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My Baby Girl | 
| From: South Peak Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 540
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 90024
Model: 612561900240
UPC: 612561900240
EAN: 0612561900240
ASIN: B001DZDUCQ
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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| Features:
| • | Simulates life for baby care with as much affection and tenderness as a real parent | | • | Watch them grow, change form and develop from 0 to 14 months by using all the functionalities of your portable console (breath, voice, stylus, etc.) | | • | A pediatrician and a pediatric nurse will come to your aid and review the elementary rules to keeping the baby calm, eating, going to sleep and having nice dreams | | • | The on-screen infants will evolve during the game when your baby grows physically and psychologically, giving you a charming and rewarding experience |
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Product Description
My Baby Girl is a game that simulates life for baby care with as much affection and tenderness as a real parent. Watch them grow, change form and develop from 0 to 14 months by using all the functionalities of your portable console (breath, voice, stylus, etc.). A pediatrician and a pediatric nurse will come to your aid and review the elementary rules to keeping the baby calm, eating, going to sleep and having nice dreams. The on-screen infants will evolve during the game when your baby grows physically and psychologically, giving you a charming and rewarding experience.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Pretty educational, repetitious but addicting! January 1, 2009
AngieMe (Davis, CA)
I recieved this game for christmas and it's pretty addicting. First off the instruction book isn't very helpful, and their website suggests searching the internet for support if you have difficultly with the game. First thing you do when you get the baby is choose boy or girl or surprise! Depending on if you buy the boy version or girl version, you won't get to pick your first time playing. So since I stared with the girl version that's what I got, but once you pass the game you get to choose boy or surprise. Next you pick the ethnicity not skin color, hair color and eye color. The only problem I had at this point was that there was so preview screen, so you couldn't see what ethnicity was close to the skin color you wanted. After that you give your baby a name and they you get to see her, stark in a diaper. A nurse and doctor are there to help. The doctor helps you with the development of your baby and the nurse helps you with the home care. At first you see your house laid out and the potential buttons you have to earn to use. So first off when you're dealing with your baby there are up to 3 bars you have to fill. One is always development and the other two change with your baby's age. In order to progress to another month, you have to fill all three bars. The first two are to see if baby can hear you, so you talk to her but not too loud or she'll get upset, and to get her to hold your finger. One of the many hard tasks you'll have to do. Once you accomplish these tasks the nurse opens up more of the home and more activities, such as changing the diaper, with the wiping front to back applies, bath time, where you have to make sure baby doesn't slip too far in the water, (no she doesn't drown), and bottle feeding, which progresses to spoon feeding. There's also a play mat with arch the you can buy mobiles and activitles for. You can later go shopping for toys and clothes, and take your baby for a stroller ride. depending on what you pass, the baby could like or dislike it. You'd need to speed up or slow down. The dog and bee speed up, people and squirrls slow down or stop and they'll come and interact with baby. To earn money you take pictures of the baby and depending on the quality and cutness you earn cash, or you can send them to grandma who'll send clothes. I thought this would be a quick game i'd beat, or at least get through pretty fast, but it's not an easy game. It's repetious because the baby still has the same needs any baby does, feeding, bathing, and changing. So even though you want to get that baby to hold the toy, baby's hungry and getting upset! Another thing the game doesn't tell you, is that when you see an exlaimation point on you hand when you're trying to bath her or feed her, it means she's too upset and you need to comfort her before continuning. For a couple of hours i thought i was out of soap. Blowing into the mic, instead of talking works as well if you don't want to talk baby talk. I'm still working on this game and i've just got her to stand up, and crawl. There are 341 tasks to do and i'm only at 20 and she's up to 9 months. This is not a game you'll sail through, but it is addicting. My sister who's 7 likes changing the baby the most, and enjoys the taking care of baby part more then the accomplishing the development tasks.
I'm not sure what age group i'd suggest this for, my sister enjoys this but she's still learning to read, so I would suggest getting this for someone who can read and parents or older siblings who'd be willing to do some internet research on how to accomplish certain tasks.
