Reviews from

in the past


Masterpiece, peak fiction, "bath time" is the greatest melody in existence and mozart would be fucking livid with jealously if he could hear it, gameplay so effortless in it's mastery it's safe to say interactive media will peak here for all eternity, a paragon in narrative writing that perfectly deconstructs the hero's journey so ingenuously.

Play this game if you haven't it's incredible, I haven't played the sequel nintendogs + cats but if it's anything like this good god.

i remember hating this game because it was too realistic and I know for a fact my nintendogs are fucking dead

No idea why I played this when I had 3 real dogs I could have been playing with in real life at literally any point.

always thought i was bad at training dogs because they failed obedience challenges, it's only now i look back and realise my ds lite's mic has been broken for years


Everytime I played this at school with one of my friends, it almost always seemed like they have way cooler gear/toys/whatnot than me and I never knew how to get it.

Anyways, one full star added for the bathing music.

my 10 year-old self named my corgi "Chaos"

I was shit at this game. Never won a single dog show. Just constantly gave them baths.

Massive shoutouts to Nintendo for thinking about petting dogs over anything else when they were coming up with uses for the DS stylus. Spent hours with this as a kid, loved going for virtual walks with my virtual dogs.

I found a Nintendogs cartridge down the back of a booth couch in a Pizza Hut and was instantly smitten with the previous owner's puppy. I looked after him for about two years before getting a Wii and forgetting about my DS games.

Anyway the game is fun but lacks content unless you manage to find rare items like the RC Helicopter or Mario Go-Kart. Nowadays there simply are similar and better games.

Better than owning a real dog; mine has been lying in the same place for 4 months, not doing anything, lazy little bore. Starting to smell a bit as well.

Oh my god I had forgotten all about this. I wasted so much time with these little pets. Fun to have around between play sessions!

Can someone tell my dogs I’m never coming home

The game parents gave to kids who wouldn't shut up about wanting a pet dog (It's me, I'm kids).

I've had this dog since 2007 and I still love him

y’all never forget the aggressive romantic tension between archie and ted

hopefully they haven't fucking died or something

I loved this shit as a kid. It was definitely super terrible.

the peak of gaming, everything else was downhill after this

I accidentally sold my dog Rosey, it's still traumatic to think about

i used to have my nintendogs take part in fashion shows, in which I would play Colonel Bogey to make them march round in a circle and then i'd switch out their hats and glasses and collars until either i'd exhausted every accessory i owned or the music came to an end

i also used to lull them to sleep with the Naptime record, only to then terrify the living daylights out of them by following up with the Surprise record - because i was a cruel and merciless child and the nintendogs were my poor and abused playthings - but that's neither here nor there


I lost my copy as a kid... I also had a real dog so what was the point of this?

IM SO SORRY I MISS YOU SO MUCH I SHOULDVE NEVER SENT YOU AWAY FOR ADOPTION I DONT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING WHEREVER YOU ARE PLEASE FORGIVE ME