Animal Crossing: Just like the Sims...on Crystal Meth... I review the gme: AC. The best living sim out there.
In related news, I recently played through the game, Animal Crossing for Gamecube. While I'm not one for girly games (despite the fact that I played through hit title: "Barbie's Pink Jihad of Fashion Embroidery" and won on legendary difficulty), I will say this: when you pop-in the game for the test-run, you will not leave the chair you sit in until every single bug and fish is collected and until every cent of your debt to Overlord Tom Nook is repaid.
The game is simple enough--Its much like the sims except without the vague sexual references, thought, and human beings. You play the part of either a viking or an Austrian maid straight out of the cast of The Sound of Music depending on whether you choose to be male or female. You occupy your time by buying stuff for your house and collecting beetles, butterflies, and various other fish and insects. Above all, however, you get the privledge of running errands for neighbor animals and for the Head of the Evil Animal Empire himself, Tom Nook. In all honesty, however, you will be spending most of your time finding things to sell to Overlord Nook to pay-off the debt of your house.
Everyone in the town is an animal, but that was not a problem with me, I have two sisters. The only thing that made me cringe was the way they talked. Don't get me wrong, Im not bigotted against my British neighbors despite the fact that they can't speak a word of English (what the hell is a "sticky wickett," anyways?), nor against my skater-kid neighbors who always call be a "bra", but I cannot stand these animals' speaking voices. They sound like a stuttering, mumbling 8 year-old
on helium. I have already put up with that voice for 10 years (my brother's voice just started changing 2 years ago, thank the Lord!) and having to deal with it here, again, was like realizing that the soothing light at the end of the dark tunnel was just a freight train coming my way. The voices just got worse and worse until they sounded more and more like that of Hillary Duff (the horror). I decided that if they were going to make me suffer, it was time that a little hate entered this "cream-puffed animal safetyworld" through me. As much as I tried to burn down the demons' houses with my tiki torch furniture, it was impossible and I regret to say that I returned to my house and wrote them all letters of surrender. I accepted their terms and their language and am now fluent in "Hillary Duff"...er..."Animalese".
Whatever you like, Animal Crossing has it for you. If you wish to pretend that you're a 5-year old girl, go for it (you sick pedophile, you). If you wish to, say, cut down all the trees in your friend's town and declare yourself dictator for life on his bulletin board, its just a trainride away. All in all, Animal Crossing has something for everyone in it.
HeadshotJackal's Rating: I gave this game 8/10. You know the game is damn good--even though you're embarrassed to admit that the real reason you left the frat party early was to sell your stockpile of turnips to Nook before they spoil.