Forget the Puppy, Get Littlest Pet Shop for Wii!
FireDad and I have been talking about getting a dog. By talking about I mean he’s been jumping around like a kid on Christmas morning and I’ve been listing off all of the reasons that we cannot do it at this point in time. You know, the opposite of how our conversations on big purchases usually go. Good times. So when Parent Bloggers aked if I wanted to review Littlest Pet Shop, I said yes. Because it’s the closest thing we’re getting to a pet this year. I swear.
I gave the game a go by myself first to see if it was easy for adults to understand so they can help their kids. (Which, I know, it’s rare that kids need our help with anything video game but, still, I gave it a go.) I had no problems. It’s a pretty straight forward. Take care of pets. Feed and dress them. I didn’t have problem with menu choices (like the last game I tried). While the game itself was rather girly and I am not really girly, it didn’t annoy me.
Then I brought my three year old out to let him “help” me play. He didn’t press any buttons or do much of anything except talk, point, pretend to be a dog and generally have a blast. I had fun watching him laugh. Then his cousin, a Littlest Pet Shop aficionado, gave it a go. (She’s nine.) I couldn’t get her to leave my house. She was telling me all about the animals as she played the game and basically didn’t stop talking. (She’s a talker!)
When I asked my three year old what he thought of it, he said that it was “funny to watch the puppy.” When I asked my six year old cousin what she thought of the game, she said that it was fun to play with the Littlest Pet Shop animals on a screen and see what they’d do if they were “real.” Obviously, she knew that they weren’t real-real but it meant that it was fun to see them move. For the rest of the evening, my three year old son and six year old cousin played with the animals on the couch, talking up a storm. (He doesn’t stop talking either.)
I found this to be a good, wholesome game with multi-age and gender appeal. It’s one that I’ll be keeping in the house for various visitors. (And I might break it out myself as well!)
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Tags: Games, Littles Pet Shop, Parent Bloggers Network, video games, Wii
