All Grown Up! Express Yourself

The Good

• The graphics are great with the character sprites and locations capturing the show's aesthetics.
• I liked that Angelica was the protagonist of the game.
• Some of the mini-games are quite fun.

• The Story Chase mode.

The Bottom Line
This game feels like somewhere along the way, the developers just couldn't figure out what they wanted to make this into. Here's what makes me think so:

• Each level starts with a Mission Start text, but don't let it fool you, this is not a platformer like Mega Man.
• Each episode has you walking around rather large maps just to find one specific character and it really feels like unnecessary padding, especially since you can't talk to anybody else and you keep doing the volleyball fetch quest over and over again.
• You take damage from some people, rats and objects but what's the point of having lives if you can't fight, and you can always pick up the papers that represent your lives and finish the mission without any losses?
• If you lose at some of the mini-games, the game will just go on as if you did nothing wrong.

There are 8 mini-games, some of them are very primitive like a Simon Says clone, others are enjoyable like the Ball Toss game, or the rocket launching game. There's the rafting mini-game which basically has you collecting stars while showing off fancy Mode 7 like effects. It would be better, in my opinion, to make this a time attack racing game.
The developers must've been really proud of their volleyball mini-game because each and every episode you play, you have to do the same routine which is: find a character, talk to them, find a volleyball for them, give it to them and beat them at this game. If you lose the mini-game, you just get back to the mini-game's menu. This feels out of place and makes what felt like a decent mini-game become boring fast.
If they could only make up their minds about the genre this game would have, we might have ended up with a better licensed game or another Mario Party clone like the N64 Rugrats game.
What we got instead was a small mini-game collection which was glued together rather flimsily with a story mode that didn't offer much interactivity beyond walking and talking to specific characters which can quickly bore the young players.
I would only advise playing it for the sake of trying all the mini-games or, better yet, go play a Rugrats game instead if you get a sudden nostalgia for the series.