May 01, 2005
New Game: Nintendogs: Miniature Dachshund & Friends (JP)
Title: Nintendogs: Miniature Dachshund & Friends
Platform: Nintendo DS (JP)
Publisher: Nintendo
Where: Dreamland
When: April 27
How Much: 4,480 yen (4,572 yen w/tax)
I honestly wasn't planning to buy Nintendogs, but since several friends were raving over it, and it got a rare perfect score in Weekly Famitsu magazine (Japan's equivalent of say, EGM), I decided to take the plunge.
I was hoping to get a decent amount of playtime in before I wrote anything about it here, but aside from a couple of hours of messing around, I haven't really done much. My dog is a male german shepherd named Mashtato (short for Mashed Potatoes -- it's a long story), but all I've really done is taught him to respond to his name and sit. I'd like to blame my lack of playing on being too busy with work, but truth be told, I've still managed to find plenty of time to play Lumines, so maybe I'm just not that interested. It's definitely different and cute, and I can see why some people are going gaga for it, but it hasn't compelled me enough to pick it up since the day after I bought it, so I'm starting to wonder if maybe I wasted my money.
Then again, I felt the same way about both Lumines and Meteos when I first played them, and now I love them both, so who knows. Maybe I'll feel the same way about Nintendogs in a few weeks. :)
Posted by john tv at May 1, 2005 03:36 PM