Littlest Pet Shop Friends Review

My kids had the opportunity to review the Littlest Pet Shop Friends game for Nintendo Wii. I was a little hesitant in accepting the review for this game as it's not something I thought my kids would be interested in. Autumn is 13 and too old for a game like this. And Hunter and Ethan...well they're boys and one is too young to play video games anyway.

Littlest Pet Shop Friends allows you to collect a dog, a cat, peacock, and other pets.  Each pet and their friend are getting ready for a party and the pets do chores to prepare.  The pets can give invitations to their pet friends and serve cake and ice cream.  The pets can be decorated with accessories like hats, glasses, collars and scarves.  There are 12 mini games on the disk or you can follow the pet through town on adventures.

So I mentioned above that I didn't think my boys would like this game.  And I was wrong.  Hunter kept calling me up to the room so he could show me things he'd done on the game and how he'd personalized his pets.  He was even trying to show Ethan how to play.  The game is for ages 3+.  Ethan will be 3 in less than two weeks.  But he still couldn't quite grasp the concept of the video game controller.  He did have fun trying though and watching Hunter play.

Hunter liked that he was able to name the pets and dress them up how he liked.  He said it was really easy to unlock new missions.  And it's easy to navigate the game as there is an arrow at the bottom of the screen that points to the new missions waiting to be completed.

Hunter is pretty proud that he's unlocked 11 out of 12 missions so far.  He even showed two of his school friends how to play the game, which kind of surprised me as I thought he'd be embarrassed or they'd tease him about it being a girly game.  But they all played the game for a while.

I think Ethan will like this game when once he gets the hang of using the Wii controllers.  So despite it being a game geared towards young girls, I wouldn't write it off for the boys.

Much thanks to Rocket XL for providing me with the game for review.