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Golden Sun playlog: Sol Sanctum
Nov. 6th, 2006 12:42 amWhen I last posted about Golden Sun I'd just gotten Animal Crossing, and, well, there went the neighborhood. I must report through my own addiction that despite being kiddie-cute, AC's really not a game for children.
Not only does it demand you put tons of effort and time into your game - if, for example, you don't check in every day to water your town's flowers, they'll die, and a week of no play will not only kill off all your town's horticulture
(an investment of months and months, by the way) but bring roaches to your home - it's extraordinarily consumerist. Every interaction with the neighbors centers around the acquisition of goods, whether you want it to or not. Talk to a neighbor - they'll give you a wallpaper. Write to someone and give them a gift; you'll just get something back in return. You sell most of them, and yet some pieces are so charming that you end up keeping them, and soon your house fills up and your cupboards are bursting, which means you need more space, which means talking to the shopkeep for an addition to your home and paying off the mortgage through about a month of bug-hunting, fishing, and shell-scavenging - during which time you'll have acquired even *more* stuff and need even *more* room which means...yes. I have currently have four rooms and still have about twenty items left out on my front yard.It's an enormous time sink, and I would never let a little kid be so tethered as the game demands. I'm quitting myself. Just as soon as I get my fifth room.
Anyhow, Golden Sun. I just finished the Sol Sanctum dungeon and got the heroes out of the first town into the big, wide world. There are ( three big problems so far, I think - )
Not only does it demand you put tons of effort and time into your game - if, for example, you don't check in every day to water your town's flowers, they'll die, and a week of no play will not only kill off all your town's horticulture
(an investment of months and months, by the way) but bring roaches to your home - it's extraordinarily consumerist. Every interaction with the neighbors centers around the acquisition of goods, whether you want it to or not. Talk to a neighbor - they'll give you a wallpaper. Write to someone and give them a gift; you'll just get something back in return. You sell most of them, and yet some pieces are so charming that you end up keeping them, and soon your house fills up and your cupboards are bursting, which means you need more space, which means talking to the shopkeep for an addition to your home and paying off the mortgage through about a month of bug-hunting, fishing, and shell-scavenging - during which time you'll have acquired even *more* stuff and need even *more* room which means...yes. I have currently have four rooms and still have about twenty items left out on my front yard.It's an enormous time sink, and I would never let a little kid be so tethered as the game demands. I'm quitting myself. Just as soon as I get my fifth room.
Anyhow, Golden Sun. I just finished the Sol Sanctum dungeon and got the heroes out of the first town into the big, wide world. There are ( three big problems so far, I think - )
