Thursday, September 18, 2008

Yeah, I play childish games. Whatchoo gonna do about it?

I went to Gamestop and reserved my copy of Animal Crossing for the Wii. Ok, let's go ahead and get it out of the way: animal crossing is a childish game. It is sort of like the Sims, except for like 6 year olds (not really, I exaggerate.) You go around, expanding the size of your house, meeting neighbors and running errands for them, collecting furniture sets, fishing, growing fruit trees, catching bugs, digging up fossils, and celebrating seasons and holidays as they come. The thing is, you are a goofy looking wide-eyed little guy (or girl) and your neighbors are all animals. Bears, wolves, porcupines, kangaroos and all other sorts of animals (there's even one that is a robot frog, if I remember correctly. And if anyone tells me I'm too old to be playing it, I'll tell them where they can put their opinion! It's a fun and addicting game even if it is stupid and pointless - that's the point of it. I have played the earlier games for the Gamecube and DS, and they were both fun and enjoyable. The new one for the Wii looks like it will have even more content and newer ideas to play around with. I was slightly upset with the DS one, because they took out the great holidays like Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving, and made up stupid ones like "La-di-da Day" and so on and so forth. Hopefully in the Wii edition, they will put the real holidays back in. I haven't played my DS version for a week or two now, so when I finally to get back on, I will probably have a lot of weeds to pull, cockroaches in my house to kill, and angry neighbors who wonder why I haven't been around lately or attended their birthday parties.

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