SOURCE: KOTAKU

If you own a DS and have finally finished raising your virtual dog, then Nintendo has a game for you. Baby Pals, new for the DS allows you to take care of a baby. No, there is no baby-making mini-game. This is the DS for God sakes!

All of the baby raising fun is included. You get to feed, clothe, entertain and bathe this virtual child. Yup, basically all of the mundane without getting paid, you glorified babysitter!

I’m still unclear as to how taking care of a child on your DS could possibly be considered fun? Why kill aliens, or save the Mushroom Kingdom, when you could take care of an infant. On a DS.

Maybe Nintendo should have taken this infant raising thing to the next level. How about:

• SWAT: The Search For Elian. - In this game you burst into a house filled with unarmed people and look for Castro’s favorite Cuban son! The game wouldn’t have any re-playability because Elian is always in the closet…
• Raise A Fanatic! - A spin off on Baby Pals could go many routes. There’s the Branch Davidian Compound route, the drink the poison Kool Aid on command route and the suicide bomber route. All are fun and the end result is that same, raise your child to a man or woman and watch them die horribly. Um, yeah, that probably wouldn’t be that much fun…
• Child Labor Tycoon! - Set in modern China, put those Railroad Tycoon skills to good use with China’s renewable resource: people!
• Playground Bully! - GTA for the Toddler set.

On the other hand those don’t sound all that fun either. Well, maybe GTA on a playground, but they’ve got to be better than the Baby Pals diaper changing mini-games… Smell-o-vision anyone?

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