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Apr 22 2006
The Dog: Happy Life
PSP Game | Simulation
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| Made By: Yuke's Media Creations
Release Date: April 27 2006
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The Dog is a pet simulation game similar to the DS's Nintendogs. Play with one of sixteen dog types, Chihuahua, Labrador, Retriever, French Bulldog, Golden Retriever, Papillon, Border Collie, Dalmation, Pug, Shih Tzu, Yorkshire Terrier,Beagle, German Spheperd, Shiba, Dachshund, Maltese and Poodle. Once you've picked a dog you can play with it and take care of it in a variety of ways, including the design of a special doggy room and dressing it up in various clothes.
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I'm a fan of The Dog brand and subscribe to the magazine here in the UK. I use my PSP as a toy and can't have any pets in my rented flat so I'm looking forward to this actually. (after Locoroco that is)
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I wondered why the graphics sucked.
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The DS does not suck. If sold more units then the PSP and PS2 combined
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sodium said: "The DS does not suck. If sold more units then the PSP and PS2 combined"
HAHHAHah.. um.. wrong. It rollercoasters with the psp, few months psp would have lead, then DS would.. PS2, has sold more units in it's life, than xbox, gc, psp, ds combined. and still continues to sell quite a damn bit. While you might look at it now, DS obviously sells more.. PS2 has been out for 5 years -/+ .
So no, it hasn't sold more than psp and ps2 combined. I seriously hope you were joking.edited: Apr 27 2006
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ps2 has been out since 2000 towards the end of anyway.. it'll be 6 years once the PS3 is out
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looks like the dog from M.I.B.
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This is for real. Here is the official site.
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It's in Japanese. Don't know when or if it will be released here though.
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only for DS, this will never work on PSP
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cant wait for Brushing Teeth Simulator, and EA's Nose Picking Championships 2008, they would look geat on my shelf next to this pile of crap
ifs thats what you want get a real dog, loosers!
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wow  what is going on here?edited: Jun 01 2006
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What button do I push to kick the dog?
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Omg ..The Graphics On This Actually Look Stinky Psp Have Just ,As Before Mentioned, Lost My Admiration :O Trying To Copy The Nintendo DS. Tut tut Sony! If You're Going To Copy Something, Copy It Better And Right :P
Chelseaaa x
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I want to get this game for my psp do u know were to get it from in the uk? or is it not in shops in the uk yet?
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I have this game, and I'd just like to point out. It is nowhere near as good as nintendogs, I got it for my little sister seeing as she liked but got bored with nintendogs. I started up the game, thought, alright, japanese menu navigating, but seeing as the general layout of menu is the same as any other game (I think anyway) I managed it. Then I got myself a border collie (my dog irl so I thought it sounded good), the graphics are pretty decent btw, bit better than nintendogs. Then I chose it's stuff from a catalogue (strangely, I could just choose everything, money doesn't seem to be an object (or existant for that matter)) then I obviously named the dog (already named myself) "accessorised" it (collar, jacket, basket, then flooring, windows and bed and armchair, three different room styles (asian, luxury and one other).
You can stroke the dog (using the analogue stick) which it reacts to quite well and you can call it: Bad, Good, Happy or Sad (don't ask about calling it emotions, makes no sense to me)
Then you can tell it to:
Sit
Lie Down
Roll Over
Chase it's tail
Play Dead
Beg
Speak
Stand
Jump
strangely, it always listens to you (well atleast my collie did) and instead of the nintendogs mike you just press (O) on the menu you bring up with square I think (it doesn't pause the action however, which is a plus point) then you can, take photos around the room with the dog standing, and whatever.
Then by pressing triangle you go onto a little spinny menu with the dog at the centre, where you can go to the Doggy Studio (where you can take photos with different settings in a blank white room (like those photos with the dog's nose up against the camera with the fish eye lens) then you can look at your photo catalogue (I'm assuming this is where you can USB link and put them on your computer to admire) you can also access the catalogue here, accessories and a few other things.
As far as I can see on the accessories menu, you should be able to give the dog a hat and some other thing aswell, but I'm not sure how to unlock this, as from what I can tell, you can't enter competitions or walk the dog like in it's nintendo cousin. I could be wrong however.
I was pretty shocked by the fact that the game seems extremely half baked. You can only have one dog in the room, unlock in the DS equivilant in which you could have three dogs, all interacting. You can't feed the dog or give it water, you can't walk it or enter into competitions (as far as I can see, then again I can't read japanese)
It's only plus point is, on the menu, you can access videos of each type of dog in puppy form (real dogs not game dogs) playing with other puppies and generally being unbearably cute and fluffy. And it has the same type of system as Nintendogs in which there are three different colours of each dog and they can be male and female. You can also still show off your dogs via wifi.
Here's a balancing bit:
Better than Nintendogs: Videos
More types of dog (16 versus the 6-ish on each nintendogs game)
It's a budget game
You get all the dogs on one disk, rather than having to fork out for every nintendogs game.
You can take better and more artworky photos and then upload them to PC or phone and show them off.
Better graphics (just)
More commands
Worse than Nintendogs: It has (as far as I can tell) little to no depth or objective
No dog walking
One dog at a time (and you have to start a new game to get a new dog (unlimited saves however)
No competitions or training at the park (as far as I can see)
No stylus or mike make it a bit less interactive
No point in punishing the dog with "sad" or "bad" because it always obeys you (atleast my one did)
No idea of a town, or different owners, which is a real shame, because that was one of the coolest bits in Nintendogs
In conclusion: if you have a PSP, but no DS, and want a dog sim, get this.
if you have a DS and nintendogs, don't bother getting this.
if you don't want a glorified and simplified tamagochi, stay the hell away from this)
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