And loving it.

Nintendogs is one of the oddest experiences.

Since I took advantage of EB earlier in the month, I was able to pick up Lab & Friends, my N-dogs lunch bag, and a little paw print screen cleaner. ( I can clean my screen in style now!) I am going to start packing my lunch for school because of that little bag. But I digress.

I was kinda freaked out when the game asked me to say the name of my newly adopted Corgi. Like… say it out loud? In front of everybody? I hadn’t really thought of a name. So I inhaled, and spoke quietly the first name that came to me.

“rocket…”

The puppy was excited. I did it like 40 more times (Rocket. Rocket… Rocket! Rockette? Rokit! Roooket. Rockit! Rocket.), until I was starting to get comfortable with it. Then we learned how to sit.

So, if you’ve already played it, you were probably totally bored by that little anecdote. I purposefully avoided the Ninten-blogs and whatnot to keep the experience pure. And pure it was. Nintendogs is a lot of things, and I can’t really begin to pin it down. The best comparison I have is that it’s like Animal Crossing in spirit, except you can’t really cheat. (yet?) It’s also like The Sims, but extremely simplified. And it’s like Katamari Damashii but completely different.

It’s cute though, and I don’t even like dogs. If and when this comes out, I’ll be all over it like OMG KITTIES <3<3<3!!!11 and dog people can make fun of me.

Anyway, I just taught Rocket how to sneeze on command.