{"id":25997,"date":"2025-09-19T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25997"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:22:40","slug":"the-shops-at-tamagotchi-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/19\/the-shops-at-tamagotchi-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shops at Tamagotchi Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Remember those Tamagotchi virtual pet keychains that were super popular in the late 90s?\u00a0 Well they\u2019ve never really gone away.\u00a0 In fact, back on the Nintendo DS, they had a series of games called Tamagotchi Corner Shop, and there were three of them!\u00a0 You ran little shops and would play touch screen mini-games to serve and help out other Tamagotchi customers.\u00a0 My brother Jeff and I were weirdly obsessed with those games back in the day, probably because we did like those virtual pets (Jeff was even a Tamagotchi for Halloween one year when he was little).\u00a0 Well, Tamagotchi Plaza is the sequel to those games, so of course I had to get it.\u00a0 There are a dozen shops for you to run, and two more if you have the Switch 2 version.\u00a0 I thought it might be fun to run through the shops in this game, so let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Dentist<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this game was in one of the original Corner Shop games as well.\u00a0 Two can play at the same time, too.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019d want two people messing in my mouth, though.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of those creepy dentist games you can download on mobile devices now.\u00a0 But considering this game came out before cell phone games were popular, it doesn\u2019t feel as creepy when you look at it like that.\u00a0 You\u2019ll work on the teeth of several Tamagotchi characters, using a cursor to drill and replace teeth, take out little germs, fill in cavities, and brush.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to give them pain medicine if they have tears in their eyes, and rinse out their mouth if saliva starts to build up.<\/p>\n

The Night Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tamagotchis want to hang out at a pool at night, and it\u2019s your job to serve them drinks and give them accessories like sunglasses and pool floats when they want them.\u00a0 They\u2019re really impatient, though, so you have to be fast about it.\u00a0 More of them show up in the harder levels, and it can be tricky to keep up with everything!<\/p>\n

Manga Store<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tamagotchi characters come in wanting to read a two panel manga strip and you \u2018draw\u2019 one for them.\u00a0 Only two panels?\u00a0 Either these critters are not very smart or easy to please.\u00a0 Anyway, you are given a selection of backgrounds, effects, words, items, and characters to place wherever you want.\u00a0 The Tamagotchi will ask for a character in some kind of setting, and as long as you get that right, you\u2019ll get a good rating.\u00a0 The challenge here is remembering the names of the Tamagotchi characters they ask for.\u00a0 I had to go online for a lot of them.\u00a0 In the harder levels, they\u2019ll give you a panel and you\u2019ll have to make another one to follow it, which I actually found easier since you don\u2019t have to remember names.\u00a0 They\u2019re really not picky and this is just mostly an exercise in creativity.\u00a0 But considering this game is made for younger players, that\u2019s perfectly fine.<\/p>\n

Afternoon Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like the Manga Shop, this is mostly an exercise in creativity.\u00a0 At first I had trouble because I have no idea about tea stuff.\u00a0 But usually, as long as you have enough decorations on the table, you\u2019ll do well.\u00a0 Sometimes they get specific, like wanting a grape themed tea party, so just make sure you have lots of purple treats and grape themed decorations.\u00a0 This one may not seem very much fun, but little kids do like to have tea parties, and table place setting competitions are actually a thing, so I guess that\u2019s why this one\u2019s valid.<\/p>\n

Tailor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Customers will come in, wanting an outfit and you have to make one for them.\u00a0 Just follow the picture and you\u2019ll be fine.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell the pattens and textures they want, though.\u00a0 You get a selection of shirts, sleeves, collars, shorts, pants, pattens, and more.<\/p>\n

Bicycle Repair<\/strong><\/p>\n

Riders will come in wanting to repair and customize their bikes.\u00a0 Just follow the pictures to give them the right accessories, tires, paint, decals, and more.\u00a0 Repair parts that look broken (usually lopsided handlebars), and fill up flat tires.\u00a0 Harder levels have you do more stuff, but it\u2019s all pretty easy once you get the hang of it.<\/p>\n

Galette Shop<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had no idea what a \u201cGalette\u201d was before playing this game.\u00a0 So video games can teach you stuff.\u00a0 Turns out it\u2019s kind of a French pastry, and one of the things you can make here are crepes, which I think is a popular snack in Japan as of late.\u00a0 You can make sweet crepes with fruit and icing or savory galettes with meat and cheese and veggies.\u00a0 Just follow the pictures the customers provide and it\u2019s usually pretty easy.<\/p>\n

