Once upon a time, on an inexplict island, a senile, old man and his 2 grandkids noticed several objects hurtling towards earth. Thats where you actually get to play. After a very long start up story and explination of how to walk, ect, you set off to do various odd-jobs to earn mony to buy items off a tv informertial network to earn points to buy items to protect the earth from obects like the classic meteor, to ghost pictures.
Now, if you're into story, then pay attention to all the dialog, because there is actually a nice storyline to this game, but if you want to play a game rather than watch a movie, tap A untill the dialog boxes vanish. This game has incredible replay value, despite its long blah's, with over 50 jobs (minigames) to play out of a randomised choice of 9 every day.
The games themselves seem to be games in their own, so they are games within a game within a game, and the quality and fun doesn't skimp out either, with pressing buttons in the correct order and precision quickly as an interpreter to translate some guy's (michael jackson?) garbled language, to playing photoshop as a game creator, to smashing everything in your path as you swing as a goalie, protecting the goals.
And if you accomplish enough, you don't just wait till the time limits over, you actually want to over achive, because you can get promoted (newbie<pro<expert<master) and actually earn MORE if you go better, stronger and faster. once you complete your days job, you awake the next day to do anouther randomised set of 9 jobs.
Once you earn enough, you will be able to purchase uniforms to try different jobs, support items so it is easier to succeed/harder to fail, depending on the item and souvineers to put in the memorial hall so you can attract more people (and some jobs), for the perfectionist.
The multiplayer factor is mediocre at best, because you can only play 9 jobs (it doesn't let you pick out of the 50) but don't despair, try practice mode with hotseating (''see, I earnt 500 bucks in fishing, beat that''. Hand to next player) and that seems to work well enough for multiplayer, but the game truly shines in single player.
(so far) I have sacrificed 36 hours of my life to this game, and I'm not even half way done. Yes, I have no life, and yes, I am addicted to this game and I need help but it is really that fun, and I'm surprised at its' lack of popularity, I couldn't even find a review here so i had to write one!
And, just like real life, every day is randomised at the beggining of the day, so dont even think about resetting to beat the rambling gambler at cards or trying again to beat your devil sisters bet and earn 3x pay. Oh, did I forget to mention your days usually gets special themes? Good ones and bad ones, sometimes your devil sister will bet you to beat last days score and get 3x but if you lose you wont recieve a penny, or sleeping in to only get a choice of 3 randomised jobs, to your ''helpful'' grampa buying you things without permission at a markup (remember pokemon crystal?)
Also may I note the difficulty, when you are a newbie, every minigame is SO EASY, as you progress to pro and expert, however, even veteran gamers will be challenged, so it balances itself out for both non-fluent gamers and pro-gamers like myself. On a sadder note though, wrist pain a the plenty.
Now I preffered the report card style at the end of a review, so here goes:
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| GR REPORT CARD |
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| + Fantastic replay value (seriously, so far 35 hrs) |
| + Awesome Story |
| + OVER 50 MINIGAMES |
| + Well balanced difficulty |
| + Each day different |
| + Good motivation to achive |
| + Good graphics |
| + Don't even notice loading times |
| + Daily events |
| + Decent multiplayer if you hotseat practice mode |
| - Blah, blah, blah |
| - Every 50 minutes, need visit to chyropractor |
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| GRADE: |
| A |
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First review, would love to hear how I did.
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