Wanted to play this before the eshop starts falling apart and it will no longer be possible to have an organic experience as the game was inteded to be played as. Pretty unique and cute for a free to play game, I’ve never really seen a game be handled like this before. Bartering with a virtual shop keeper with real world money on paper sounds like it could be very predatory, but Nintendo did a good job of keeping it a good value. If you play the game as intended, to complete the main storyline you only need to spend $10, and then like an extra $5 if you want the bonus minigames. The process of haggeling is pretty fun, because there is something real and tangible on the line of winning, your real world money. The mini games arent bad either, going into this game I wasn’t expecting them to be as fleshed out as they were so their pretty cool. The game itself is a pretty unique genre blend of Visual Novel and Arcade Sports game. And the story itself is pretty engaging, it definitely plays with your conceptions of what a Nintendo game story about a Baseball loving dog for kids can and cant be. It’s sad that within a years time from writing this review, the true way of playing this game will be lost forever. Maybe Nintendo will make a sequel to it one day, I doubt it though due to how much the gaming landscape has evolved in regards to opinions on micro transactions and in game gambling laws since 2013, which is understandable. But regardless, this was the most “Nintendo way” of Nintendo doing their first free to play game that you can come up with.