Nintendo-gs? Ninten-dogs? You might have heard of Nintendogs. You might not have. Without question, Nintendogs is the biggest new era of Nintendo franchise in Japan right now. Remember Pokemon dominated the planet and kids goes frenzy on this back in 1996-2002 (Japan came first in 1996, then America in 1998). Now, Nintendogs might see a similar level of global domination next year, 2006. Maybe.
In April 21, 2005, Nintendogs launched in Japan with three iterations -- different version of games - Shiba, Dachs and Chihuahua & friends. All of three ranked in number 4-6 in Top Ten Japanese Console Games Charts and put Nintendo DS a triple boost handheld system sales over PlayStation Portable (PSP) in week of April 18-24, 2005 (96,000 over 33,000). Nintendo is a big success in Japan now.
As you know what Pokemon is, Don't fear yourself that Nintendogs is somewhat similar to Pokemon. Pokemon is all about slang motto: 'Gotta Catch 'em All!', by collecting over 251 breed monsters to training, raise and fight against other competitions in the game. Nintendogs is a dog-training simulation game which you can able to breed, train, play, and competition with other dogs to become best dog-trainer in the game. Nintendogs have nine different types of dogs (each of 3 in one version of three versions), Their dogs have unique AI behavior depends how you train and behave the dog.
The biggest innovate about Nintendogs is using touching screen pad, you can touch to wash dog with soap, take dog lease to walk around the sidewalk and pet 'em. Yet another innovate in the game: voice recgonization to develop your own, just say "sit!" for training dog to sit. The dog might recgonize your same voice to remember for long memory -- just like saved voice memory on the cartridge. Also you have to pick up the poo to clean out from the dog and don't let the dog eat it before he becomes hungry.
Now, The good news for Nintendo that Nintendogs get very solid grading reviews: score 40 out of 40 in Famitsu, the most-respected Japan video gaming weekly magazine. Since 1986, Famitsu is well known for its harsh grading of current videogames. Those are graded in Famitsu by a panel of four video game reviewers. Each reviewer gives a score from one to ten (ten being best). The scores of the four reviewers are then added up with a possible score of 40. Famitsu reviewers are unmercifully very tough, and it is total extremely difficult for a game to receive a perfect score 40 out of 40. Only five games so far have received the absolute flawlessly score since 1986:
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo for Nintendo 64; 1998)
Soul Calibur (Namco for Sega Dreamcast; 1999)
Vagrant Story (Squaresoft for Sony PlayStation; 1999)
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Nintendo for Nintendo GameCube; 2003)
Nintendogs (Nintendo for Nintendo DS; 2005)
Nintendogs looks very promising to me.. I'm definite getting this when it comes out in unannounced date in America.
Source: the-magicbox.com, wikipedia.org
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