commander pour ma fille de 5 ans pour noël. J'ai juste jeter un œil vite fais car réinitialiser la cartouche n'est pas simple lol. C'est mignon et facile. Pas mal pour un enfant qui débute
If you know what you're getting then this is the perfect game for a person or child unable or unwilling to get a physical pet for some reason.
If you've played the first game on the DS, it's very much the same, but prettier to look at and with some changes.
The breeds that come with the Golden Retriever version as default are Beagle, Maltese, Great Dane, Pug, Cocker Spaniel, Shiba Inu, Miniature Daschund, Miniature Pinscher, and of course the title breed: Golden Retriever. In Japan this version is the Shiba Inu version, and the title breed was swapped from shiba to the retriever in localization, though they're the same games.
You start your game by picking a puppy out of the select breeds and a vast amount of pelt/color choices compared to the first game. In the first game, you only had three colors of each breed, while in Nintendogs+Cats, there's a load of colors to pick from for each breed. Once you pick your puppy it's brought home and follow the tutorial phase to name it and teach it how to sit. After that you're free to do whatever you want with your pooch. You can access cats too, but you'll have to save money in order to buy one.
There's a fair amount of patience and dedication to training and caring for your puppy in this game. It can take a while for your puppy to bring a frisbee back, for example, and depending on how much you walk, feed, and play with your puppy can affect and influence their weight. It's really aimed to be a laid back sim compared to the first installment and takes time, so if you're planning on advancing through the ranks and racking up all those trainer points like the DS Nintendogs, you're extremely out of lucky here and will have to wait a number of days to get enough points or have a trained enough pooch to be successful enough to get in high competition ranks.
For a casual player it's a cute little game that can work as a good pet substitute and a really nice cooldown for just about everyone. It's not something that has to be checked all the time nor is it something can get by with being checked only once daily to keep things smooth (like Animal Crossing). The puppies and kittens are virtual, and they depend on you, and to keep them happy checking on them at least twice a day and playing with them for at least a few hours is the best way to keep them happy, clean, and healthy.
The only complaints I'd have for these games is that some of the breeds look a bit inaccurate, training your pup to fetch a frisbee takes far too long (seeing as it's a game), and that the times that other dog owners are at the various parks are potentially annoying (ex: they're almost always there during the day so if you want an empty park, you'd have to go later, which can be bothersome). Otherwise, these are great casual games that simulate having a pet fairly well. Any main future wishes that I'd have is that the puppies could potentially grow into adult dogs to open gates for other things.