Day Fourteen

James has evolved into a Kikitchi - a yellow monkey who is considered the perfect care teen. Hooray! The angel came and accepted him into school, and the present he received was a set of drums. I took him about four times today, and I plan to take him some more tomorrow before he becomes an adult. I've been slacking a bit on this generation in regards to music stats, so I'll have to play a lot of games with him tomorrow as well.

When he went into school, he met up with his band, a Chamametchi and a Hinotamatchi. Chamametchi I've had before, and Hinotamatchi is the average care teen for males. He's roundish and looks almost like Kuchitamatchi, although he has spiky hair that's dyed red at the top. I named their band 'Clams', because... Well, because.

Here is what Kikitchi looks like:

 

The funny thing is, in the Tamagotchi+Colour (at least I believe it's that version) Kikitchi is considered an adult, as is Chamametchi and as such the two are able to marry. Speaking of the Tamagotchi Colour and the ID, the Tama-Go (the pathetic attempt at localising them with only half the work involved) was ridiculous compared to them. It took the best feature of the ID and Colour, which was they were in colour, and did it in grayscale instead! I don't own a Tamagotchi ID or Colour, but I'm hoping to purchase one soon - seeing as the ID is now in English. I wouldn't have minded a Japanese one, considering Tamagotchis don't really have much reading involved, but the English one would be nice to have.

 

Also, now they're releasing a new tama that still isn't in colour, whilst Japan has already begun the marketing process for the Tamagotchi 4U, which is in colour and allows you to unlock features that previously haven't been options, such as actual potty training. But, I digress. 

James got an ice cream from the King today. I don't really feed my tamas snacks, apart from on the older ones when it was needed to play games. Mine would always end up with toothaches. He also got a visit from his mother, Alice, who gave him 15,000gp, much the same way as Pip did before that.

Emily has a job now! I wanted her to become a preschool teacher, but I guess being really glamorous doesn't exactly make you suitable for that job. She failed with three Xs! It didn't matter, however, as she was instantly transported back to the job-picking screen. I made her become a banker instead. The banker game is exactly the same as the doctor one, different only in visual design. You now collect pennies, which give you one point, and notes, which give you two. You must avoid the poops and collect one hundred in total.

I'm hoping I can get the secret character for Emily before she gets married. Once your tama gets married, they can't change into a secret character.

Also, I realised that I never explained how the training bar works in the older versions. When your tama is a baby, it starts out by being empty. There are nine slots to fill, and you gain one every time you give the correct response to when your tamagotchi beeps for something. To give your tamagotchi attention when it beeps (this is not a beep similar to that of the 'you have mail' beep in the V4/.5, it is the beep that sounds right when your tama hatches and needs food and happiness), scroll through the menu options until you reach the first option on the second row. It looks like a little face crying out.

Select the face and you will be presented with two options; time out or praise. You must use a little intuition when you first start doing this, because if you select the option that wouldn't be relevant to the tama's needs, then the lit-up sign begging for attention will disappear and you will lose the chance to gain any training bars.

Here are the general things that your tamagotchi will do and how to respond to them.

Praise your tamagotchi when:
It cries.
It turns its back on you*.

Give your tamagotchi a time-out when:
It beeps for attention and nothing is wrong (hearts aren't emptied all the way, nothing out of the ordinary).

*Sometimes, when your tamagotchi turns its back on you, this can mean you've been neglecting it. If you come back from being away a long time and your tama has its back to you, this may mean that all of its hunger and happy hearts have been depleted. Praising it in this situation will not award you any training bars. You'll know if the praising has done nothing because no happy noise will sound. Giving a tamagotchi a time-out, however, whatever the situation, will make him upset.

Okay, stat time.

Music Star (version 6)
Kikitchi - James
Age: 1 year
Weight: 21lbs
Hungry/Happy: 3/4
Stress: 4
Tone: 384
Rhythm: 416
Original: 516
Music Genre: R&B

Version 4.5
UraMemetchi - Emily
Age: 4 years
Weight: 24lbs
Training: 9/9
Humour: 45
Glamour: 173
Strength: 51

Day Thirteen

When it got to the middle of the day, I realised that it would be around the time that Alice got married yesterday, so I changed the time to 11:59pm and waited a minute so that she would leave the baby. I'm very impatient and I wanted to start the new generation today!

