{"id":5179,"date":"2010-10-22T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2010-10-22T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:03:06","slug":"game-review-littlest-pet-shop-3-biggest-stars-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/game-review-littlest-pet-shop-3-biggest-stars-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Review: Littlest Pet Shop 3: Biggest Stars (DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Those popular big-eyed, bobble-headed miniature toy pets for girls, Littlest Pet Shop, are back in a big way in a game on the Nintendo DS. In the third installment, Biggest Stars, help your favorite pets practice and try out for the Biggest Stars teams, as well as collect ingredients to make cool fashions and yummy treats for your Littlest Pet Shop critters. The DS game comes in three different flavors: Blue Team, Pink Team, and Purple Team (Blue reviewed here). Each version has its own special pets to play with. And for a limited time, if you get the game at Toys R Us, it comes with two special real life toys exclusive to the DS.<\/p>\n

In Biggest Stars, help your pets practice and try out for the team by playing touch screen based challenge. Each pet has their own special event and mini-game to go along with it. Tap the paws in time with the beat in a dancing game, and tap camera flashes for points as your kitty walks down the catwalk. As other pets, you\u2019ll play dress up, jump hurdles, and fly through rings of clouds and more. Get a high score in the games to make the team. But don\u2019t worry, you can try as many times as you like.<\/p>\n

As you walk about town, you can collect flowers, fruit, and other ingredients. Use these materials at the boutique and bakery to make fabric colors and yummy treats for your pets. After combining the ingredients in a mixing mini-game, take your pet to the park to feed it treats, play fetch, and brush its fur. You\u2019ll want to keep your pet well-fed and happy, because you\u2019ll get bonus points in the mini-games if you do! By winning games, you can unlock fashion accessories for your pets to wear at the salon.<\/p>\n

Aside from the main story mode, you can practice each mini-game you\u2019ve unlocked separately in Arcade Mode. Or you can color pictures of your pets with the stylus. If you have a nearby friend with a DS and a copy of the game, you can play the mini-games together. And if you go to the Littlest Pet Shop Web site, you can use codes to unlock even more goodies in the game and online.<\/p>\n

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

With so many mini-games and things to do, your Littlest Pet Shop fan won\u2019t get bored quickly with this game. It\u2019s definitely geared towards younger players, of course. Small gamers shouldn\u2019t have any trouble with the lighter difficulty, and while there are picture cues to tell you where to go and what to do, reading skill is still necessary for all the text. There are lots of good messages and lessons in the game about practice, teamwork, and encouraging your friends. Littlest Pet Shop 3: Biggest Stars is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those popular big-eyed, bobble-headed miniature toy pets for girls, Littlest Pet Shop, are back in a big way in a game on the Nintendo DS. In the third installment, Biggest Stars, help your favorite pets practice and try out for the Biggest Stars teams, as well as collect ingredients to make cool fashions and yummy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","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=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}