Enjoy fun minigames as you take your dino to the vet for checkups, give it a bath, romp in the yard and more. Watch your dino up close and personal, as you zoom in, zoom out, tilt and rotate in real 3D. Reward your pet with a treat after each trick! Enter your dino into pet shows to earn toys, food, clothing and furniture, then dress up your pet with hats, glasses, shirts and more. Play a game of fetch in the park or teach your dino to dance, jump and fly. Choose from over 101 entertaining dinos-or simply adopt them all! What's even more fun than a puppy for a pet? Your very own dinosaur! With 101 DinoPets 3D, you can have a dino friend to care for, teach, play with and love, all in amazing 3D. Over 101 dinos to adopt and love! Teach your dino tricks, enjoy fun games, dress up your dino-all in amazing 3D! Then again if you're anything like us that excitement will soon disappear. If you're anything like us, this will fill you with excitement about how much potential for fun this concept has. It’s 100 percent chore boy B.S.When you first boot up 101 DinoPets 3D you're greeted with an introduction that sees you finding an abandoned dinosaur hatchling on your front porch. And it’s not like your dinosaur ever grows or changes, so there’s no feeling of progression. The sim aspect is a chore, half the mini-games are awful (the other half are tolerable in their simplicity), and the rewards are so uneventful that you’ll lose motivation to continue the second you have to play a mini-game you dislike. Eventually you’ll be forced to play through the mini-games you absolutely hate, which is when I stopped playing. The game’s driving force are quests, which include busywork like “get through so many hard puzzles,” or “dress up your dinosaur as Santa Claus.” The trick is that some aspects of the quest are locked until you complete OTHER quests. You can also teach your pet tricks by drawing on the touch screen and then competing in competitions, which involve a few tricks and a few mini-games. Completing the games faster nets you more stars-your goal appears to be to earn as many stars as possible during the game. Those first three are mildly entertaining. Your pet dinosaur loves simplistic activities like puzzles, memory games (flip two matching cards), “spot the difference,” a variation on slide puzzles, and two truly terrible platformer-based exercises in futility. The shopping seems like it was pulled from an entirely different game. The sim aspect of this game is dreadful and I hated dealing with it.
You can also buy furniture for your already furnished home. You can buy different kinds of food and water, each of which has its own effects on the little guy’s “need” bars. You can humiliate your pet DINOSAUR by dressing it up like a clown or a pilot. You’ll go shopping for clothing and accessories for your… dinosaur. You’ll take him to the vet and perform an incredibly simplistic virus-shooting mini-game. You’ll tell him when to eat and drink, when to go to the bathroom, when to sleep, and when to bathe. You’ll have to do everything for this dinosaur, because, like any sim game, he can’t do anything himself. After you get your stupid-looking cartoon dinosaur home, it’s time to keep an eye on all its “need” bars. For some reason, I went with a bipedal horned dinosaur that looked something like a hatchling Styracosaurus. You start your journey by crafting a pet dinosaur, choosing its type, changing the head, trying different body colors and patterns, and giving it a name. It is not fun, and you should not play it. Thankfully, this one didn’t turn out to be a tower defense game, but instead a hybrid pet simulation and a mini-game collection with cartoony baby dinosaurs. This is another one of those times where codes for eShop games went out and I picked the one that sounded the least offensive, or perhaps the most interesting from my perspective.