. Although the term "Men At Work" is language that's easy to fall back into - note that I just did - it's no longer altogether accurate as a description of construction site personnel, where female workers are increasingly well represented in almost all of the trades. And children whose mothers work in construction will certainly notice this.
Review by MakeGrandmaHappy on Build and Play - Construction Play Scene.