{"id":21822,"date":"2021-12-22T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21822"},"modified":"2021-11-27T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:55:11","slug":"pups-and-purrs-animal-hospital-switch-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/22\/pups-and-purrs-animal-hospital-switch-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pups and Purrs Animal Hospital (Switch, PS4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Become an up and coming veterinarian and take care of cats and dogs in Pups and Purrs Animal Hospital.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a cross between Nintendogs and Cooking Mama in that you play mini-games to take care of pets.\u00a0 The game is available on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

There are two main modes of play.\u00a0 In Story Mode you\u2019ll live out the day to day life of a beginner veterinarian.\u00a0 And when you play mini-games to take care of animals in this mode, you\u2019ll unlock them to play separately to practice in Work Mode.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll probably spend most of your time in Story Mode.\u00a0 To start, you\u2019ll design a character and choose their outfit, even though it doesn\u2019t matter much since in most of the game you\u2019ll be wearing a vet uniform.\u00a0 On each day you\u2019ll have morning and afternoon appointments where you\u2019ll play mini-games to take care of animals.\u00a0 During lunches, breaks, and days off, you can choose to study, talk with other workers, or go out and shop for new outfits or eat in a caf\u00e9.\u00a0 Each of these things will increase or decrease stats like \u201cHappy,\u201d \u201cRelaxed,\u201d or \u201cKnowledge.\u201d\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t know how this affects the main part of the gameplay: the mini-games.<\/p>\n

During each appointment, you\u2019ll first set the dog or cat on the table and use a magnifying glass or virtual hands to pinpoint the animals\u2019 problem.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have some text at the bottom of the screen to give you cues as to where to look.\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll play simple Cooking Mama style mini-games to give the pet medicine, spray for fleas, clear out ear infections, give eye drops, wash the pet, remove splinters, calm it down, and much more.\u00a0 You can use button or motion controls, although just using buttons is easier.\u00a0 If you complete the games fast enough, you\u2019ll earn stamps and when you get enough, you\u2019ll level up and can do harder mini-games.\u00a0 On some days you\u2019ll earn a paycheck which you can use to buy more outfits for your character.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much the game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fine game for younger players, but I did have a couple of small problems with it.\u00a0 One, the mini-games can get a bit repetitive, as most of them are very similar.\u00a0 The other problem is kind of a reverse from the problem most other games have.\u00a0 When designing your character, you can only be a female.\u00a0 Sure the hospital you work in looks like Hello Kitty threw up pastel colors everywhere, and the animals you take care of look more like plush toys, but guys can like cute games, too!\u00a0 But otherwise, it\u2019s a serviceable game for kids who enjoy taking care of animals.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Even when you treat an animal\u2019s wound in the game, it just shows up as pink scratch marks and such, so no blood or other disgusting stuff like what you see in the Dr. Pol TV show (I can\u2019t watch that show for very long).\u00a0 Even though the game has spoken voices, it\u2019s all in Japanese so reading skill is still required.\u00a0 Not sure why they didn\u2019t localize that aspect more when bringing the game to the US, especially since this is a kids\u2019 game, but oh well.\u00a0 Pups and Purrs Animal Hospital is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Become an up and coming veterinarian and take care of cats and dogs in Pups and Purrs Animal Hospital.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a cross between Nintendogs and Cooking Mama in that you play mini-games to take care of pets.\u00a0 The game is available on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here. There are two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21822","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\/21822","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=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}