Customer Reviews

Nintendogs Dalmatian & Friends

5 star:		(86)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The only way you can unlock the Dalmation is to find the Fireman's hat during a walk. If you have been unlucky and want a dalmation, you can buy the Dalmation edition.

Basically there are 20 dogs in all... 18 of which are featured in the first 3 editions (see below). Dalmations and Jack Russel Terriers are the only dogs that are not featured in any of the first 3 games. This newest edition includes Dalmations and 5 other popular dogs from the other 3 games. I assume they will release Jack Russel edition next. lol

Games and dogs included:

Dachund & Friends: 1) Dachshund 2) Beagle 3) Shih Tzu 4) Pug 5) Golden Retriever 6) Siberian Husky

Chihuahua & Friends: 1) Chihuahua 2) Boxer 3) Spaniel 4) Yorkshire Terrier 5) Shetland Sheepdog 6) German Shepherd

Labrador Retriever & Friends: 1) Lab 2) Corgi 3) Min Pin 4) Poodle 5) Shiba Inu 6) Miniature Schnauzer

Dalmation & Friends: 1) Dalmation 2) Boxer 3) German Shepherd 4) Golden Retriever 5) Yorkshire Terrier 6)Beagle

NOTE!!!!! EVERY EDITION HAS THE POTENTIAL TO UNLOCK ALL 20 DOGS. So if you want to do it on your own you can!! That's what I hope to do.

REGARDING THE JACK RUSSEL: you can unlock it by finding a book on Jack Russel Terriers during a walk.

Avoid this game if you don't want your child laughing and giggling and
plain ignoring all the other gifts she got for Christmas. Avoid this game
if you don't want your child learning about dogs and their care and
feeding. Avoid this game if you don't want your child excitedly
interrupting you to show you the latest trick she taught her dog or what a
good groomer she is, etc. Avoid this game if it is important to you that
your child is constantly engaged in some loud, life-or-death violent
struggle with some alien, or demon, or other enemy, as opposed to having
an imaginative and constructive virtual relationship with man's best
friend.
Will the game get boring, as some comments have intimated? I think it
depends on the person, and whether you like dogs. Some people get
bored with walking and caring for real pets, too. And some people look
forward to their walks with their dog, and don't mind in the least the
cleaning up that goes with it. I can also see how this game could be
appealing to any age group, again, assuming you like dogs.
Also, from what I've heard, the Nintendogs game seems to appeal more than
the SIMS PETS, especially from a graphics and interactive standpoint, but
that the SIMS PETS is fun and nice if you have other SIMS stuff.
The yelp your child makes when s/he first discovers that they can actually
blow against the touch-screen to blow bubbles to the puppy is priceless.
My one concern so far is what happens to the dogs if one doesn't play the
game for a few days? Do they become famished? Since not playing the game
hasn't become an issue, it may be awhile before I find out the answer to
that.
Time will tell of course about how long this game will generate enthusiam,
but I already feel that we've already gotten more than our money's worth
out of the game, in just this short while, especially compared to other
games the kids exhaust after only ten or so hours.

When I got this game, I was thrilled and amazed at how complex it was: you can purchase your dog from a kennel, name it with your own voice, and talk to it, pet it, interact with it. But after awhile the game gets very repetitive. Feed. Water. Go for walk. Go to the park. Enter a competition. Feed. Water. Walk . . . you get the idea. As you earn "trainer points" (by interacting with your dog, winning competitions, etc.) you can unlock items and new breeds, which is pretty fun.

Overall, as a person who grooms, shows and helps breed dogs for a living, the realism in the game is fantastic, but it does get old!

This game is great.
You have fun walking,playing,feeding,washing,brushing,training and doing stuff with your dogs. You have many dogs to choses from and you unlock dogs during the game.

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Things to do with your dog -
* walking
* brushing
* feeding
* playing
* training
* washing
* going to contests
* and shopping.
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Gameplay

Game play is very smiple. You have to train your dogs to enter into one of the three contests. Your earn money and points by winning contests. Dog owner points unlock new dog breeds and differt clothes and toys for your dogs. You shop(with the money)for clothes,food,pet supplies,toys, and differnt backrounds for your dogs. You walk them(dogs)take them to the park and keep them clean. There are some other things to do ...but what I explained was the simple gameplay.

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Cons---

The only bad thing is that the game can get kinda boring and there never is really new things to do. But other than that the game is great

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Okay... overall the game is great and fun. I would reommend this game to dogs lovers who can't ahve a dog or just to any doglover with a nintendo Ds !!

LOL ..... Hope my review was helpful !!!!

I bought this game for my 11-year old daughter. She absolutely loves it, and I can see why. The graphics are beautiful. She says, "It's really cool, especially how you can unlock every breed in every version. One of my dogs has made it up to the championship." Her dad and I are very conservative when it comes to electronic games for our daughter; this is one we can feel really good about.

I have three cats and no backyard so I can't have a real dog, but for christmas every year I still ask for one. This christmas I opened a ds lite and nintendogs i was so excited! It's exactly like a real dog except no mess. You learn to handle money, training is easy, I taught my beagle Sparkle to do a backflip and breakdance. You get to pet them, take them for a walk, brush them, give them baths. there is a bubble blower and you actually blow on the screen to make bubbles! It's really fun when you unlock new things. You even choose the decore on your house! I have the seaside, it's clear white sand and crystal blue waters with waves and seagull flying you can hear the ocean. It's paradise. There are 3 kinds of competition agility disc and obediance and an array of different ranks. Sparkle is best at agility. All my friends and I have nintendogs so we go into bark mode alot which is where your wi-fi connection searches for other players in bark mode and you can bring each other gifts and play with their dogs! I recomend this game for that person who's wanted a dog for a long time but just can't have one! I recommend this for people who already have a dog too!

Nintendogs Dalmatian and Friends is a great dog care sim game, coming from a 12-year-old's mouth. The graphics are beautifully detailed accenting the dogs' features. The game is pretty easy to play at any age. The dogs don't die or physically grow, but there is a lot of mental growth in the game. The dogs hear you call their name or command them, thanks to the DS mic. The overall game is really fun and cute, and I love it just as much as you will.

This game is very fun! I play it everyday. It is so realistic. I reccommend this to everyone who likes dogs.

Im twelve. This game is so incredible when i told my cousin i got this game he said this game might be little kids but as soon as he saw me playing it and saw i was haveing alot of fun he got it. He got the Dashshund and friends however you spell it. We had this game fo two Months and have been playing it non stop. WE go into bark mode all the time. My dog(real one) gets curious when she looks and hears dogs on the screen. My cousin loves this game. I reconmend this game to anyone except adults because it's kinda wierd when they play this game. By the way my cousin is thirteen

I begged my parents for Nintendogs, especially dalmation and friends, and it was so worth the stuipid begging!
The game begins where you go to a kennel and pick what type of dog you want, and what its personality is. You will return "home" with your new pet, and you will get to know it and fall in love with it hopefully as fast as I did. Soon it will be time to name your dog, and once you do, it will call whenever you call it.
But you can't even feed your dog or go anywhere until you teach your dog to sit. Once you do that, the game unfolds. You can earn money by competitions and by selling some of the items you pick up on walks. You can by a new "house" and as your trainer points increase, so does the Nitendogs world around you. But the game gets boring after maybe five months [as in my case] or a year, or maybe even a month for some adventurous gamers. I just found the dogs so real and even a little loving, but soon I went to other games. But when I came back, I missed my dogs and they missed me. The magic was there again. Its not a game you can overplay, because if you overplay, you'll wind up wanting to throw it at the wall.