Fun game, especially for the price!
I got this game primarily because it had a miniature schnauzer available as a breed(!), but I actually find it fun and a great way to utilize Wii gaming without such fast-paced gameplay as I get with Mario Kart Wii, PES 2008, or Guitar Hero III. The graphics are solid, the different locales in this game are expansive, and the tasks are numerous. Also, this game seems to be very similar in style to The Dog Island for the Wii which came out more recently (both from UbiSoft), so I recommend this one if you want to save some $$$ but get a fun-to-play game at a great value...

Not as described on the game box or the
I bought this game for my 5 year old daughter. The back of the box described exactly what she likes to do: "choose a puppy and make him cuter with clothing and accessories"; "create a comfortable pet village and guide your lovable bundle of fur through 60 fun adventures"; and "Compete against your friends in mini-games such as racing." Wow is this description ever wrong! I opened the manual and learned the game was actually about defeating an evil wolf (Ivlet) and his evil minion. Through the course of the game "enemy animals are on the way. Ivlet cast an evil spell on the animals in the fields to make them go wild and they will attack you if you get too close to them." Your puppy can actually DIE in this adventure. There is far too much evil, attacking, illness, etc. to make this game fun for a 5 year old girly girl. You can't even dress up your dog until you play the games and earn money to buy clothes - and the first game is "cops and robbers" - again, not suitable for a 5 year old girl. Re-read the product description and look for the mention of the evil wolf. It's not there yet it's the primary mission of the game! I am going to return this game as it is truly not what's advertised.

A fun game for kids
I got this game for Christmas, and I thought that it would be a fun game, and it was. You get to run around the island completing tasks for other dogs. The tasks are fun, except some of them take a while to complete and then they become boring. Moving around is different, because you point and click with the Wii Remote where you want to go instead of using a control stick. This game also does not take very long to complete. I completed it in about 3 days. The ending is disappointing, too, because you cannot save your game after you defeat Ivlet and save Pawville. Instead, after you do that, you go back to the menu screen, and the next time that you play, you are back where you were before you defeated Ivlet.

This game does have variety. There are a ton of different breeds of dogs to choose from when you first start the game. After you choose the dog, you can pick what color you want the dog to be, then its name, and whether you want it to be a boy or a girl.

If you don't want to do the story mode, you can play mini-games instead with another person or by yourself. Story mode, however, is not multi-player.

This is a fun game for anybody who likes dogs, although it does seem like a kids game.

Fun game, too difficult, must read a lot, and horrible storyline.
Bougth this to play with my 5 year old girl, PROS: She loves dogs, loves to dress them, buy clothes for them, interact with other dogs in the game, and truly looks forward to play a little bit everyday. CONS: Storymode is only one player, the storyline is too Eve and the Forbidden Fruit, in that "you" actually disobay authority to release an evil dog from jail that causes all the havock in the town that you have to fix. There is a lot of detailed reading that you must read at every step to your kid. I wish they would have made it cuter. PS: She had nightmares of the evil dog more than one night, I had to skip these scenes.

Fun for kids
My eight-year-old loves this game. She spends hours playing it. She likes creating different dogs and solving the puzzles. As you solve the puzzles, you earn gold points that allow you to buy accessories for your dog characters. She has had some issues saving her characters, and accidentally overwrote an existing one.

It's probably not a great game for adults or older children, but kids ages 6-10 would enjoy it (some reading is required).