Nintendogs best friends box art plus#

Nintendogs best friends box art plus#

She seemed to like it, anyway.īut rather than just entering a name using an on-screen keyboard, in Nintendogs+Cats (that's Nintendogs AND Cats, not plus cats, you stupid advertising narrator), it's equally important that your new friend can hear and respond to your voice, and knows to come when it's called. After a brief pause, we settled on the incredibly feminine sounding Geoff. After getting to know each other a bit more, a box popped up on the screen, prompting us that the time had come to name our new pooch. It's surprisingly easy to do, as we had wondered whether we'd find ourselves constantly looking at the touch screen rather than the top screen, but it's easy enough to do. You interact with your puppies by touching the silhouette of them on the bottom screen with your stylus, stroking behind their ears, tickling their bellies, and trying not to accidentally pull their tale. It's a strange effect, but an effective one, which prompted much cooing from anyone who could see. After a brief circuit, she ran towards us, and, with 3D on, actually appeared to put her paws on the 3DS screen. It's enough to melt even the coldest of hearts, and we're sure will lead to plenty of softies like us buying a 3DS just so they can coo over the digital doggies and computerised cats.Īfter much umming and ahhing (believe us, we're awful at things like this), we eventually settled on a female King Charles Spaniel, which certainly seemed eager to explore our in-game house.

They all look a lot more realistic, too, with fur that actually looks furry, and the biggest, roundest, softest 'I can never say no to you ever again' eyes that'll make you feel guilty every time you shut your 3DS. Whereas in the first game, all Labradors looked alike, in Nintendogs + Cats, each dog has individual markings, colours, and personalities, which will either make your job that much easier, or, like in our case, a lot, lot harder. And as if choosing a breed wasn't hard enough in itself, there's now a whole host of ways that even dogs of the same breed differ from each other, too.

Which breeds you have available to begin with will depend on which version you bought in the shop (with the breeds from the other versions being unlocked as you play), but there's a good mix of dogs available from day one in each game. In fact, the game goes a step further, as it faces you with what's quite possibly the hardest decision you'll ever have to make with this kind of game - which puppy you choose to take home. That's not to say that Nintendogs makes things easy on you to begin with.