Aug 10th 2023

[ssjumi]

Got myself a new (old) non-Bandai vpet that I've been keeping a casual eye out for ever since I first read about it on tamenagerie.

According to the manual (which I put under the Read More) you can choose between cat, crab, butterfly, fish, dinosaur, dog, chicken and... chick? (which I assume to just be a generic non-chicken bird; it looked a bit like a dove in the menu)

I picked the kitty because ofc I did.

The pet comes with 3 feeding options (main course, snack and drink), two games (guess left or right, thow a dice and guess if it'll be a low or a high number), singing and dancing.

The latter two aren't interactive, you just press the button and it plays a little melody (I recognized Bingo, Jingle Bells and Beethoven's 9th so far, but there are a few more). When you sing with it, it's a little musical note and a smiley face on the screen, and when you dance it's a pair of feet moving to the melody.

I fed my kitty, played, sung and danced with her and also already cleaned her litter box once, and now she's just keeping me company, silently bouncing around on the screen~

Her stats rn:

That's all there is in the stats menu.

The happiness and hungry meters only show up when you go to the feeding menu or open one of the games.

It's pretty low maintenance so far and the kitty cat is kinda cute, too, imo.

Only downside: Just like the Smart Chick the animations are limited. When feeding it or playing with it the pet will just look like a little smiley face or Marutchi.

But at least when it pooped it looked like a kitten sitting on the screen, waiting for me to clean up.

I won't be able to give it a full run rn bc I'm set to leave on a business trip tomorrow and next week is gonna be pretty stressful, too, but I'm looking forward to the next time I have the chance to explore it some more :3

(At some point I'd also like to have a 9-in-1 Gyaoppi, 10-in-1 Gyaoppi clone or 8-in-1 Octo-Pet. Although my number one goal is still to get my hands on a Zappy Beamer like the one I had as a kid. I wish I knew where it ended up. Maybe I lost it on one of my many moves or it's in my mom's basement on the bottom of an old cardboard box :,D)