Tamagotchi

"Look up "Stupidity" in the dictionary and you will see a picture of this game."

Introduction
Ewwwwwww. Why did the programmers realease this game? Everything thing looks, sounds or is bad. The graphics could use some work, the sound REALLY needs to change, and the game plays worse than a Baboon on a motorcycle. This review will warn you of the disease called ''Tamagothci''.

Graphics 5/10
It is average. Somethings look ok, like the doctor. But the backgrounds look generic and the Tamagotchi's look stupid, instead of cute. The worst part of the Graphics is the menus. No text is displayed for the menu's, so you should hope they can tell you what they selecting without too much effort. Sadly, the menu buttons all look horrible, so you will spend half of your time asking yourself if the thing you are about to select is a Toilet, Medicine, or something else. These Garphics are good, but could use some work.

Story 4.1/10
Some guy gives you some animal to take care of. When they die they go back to there home. Isn't that stupid?

Sound 3/10
This sound's so stupid! The music sounds awful, and does not fit at all with the rest of the game. One example of this is when your Tamagotchi dies, it plays this comical music, so you can laugh while your Tamagothci dies. The Sound Effects sound even worse. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING use a ''bleep''. So you can watch your Tamagothci die to comical music, while it rises in the air to a bunch of ''bleeps''! If your looking for Sound, look at something else. You won't find anything here.

Gameplay 1/10
Bad, real real bad. You have some options to use to raise your Tamagotchi, but usually they don't help at all.
You can feed your Tamagotchi, with about four diffrent foods that usually kill it. Then you have medicine, but that always causes your Tamagotchi to turn blue and die. You can train to make them smart with very simple math problems. You can also raise your Tamagotchi's strength with very simple mini-games. In case your wondering, in the mini-game you have to catch a balls that fall from the sky. This is not fun the first time, and is not fun the tenth time either. Then there are tournaments, but good luck getting into one. All of things above just plain stink, and you will never have any fun. But to make things worse, the Help menu is just a little better than staring at a chair. The doctor will answer all your questions, well about two of them actually. And he really does a poor job of answering too, say you asked how make you Tamagotchi stay healthy, and his reply will be ''Take care of your Tamagotchi to keep it healthy.'' So your gonna have a heck of a time trying figure out how that is supposed to help you. What is the purpose of a Help menu if it is not helpful. Another problem is it is way too easy for your Tamagotchi to die. This just scares you away from the game more. Overall you would have more fun banging your head against a wall then playing this game.

Controls 4/10
This would have gotten a nine, if only it only figuring out the menu's was simpler. Since the game relies on pictures to tell you what to do, that automatically lowers the score. It is just worse that the pictures all look identickle. Asking the doctor won't help either. So this is pretty bad.

Replay Value 1/10
It is no fun to play, and you will never want to play it again.

Challenge 1000/10
Hahaha! Beating this game is impossible, you just won't want to play this game for that long!

Buy or Rent?
Niether. Just play if you want a good laugh, or you like expensive doorstops.

Overall 1/10

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 10/06/00, Updated 10/06/00