![]() These do weave into the narrative at points, but the games themselves aren't particularly good. The arcade houses a few minigames to enjoy, such as a rhythm game, a racer, and Gobabots, a game about throwing more fruit into a blender than the opposing team. While it's all very whimsical, there's little to do in any of these locations, save for Button City itself. You can do this fairly freely, exploring the arcade, your home, a café, the park, and more. The world is split up into numerous miniature diorama-like scenes, and you teleport between them. Again, the characters that make up the world are fun to interact with, but there isn't really enough here to sink your teeth into. The trouble is, basically everything else is a little lacking. It's all extremely sweet, with a simple but heart-warming story keeping things moving along. Playing as Fennel the fox, you're new to town and wind up friends with a trio of regulars at the titular arcade. I’m not sure if this is due to the fact that the game was designed for PC first, or it has to do with how touch-screen functionality is available on the Switch but often times when trying to interact with an object Fennel would kind of dance around until he was in the right spot to trigger the interaction.Button City is an adorable little game about a cast of cutesy animal buddies and their arcade-going adventures. Trying to interact with objects can be a bit of a crapshoot. There are some moments of noticeable looping within the soundtrack which comes off a bit amateurish, but I’m willing to forgive it.īutton City suffers a few other flaws as well. Audio is equally minimalist, but not always in the best of ways. In the looks department, Button City utilizes a simple, minimalist polygonal style-combined with a pastel colour palette and lack of line work that gives it a distinct look and adds to the charm and personality that is overflowing in the story. “ Button City is an adorable, interesting, fun little game that doesn’t ask for much, and doesn’t overstay its welcome.“ But like I said, the gameplay isn’t really the main focus of the game, and it’s inclusion just adds more to the story-like the NES games in the original Animal Crossing. The games themselves are fairly simple, rEVolution Racer doesn’t seem to have more than one track Prisma Beats does have a few songs to unlock in both simple and hard mode and players can purchase different Gobabots to use within the game, sort of like toys-to-life. The deeper gameplay resides in the three main arcade games: rEVolution Racer, a drift-focused racing game Prisma Beats, a Step Mania style rhythm game and Gobabots, an arcade style brawler where players fight to get more fruits in a blender than their opponents. Players will mostly be talking to characters, interacting with things for minor objectives, and watching the story unfold. Gameplay is simplistic, which works for a game that is definitely more interested in telling its story than the “how-to-play.” For the most part, players guide Fennel around multiple little areas, be it character’s houses, the Button City Arcade, a Café, and many more. It’s the kind of thing that’s great for older players, who are going to get these themes, but the game doesn’t try to hide some sadder details from kids, expecting them to be mature enough to understand, or have things explained by their parents. There were so many moments within the story that start out as fun little romps, but then display a lot of thought and depth. It’s such a tragic little detail, and does so much to flesh out Chive’s character. “There were so many moments within the story that start out as fun little romps, but then display a lot of thought and depth.” ![]() As she builds the mod in her room, her grandfather comes in and refers to Chive by her mother’s name-implying that he has dementia, or possibly Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() It’s a cute little bonding moment that does add dimension to Chive as a character, but there’s a moment where you go back to her house, and are told not to bother her grandfather who is watching TV.
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