Yet another very popular game that I had not played, before I bought it for the DS.I watched someone at work playing the GameCube version and thought "Oh, that's cute, not sure exactly what you're supposed to do...but..."
But I am sucked into this as well, from that first taxi ride into my new town, and the life of servitude paying back my house mortgage to Tom Nook began.
It's a communication game -- you can communicate, in a way, with the animal villagers who share your town, by writing letters that they might understand (what keywords does the game recognize, anyway? mysterious...) and by talking to them in-game.
You write letters to other human characters you've created in your town - my boyfriend and I have two characters each, living in Kenmare: mine are Jax and Marie.
And perhaps the best of all, your villager can visit other towns all over the world, through the magic of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection...and trade flower-growing secrets, buy and sell, do some calm fishing or bug-catching, or just talking.
Dexter from Downtown came over a few weeks ago, admired my new Jacob's Ladder flower, and helped me come up with a less traveled place to plant it, so that it wouldn't get trampled.
So I end up every day...checking Nookington's for new stuff I haven't bought before, talking to the animals to try to get them to give me their pictures, fishing, doing some harvesting, digging up fossils to sell to the museum or donate, and sometimes leaving town for a visit.
I haven't even scratched the surface of making my own patterns...
It's a bit bizarre, but like Nintendogs, it's really not designed to be played for hours and hours at a time, and it will should continue being surprising for at least the rest of the year (unless I time-travel and spoil the surprises...)
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