Petz Crazy Monkeyz
Care and play with up to 3 monkeys at a time. You can breed them and create your own looking monkey with his own personality. Watch them all interact together. Use the Wii remotes to take your monkeys all over your house and teach him some new tricks. Features • Adopt the monkey(s) of your choice and take care of him: Choose up to 3 monkeys at the adoption center from a large variety of breeds, from a squirrel monkey to a gorilla. • Take care of a full family of monkeys at the same time: Help your monkey bond with other monkeys and breed them to create unique families. Cross-breed two different species of monkeys to create fantastical hybrids. • Train your monkeys: Use rewards to train your monkey and develop his personality. Your monkey can be meek, courageous, loyal or indifferent. Move the Wii remote in patterns to teach your monkey acrobatic tricks • Customize your monkeys: Dress them up in a variety of cute outfits • Share your pet with your friends: Upload your monkey to your Wii remote and bring him over to a friend's house to play with the monkeys on their Wii.
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All of this shitty history lesson to say that this game sucks balls and is probably the minimum effort you can put into a piece of entertainment and still ship it off to stores. I get Steam Greenlight and the Playstation store also have a lot of garbage, unfinished games, so it's not like the Wii was exclusive in including this kind of art. But there's something extra special in that professional developers were fully willing to release physical copies of these games on store shelves for up to $40 (thank God I emulated this).
Petz Crazy Monkeyz isn't even a technically broken game, it just lacks just about anything. It was clearly meant for young children and I could maybe see someone under the age of 6 enjoying what is essentially a simulation of owning their own pet. But when young kids are all you appeal to, you already undermine most of the value that comes with the product. I'm 100% aware a 21 year old 6'3 dude wasn't their main demographic, but damn, have the courtesy to include basic little minigames or something. I feel like even a young kid would soon begin to notice that there isn't much here and that the gameplay loop is as repetitive as it gets.
TLDR: it's not very good and I'd wager many kids would find it boring.