When I was a kid, most magazine stores and biggers bars had a sections for DVDs, and most of the time most of these DVDs were sold as a collection of game demos.
I tried some of these titles a little bit: there were a demo for the Spongeob movie game, a demo od Shrek Super Slam and one for a odd Scooby Doo title where Shaggy was screaming into a cart or something.... among all of those demos there was Dog's life.
Being a big fan of animals, the idea of roleplaying as a dog, with the ability to go around towns, grab cats, scare guarda and use the weird tFPS nose to find odors was reall exciting. Sure Jake had a weird farting attitude, and the two sinister guys in the opening scene felt kinda weird, but this didn't stop me from asking for a original copy.... And oh my god I remember how kinda boring this all was.
As a whole this game is sort of a collect-a-ton: do different quests around the various parts of town to help people and dogs, to receive enough bones to upgrade your.... "dog chadness" or something and go closer to the dog-nappers that took your friend.
THe issue is for what I rememebr most of these quests were really tedious and not really understandable: you got a guy that wanna rebuild a rocket so you have to bring him all the scattered parts of the broken rocket near the farm
Or you have to POSSESS other dogs with less bones than you to make them go into other people houses and do stuff.
Or sometimes it's just a poop competition (yes there is a comand to escretate on the floor, then you can grab your dung with you mouth and throw it at the opponent.... keep in mind this has a key role during the final level).
The ability to go "Dog vision", probably one of the most interesting parts of younger me, is mostly just limited to "follow the purple smell to get extra things" amd it is never used in really interesting things. Not to mention that you mostly play in the regular bird-like view, and the janky controls and shaky cameras can make kinda weird to make some of the more difficult missions (I remember kind ahating the game from the snow peak onward)
The presentation is also kinda weird: it gives you those early 200 edge that didn't age that well, with and incredible attantion to poop jokes and kinda odd catchphrases.
Jake here is not a bad boy, but I don't think he is the goddesst boi around..... especially considering what happens in the ending.
Like holy shie, the last level of this game is horrifying: you enter this red-painted sky that looks come out of a horror game, and you find out that the villain of the game wants to turn dogs into cat food. with a machine that looks came out of chicken run. ANd THEN YOU KILL HER
It's kind of a cool moment even if left me some scars admittely.... but I feel it wasn't really worth it reach the end of the game to find out.
I am still fond of this weirdo, but I don't know if I can suggest it to somebody else that doesn't have nostalgia for it.
I tried some of these titles a little bit: there were a demo for the Spongeob movie game, a demo od Shrek Super Slam and one for a odd Scooby Doo title where Shaggy was screaming into a cart or something.... among all of those demos there was Dog's life.
Being a big fan of animals, the idea of roleplaying as a dog, with the ability to go around towns, grab cats, scare guarda and use the weird tFPS nose to find odors was reall exciting. Sure Jake had a weird farting attitude, and the two sinister guys in the opening scene felt kinda weird, but this didn't stop me from asking for a original copy.... And oh my god I remember how kinda boring this all was.
As a whole this game is sort of a collect-a-ton: do different quests around the various parts of town to help people and dogs, to receive enough bones to upgrade your.... "dog chadness" or something and go closer to the dog-nappers that took your friend.
THe issue is for what I rememebr most of these quests were really tedious and not really understandable: you got a guy that wanna rebuild a rocket so you have to bring him all the scattered parts of the broken rocket near the farm
Or you have to POSSESS other dogs with less bones than you to make them go into other people houses and do stuff.
Or sometimes it's just a poop competition (yes there is a comand to escretate on the floor, then you can grab your dung with you mouth and throw it at the opponent.... keep in mind this has a key role during the final level).
The ability to go "Dog vision", probably one of the most interesting parts of younger me, is mostly just limited to "follow the purple smell to get extra things" amd it is never used in really interesting things. Not to mention that you mostly play in the regular bird-like view, and the janky controls and shaky cameras can make kinda weird to make some of the more difficult missions (I remember kind ahating the game from the snow peak onward)
The presentation is also kinda weird: it gives you those early 200 edge that didn't age that well, with and incredible attantion to poop jokes and kinda odd catchphrases.
Jake here is not a bad boy, but I don't think he is the goddesst boi around..... especially considering what happens in the ending.
Like holy shie, the last level of this game is horrifying: you enter this red-painted sky that looks come out of a horror game, and you find out that the villain of the game wants to turn dogs into cat food. with a machine that looks came out of chicken run. ANd THEN YOU KILL HER
It's kind of a cool moment even if left me some scars admittely.... but I feel it wasn't really worth it reach the end of the game to find out.
I am still fond of this weirdo, but I don't know if I can suggest it to somebody else that doesn't have nostalgia for it.