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.
I hated saying the name over and over.
Comment by ALFRED — August 24, 2005 @ 7:04 pm
Haha, it’s great. I’m letting him rest for now. I’ll walk him again later tonight.
At first I picked a male shnauzer and then named him “Mia.” That’s what my old dog was named. Then I realized the name and sex didn’t match up…So I had to delete it. And then I named “roll over” “stomach.” Because I didn’t know what else to call it. I’m so dumb. But yeah, Nintencats will be great…mayybe…
Comment by Kammo — August 24, 2005 @ 7:09 pm
I think Nintencats should be taken in a whole new direction. While Nintendogs is all about training and competition in addition to companionship, cats are much less trainable. (Though I once taught my cat Obi to play fetch! That’s beside the point though.) This is where sarcastic people say ‘Cats just sleep and eat and lick themselves, haha boring, cats suck.’
You’d have to exploit the more free and agile nature of cats to make it interesting. By expanding the setting from a small, flat, circular area to a complex, three-dimensional house/apartment, you can have lots of things to jump around on and play with. I think it would be interesting to just be able to place things in different places and see how the cat reacts to them.
Plus, you could totally have a catnip powerup.
In conclusion, dog people don’t know what they’re talking about.
Also, does it seem that Lab & Friends is the most popular version? I know I got it for the Corgi and Shiba.
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