Animal Crossing for GameCube

This game is pretty fun... for awhile. If you're a SIMS fan like me, you'll like it. Basically, you are the only human character in a town full of animals. Every town is different. You buy a house, but you don't have all the money for it, so you have to work off your debt by selling stuff that you gather to the store owner, running errands for other community members, etc. You also buy furniture, carpet and wallpaper from the store owner to make your house pretty. Once you pay it off, the store owner offers to expand it for you... and it's a never ending cycle. There is a cheat code for getting tons of money from the store owner as a "gift." That's honestly the only way you will ever get your debt paid.

You can go fishing, dig for fossils, catch bugs, plant fruit trees and do favors for the other townsfolk or have conversations with them. Anything you dig up or catch can either be sold or donated to the museum. If you have a gameboy, then you can go to a special island by hooking it up to the Gamecube... but it's really not much. A second memory card will allow you to create a different town and then you can travel between the two with both cards in the Gamecube. That makes it a bit more interesting.

The game gets tedious. And the main reason I haven't played it in awhile now is because I don't want to pull all the weeds! If you don't play, even for a few days, then weeds start sprouting up all over the town and you're supposed to pull them and keep the town clean. It's a never ending battle. Basically, to avoid that, you would have to play the game every day.

This would be a great game for kids 12 and under, I would say. But, as an adult, it's addicting (much like SIMS) but a short-lived addiction.