Penpy

Penpy Virtual Pet

I sort of already knew what this pet was after reading a tiny bit on tamamenagerie.com, but not all the details! I really like the packaging as you can see in my photos it's got all kinds of little adorable penguin images and it's colorful and even the directions inside were detailed and had little pictures as well, which is a nice break from the standard boring english instructions we tend to get from virtual pets.

The casing is pretty, it comes in a few colors, red, yellow, purple and a couple others I believe. It's a different shape from the typical too a little bit oval. My only big beef with this design is the buttons are plastic and sometimes not super responsive. I found myself pressing down harder to get it to respond. I just never really liked plastic buttons.

The pet itself is adorable, you set the time and he goes through a hatching phase and bursts out of the egg. At the beginning much like most gyaoppi styled virtual pets he's just a floating head, but a cute one for sure. 

At the top of the screen your first option is food, and again like any gyaoppi you have three choices, fish, icecream? and water. 

Then the next is the first game which is fishing, you have to time it right and pull the fish out! Very cute animation for this and a nice different game. 

The next icon is the health icon. He hasn't needed it yet, especially since I just started him up so for now he just says NO!

Then of course we have the typical discipline icon which I also haven't been able to use, but i'm fairly certain it'll be the same animation as the gyaoppi one, i'll edit if it isn't.

Then we have the second game which you can't play right away, it's something that opens up later when he grows up but you basically kick a soccer ball around! Very cute, it, I imagine looks a lot like the sticker on the front of the packaging :).

Then for the bottom row of icons you have the smiley face icon which when selected shows you his happiness. I thought it was kinda funny that they had a separate icon for just happiness...but i've seen this on one other gyaoppi styled pet I just can't remember which one. 

Then the toilet icon, which you can see from my pictures when selected after his made a mess it shows a big toilet and then another picture which I didn't show saying WC: "WC is water closet, I believe? It's an older term for washroom/bathroom (in regards to your penpy review)" -Beetleboo lol. When he does make a mess you'll see him sort of looking side to side with an unhappy face and the poop right next to him on the ground.

The second to last icon is a penguin (again cute) which is where you find all your stats. Age, weight, hunger, discipline and sleeping.

The final icon is your light on and off, I'm not entirely sure if he will fall asleep on his own and then you have to put him to sleep or if you can just put him to bed anytime, I will have to figure that one out. Regardless it's pretty cute, he sleeps in a fridge :).

the alert icon is the last one and that goes off for all your basic virtual pet needs

So far it seems like a rather simple pet, a little less demanding maybe than even the dinopet, but it's very cute so I am anxious to see what else happens. I would recommend this pet to anyone who loves non tamagotchi vpets, though maybe suggest running it along with something more demanding to keep from getting bored of it.

Thanks for visiting and let me know if you have any questions about this pet or any other virtual pets!!!