Su-per cutesy happy fun casual gaming time!
Before this blog really kicks off, I’m going to boast that my house in Animal Crossing: Wild World is now the BIGGEST HOUSE you can get! It’s completely paid off and everything, which makes me the RICHEST PLAYER OF ALL! My house is so huge that along with the paving in front of it it takes up nearly an entire acre in the village! My neighbours’ houses are puny in comparison. Haha! Puny houses! Puny neighbours! Apparently owning the biggest house ever turns you into a pointing, laughing maniac.
Animal Crossing is one thing keeping me sane at the moment – I mentioned that before. But it’s somehow okay to be playing Animal Crossing: it’s a Nintendo game, it comes on a console and it can actually get quite complicated if you’re willing to play it that way. You can spend time really cultivating your town and decorating your house, collecting special furniture and filling up the museum. I’m cool with saying that I very happily play Animal Crossing.
Where it gets a little embarrassing is admitting that I’ve been playing more casual games as time fillers, occupying downtime between writing this godforsaken my dissertation. You know those time management games where you basically click on lots of things and line up loads of tasks and watch them all play out before rinsing and repeating with various speeds? Yeah, those.
At the moment, I’m playing Stand o’ Food 3 – yes, it’s o’ Food and yes there are three in the series – and even more embarrassingly, I’m playing it on my Nexus 7. A beautiful piece of tech that can do lots of things and I’m using it to play time-management games that basically live on flash-based websites full of adverts and dress-up dolls. I like games involving food because cooking is a hobby of mine, and I like feeling super-organised tapping and poking bits of burger to put them together. But this is all tempered with this horrible sense of shame, only equalled by the sense of shame upon amounting 5000 coins in Sushi Chop, Fruit Ninja’s fishier relation. (I’m saving up to buy a special knife).
Maybe I shouldn’t feel so bad? After all, I can blame it on brain overload and I do dabble in casual games anyway. And before the embarrassment kicks in, I feel some sense of achievement at having served 24 tricky customers in a row while the burgers are getting ever taller and more ridiculous (bun, burger, bun, chicken, cheese, bun, burger, bun). In the spirit of Cute Chronicles, it’s a simple but nice-looking game with a rather derpy-looking main character. The game also makes me feel super-organised! Like some kind of incredible machine! But then it laughs at me by awarding me a ‘perfect’ rather than an ‘incredible’ rating (how is incredible lesser than perfect?) and it’s back to all these feeling of fury and self-loathing. I’ve defeated the Reapers, how can my burger stand not be the best in town? Why do I even care? Who are these stupid customers anyway?
Send help. Or send me more Kairosoft games… I’ve rinsed all the Android ones which might be why I’ve resorted to this to fill a Kairo-shaped hole. I need to get out of this funk. My own tablet judges me every time I boot it up. But I can’t let it go… there must be gold stars all over the map! Only then can I kick the habit! My little credibility is fading day by day!
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