Tabikaeru: Travel Frog vs Talking Ben the Dog
Tabikaeru: Travel Frog
Tabikaeru: Travel Frog is a Japanese simulation game that, in some way, depicts the journeys of an adorable little frog as it travels around Japan. The interesting thing about this game is that you have absolutely no control over what assumingly is your pet frog. It may decide to go on a trip any time it likes, disappearing for hours or even days. It sometimes sends you postcards or photos of the places it went to and the animals it meets, and bring home some gifts when it returns, but sometimes, it does none of those. In some way, you can learn more about your frog through its travels.The game also has a clover garden where you can collect clovers, the virtual currency of the game. You can collect 30 clovers every 3 hours or you can buy more clovers using real cash. Sometimes, your frog will bring home some clovers for you too.
As simple as the game is, it blew up in terms of its popularity at least among East Asian countries mainly because slowly makes the players, especially the 20-somethings, realize that they are actually the wandering frog in this story and that their elderly parents are at home eagerly waiting for their return. After all, in this game, you are put into the role of a parent to some extent - the person who prepares food, tools, and amulets for the travel-obsessed frog whenever it returns home. Also, the game brings the "idle game" genre to a whole new level.
Tabikaeru: Travel Frog is a game that's perfect for players who just don't have a lot of time to play and yet still like to have a very undemanding and interesting virtual pet of sorts... and for any young adults who are working away from home, be sure to visit your parents often! They miss you as much as you miss the frog when it's on its travels.
Talking Ben the Dog
Talking Ben the Dog follows the success of Outfit7's other talking pet simulators by present you with a wisen old dog named Ben who happens to be a retired chemistry professor to keep as a pet. Being the old dog that he is, you'll really need to bother him a lot before he will stop whatever he is doing - probably reading the day's newspaper in his favorite armchair - and pay attention to you. You can then talk to him, pester him with pokes, good-humored slaps and tickles, or eve have a phone coversation with him.As he is a chemistry professor, you can have fun doing all sorts of fun and incredible chemistry experiments with Ben if you can get him to his little chem lab. Best yet, you can record your hilarious interactions with him and share them with your friends!
Talking Ben the Dog may not exactly be the usual sort of cute, adorable and possibly hyperactive virtual pet that many games often provide, and it is this stark difference that had helped this game rocket into fame. After all, there isn't a lot of game where you can keep an old virtual pet as opposed to the many that let you keep a young pet.