Japan Gaming Guide

If Nintendogs whetted your appetite for all things canine, you might want to check out Pet House DS. The new digital doggy simulator lets you choose from 47 breeds, including Poodles, Siberian Huskies, Dachshunds and Chihuahua.

The emphasis seems to be on re-creating your real life pets, as well as creating new ones. Judging from the screenshots, online play will be available, so you can show your faithful friends off to your, er, other friends.

Pet House DS is out August 9th, for Y5040.

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Nintendo just launched the official website for Donkey Kong – Jungle Climber. The forthcoming DS game will come out in Japan on August 9th.

As for the plot, it seems Donkey and Diddy are out vacationing on San San island, when they see a giant banana on top of a mountain. Donkey heads off to get it – but the journey isn’t easy. King K. Rool is up to his old tricks again..

The gameplay is going to involve using the shoulder buttons to ascend the levels. There are screenshots of four worlds, but we don’t know if that’s all the levels or not.

There’s also a vs battle heading on the site, but it’s greyed out at the moment. I guess we’re going to be hearing about wi-fi play soon.

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Japanese magazine An An have brought a new training game to the DS. Women’s Strength Immediate Up promises to change the lives of it’s players. You can choose what kind of women you want to become and then do exercises to help you achieve your goal. If you play it every day, you can re-invent yourself in just three months! There are a range of goals to choose from. The game let’s you pick a target personality type such as dramatic, alluring or married. Wonder what the ‘become married’ exercise will involve – speed dating otaku, maybe?

By the way we’re not sure if that photo is supposed to be a before or after shot, perhaps that depends on the goal personality.

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Visitors to Nintendo’s official site can now hear the music to Archaic Sealed Heat, the forthcoming tactical RPG from Mistwalker. The music is pretty grand, we look forward to hearing it through the DS speakers.

We don’t know too much about the game, but we hear it will involve time travel and burning stuff, both of which are pretty fun.

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The training game trend on the DS shows no signs of abating. The latest entrant in the genre is this Origami training game. You’ll be able to view animated examples of paper folding, which you can then try to emulate. There’s also the option to increase the animation speed and challenge yourself to keep up. Cleverly, you can start and stop the animations using the DS’s microphone so you don’t have to let go of the paper you’re folding. Minagara Oneru DS Origami comes out August 9th at Y3990.

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Nintendo’s Chibi Robo website was just updated with a few new pictures and movies. The DS title just came out in Japan, and is headed stateside in September.

You play a small robot, who runs around spreading love and cheering everybody up. Even by Nintendo standards this looks like being one heck of a happy game.

There’s still more content on the way to the website, so keep your eye on it if you’re interested in the game.

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It’s fair to say the Nintendo DS has been a phenomenon. Jeux-France recently published a list of million selling games in Japan. There are 18 of them! Sega’s Love and Berry Collection is the latest game to join the list, topped by the 5 million selling Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. With sales figures like this it’s no suprise to see developers flocking to the handheld. How long can Nintendo keep this up?

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The infamous witch touching game, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan has just been released. If you feel like prodding young girls with your stylus then get to the shops now.

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The long rumoured Nintendo DS camera is soon to become a reality. The killer app? Face Training! The game is the work of Intelligent Systems, with input by Japanese beauty expert Fumiko Inudo. Presumably aimed at helping beautiful women get even more beautiful, players must move their features to match the face pictures on-screen. The second screen will display a reference picture taken using the camera.

We’re hoping to join the ranks of the beautiful people when the game comes out August 2nd.

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Donkey Kong Jet is just five days away from release. The Wii racing game was originally going to use the DK Bongos, but will now involve lots of Wiimote shaking.
The character roster for the game has gone up on Nintendo’s website. Most of the series stalwarts are in there, along with a few secret characters to be unlocked.

[Read, via The Tanooki]