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My Favorite Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Nintendo DS Nintendogs Dachshund & Friends
This is my favorite nintendo ds game ever! I love playing it on my friends ds because I can't get on until my birthday. My friend has lab and friends dalmatian and friends and dachshund and friends. I don't know why she has to buy all three because you can only have one if you want to because you can buy all the breeds once you get enough trainer points.I also finally figured out how to walk your dog for a long distance.There is the meter thingy and it shows you how much energy your dog has and if it's meter runs down quickly that means that your dog is tired or depressed. Overall I love this game as I said before.I have a mini dachshund that looks just like the dachshund on the cover,and her name is maggie I love all the dog breeds on the game and hopefully I can get this game for my birthday until then I'll just keep on playing my friend's ds.

Contrary to Popular Belief...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There is one statement going around about Nintendogs that isn't true. It is a popular belief that you can only unlock new breeds in your game if you connect wirelessly with another gamer player, who has a different edition of the game. This is untrue.

Every time your trainer points increase to a certain amount, you unlock a new breed. A new breed is added to the kennel, for example, when you reach 2,000 trainer points, and again when you reach 4,000.

"Bark Bark!" Translation: "C'mon, Mom! Let's play!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I used to own this game. My friend borrowed my Chihuahua version but never gave it back. I decided to get this again because I missed it. I got a new version because I wanted to give it a go with new dogs. Actually, it's not here yet...I'm going nuts because of that. I've been reading stuff on it all afternoon. I LOVE Nintendogs to death! My mom would sometimes give me weird looks when I would talk to my dogs but I loved them anyway. My step-mom thinks it looks dumb, but maybe I can change her mind...I really liked looking up advanced tricks and then trying to teach them to my doggies. The only thing that bugged me was that sometimes my dogs would go all schizo on me and decide they don't remember a thing. That got sooo annoying. I used to have a Cavalier K.C. Spaniel whose name I can't remember right now. I reset or something, but I was sad when she was gone. She was so smart and adorable! I don't know which dog to get first in this game, but all I know is I can't wait for it to come. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read and obs-er, I mean, educate myself more about this game.

Much Better Then Dogz!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am 14 years old, and I find this game very fun.
It is challenging, but not super hard.
I love being able to have my own little computerized puppies :-D
I really hate Dogz, Catz, ect.
They are very childish and isn't very fun :-P
I love how in dogs you can eventually unlock all 20 breeds, no matter what you start with.
The items and accessories are very cute.
The graphics are great in this game, one of the best in DS Lite Games I have ever seen.
It is actually good for younger kids, as you have to feed, water, pick up your dogs poo, and groom it.
I recommend buying it, your kids will love it ^^

Nintendogs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Good game...I like the fact that you get to interact with it and actually talk to the dog.

Great for kids, good for adults too!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This would be a terrific game for kids--it's good fun, easy to master, and sneaks in some educational lessons on responsibility. That said, I'm an adult and I like it too! It's a little simplistic, but the puppies are cute and since I live in an apartment where I can't have a real pet, this is a nice alternative. Plus you get to take it for walks without getting off the couch, and all you have to do to clean up its poop is tap it with the stylus! If that's not a perfect pet, what is? The one downside is that if you want your puppy to stay with you, you have to make time to feed and walk and play with it even when your schedule gets busy, but I guess that's good practice for raising a real puppy too.

Nintendogs game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My daughter really enjoys playing Nintendogs Dachshund & Friends. She plays this game because she really enjoys taking care of her dogs and having it learn new tricks.

Better than any other virtual pet game. . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Nintendogs isn't like Puppylove, Dogz, or anthing else like that. You teach your dogs how to do tricks on command, enter them in GREAT contents, bathe them, brush them, feed them, take them on walks (where you can play with other neighborhood dogs, find fabulous surprises, or even a broken disposeable camera, and train for disc and agility.), and.... so much more!!
the graphics are awsome. my four puppies look as real as if someone took a pictures of a Shih Tzu, Husky, Shiba, and Cavalier then animated them. it's great. this game totally brings out all the potential of the DS in every way that makes it unique. You can call ur dog and teach it all sorts of tricks with your voice, and it will respond to u and only u. you can pet ur puppy and guide it along an agility course with the stylus on the touch sreen.
There are four versions of nintendogs, Chihuahua, Dashund, Lab, and Dalmation. Each version starts you off with six breeds to choose from and different special items that u can find on walks. You can unlock every breed on your own by earining trainer points (u earn those by entering contests, going on walks, teaching new tricks, etc.), but the special items can be unlocked by going on Bark Mode with ppl who have different versions. You can also unlock one breed from each person u go into Bark Mode with, too. Example, If they have a Corgi on Bark Mode, and you haven't unlocked that breed yet, then it will become available to u. and Vice Versa. So basically EVERYTHING in all of Nintendogs can become available to u.

This game is absolutely gtreat. I can understand how some ppl would get bored of it, but those are also probbably ppl who could get bored or tired of a real pet, too. Go on, give it a try!

A teen's reveiw: Nintendogs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The basic idea of the game is to own a dog without the mess and the costs it takes to both own and take care of a pet. As one who can not afford a pet myself, I decided to try out this game. Every had been going nuts about for so long, a assumed it would be this fabulous creation. Despite some of the negative reviews it had received.
Sadly, I found out the hard way that the game gets old very quickly. Sure, the dogs are adorable. And for the first few minutes, sure, it's fun to yell like an idiot into the microphone of your DS as you teach them their names and different sorts of tricks. But that will get boring, especially if your dogs too stupid to learn the move (my husky apparently is such a dog. After about fifty times of trying to teach it shake, I gave up).
There are the contest, but you only get three a day, and not as much money from it as you'd hope. And of course there's always the fact that if you put down your DS for a few days and don't check up on your dogs, you're fined what precious little money you have is enough to turn someone from the game.
I would definitely not recommend this game to anyone, except for perhaps children.

Fun but could get tedious for some

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Nintendogs is a cute game that any dog lover could appreciate. Where else can an average person have up to five dogs at once and still live a normal life?

Once you get the hang of it the training for the dogs is a breeze, although I may just be picking the right dogs. The animation is fairly realistic as far as animal games go.

The contest options are also fun. The disc competition is my favorite as it doesn't require you to speak perfectly, like the obedience competition, and the dogs seem to catch on quicker than they do with the agility competitions. Regardless, all three modes can be a fun way to earn more money to pamper your dogs and upgrade your living environment. I'm currently saving up for the most expensive home style.

As you train your dogs, you also earn trainer points which unlock different dog breeds in the kennel. This is also a fun option, leaving you plenty of choices when choosing a new dog.

My only dislike, however, is that Nintendogs runs on real time based on the clock option in your DS, making it a necessity to play every day if you want to keep your dogs happy while continuing to train them. If one's leisure time is limited, this could become an issue. Sometimes you have to neglect your dogs if you want/need to do other things, possibly leading to runaway dogs or who knows what else.

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