“Mother, can I’ve Animal Crossing?” “No, now we have Animal Crossing at dwelling.” Animal Crossing at dwelling: Hokko Life. This meme was working via my head whereas I performed Hokko Life.
I’m not against video games taking inspiration from different video games. For instance, Stardew Valley is impressed by the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons sequence. Nevertheless, regardless of taking inspiration from an present property, Stardew Valley manages to have its personal identification by doing issues in a different way and even bettering on some facets of the unique inspiration. I don’t really feel I can say the identical for Hokko Life.
Like in Animal Crossing, you’re a solo human in an anthropomorphic animal city and are tasked with repairing and respiration new life into it. The animals are type of off-putting to me, particularly Moss the Giraffe; they seem like Animojis or animatronic animals. Additionally they don’t have a lot when it comes to appeal or attention-grabbing personalities. You slowly progress as you do duties like chop wooden and provides gadgets to individuals. At occasions, it may be exhausting to inform what you’re imagined to do to progress the primary narrative. So, I simply talked to individuals and did chores till one thing mildly attention-grabbing occurred.
One of many large issues in Hokko Life is crafting. You’ll want to cut wooden and make it into lumber to make use of it to make furnishings for others or for your self. The assembling may be very gradual and sluggish to manage, which makes it practically insufferable. You may paint the furnishings and place it in your home or the animal villagers. Additionally, you will end up needing to plant a LOT of bushes to have sufficient to cut to progress within the narrative.
Different actions you are able to do are catching, fishing, and farming. Whereas I wasn’t capable of check out the farming, as it’s a mid-game characteristic, I did strive my hand on the different two. Catching bugs is the primary one you unlock; you press the A button to catch the bug, however your character swings the online back and forth, which may take just a little bit to get used to. Fishing is among the extra attention-grabbing options to me as not solely do it’s a must to watch for the shadow of the fish to chew your line, however you play just a little mini-game after getting it hooked. It’s important to transfer the analog stick up, down, left, or proper as directed, but in addition, it’s a must to watch out to not push it an excessive amount of and construct up rigidity to interrupt the road.
General, Hokko Life is a bland shell that desires to trip the coattails of Animal Crossing with out doing something to face out or be distinctive. The sport could possibly be extra polished, with lag and bizarre decisions in digicam zooms, although not outright horrible sufficient to get mad at. Whereas the visuals don’t look unhealthy, the music is forgettable. A mean recreation at finest, its $19.99 launch worth means I can’t actually suggest it.
