Feeding is the simplest, with you guiding a portion meter up and down the screen for five different food types to guess how much of each different dish your current pet will prefer. There are three different touch screen mini-games – one apiece for feeding, grooming and bathing. And taking care of them yourself means you'll be needing your stylus. The Very Important Pets demand that you yourself handle their needs, instead of just sending them off to a salon station like the normal, average customers. Where the DS system's unique features come in is with V.I.P. And, expectedly, there's another version of this game on the GBA that probably does just that. The core action is fast and pretty fun, but plays out a lot like a Game Boy Advance game would. Playing Puppy Luv ends up being a strategizing dance between building new rooms, tending to the needs of current customers, and watching the clock to make sure you're collecting enough rent money from guests to cover your daily maintenance expenses – if you ever hit zero dollars in your bank account, it's game over. So, to meet the needs of your cat and canine clients, you can also transform other empty rooms in the hotel into feeding, grooming and bathing stations. If you just let them sit in their rooms and don't attend to their needs, they won't check out, and that means you're missing other potential customers because of your lack of vacancy. Now, the animals who come by and check in to your hotel rooms want to be pampered. To make more dough, you'll need to upgrade the accommodations into five-star luxury apartments. There are low-level rooms to construct that only cost $100 a piece, but then will also only bring in that small amount in rent from animal tenants. There are several floors of empty rooms, and you can purchase these rooms, for a fee, and transform them into hotel suites suitable for dogs and cats. You're only given a short amount of time to start making money, as the clock counts down immediately after you start off in any level. It's unique in the sense that Puppy Luv is closer to a Dog Salon Tycoon game, rather than a virtual pet title.

Though you certainly wouldn't expect it going in, Puppy Luv is an engaging sim experience that positions you as the proud proprietor of a puppy-pampering penthouse property, and tasks you to turn a profit as quickly as possible from the many pretty pets that prance in through the front door. Luckily, it's a pretty entertaining wolf.

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