What a cute game this is! You get to garden and raise animals! This game which has the most adorable appearance, however, has some really strange and horrifying aspects as well.

To say that this game is odd in the conflict it creates emotionally would be an understatement. At first, it’s just a few little worms running around. Build them a house and hey, why don’t you have them mate? Sure! And then, why don’t you have the father mate with his … progeny… Hey, what gender are these anyway? Did I just spy on them having sex? Well, that’s cool I guess. If Marlin Perkins can do it, so can I. So then more animals join and you have to feed some of your smaller animals to the bigger ones in order to make them happy or get them in the mood to mate. I guess that’s okay, they don’t seem to mind very much. The more animals you get the more you start finding that some species don’t like other species and you end up trying disparately micro-managing them to keep them from killing each other, often with little or no success. I hear there are these things called fences but I wasn’t having much luck using them. Not only are the piñatas themselves a hassle wrapped in crepe paper, but there is this really snotty lady who tromps through your garden reminding you of how inferior you are. There are a TON of shopkeepers and such to interact with that sometimes it is a little overwhelming. After a while there are even prospectors asking you to produce a certain number of your hard earned animals for them, to be shipped off to children intent on murdering them for their innards.

I might have come into the game underestimating the learning curve, deceived by the brightly colored exterior. None the less, I did spend a good 16 hours straight playing it! If anything it is extremely addicting, and I wish I had it for longer than I did. I might go as far as purchasing the game, though I do not know into what kind of dark pit of madness I may descend. Overall, this game wins the award for strangest game ever and I am glad I played it. I still think of my little murderous, incestuous, self-destructive animals and wonder how they are getting along on that little virtual farm in my console’s memory chip. I wonder longingly, and then try to think of something pleasant to even it out.

Cuuuuute!	Incest
My very own garden!	Fratricide
Strange dramatic neighbors!	Cannibalism

-Groggy