The pets seem to come from the world of My Little Pony, which isn't surprising because Hasbro is also responsible for those horrific characters. We can also mention the idiotic characters that perform in countless commercials for text messages, because the design of them is mostly the same, meaning bland and stupidly cute. They are so cute, it's actually kind of scary. I once heard there are fruitcakes stupid enough to pay good money for those text messages with annoying rabbits or hamsters in it. Since then, I always sleep with a baseball bat under my pillow. You never know when those lunatics could be lurking at your front door.

But we were talking about Littlest Pet Shop unfortunately enough, and although I can't imagine any serious gamer actually waiting to hear it, it's my duty to inform you about this bland game. In Littlest Pet Shop, you own some sort of garden where a lot of these so called “cute” creatures live quite peacefully together. You can choose out of all sorts of pets, going from ice bears through cats, dogs and horses. Instead of shooting new holes in the animals, you have to make sure they are happy and fit. Well woopidoo, isn't that a treat. By playing frustrating and boring games, other pets and new items are found, and so the horror continues.

The game has the worst controls since forever, making it even more gruesome to play. Forget about using the nunchuk to move your pet because EA didn't find it necessary to implement this. You have to steer your animal with the directional pad on your wii-mote, and that's a pain in my already very bored ass. You can't move the camera either, so when you have to find something in your garden, you have to guess its position. I ask you, who came up with that? EA must have thought those aren't issues for gamers that still go to kindergarten, and they are probably right. But hey, I'm only doing my job here, and it sucks, even if it is meant for 4 year olds.

The graphics are sober and simple and more or less ok, and the menus really are practical. But the fact that you can't move your camera does make the graphics more or less irrelevant. I wouldn't even call this a game by any means. Yes, you can play minigames, but they are all uninspired and mediocre at best. Most of them get old after one minute, and I don't even believe small children will enjoy this, because it's just really unfunny.