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Did not receive the product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I cannot rate my review of this product because I never received it.

Waste of time...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 116
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the biggest waste of time impulse purchase I have seen in a while. It's so sad that people have time to waste on a fake puppy when there are thousands of animals in shelters all around the US looking for a loving home.

OMG!!!! Totally irritating game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't bother with this one unless you like repeting yourself over and over and over and over.....................................

Good dog, bad Nintendo

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 62
Date: August 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Uhhhh, hello! This is a world not (yet if this kind of crap keeps up.) run by machines. Get a real dog, whoever buys this game must be lonely. I have two real dogs, and it's much more satisfying to play with a REAL dog than a stupid AI controlled one. Sorry to say but, get a life Nintendo.

wow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 66
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

We spend all our time on fake virtual dogs so much that all REAL dogs out there wil probably die of being neglected.

This game is simply awful. SIMPLY AWFUL!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 67
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was the worst game I've ever played. I got Chihuahua for my 12th birthday. I took one look at the cover. I knew it would be bad. So I gave it a chance and played it for a minute. HORRIBLE.
I got one of those boxer dogs. Before I continue, I just want to say that I'm NOT a dog lover. Icky pests...

So, as I was saying, this game is horrible. It took my boxer like 100 times to learn his name. The background is bad. The sound affects are terrible. Those lame competitions are LAME! When I took my stupid dog for a walk, it kept peeing and pooing like crazy! Things that are stupid, are that your stupid dog's stamina is small. You should be able to walk as far as you want. #2, is that when you fail a competition, you are sent down a class. #3, is that you should be allowed to have as many dogs as you can. In the same house! I'll bet your stupid dogs are like this to. Really, it was a bad decision to get this game. You wasted your money, and your time.

Boring!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 37
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Why the heck would you buy a game about training a dog?? I think the guy who said it was lame is totally right. Woops, the dogs bowl is empty, I gotta go feed him, what fun!! You gotta have something better to do then to play a game like this. I don't see any fun in controlling a dogs life in a video game. In real life, yea a dog would be great. But in a video game?? A video game???? About raising a dog?? Can somebody please tell me what is so fun about this game?? Seriously.

Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 32
Date: August 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a joke, right? The dozens of 5-star reviews have got to be from people in some weird club that gives glowing reviews to boring games for the sole purpose of annoying people. Look, I'm not some anti-Nintendo person; in fact, Nintendo is my favorite developer. And I'm giving this 2 stars overall because the technology is amazing. But this game is no fun, and here are my reasons why.

First off: Nothing to do! How can one reviewer say that he/she was "playing it nonstop" when your options are exhausted within minutes!? Hasn't Nintendo seen the excellent "Petz" series by P.F. Magic, where there are literally hundreds of places, toys, breeds and outfits? Here, all you can do is take walks, enter contests, teach tricks, and buy things (I'll talk about these more later).

My second complaint: Extremely aggravating voice control. Look, the voice recognition is really cool. The dogs really recognize individual voices. The problem? Well, after you teach your dog a trick, it will only respond after that if you say the command in the EXACT same way. Therefore, I found myself saying "sit" over and over in different ways, trying to find the "right" way. How is this fun!? The game should allow for you to vary the way you say the command at least a little bit!

Third: The game takes far too long to "open up". Let's say I want to buy my dog some cool toys. Oh wait, not enough money! Hmmm, how about entering a contest to earn some cash? Nope, my dog's not well-trained enough! Well then, I'll take it to the gym to train it. Oops, not enough stamina to get to the gym and back! So what CAN I do? Play with the 3 toys I have available, wrestle with the painful trick-teaching system, or watch my dog wander around my empty house. What a joy.

Number four: Not enough tangible effects. The only things that are tracked on your puppy's "stat screen" are hunger, thirst and cleanliness. Playing with it does not make it happier; there are no stats, such as speed, strength, intelligence, or even appearance, that you can raise. So basically, nothing I did had any impact on the game. What's the point in throwing a tennis ball over and over if your dog seems to forget about it the minute you stop? Beats me.

This game is aggravating, boring, and a good concept wasted. The dogs are cute and the technology promising, which earns this 2 stars overall, but there is no entertainment. The only imaginable use for this is to show little kids who beg for pets how boring it really is.

Don't listen to anyone else! Listen to me!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 27
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, there are a few things good with this game...There are dogs in it...there are lots of bad things, The game gets boring after a day or two, its the same thing every day...turn on the game, feed them, clean them, take them for a walk, pet them, play with them, and maybe get a new dog or enter a contest. It is really boring, oh yea, the dogs have voice recognition, but only for a certain voice, so if your buddy comes over and buys a new dog, you're gonna have to match his voice if you want the dog's attention. Don't waste your money. If you are gonna buy a DS, buy the weird minigame ones or the puzzle ones like Warioware, or Feel the Magic XX XY. Or Mario Kart DS...(its online) don't buy this game...You will not be satisfied.

Definitely not what it's hyped up to be...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 23
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to the release of this game for various reasons, but mainly because it looks innovative, original, and fun. I had read the reviews on here, and so many people had given the game such high praise so I decided that it must be worth it. When I played, though, I was disappointed: 1) The voice controls are unfulfilling. You have to be in an ABSOLUTELY QUIET environment for the system to even pick up what you said, and I mean even if there are other people in the room having a quiet conversation and you try to give the dog a command, it will not pick it up correctly. It's true, though, that that's really the DS system's fault and not the games. However, it greatly impedes the game. Furthermore, if other people want to play it, they can't use the voice controls because it only recognizes your voice. Some people view that as a pro, but I see it as a con. (2) You can't have more than one file. It seems that almost every game has a selection of saved files you can choose from, but not this one. When you start the game, it immediately takes you to your dog, and there are NO file options whatsoever. (3) I just don't see where the fun in the game lies. To me, scratching the screen with a stylus repititiously to pet the dog just gets boring. Yes, you can enter your dog in competitions and take them for walks, but the dog has to have moderately long intervals between each walk/competition to "rest". Likewise, your dog can only learn a certain amount each day, and by learning I mean learning certain commands. You do reach a point where you're stuck with nothing to do but pet the dog, and a lot of people have commented that they play with this game "for hours on end", but I just don't understand HOW.

That aside, the game is realistic, but if you wanted something realistic, why don't you just get a real dog? To me, this idea just doesn't work as a game. People argue that The Sims is the same concept, but The Sims is totally different: you can do illimitable amounts of ventures and actions in that game. You're really confined when it comes to Nintendogs. But hey, if you like scratching screens over and over, then this just might be for you.

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