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Talking Ben the dog is a simple time passing application that allows you to interact with a dog that’s supposedly a retired chemist. He sits on his Lay-z-boy all day reading books and sipping coffee. He is typically depressed all the time and doesn’t want to talk, but go into his chemistry lab and a new dog is born. Let’s take a look at this interactive dog application and see if it could be incorporated to your life.
Available here: Android market
Version reviewed: 1.o.1
Features for this application are shockingly packed. Downloading this free application from the market takes seconds, but to play it you have to install a fairly large file of graphics. My G2 had to download 39MP of graphic data, and that’s quite a bit for such a simple application. That seems crazy until you see the actual app. The graphics of this application are very clean, clear, and great looking. Now the dog himself isn’t very interaction and is limited in response and reactions. There are not more than 10 different reactions to touch, and he only seems to know 3 responses to whatever you say to him.
The true fun comes when you get in the lab. The game comes free with a few chemicals and when mixed together, you’ll get a pretty cool reaction. Like with the dog though, the reactions are limited to an explosion or he drinks it and something funny happens. After you run out of chemicals, the lab becomes useless, you’ll have to pay to get some more.
This application to me is a waste of space. There are many other ways to get interaction out of your phone other than talking to a dog that only has 3 words in his vocabulary. The limited amount of chemicals and requiring you to pay to get more is simply wrong and makes the application that much less attractive to me.
No; unless you’re the most bored person in the world, I can’t see why you’d waste space on your phones memory for an App as limited as this. Talking to a cat is a much better alternative regardless.