I have also the imagine babyz ds game and between the two, this one is better. With the babyz game you're just dealing with the babys care for the moment, and i could never deliver then back to their parents happy. This game, there is no rush to keep the baby happy, the only thing i would like to see is the baby sleep or nap, and have the mini cleaning games you find in imagine babyz. The baby is this game is a lot cuter though!
 fun game but... December 27, 2008
M. Call
My daughter got this game for Christmas and loves it. But we are a little frustrated with it at this point. She made it all the way to 3 months with no problems, there were a few instructions that she didn't understand but I just helped her with it and she was fine. But now at 3 months when she tries to give the baby a bath, it just shows an explanation point when she tries to use the washcloth, but there are no instructions telling us what this means and no way to get past it. I have deleted 3 profiles already and they all get stuck at the same point. I have sent an email to the manufacturer, and am hoping we will be able to resolve this.
Based on the other reviews, it seems this game has quite a few glitches that were never resolved before sending them out for consumers. I just hope there is a way to get past it because it really is cute game.
When we started the game it says to choose your language and it has three flags, an American flag, Great Britain and one other I can't remember. You just touch the flag that you are from and it will start the game. But maybe they all have a point where they get stuck at and ours is at 3 months in the bathtub.
Fun game but not sure it's worth risking the frustration it might cause.
 So disappointed December 26, 2008
Wade Grana (Rochester, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been gaming for nearly thirty years, going ALL the way back to the original Atari home system, and my kids for about four years with Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo DS and now Wii. In all that time I think My baby Girl is probably the most disappointing, poorly designed, and poor supported game I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. When my daughter first started it, the game offered language selection. She tried to select English. I was watching over her shoulder as she tried in vain to select English. No response from the game. Growing frustrated, she touches the option for Spanish and BOOM! the game launches in Spanish, with no way to ever change it back. By now the game is useless to us, and my daughter has tears welling in her eyes. So now I spend two hours on Google and at the website of the publisher, Southpeak Games. This gets me nowhere. The publisher offers only e-mail support, so I submit a request for help to them, but no reply was ever received. Eventually, after wasting several hours of my life, I packed My Baby Girl up, returned it to Toys-r-Us, and insisted that the game was defective and demanded and got store credit. No game from this publisher, Southpeak games, will ever get a penny of my money again. In thirty years of gaming, this is the worst experience I've ever had.
I'm all with the other reviewer who suggests buying your daughter a doll instead of this game. You'll be doing her and yourself a VERY big favor.
 Adorable!! December 11, 2008
Jennifer (MN, USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Even as a mother with a child of my own, I still have that little girl inside that likes to play with dolls and, having a son, I don't get very much opportunity! I originally picked up Imagine Babyz on clearance and was very disappointed with it. It was put on the shelf after just a few days. My Baby Girl, however, has me hooked!
It lures you in right from the start with adorable graphics and real baby babble and cooing. The interface is very easy to understand, so much that my 3-year-old has no trouble getting around and figuring out what to do. Also, the baby is very interactive. You can stroke her cheek and she'll close her eyes and smile as she coos, or rub her tummy and she'll laugh. The purpose of the game is to guide your baby through her first 14 months by helping her reach certain milestones which are spot on as far as real baby development goes. You will do things like get her to grasp your finger, help her sit up as she develops head and neck control, hold her hands as she stands up for the first time, and so much more. Each month has you teaching your baby something new and it is always enjoyable and even a little exciting to see your baby do something new for the first time. Your goal is to fill her development bar which slowly fills as you teach her new things and seems to randomly go up from doing other activities as well. Though you can't advance to the next month until she's fully learned the new skills, even if the development bar is full.
You can't just teach your baby all of these skills and move from month to month, however. Just like a real baby, she has needs that will need to be tended to. She will give you visual and audible clues to let you know what she wants, but if you let it go unnoticed long enough she will make it very obvious what she needs via a flashing icon. She needs to be bathed, diapered, and fed frequently.
