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Review: Tamagotchi Cornershop

by John Walker on Jun.21, 2006, under The Rest

Weren’t Tamagotchi supposed to be about interaction? Remember that dreadful fad a few years back when children clung to plastic keyrings, declaring every fifteen seconds that “it needs to be fed!” or “it needs to go for a poo!”? These were, at least, somewhat novel. The toy you had to keep playing with, or it would die. Nevermind that a new one would hatch right away – the previous one was dead, and now there would be tears and tantrums.

So it’s somewhat sad that the most immediately absent feature of this new Tamagotchi-based DS game is that the buggers can’t die. Not that you’ll be wishing them dead, but that they simply aren’t Tamagotchi. What we have here is something of the most extreme obscurity – the type that’s hard to write about without worrying people will think you’re making it up – without managing to be interesting at any point.

Blimey – a review on Eurogamer?! It’s been a while.

1 Comment for this entry

Maddy
June 22nd, 2006 on 14:12
I wasn’t allowed a Tamagotchi. I was given a massive make-up box instead.

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