It takes six minutes for the parents to leave and for the lights to turn off again. What happens is that first the lights turn on, revealing the parents sat on either side of the baby, who is sleeping in his/her bed. They stay like that for ages before standing, kissing the baby and then floating upwards together. Afterwards the lights stay on for a good bit, revealing the baby sleeping, before they turn off again and allow you to check the tama freely.

I named the baby boy James, and I was determined to raise him properly. Every time he had to poop, I caught it and put him on the toilet. His hearts never dropped below three. I played games with him. His stress never went up. I checked his hearts every five seconds.

When he evolved he turned into Kuchitamatchi, the horrible care toddler! Why? What did I do wrong? -sobbing-

Well, anyway, I got over it and decided to like him for who he was. When the preschool teacher came a bit later, she gave him a toy car as a present. I'm a horrible person and haven't taken him yet, but I will tomorrow so he can crush all of the 'perfect care' toddlers into the ground with the skipping rope.

Emily also evolved today, into UraMemetchi, like I wanted! Here is what UraMemetchi looks like:

 

I think I might be going blind. Somehow it's brighter than the white on my computer screen.

 

 

UraMemetchi's close-up is actually quite horrifying, on account of her huge eyes. It's not as bad as Young UraMemetchi, who just looked like a dumbass when she was close to the screen because the light spots in her eyes were in different directions.

 

Seeing as I have a backlog of items on my V4.5, I decided to use some on Emily. The hat looks like a bandanna on her. When she plays the guitar she plays a few notes terribly off-key, so much so that I had to halt her playing prematurely because it just sounded so wrong. When she plays the drum she winks periodically. The shirt was just a normal shirt, rather boringly. I discovered that I didn't have any more uses on my fishing rod and that it had disappeared, so that was disappointing.

 

Emily is doing quite well on her quest to become the secret character. I actually don't know what the secret character looks like, but she must have one because she's basically Memetchi, and Memetchi from the V4 had one. ...Actually, I've never seen that one either. It'll just have to be a surprise! I hate surprises.

 

Stats, please:

 

Music Star (version 6)

Kuchitamatchi - James

Age: 0 years

Weight: 15lbs

Hungry/Happy: 3/4

Stress: 3

Tone: 311

Rhythm: 318

Original: 324

 

Version 4.5

UraMemetchi - Emily

Age: 3 years

Weight: 21lbs

Training: 9/9

Hungry/Happy: 4/4

Humour: 39

Glamour: 158

Strength: 51

Day Twelve

Today Alice got married! Guitartchi came at 12:30pm and brought a Kuromametchi to be her mate, and together they had a...

...baby boy!

Yay! I've been waiting for one for two generations. If I take good care of the baby when it's left by its parents then I'll get a Mametchi, as Mametchi is the perfect care adult for the odd generation male.

I bought a whole bunch of hamburgers to fill up my food menu, but now I'm starting to think that might've been a bad idea. I think that when I feed Alice hamburgers that it raises her weight by two or three pounds. She's supposed to be middle-aged, she shouldn't need to play any more games to lose weight!

I used the cap to see what it would look like on Kuromametchi and Alice. Alice looked like a jester, and Kuromametchi just put... well, he just put a regular hat on. It was still sweet though.

Since Alice is 1st in the Star Rankings, her wages have gone up, so now she receives 10,000,000gp like her mother. Speaking of Pip, she gave Alice a Tama Battery. I think I've had that item before but I don't think I ever used it. I'm not sure what it does, but I think I might look it up before I use it just in case it screws something up.

I'm looking forward to when Alice leaves the baby! Just when you start to think 'gosh, this is getting a little tedious', your tama throws a kid at you or does something interesting and you get really hyped about it again.

The Music Star is definitely a fun tama, but it's a lot of work. Even the adults require almost constant care, what with all the door visits, concerts and constant praising needed when practicing. I found out what the praising does when it beeps whilst practicing. It keeps the stress down so it doesn't skyrocket up to about thirty and leave you with an unhappy tama. Anyway, I went off on a tangent there. I might see if I want to replace my Music Star with my V3, for a bit of simple old-school action. I like the V3 and its many characters. It's another tama that I played with when I was younger, but never really got to fully experience.

