Post by Max Takeshi on Dec 15, 2013 1:30:29 GMT
So, it's that time of the year for awards and such.
What be the games ye find favour with this year, then?
Maxi's Game of the Year
This is the third iteration that I have played (skipped the DS one), and this is undoubtedly the best by a large margin.
It is amazing how a game which has no point is so compulsive. One of those virtual life sims where the allegory seems to be to not let a Racoon own you.
My house... by the middle of the river...
Go about your business as the mayor of your town by granting resident requests to build new things, talk to those animal residents and forge strong bonds, go shopping to get items for your house, rearrange it how you want, and be graded, go bug catching and read the silly puns, visit an island and smack a strange mechanical lawnmower thing a few times, fall over when you're having a bad luck day, try to be successful in Gracie's Fashion Check, and so much more...
Including spending New Year with fictional animals.
For a game about nothing it has everything.
What marks this out from its predecessors is that some stubborn limitations have been relieved; more holding space, a more practical inventory system and just all round more user friendly. Also the mayor business of deciding what ebbs and flows in the village is an almighty hook.
It gets everything right for what it does, despite not being a colossal change from others in the series. Streetpass functionality is a real draw, with you being able to check out the homes of those you pass (and order most furniture from it).
Soon those racoons will not be needed, soon...
So it's something of which I have greatly admired this year. Having now spent an insane 194 hours in my town doing nothing of any real benefit says something about its magnetic pull.
Some won't like it, others may not find it click with them. But having chosen it as the free download promotion game from Nintendo this summer, and thus having it always on the system, makes it the best free game I have ever come across.
So, yeah, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, for me.
You?
What be the games ye find favour with this year, then?
Maxi's Game of the Year
This is the third iteration that I have played (skipped the DS one), and this is undoubtedly the best by a large margin.
It is amazing how a game which has no point is so compulsive. One of those virtual life sims where the allegory seems to be to not let a Racoon own you.
My house... by the middle of the river...
Go about your business as the mayor of your town by granting resident requests to build new things, talk to those animal residents and forge strong bonds, go shopping to get items for your house, rearrange it how you want, and be graded, go bug catching and read the silly puns, visit an island and smack a strange mechanical lawnmower thing a few times, fall over when you're having a bad luck day, try to be successful in Gracie's Fashion Check, and so much more...
Including spending New Year with fictional animals.
For a game about nothing it has everything.
What marks this out from its predecessors is that some stubborn limitations have been relieved; more holding space, a more practical inventory system and just all round more user friendly. Also the mayor business of deciding what ebbs and flows in the village is an almighty hook.
It gets everything right for what it does, despite not being a colossal change from others in the series. Streetpass functionality is a real draw, with you being able to check out the homes of those you pass (and order most furniture from it).
Soon those racoons will not be needed, soon...
So it's something of which I have greatly admired this year. Having now spent an insane 194 hours in my town doing nothing of any real benefit says something about its magnetic pull.
Some won't like it, others may not find it click with them. But having chosen it as the free download promotion game from Nintendo this summer, and thus having it always on the system, makes it the best free game I have ever come across.
So, yeah, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, for me.
You?