Each activity is pretty detailed in how things have to be done. The bottle needs to be shaken until the "formula" is mixed, and the bottle needs to be held at just the right angle so the baby doesn't get too much or too little and needs to be readjusted as the bottle empties. Diapering is just like the real thing and even requires that you wipe the baby's bottom the right way! Bathing adds a very real element as the baby slowly slips and you continuously have to stop and slide her back up so she doesn't swallow any water. Throughout all the activities, the baby can and will get upset if things aren't done the right way. Washing her too fast will upset her, as will feeding her soup without blowing on it to cool it down first. Once upset, you'll have to stop what you're doing and talk to her and/or cuddle her to stop her from crying before you continue. It really mimics caring for a real newborn in almost every way. That said, it should be no trouble for a child to figure things out as the controls are very responsive and intuitive.
Other activities, though not required, include taking walks, playing on the play mat, changing her clothes, and going shopping. Every activity takes you to a new area. On the optional walks, your baby will see things she likes and does not like. You should move quickly past things that scare her and stop to let her see things she is interested in. It is a little bit tricky as sometimes they come by rather quickly and you may not have time to stop. The play mat is an interesting touch and looks like like a real play mat with arch you'd find in a store. You can even choose from many different toys to hang from the arch, which you buy at the store or can receive as gifts. Shopping gives you the opportunity to buy clothing as well as accessories and toys for your baby. They get quite expensive so will take many many hours of play to acquire them all.
Which brings us to how you make "money" in the game. It's not money, but "stars" which you earn by giving pictures of your baby to a store. Each picture is ranked on a scale from 1-5 bears, depending on how cute the picture is. It seems that the more expensive the complete outfit is, the better the picture. Thus pictures taken in the bathtub or when changing diapers are always ranked 1 bear. The store will give you more stars for "cuter" pictures which you can then use to purchase items at the store.
Alternatively, you can send pictures to Grandma, who will immediately send you a gift of either clothing or toys. Grandma is also picky about the quality of the pictures, and will send you less expensive items for lower ranked pictures. There's also a limit to how much she will give. If you send her enough rank 1 pictures, she will eventually stop sending you gifts for them because there are no more items in that price range to give. The same goes for all ranks. Grandma also gives gifts at the beginning of each month, and sometimes her gifts are ones that can't be bought at the store.
That pretty much sums up the game play, which I hate to admit is pretty short. It should take no more than 6 hours to complete the game. However, once you've completed the game with the original gender, you unlock the opposite gender and also the ability to be surprised the next time you make a baby. When you make another baby, you retain all the clothing, accessories and toys you had acquired previously which lends to the replay value for those who like to collect all the items. I would estimate it would take at least 5 plays through the game to acquire all the items that can be bought in the store, and that's not including the special gifts Grandma gives that can't be bought.
The only con to this game is it's brief length. Your kids can easily finish this game in one night. Also, one minor gripe is that you can't keep your previous baby's photos that are taken at the end of each month to keep track of how she's grown. Once you have another baby, those pictures are lost even though the game recognizes how many babies you've had by displaying it in the upper right corner of the interface. Your helpers, a pediatrician and nurse, can also be rather annoying but that's coming from an adult who has raised a real baby. Being preached at for not holding the baby right while giving her a bottle is intrusive and annoying, but necessary when first learning how to play.
I've read on countless websites that people are having trouble with various points in the game. I've found that when you're having trouble teaching your baby a new skill, talking to her while trying usually works. The baby needs constant reassurance and you'll be talking to your DS all the time to keep her happy and comforted.
All in all, it was absolutely worth the money I paid for it and it looks like it's going to be very hard to find this holiday season.
Very Cute DS Game! November 23, 2008
Illig family Zoo
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought the boy version of this game and it is very cute. It can be frustrating at times, because the things you have to teach the baby have to be pretty precise. Graphics and sound are done very well. For people wanting to buy both versions...in the instruction book it says when you finish the game (which ever game you own) it will unlock the opposite sex and then you can choose between a girl and a boy. Have Fun!!
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