Customer Reviews

Zhu Zhu Pets: Special Edition with Baby Hamster

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We gave this to our three year old daughter last night (she will be four in July). She was able to figure the game out quickly with limited assistance from us. You begin by taking care of one little hamster, feeding, exercising, taking to toilet, watering, etc, and then you can play games that unlock other levels including more hamsters, games, etc. After playing for forty five minutes, she had three hamsters, and we put them to sleep for the night simply by closing the DS. This morning she played for about twenty minutes and already earned a fourth hamster. It is a cute, simple game that I would recommend for younger children. The hamsters have little icons that appear near them showing you when they need food, sleep, play, etc. so there is no reading involved, other than simple things like yes or no, which they learn quickly. Our daughter's favorite part of this game is the ability to collect lost little baby hamsters. She has only found one, and it stays in the nursery, but just from last night until this morning, he had grown, so I suspect that it will join the other hamsters before long. As we have only had the game one day, I can't tell how long the fun will last, but I am certainly happy with the purchase and would highly recommend it to other parents looking for clean, simple fun on the DS for their little ones. One note on the free little hamster, he is cute, but will wear quickly as his "fur" wears off in play. We have none of the Zhu Zhu Pets and our daughter isn't aware that they are a retail item, so we can't say how the free one compares to the hamsters for sale separately.

My son bought this game with his birthday money. If we had to do it over again, he'd buy the regular non-special edition version of the game or perhaps just rent it.

The special edition version of the Zhu Zhu pets game comes with a baby pet. The baby is made of hard plastic, coated in fuzz. They are supposed to move like a micro machine car, on a ball bearing.

We have some problems with our pet. Ours came with a scratch on the side of the pet, with a chunk of the fuzzy layer missing. Accidents in packaging happen, so we shrugged it off. Then we discovered that the pet does not move. The bottom of our pet is not smooth, and when placed on a hard surface the ball bearing disappears completely into the body. This pet will not roll across any surface. I don't know if this is a fluke or if they are all this poorly made.

Although the box is about the size of two DS game cases, there was no case in the box. Just the game card stuck in a cardboard slot with the booklet behind it. This is the thing that bothers me most of all. I don't care as much about the defective pet as I do the lack of a case.

As far as the gameplay goes, it is a cute game but very simple. There is not much to it as far as goals or strategy goes, no reading involved, to time limits to collect items on levels, very little critical thinking required. It is a basic game most appropriate for ages 4-6.

I know this special edition game was purchased for my 10 year old niece, who is a big Zhu Zhu fan. I hope her pet works properly and is not damaged. Once everything has been unlocked, I don't know if there will be enough to keep an older child interested in playing the game.

I agree with the review before me, my daughter is 5 and easily figured out the game. It's not very complicated but it keeps her interest and thats what counts. She loves caring for her Zhus! I would recommend this if your child is young and loves the Zhu Zhu pets. But for an older child I would pass on it.

My 3 and 5 year old sons enjoyed this game immediately. It's very easy to understand, navigate, and it relies on the stylus. The 5 year old unlocked several games within 30 minutes and it continued to hold his interest. It's great to see the kids have so much fun with a game that doesn't involve killing something with a fireball.

My wife loves this game, my youngest son still has to discover it. It comes with a free baby and a 10 dollar gift cert you can use on future games. Gameplay is easy and addictive. If you like Zhu Zhu pets you will enjoy this game. Just dont expect mind boggling hard quests.

I got this today (not from Amazon) and immediatly turned on my Dsi. At first you get to pick only 1 Zhu Zhu pet, although there are 5 to pick from. On my first account (you can make up to 3 accounts) I picked Num Nums. Then you are sent to your "nurture" area. In the nurture area you can care for your Zhu Zhu pet! You can feed him, water him, give him carrots as treats, pet him, put him to sleep, exersice him, go to the nursery (more explanation later), and make sure he goes to the toilet. But it dosen't end there. You can also go on an adventure with your Zhu Zhu pet. In adventure mode you can collect money to buy food, keys to earn upgrades, carrots to give as treats, stars to give high scores, and baby Zhu Zhu pets! Now that I have mentioned the baby Zhu Zhu pets, let's get to the main goal in the game. The goal is to find the 10 baby Zhu Zhus lost somewhere in Adventure Mode and bring them home. Since I haven't got all 10 yet, I don't know if the "home" is your nursery (located in nurture mode) or if after you find all 10, you take them out of the nursery and deliver them to another... point is, I don't know a lot about the baby Zu Zhus yet.

After about 45 minutes of play, my broter (age 4) asked to play his new game. I knew I had to give him a turn, so I told him that he could only play for 1/2 an hour (it is MY Dsi, after all) But when I came back to make him give me a turn, I noticed he was playing Zhu Zhu pets! I asked him why, and he said: "Because it's just fun!" And after watching him play for a minute without needing any help, I told him he could play a little while longer. And after that, I realize this isn't just a game for 9 year olds (that would be me) but that it's a game anyone can enjoy.

I got it for my 4 year old and she loves it. I took it over one day out of boredom and I LVOE IT. i'm 34 haha. I can just play and play this all day long. it's great for car rides and she doesn't have to read anything since she cant read yet.

This is the best DS game I have seen for young kids. So easy but not boaring easy... My kids (5 & 3) love playing this game. They can care for pets, run mazes, find the flag, save babies and earn more hamsters. It is fast moving and lots of fun. The baby was a cute bonus that although the fuzz wears off quickly, my son loves it.

My 9 year old daughter likes this game. She especially loved that it came with the baby hamster.

I picked up this game after my 8-year-old daughter played it on the display DS at our local toy store and I couldn't pull her away. It was very easy for her to figure out the controls and gameplay, and the graphics and sound on the game are very cute. My daughter thinks all of the little hamsters are adorable, and the likes to visit the "nursery" where the collected baby hamsters are. I did see on other game websites that this game got poor reviews. I think that for an adult, this is will be too simple and repetitive, but for young kids this is a perfect game. The reviews on other sites don't seem to take the intended players into consideration.

The game has 3 save slots, so if you have kids that is nice to know. The little toy hamster that comes with the game is just hollow flocked plastic with a ball bearing on the bottom. It is strange that there wasn't a plastic game box included, but we will just have to put it into a game carrying case when not playing it.