"When the whole world is now in the midst of an unpleasant whirlpool of epidemics, it is rare to have Animal Sen. "
Animal Sen Friends is almost Nintendo version of "Sim Life ", its latest game" Gather !" After the sale, the Friends of Animals (hereinafter referred to as "the Mori of Animals ") achieved good media reviews and initial results.
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In particular, the game is no longer a village inhabited by small animals, but rather a no-man island migration program, and the same purpose of animal residents on the island pioneer, labor, fishing, planting, social interaction and so on. The traditional series is also famous for its openness and simulation of real time, lovely style of leisure, let people experience the plain outline of daily life.
Compared with Destroy Warrior: Eternity, which is listed on the same day, Mori of Animals is as mild as your daily life.
But Animal Sen is also an addictive game.
The game is not complicated to play, players as a village, campsite, island administrator, gradually make this look like you like, inviting the living animals to live. The main operation of the game only needs a rocker, a return key, a backpack key and a universal prop use key. Games unlock more new things (small animals, furniture, shops, etc.) as you build more.
What the hell is Animal Sen playing? It`s a head-scratching problem.
There is no "customs clearance" in Animal Sen, and time is exactly the same as the time experienced in reality, creating a stronger sense of introduction. Through the collection of goods, building homes, growth, social interaction, to show off these achievements to real friends, enjoy the business after a few months of hand-made everything ," the animal`s sen "through the network connection, but also become a social means.
For those who indulge in "animal sino ", players accept the meaningless nature of the game, in baidu post bar ," moison" is called "the strongest game live a retired life the universe ".
On the Weibo and Twitter, has shown this style of painting: ignorant new players call friends to attract friends, to attract wired friends. Hands-on ability of the players have played clever, in the game to make a variety of good-looking clothing, house. And others have begun to make trouble, forwarding some interesting "moison meme" to each other.
violence shoot game Destroy Warrior and Animal Sen are available on the same day, the two games achieve an interesting contrast.
Like Life Sims, there is a strong motivation for making Animal Sen and the personal experience relationship, the producer Jiang Kousheng, based on the Gamasutra of making Animal Sen
In his interview, he started making Animal Sen in Nintendo because of his boredom with complex game-making patterns and his family appreciation:
All the games I made before "animal sino" are difficult to clear. Even I am thinking, when I am old, these games are too difficult for me! These games are also very difficult to make. As a result, I want to do some games that people of my age can also play —— In other words, everyone can play. This is one of the reasons.
Another reason is that I always go home late. My family also play games, sometimes, I get home, the family is still playing. So, I thought, they are playing games, I am also playing games, but we have no chance to play together. It would be great to have the experience that we can share something with each other even if we don`t play at the same time. That is to say, children play after school for a while, and then I get home at night and play for a while; so that even if I`m not around them, I can participate in what they are playing. In the same way, they can see what I`ve done while playing.
All in all, my idea was to create a space that would allow my family to interact more with myself —— even if we didn`t play together at the same time.
Nearly 20 years ago, to play a game without clear goals, childlike fun, is to take a certain risk, colleagues can not understand the intention of the game, they will ask "what is this game? ". And players who don`t like the airwaves wonder ," What`s the fun of this game? "Marketers get headaches ," where`s the selling point? "
Finally, with more than 30 million figures in its sales volume, animal sino became nintendo`s signature after works such as "super mario" and "genie dream ".
So, this kind of farming live a retired life, is the life that players yearn for? At least for now.
The launch date hit a special time point: an epidemic brought back people`s noisy lives, schools closed and most companies asked their employees to work at home when their country became an epidemic.
Even express delivery is no longer efficient because of the epidemic, in the face of intense logistics demand under the epidemic, Amazon told the United States of America`s "Animal Sen" booking players, physical version of the game will be delayed delivery.
As everyone couldn`t have expected a month ago, there was a call for nintendo to change policies to get the game ready for sale a few days before the final launch.
But in an interview with The Verge, one of the game`s producers, noshio noda responded:
Unfortunately, it took us a long time to plan the launch of Animal Sen, something is happening in the world, and all kinds of disasters make me depressed and sad. With this in mind, we hope that the huge number of fans of "Moonson" can use the game as an escape, in this difficult time, can also have a good time.
Players read a simple game of this meaning, probably life is really very difficult —— forced to isolate at home, oppressed by loans, unemployed and rent forced to dare not spend money, will inevitably have a sense of escape.
How rare it is to have "the Mori of Animals" when the whole world is now in an unpleasant whirlpool of epidemics.