Now for an update on Emily. Since yesterday when she was asked to pick a teacher I accidentally left it idle for too long and picked the wrong one, I've been having to play lots of games of Shapes. I've actually gotten quite good at it, so thank god I'm not stuck playing a game that I always lose at.

Emily is doing pretty much the same as yesterday, but with a few more training calls. Tomorrow she'll become an adult, so hopefully more interesting things will happen with her then.

Oh yes, before I forget (something that I seem liable to doing with this blog), Alice got a chest from the king today. When I used it, she already had her baby and the chest turned all three of them into oldie characters! The two boys turned into Ojitchi and Alice into the old lady! It was sweet, especially when they all looked shocked after. You know, I don't think I've gotten one item out of a chest. I've always been turned into an oldie or a baby. Does the chest still give you items on the V6?

Okay, stat time.

Music Star (version 6)
Chantotchi - Alice
Age: 6 years
Weight: 27lbs
Hungry: 3/4
Happy: 4/4
Stress: 0
Tone/Rhythm/Original: 999
Music Genre: Classical
Star Ranking: 1st
Tama Fans: 306,384,806

Version 4.5
Young UraMemetchi - Emily
Age: 2 years
Weight: 18lbs
Training: 8/9
Hungry/Happy: 4/4
Humour: 39
Glamour: 102
Strength: 51

Day Eleven

Today, Emily the Kuchitamatchi evolved into Young UraMemetchi! That means that if I play the Shapes game a lot, therefore raising my Glamour skill points, she'll become UraMemetchi, and then if I get the Glamour skill points to 350 (with 100 combined in the other stats) then I'll get a special character!

Alice received another 5,000,000p this morning. I've been calling the currency gotchi points, but in the actual tama there's only a 'p' sign, so maybe it's just called points? Well, it doesn't really matter. Speaking of Alice, she and her band also got their first Music Award for Latin today. It's taken a while, but finally it's happened.

Alice is able to marry tomorrow as well, so then I'll have a brand new generation bouncing around on my V6! Hopefully it's a male generation. Alice ended up eating all of the sushi in the food menu so now there's no favourites anymore. I still need to max out her rhythm points so that the baby will inherit the most out of her.

What's interesting about the V4.5 is that the characters that would normally be considered perfect care - that is, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi and Mametchi - are the horrible care characters. The perfect characters are counterfeit versions of these tamas - UraMametchi, UraMemetchi, etc.

Emily got a fishing rod from the king as a gift today. The fishing rod is an interesting item in the fact that it lets you use it multiple times, provided that on most of those times you don't catch an actual item. Emily caught a regular fish on her first try, so that doesn't count as an item. On her second try, she caught a massive fish! It was so big it took a few seconds to show the entirety of it across the screen! Unfortunately, the giant fish doesn't count as an item either. I'm saving the rest of my fishing rod uses for tomorrow.

On the V4.5, the child's family group is heavily influenced by the parent. If the parent was in the UraMeme group (as Kyoya was) then the child is more likely to go into the UraMeme group than it is any other group. The first generation is unhindered by this, and as such a toddler in the very first generation can evolve into any group.

Now, for stat time.

Music Star (version 6)
Chantotchi - Alice
Age: 5 years
Weight: 27lbs
Hungry: 3/4
Happy:4/4
Tone: 999
Rhythm: 893
Original: 999
Stress: 8
Music Genre:
Star Ranking: 1st
Tama Fans: 253,053,682

Version 4.5
Young UraMemetchi - Emily
Age: 1 year
Weight: 18lbs
Hungry/Happy: 3/4
Training: 6/9
Humour: 32
Glamour: 62
Strength: 51

Day Ten

Kyoya did indeed leave last night (or I suppose I should say this morning), leaving me a new baby girl to take care of. A new baby that is received from an already existing adult will not require any attention as long as you don't put in its name. If you leave it on the screen in which it is crying above a banner displaying its gender, then you can be free to go about your day in peace if you can't give it the attention it will need as a newborn until later. If you leave your tama on this screen for a few days, when you do eventually put in the name its age will correspond with the amount of days you left it unattended, although this won't make it evolve any faster.

