Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends

nintendogs + cats, a game that lets players interact with realistic puppies - and kittens - in a variety of fun ways. There are three versions of the software, each with different starting breeds: French…

70 25 March 2011 ESRB E

What Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends is

Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends is a simulator game developed by Nintendo and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Nintendogs + Cats, you start at the Kennel where you're told to select a dog from the many avaliable breeds. Once selected, you take them home, and ease them into a point where you can teach them a name. Once named, you must teach them the tutorial command of 'Sit', then once completed you're set into a sandbox-like state where you can go shopping, walk your dog, play with your dog or enter competitions. Nintendogs + Cats has no overt storyline, and seemingly no clear ending. Some consider the goal to get the 'Robodog Voucher' with the collectable recycling mechanic, or get the highest amount of unlockables with the 'Trainer Points', some consider it to be winning competitions, but it…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are kids and sandbox. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players.

How it was received

Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends launched on 25 March 2011, within three weeks of Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2 and Dragon Age II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2, Dragon Age II.

Official trailer