Petz Bunnyz For Nintendo DS

By Shelby Cunningham

First impressions: Cutest bunny graphics ever! Well maybe not.. but as far as petz games go.. cutest one I've seen! The cover of the game just has real bunnies on it.. which made me think "eh.. boring.. they didn't try very hard with that.." but the game itself looks so different from that.

Game: Once you've picked out and named your new pet rabbit.. then brushed it, fed it, held it and carried it around with your super long arm (why??), taken it out of the cage into the house, cleaned the cage and trained it.. there isn't much to do.. and all of those things happen really fast in game play.

I chose a white Norwegian Dwarf rabbit and named it Fluff. Then I brushed it and held it.. took it out of the cage to watch it hop around a room.. fed it.. trained it (but I wasn't sure what I was training it to do.. that part was a bit confusing) and cleaned the cage. After that I looked around the menus a bit trying to find something else to do with my pet.. but found nothing and saved the game and quit.

I wish the menus did not take up the entire bottom screen. For some reason that bugged me. I would rather it have a pull down menu like Petz Horsez and have the animal on the bottom screen. Just seems like the main focus of the game (the rabbit..) isn't treated as the main focus as far as screen use goes.

I will turn the game on again and try to train it some more.. you get rewards (toys and decorations) for training the better your bunny gets.

As far as wi-fi.. h'm not sure I'll be able to test that because I don't know of anyone else who owns this game or would buy it! Definitely a niche game for younger kids. But with Wi-fi you can play games and visit your friend's bunnies.

Conclusion: I give it a 5. It's cute as far as the Petz games goes.. but you can't do much with it.. and what good is spending $29.99 on a game that you can't do much with?

Shelby is an author for dsmaster, a blog on wordpress that gives great reviews on the newest and hottest games for Nintendo DS. See http://dsmaster.wordpress.com for more awesome reviews!