{"id":17761,"date":"2018-05-04T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17761"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:24:01","slug":"my-tamagotchi-forever-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/my-tamagotchi-forever-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"My Tamagotchi Forever (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For some reason I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the virtual pet phenomenon.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t part of my childhood as I was an 80\u2019s kid and this was a 90\u2019s fad.\u00a0 But the Tamagotchi craze did begin around the time I started writing video game reviews professionally, so I\u2019ve always followed it that way.\u00a0 Plus many of my little brothers enjoyed it when they were little (they were all 90s kids).\u00a0 So naturally when a new Tamagotchi game just came out recently on mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here), you know I just had to review it!<\/p>\n

After a brief tutorial taking care of a Tamagotchi, the game will leave you on your own.\u00a0 You\u2019ll first get an egg that you must tap to hatch, and then you can take care of a Tamagotchi pet.\u00a0 In the house, there are four icons you can choose from at the bottom to care for it.\u00a0 The fork and knife icon is where you feed your pet.\u00a0 Use coins to buy many different kinds of foods for your Tamagotchi to eat. The toilet icon is where you can have your pet go use the bathroom and take a shower.\u00a0 Just follow the directional cues when cleaning.\u00a0 When your Tamagotchi is sleepy, tap on the moon icon to send your friend to bed.\u00a0 You\u2019ll know when they need any of these things because there are meters on these icons as well, plus the Tamagotchi will act like it needs something, too.<\/p>\n

The last icon is a happy face where you can make your Tamagotchi happy by either petting it or playing games with it.\u00a0 The games you can play are actually the best part of the whole thing!\u00a0 There\u2019s a simple match three puzzle game, a planet hopping game that reminds me of another Namco classic called Star Trigon, and a music game that reminds me of that piano game that\u2019s popular on mobile devices.\u00a0 Playing games and doing anything else really will earn you coins and experience.\u00a0 Coins you can use to buy items in the shops, and gain enough experience and you\u2019ll level up and unlock more food and other goodies to buy.<\/p>\n

Outside your house is a whole neighborhood to explore.\u00a0 You can shop for new outfits, food, or decorate your town with items.\u00a0 Take pictures of your Tamagotchi playing on certain things outside and when you fill up an album, you\u2019ll earn rewards.\u00a0 Another new thing they added to this Tamagotchi game is that when your pet reaches adulthood, they\u2019ll want to take on a career.\u00a0 This could be anything from an astronaut to a\u2026bunny?\u00a0 To help them achieve their dreams, you\u2019ll have to fulfill certain requirements like eating certain foods, playing a game a number of times, and getting them a particular outfit to wear.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve helped them get their career, you can send them off to town and raise a new Tamagotchi.\u00a0 So I don\u2019t think they can die in this game, as far as I can tell, which is good.\u00a0 Overall this is a pretty interesting take on the keychain virtual pet classic, and it certainly held my interest longer than most of these free-to-play titles do.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent here.\u00a0 Some slight toilet humor as the Tamagotchi will leave little swirls of poo for you to tap and clean up, and you can also have them sit on the potty and go.\u00a0 You have to tap them to make them go use the bathroom, and they make a grunting sound as they do.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the virtual pet phenomenon.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t part of my childhood as I was an 80\u2019s kid and this was a 90\u2019s fad.\u00a0 But the Tamagotchi craze did begin around the time I started writing video game reviews professionally, so I\u2019ve always followed it that way.\u00a0 Plus many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17761","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\/17761","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=17761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17763,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions\/17763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}