Fun game! Very reminiscent of old Tamagotchis. Good music and good art, and very nice presentation, though the controls do take a bit of getting used to.
Yeah... I really struggled to make non-awkward controls. I modeled it after the original Tamagotchi 3 button controls. In retrospect, I should have made GameBoy controls with a DPad, 2 main buttons and a Start/Select.