Anyway, for lack of a better name, the new girl is called Emily. After a fairly hectic hour of baby needs, she evolved into Kuchitamatchi, the toddler with the 'beak'. She doesn't really look like a girl, so a lot of the time at first glance I mistake her for a boy.

I'm starting to get really scared when I have to open regular letters on my tamas! Emily has only received poops and snakes today, whilst Alice has gotten maybe one star with the rest also being poop. It's not so bad on the Music Star, but on the V4.5 it drains all the happy hearts!

Incidentally, if you feed your tama its favourite food, it will not only replenish depleted hunger hearts, but will fill up some happy ones as well. That can be a good thing to know, and I found it out today with Alice the Chantotchi. Chantotchi's favourite food is sushi, a much better alternative to the steak I was feeding her before. I bought a lot of steak because it was really expensive in the shop, and as such it made me feel like my tama was super rich when it ate it. I soon found out that actually, steak is a horrible investment, as it makes your tama put on 5lbs at once when it eats it!

Speaking of Alice, she can marry tomorrow. She has yet to win a Music Award, although she is consistently staying in 2nd place in the rankings. I feel like Pip would've been a better choice for the band she's in, as the other two members are Kuchipatchi and Mametchi, and the three of them together are basically Tamagotchi's mascots!

I forgot to mention yesterday that on the V4/.5, your tama can be offered another job once it turns a certain age (for Kyoya it was six, but I don't know if it is the same for all tamas). You'll get a [!] letter, and when you open it you'll be transported to the same place where you first applied for a job. Select another one, or the same one, and you'll be able to play a different minigame! As for Kyoya, I selected for him to become a worker at a gym, although I never got around to playing the minigame,

Today I used some hair gel on Alice, just to see what would happen. She grew a giant afro, which contorted and pushed her hat practically up to the ceiling with its size! It looked pretty hilarious.

Finally, it's stat time.

Music Star (version 6)
Chantotchi - Alice
Age: 4 years
Weight: 26lbs
Hungry: 3/4
Happy: 4/4
Stress: 1
Tone: 999
Rhythm: 719
Original: 999
Star Ranking: 2nd
Tama Fans: 64,817,389
Music Genre: Latin

Version 4.5
Kuchipatchi - Emily
Age: 0 years
Weight: 10lbs
Hungry/Happy: 4/4
Training: 3/9
Humour: 33
Glamour: 28
Strength: 45 (on the V4.5, some of the parent's skill points carry over to the baby)

Day Nine

Not too much has happened today. Kyoya should leave his baby tonight so a lot will be happening tomorrow, I imagine.

Kyoya got robbed twice today. I'm starting to get afraid of opening those letters because they always have bad things in them. Poop, snakes, robbers... They didn't take too much, though. A couple hundred gotchi, which can be easily earnt back with a few games.

Kyoya also got another shovel today. When I used it with him he dug up a snake! I seem to be having really bad luck with my V4.5. I had 10,000gp this morning on it, and since it felt weird to look at so much money, I spent it on some food. Later on there was a robot in the store so I bought that too! It's a shame that tomorrow the baby girl won't enjoy using it... The girls in Tamagotchis only like teddy bears. I like how in the V3 if your tama plays with the toy that corresponds to their gender, then they'll sleep with it. In later generations, the light turns off automatically after your tama goes to sleep, so you can't see them sleeping with the toy.

Alice is still going strong with her band, Hop. This morning she received 5,000,000gp as her first official payment, which isn't as much as Pip used to get. I imagine it goes up as your Star Ranking goes up. Alice's music genre preference has changed to Latin music rather than classical.

Alice received a wig from the king today, which I have yet to use. I also bought her a bow after realising that she didn't have one.

Okay, stat time.

Music Star (version 6)
Chantotchi - Alice
Age: 3 years
Weight: 27lbs
Hungry: 3/4
Happy: 3/4 (she fell asleep before I could fix her hearts...)
Stress: 1
Tone: 840
Rhythm: 605
Original: 999
Star Ranking: 2nd
Tama Fans: 370,443,561
Music Genre: Latin

Version 4.5
UraTogetchi - Kyoya
Age: 6 years
Weight: 34lbs
Hungry/Happy: 4/4
Training: 9/9
Humour: 94
Glamour: 46
Strength: 321

Day Eight

Alice evolved into... drumroll, please!

