Lucy can get very annoying on the testing screen since you'll have to constantly hit a text box in order to listen to her. After every single test, you will have to hit a text box twice to perform the next test. There is no way to skip her talking and get straight to another test.
Once the problem area is found on the animal, you will enter a mini game (possibly) to help treat the animal. Why did I have "possibly" in parentheses there? Well, because sometimes Lucy just simply tells you that she will treat it, end of story. If she doesn't tell you that, then a mini game will begin and Lucy will fill you in on how to treat the little (or big) critter.
The mini games range include injections with the stylus, rubbing anesthetics, attacking red blood cells, pulling objects out of animals' bellies, rearranging broken bones, and pulling teeth, among others. The mini games can be fun the first few times, but many of them get old fast. Some of them appear much more than others so some of them get plain annoying. They repeat quite often also!
The animal's tension gauge will move up while you treat it and if the tension gauge reaches max then you'll have to calm the animal down. The worried animal will lie on the counter and you can rub it with your trusty stylus; stroke from tail to head to calm the poor animal down. As interesting as that might sound, this can get old too when you keep screwing up on a certain mini game because Lucy doesn't explain it well enough. I messed up on the injection mini game about seven times in a row and had to calm a laughing hyena down the same number of times that I had failed.
As already mentioned, the zoo will gain new animals based on your performance and that is where the main fun of this game lies. Animals can also be simply viewed, allowing you to read a biography about each of them. These facts can offer some fun digest for as long as you receive new animals. Once you start to run dry on new animals then the game gets boring, very boring, as you struggle through the same mini games over and over.
The overall graphics look rather standard for a DS game. Animals actually
look and act like their real world counterpart. The sounds for the animals are
lifelike as well. The main soundtrack for the game however will make you want to
mute it after about a good thirty minutes of playing it. There is a tune for
viewing the zoo that plays until you get to the actual treatment, and then a
treatment theme begins to play. Those are the two main pieces of music that you
will hear during gamplay and they get tiresome quickly!
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