In the video game Dog’s Life, you take on the role of Jake, a young dog who travels throughout the United States in an evil mastermind’s pursuit of revenge. Miss Peaches despises canines and only sees them as a potential source of income; as evidence of this, she kidnaps Daisy, a pedigree dog.
The components of dogs are intricately woven throughout the gameplay; scents are denoted by lines of colored smoke, highlighting dogs’ acute sense of smell. This Smellovision mode can also locate footprints left behind by animals. It is possible to teach a dog tricks and then utilize those tricks to gain treats from people.
Jake is tasked with traversing expansive landscapes and interacting with 15 different types of dogs. The objective is to win them over to his side, which may typically be accomplished by displaying more bones than they do or by triumphing in a subgame that they are playing against him. These are similarly based on dogs; one has you unearth bones, while the other has you marking territory’ to take over an entire screen.
