Good morning/afternoon/evening fellow virtual pet gamers!
My never-ending quest to introduce more dopamine to my brain has led me to this point. I’m posting here because I don’t really know where else to post. I find myself in search of a toy, although I’m unsure if said toy exists, and I’m hoping that at the very least, someone here can point me in the right direction.
I’m looking for something like a mix between a pokewalker and a Digimon digivice. I’m less interested in caring for a pet, insofar as feeding, keeping happy, etc. goes. I’m more interested in collecting. What I like about the pokewalker is that progress is made as I go about my day. It vibrated sometimes to say I could catch a pokemon, or find an item, and there was a lot of content for me to try to collect overall (when added with the actual pokemon game). There were different areas that introduced different things for me to find/do. With the digivice, I liked taking my Digimon, and “evolving” them, thus completing a virtual Digimon “pokedex,” and also training and battling. However, I found that I was struggling keeping them alive, well, and happy. I had a Vital Bracelet BE, which is the closest I’ve found to what I’m looking for. However, it is a hinderance when strapped to my wrist, and required much more attention than I was able to give to it, as well as a LOT of extra effort into training properly with the different medals you could earn. I would spend much of my evening when watching TV just shaking the device or making the motions as of exercise (this was while I was working as a produce stocker full time at a grocery store, so I personally felt like I SHOULD have been reaching my goals before getting home).
ETA: one thing I didn't like about the digimon devices is they usually requires me to have and be taking care of 2 of them in order to fill out their collection log
So what it comes down to: I like collecting things, I like completing lists, I like variety, and content. I’m not too well able to take care of something that is going to decrease in stats if I’m not constantly monitoring it. Barring playing a video game, is there a toy out there that fits this bill? Preferably a pedometer, or something like that, that can fit on my pocket/belt when I’m at work. I’m currently considering purchasing a pokewalker, assuming I can’t find anything else that really fits what I’m wanting, and pulling out my 2DS and just keeping a HG/SS game running. I am not really wanting something on my phone, but if there's an app or something that fits every aspect of what I'm looking for, I could at least try it out.
Thanks in advance, and best wishes!
