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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 27
Date: October 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Nintendogs is one of the best games, though I think this version is very odd. Whern I saw it, I thought, Oh, cool I wonder waht dogtgs are in it! Newsflash, you might as well get another version...

Cant get A Real Dog

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sorry - I just dont get it and apparently neither does my nephew.
When did building fake amusement parks, fake neighborhoods, fake families and scratching the head of a digital pet - become a substitute for real life interaction.

My nephew wanted it and I bought it for Christmas. What a waste (even he thinks so).

The upside, there's no hair to clean up, no walking when its cold and oh yeah - there's also no real love either - and isnt that why we have pets for our children?!

This is about as stupid as Viva Pinata - a game where you somehow lure pinatas to live in your fake digital world. So that they can grow up to be big and strong?

Here's an idea - let the kids outside to play once in awhile - and get them a real Pet! Maybe the people inside the house are more crazy than the crazy people you think you are sheltering your children from by not letting them play outside...

too much work to get started

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game requires your child to call the dog's name over and over and over. And over. Unfortunately one cannot progress to the next level until the dog learns his name. My child became very frustrated and cried because the dog kept forgetting his name...not much point in playing it if it makes your kid cry.

Cute, Simple,......But really no challenge, it soon hit BORING. [ kid's review ]

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm nine and writing this under my mom's account -

After I saw this game I knew I would really want it, so I bought a DS and this game. For awhile I enjoyed it, but nintendo isn't really my thing. You can groom your dog and take it out for competitions, walk it, pet it..... though you can only take each dog out for 3 competitions each day. I got SO DEAD BORED, I ended up changing the date, which took some practice, after you take your dog out for a walk it gets ''tired'' so you have to wait for what seems like forever for him\her to redeem her self. This is a popular game, but this is the response I get from kids who own it: M, ''Is it fun?,'' T, ''I guess, but after awhile it kind of gets boring,'' What I think it is, LACK OF CREATIVITY. A few kids adore this game, if you like limmited, easy, age wise, I recommend 5-8. Some kids storngly disagree, but I think this game is a limmited, boring piece of junk. You may like it a little more than I did, but remember, this game is very very limitted, caution when considering it, after a while, the funnest thing you are doing for this over priced game is waiting, waiting for tommarow so you can enter in a competition, waiting, waiting for your pup to finish resting for a whopping [brace yourself] 2 hrs max! [ as far as I have seen my pup, ''reload in energy'',] sorry nintendo lovers, but soon certain bordum will come over you. hardly consider!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gets Old Fast...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is very fun at first, but you run out of things to do quickly. You can feed your dog, take it for walks, teach it tricks and enter it in competitions. Feeding your dog is a chore, and the dog gets hungry all the time. Taking your dogs for walks is actually fun, but the game won't let you walk it very often. Competitions are fun at first, but as you advance in the competitions, they get way too hard unless you've been training your dog a lot, and training your dog is boring and frustrating. You can only enter the competitions three times a day, and they only last a minute, so even if you've trained your dog, you can't really do much with it. Most of the time, you're just watching your dog run around and trying to teach it tricks, and there's even a limit on how many tricks your dog can learn in a day. Basically, there's not enough things to do, and on top of that there's a limit on how much you can do everything. The graphics and sound effects are good. Overall, it's a very ok game.

Great fun, but gets boring . . . .

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I got this game, I was thrilled and amazed at how complex it was: you can purchase your dog from a kennel, name it with your own voice, and talk to it, pet it, interact with it. But after awhile the game gets very repetitive. Feed. Water. Go for walk. Go to the park. Enter a competition. Feed. Water. Walk . . . you get the idea. As you earn "trainer points" (by interacting with your dog, winning competitions, etc.) you can unlock items and new breeds, which is pretty fun.

Overall, as a person who grooms, shows and helps breed dogs for a living, the realism in the game is fantastic, but it does get old!

Didn't go over as well as I hoped

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this for my wife who likes playing the Nintendo DS (Sudoku in the Brain Age game for example) and who also happens to be a big time dog lover. I figured that this Nintendogs game would be a slam dunk and that she'd be playing it all the time (based on the fact that it looks to be popular and everybody else seems to love it, and they can't possibly love dogs as much as her ;-) Anyway she didn't like it all that much and in fact went and bought herself The Sims: Pets and has been playing that instead. I guess if you take anything away from my review it is that you should have a look at The Sims: Pets before you buy.

Well......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, but you have a LOT of responsibility.I got this game and it was fun.Then I found out that you have to feed it twice a day or your dog(s) will starve and run away.Even if you take the game out of your DS.It can get frustrating training your dog.I have homework and ALSO I have a virtual dogs to take care of.I NEED A BRAKE FROM MY DOGS BEFORE I GO CRAZY!!!!Also I'll have more homework next year and STILL A VIRTUAL DOG!!!!

not a bad game for kids

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

if you a girl or a kid you love this game for 29 year old like me not so good :)

it's not for everyone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it's a cute looking game but my child and i find it quite difficult would recomend it more for a pre teen than under 10. it takes quite a bit of patience and seems to be to close to really training a dog.great game to buy if your child is asking for a pet so they can get the experience

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