"All of the drums are broken."

Ah, uh - are you sure?

"I'm pretty sure. I'm looking at the drums right now and all of them have wang-shaped holes in them."

...Okay. Anyway, Alice evolved into a Chantotchi. The perfect care adult!

"Yay, good job."

You aren't needed anymore. That bit is over. Just get out.

Ahem. Anyway, yes, she evolved much later than I thought, but boy was it a nice surprise when I saw a nice, shiny Chantotchi instead of the Makiko I was expecting! Chantotchi is the even generation version of Mimitchi, so you can only get her on, well, even generations such as two, four, eight, etc. This is what Alice now looks like:

She looks like a maid.

 

Oh my goodness, that picture is huge. Oh well. Yes, that is a Chantotchi, in all of its glory.

 

I took her to school, where she flaunted the fact that she was now an adult in front of her bandmates, who proceeded to also evolve to catch up. It turns out the bird-tama was actually named John, not Paul. I don't know where I got Paul from. Anyway, the bandmates turned into Kuchipatchi and Mametchi for David the Kikitchi and John the bird-thingy, respectively.

 

They performed in front of the judges (their music is classical, so they performed a neat little tune I recognised from elsewhere) and passed on their first try! They were each given 10,000gp, but since Alice has already received 30,000gp collectively from Pip, that sum was pocket change to her.

 

Okay, so I just looked it up, and John's name is Nonopotchi. I remembered from previous knowledge of the v6 that he was a horrible care character for boys, and I was proven correct when I looked up a growth chart to fill in my gaps in information.

 

Alice got a shovel from Pip today as well. She seems to replace the king most of the time, and she sure gives better presents than him. Today she gave Alice some more money, a snack item and a shovel. When I used the shovel Alice dug up some terrifying-looking skull that growled at her and increased her stress. I think I would be pretty stressed too if I was digging for treasure and found a thousand lost souls instead.

 

Now, for news on Kyoya. Since I didn't take him to his job yesterday, I haven't taken him today either since he wouldn't receive a paycheck. Mostly I just don't feel like playing the Get knockoff with him today. Oh well, I guess he'll just have to let all of the sick tamas fester for a bit. I like to think that those hearts he catches are actually for transplants, so when he misses it's just, "Oh crap, I guess somebody's not getting their new heart today. GOOD!"

 

Kyoya got a visit from the matchmaker today! It was at 7:00pm. She paired him with the ugliest tamagotchi, but I didn't feel like waiting, so they had a baby and then she ran off. It had buck teeth and an ice cream cone on its head. Also freckles. It sort of looked like a potato with features and a few Homer Simpson-esque strands of hair on its head.

 

Oh, boy, can't wait to see the new baby! Oh, here it is! It's a...

 

It's a girl. God dammit. Can I give the thing back?

 

"All marriages are final. No refunds."

 

...Darn. Okay, I guess I'm having three girls in a row! Kyoya's probably feeling pretty down that he has to spend his time with so many ladies. Since he's married and all. They probably want to dress him up and stick him in front of a mirror so that he may experience eternal shame. If I had a brother, that's totally what I would do.

 

There was another chest in the shop today. Add that to the two from yesterday, and the other one today for Alice that was in the shop, then that's four chests in two days. I also had another shovel laying around in Kyoya's inventory, so it was item time. The shovel dug me up 50gp, so that was kind of awful. The first chest gave me 500gp, so that was a little better, but Kyoya got robbed earlier today and had 800gp stolen from him, so it hardly makes up my losses. The last chest turned Kyoya into a baby, which he got very upset about. He lost all of his happy hearts!

 

Okay, stat time.

 

Music Star (version 6)

Chantotchi - Alice

Age: 2 years

Weight: 27lbs

Hungry/Happy: 4/4

Stress: 0

Tone: 747

Rhythm: 438

Original: 894

Music Genre: Latin

Star Ranking: 3rd

Tama Fans: 190,337,248

 

Version 4.5

UraTogetchi - Kyoya

Age: 5 years

Weight: 30lbs

Hungry/Happy: 4/4

Training: 9/9

Humour: 86

Glamour: 46

Strength: 297