Eyewear Shop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make glasses for Tamagotchis!\u00a0 First you\u2019ll check their eyesight on an eyechart, then follow what type of glasses they want with different colors and styles of frames and lenses.\u00a0 The only thing that threw me off was that you have to grind the lenses by making sure you don\u2019t go over a line.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t know that\u2019s a thing you have to do when making glasses.\u00a0 But as soon as I got that down, it was mostly pretty easy.<\/p>\n

Rap Battle Venue<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never considered a rap battle as a shop, but here it is.\u00a0 Two Tamagotchis will rap to each other, and you must play a simple music rhythm game where you time button presses as they go past a line.\u00a0 Only problem is it\u2019s pretty simple and repetitive.\u00a0 They needed more songs and such.\u00a0 Two can play this one at the same time, too.<\/p>\n

Personal Training Gym<\/strong><\/p>\n

This shop is run by a shark Tamagotchi!\u00a0 The clients will come in, tell you what parts of their body they want to work on (harder levels means more parts), and then you do some exercises.\u00a0 These involve you pressing the L and R buttons alternately and you must press them slower or faster depending on how the client is feeling.\u00a0 And if you do this correctly long enough, they\u2019ll get results!\u00a0 Also in harder levels you must press a button to wipe the sweat off the Tamagotchi!\u00a0 If anything, your fingers are going to get a workout!\u00a0 At the end, they\u2019ll show a before and after picture of the Tamagotchi and some of them are hilarious.\u00a0 If you want your Tamagotchi virtual pets really buff, just have them come see me!<\/p>\n

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Glasses Galette Shop<\/strong><\/p>\n

I THINK I remember that in one of the later Corner Shop games on the DS, you could combine shops to make some pretty wacky things, and I guess that carried over to this one.\u00a0 So this combines the Galette pastry shop with the glasses shop.\u00a0 Customers will come in, tell you what they like on an eye chart, then you make a glasses shaped galette for them.\u00a0 They\u2019ll come out of the shop wearing the pastries on their face!\u00a0 They\u2019ll burn their face off and won\u2019t be able to see anything, but hey, you do you.\u00a0 This one\u2019s pretty easy though.<\/p>\n

Afternoon Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other combined shop mixes the Afternoon Tea and Night Pool stores.\u00a0 Customers will want a pool party and you design one around the theme they want.\u00a0 It\u2019s still pretty easy and just an exercise in creativity, and as long as you do what they ask for, you\u2019ll get a good rating.<\/p>\n

Shuriken Show<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Switch 2 versions of this game have two extra shops that use the JoyCon 2\u2019s mouse controls.\u00a0 And they\u2019re both run by a ninja Tamagotchi.\u00a0 In this first one, you hold the JoyCon 2 upside down and aim at the TV screen.\u00a0 Then you swipe your other hand over the top like how ninjas throw shurikens to hit targets.\u00a0 But since the JoyCon 2 mouse controls suck, this one doesn\u2019t work very well.<\/p>\n

Sushi Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other exclusive Switch 2 shop is a sushi restaurant.\u00a0 You use the mouse controls to serve customers sushi.\u00a0 Only problem is they don\u2019t give instructions on how to play, and I\u2019ve never made sushi myself so I couldn\u2019t figure this one out.\u00a0 That\u2019s the only problem with this game is that they don\u2019t give you instructions to play the games, but luckily in MOST cases it\u2019s pretty easy to figure out.\u00a0 But I will say that if you want to get this game, you\u2019re just fine getting the regular Switch version.\u00a0 You\u2019re not missing out with the secret Switch 2 shops.<\/p>\n

And those are the shops.\u00a0 The other thing you can do is use the money to upgrade shops and the 3D plaza they are in that you can walk around. They say the game is compatible with the Tamagotchi Uni, which is the newest form of the virtual pet toy I guess.\u00a0 I thought about getting one of those but when I looked it up, they\u2019re 60 to 100 bucks and more like smart watches now!\u00a0 So no thanks.\u00a0 Whatever happened to them being cheap keychain toys?\u00a0 Anyway, a lot of game reviewers really bashed this game, but I dunno, I didn\u2019t think it was THAT bad.\u00a0 It was clearly made with young kids in mind, and like I always say, kids deserve good games, too!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember those Tamagotchi virtual pet keychains that were super popular in the late 90s?\u00a0 Well they\u2019ve never really gone away.\u00a0 In fact, back on the Nintendo DS, they had a series of games called Tamagotchi Corner Shop, and there were three of them!\u00a0 You ran little shops and would play touch screen mini-games to serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25997","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\/25997","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=25997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25998,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions\/25998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}