Nintendogs is cute and cudely, but is kind of ruined by the challenge of teaching your dog tricks.

User Rating: 8 | Nintendogs: Lab & Friends DS
By Jamez634 | Review Date:
My brother got Nintendogs and let me keep a dog on it. When buying your dog, it's kind of a hit and miss if you want a specific dog because at the shop they sell 3 dogs. Then if you leave the shop and come back later they will have 3 different dogs than before. Just when you start the game for the first time you can't leave the shop so my brother didn't get the dog he wanted. Also, there's the fact of getting the right gender. You pick a dog and then it comes up saying "Type in the name of your dog". Let's say you typed in Buddy and then, to our disappointment, it might say "Her name is Buddy!"

Uh-oh! I called my dog Buddy and it turns out to be a girl. Oh, man. So I guess if you meat up with one of your friends just lie and say it's a boy. If only you could change the name.

At your house you can keep up to 3 dogs, but you can own 9. Just put six of them in the dog hotel, so just remember you can own 9 dogs. It incourages you to visit your dogs every day but you don't have to. YOU'RE DOGS NEVER DIE. So don't worry if you miss a day because you have to save your progress and when you open your DS again your dogs will be just as you left them. But why does the date change?

There's no doubt that Nintendogs is a game that uses the DS's microphone the most. When you see your dog doing a trick like sit, you need to say "SIT!" into the mic. You have to do this a lot of times until your dog knows that what he's doing is sit. Once, after a long boring time of teaching your dog, you can take it to an obediance competition and show off your dog's tricks, but believe me, it never goes as planned.

Overall, Nintendogs can be really fun because it takes a great use of the stylus and the graphics are fantastic considering it's a DS game.

GAMEPLAY-----------8/10
GRAPHICS-----------9/10
SOUND----------------8/10
MULTIPLAYER-------5/10
OVERALL--------------8.0

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