{"id":12664,"date":"2014-11-05T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:34:15","slug":"petz-beach-petz-countryside-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/petz-beach-petz-countryside-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Petz Beach & Petz Countryside (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PETZBEACH_BOX\"<\/a>Get ready to start your new life in a village by the seashore or in the country. But you won\u2019t be alone!\u00a0 You\u2019ll get to adopt a Petz pup to help you make friends and help the village grow!\u00a0 Petz Beach & Petz Countryside is like a cross between two different games: Nintendogs + Cats and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.\u00a0 It\u2019s a virtual pet simulator like Nintendogs, where you use the stylus to take care of your new friends.\u00a0 But it\u2019s also like Animal Crossing in that you and your Petz help out neighbors, catch fish, bugs, and shells for museums, and buy decorations for your house and village.<\/p>\n

When you first start up, you\u2019ll have to go through a tutorial showing you the ropes on how to take care of your Petz and interacting with your neighbors in the village. Make sure you have enough time to play this part, because they won\u2019t let you save until the very end (I found this out the hard way), and the tutorial is pretty lengthy at around 20 to 25 minutes.\u00a0 Luckily, if you have both Petz Beach and Petz Countryside and have already started one game, the second game will read your extra data from the first title and allow you to skip the tutorial on the other game.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll care for your new Petz in your home. Shortly after you arrive, you\u2019ll adopt a puppy from a selection of breeds.\u00a0 Later on you\u2019ll be able to adopt more Petz breeds and even have a cat, too!\u00a0 Caring for your Petz is similar to other virtual pet simulators on the DS and 3DS.\u00a0 Use the stylus and touch screen to feed, water, bathe, and play with your pet.\u00a0 You can also dress up your pets in clothes you buy at the shop.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to make sure your pet is happy so they\u2019ll do better out in town when you need their help.\u00a0 To purchase pet care products and accessories, you\u2019ll have to earn money.\u00a0 And the best way to do that is to help villagers in town.<\/p>\n

Once you step outside your house, you\u2019ll lead your Petz on a leash and walk about town. You can talk to your neighbors and ask them for a quest.\u00a0 If they have one for you, you\u2019ll probably have to deliver a package to someone or give them an item that they want.\u00a0 When you finish, you\u2019ll earn money and Happy Points.\u00a0 Use money in the shops to buy pet care products, accessories, toys, furniture for your house, and later on, decorations for the village.\u00a0 When you earn enough Happy Points, your town will level up.\u00a0 When this happens, your town will upgrade and more people will move in, new products are available in the shops, and you\u2019ll be able to teach your Petz more tricks and skills.<\/p>\n

Speaking of tricks and skills, this is how your Petz can help you out in the village. Just like in Animal Crossing, you can search for shells, fish, bugs, mushrooms, fossils, and more.\u00a0 You can give them to neighbors, sell them, or donate them to the Collection House Museum and Wildlife Reserves.\u00a0 Pay money at the training dojo to learn new skills.\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll play small mini-games to sniff out shells, bark at fish and bugs to catch them, and dig for fossils.\u00a0 Also just like Animal Crossing, the game runs on the 3DS clock, so when it\u2019s daytime or evening in real life, it\u2019s the same time in the game, too.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the only problem with this game is that the pet care section of the game is more of an afterthought, and the Animal Crossing style areas aren\u2019t as good as what they could be. There is only so much you can do in a day, and then it can get a little boring at times.\u00a0 Plus, they don\u2019t always do a good job of telling you upcoming events.\u00a0 I almost missed the Costume Party where you dress up your dog and look at Jack o\u2019 Lanterns decorating the village.\u00a0 There is a calendar near the town hall, but they don\u2019t tell you about it in the tutorial.\u00a0 Luckily the in-game instructions on the Home menu are better at filling you in on these things.\u00a0 So if you enjoy games like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing, you\u2019ll probably like this game, too.<\/p>\n

\"PETZCOUNTRY_BOX\"<\/a>Petz Countryside is nearly the same game as Petz Beach, but with different scenery. You\u2019ll fish at a riverbank instead of a seashore, for instance.\u00a0 Also, each version has a few different dog breeds to choose from at first. \u00a0You can put dogs in the hotel in one game and pick them up in another version, too.\u00a0 Not to mention send letters and photos via StreetPass.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable in this game. Reading skill is a must for the text, though.\u00a0 The game could be considered somewhat educational; too, as there are dog breed facts on the loading screens and other tidbits about the animals you donate to the museum.\u00a0 Petz Beach and Petz Countryside are rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get ready to start your new life in a village by the seashore or in the country. But you won\u2019t be alone!\u00a0 You\u2019ll get to adopt a Petz pup to help you make friends and help the village grow!\u00a0 Petz Beach & Petz Countryside is like a cross between two different games: Nintendogs + Cats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}