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The pets can be dressed up with accessories, renamed and you can pet them/feed them, the very minimal of virtual pet upkeep, which leaves time for other things.Such as minigames. So far, my daughter (who is four) her favorites are the balloon pop mini game (throw darts at balloons), the nut mini game (tap nuts to keep them from hitting your animal friends), and the matching one (match up blocks of colors with animal faces). The pet plaza is where you will be spending most of your time, as it is the central hub for buying tickets for pets to come join your menagerie, buying playsets to unlock more mini games and other activities. Most of the action takes place in the "worlds" which are nice looking but a bit busy. Its sometimes hard to pick out certain interactive objects from the busy backgrounds (such as the sign that takes you to other worlds). A few mini games are utter rubbish such as their attempt at a "rhythm-music" mini game that fails on so many levels.
There are some mini games that would appeal to older children as well. They likely have "exclusive" pets to each system or whatnot, but all three levels - garden, jungle and winter - are unlockable in every version. The Littlest Pet Shop game trilogy for the Nintendo DS are all fairly similiar. Graphics are sweet, cute and fitting for the Littlest Pet Shop. However, alot of thought has gone into making this an authentic "Littlest Pet Shop" experience, and thus gets a high recommendation from both myself and my daughter. So you really only need the one.
There's also a coloring one, but it only has about a dozen different pictures, kind of disappointing. In fact, the entire game demands alot of reading for playing on one's own, and the game seems more suited to the 6 and up crowd, but younger children will have fun just moving the animals around and trying their hand at the mini games. You unlock a variety of mini games just by playing. The pets themselves are animated nicely, with horses that neigh and bunnies that hop. The characters look like pet shop animals which is a real plus for fans of the franchise. They can be moved between the four levels whenever you like after you unlock them.
Overall, its a much more solid offering than one would expect from a licensed title, and given how much kids love the Littlest Pet Shop brand, it would have been an easy copout to slap together a game and call it a day (and watch the sales rack up).
This game is very fun adn very cute it lackes depth. It's just playing mini games to get money to buy pets and playsets. However it's strangly addicting and is perfect for animal lovers like me.
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