Pet Shop Story: Taito's other game

Posted Apr 23rd 2008 9:45AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Screens, Imports

Last year, Taito announced that they were supporting the DS in a big way, revealing Arkanoid DS, The Legend of Kage 2, and Exit DS to go with Cooking Mama 2. Then shortly afterward, they unveiled Space Invaders Extreme and ... this. Pet Shop Story DS is the only one of Taito's TGS games that has yet to be released in Japan, and it is the one that gets by far the least attention.

Pet Shop Story, a sequel to a Game Boy franchise, puts players in charge of -- you guessed it -- a ~~library~~ pet store. The player character and her mother have moved from the big city into a small town in which nobody has any pets. You interview the customers to determine what kind of pet they would like, then you go out into nature to catch them, Pokémon-style. That's right, you catch wild animals to sell to children. That means that not only can you sell cats (including Scottish folds) and dogs, but baby bears and wild boars as well.

Pet Shop Story also features the same totally cute character design style as Cooking Mama. The apron-wearing mother even bears a striking resemblance to the Mama we know and don't understand.

Tags: pet, pet-shop-monogatari, pet-shop-story, pets, taito

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4-23-2008 @ 12:05PM

SoshiKitai said...

Hmm... so we're poaching... I mean... "capturing" animals for our customers?
...hmmm... I can make a killing if I could haggle the prices...

This game sounds kinda' evil.

I like it.

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