Mailbag 2026: Review Scores, the Death of VR Games, How Games End Up Bad, Favourite NPCs and More

... Interesting. I could see the possibility here, yeah. Tomodachi Life, for people who don't know it, is kind of like, I don't want to say it's Nintendo's The Sims, but it's sort of a halfway house between Animal Crossing and The Sims, in that you make a little me and they move into an apartment, or it was an apartment block in the last game, and other me's move in, other people you can make, like, celebrity me's to live with. ...

... I think I played like, what did Kezel say she played in Japanese? Was it Animal Crossing? I think it was Animal Crossing. I don't think it was Animal Crossing. Because I remember thinking I played Animal Crossing. ...

would make every displayable on your PAL machine. And it's like, yeah, you don't have to do this anymore. People just download shit now. It's so much easier. They don't know the board. The best free gift I ever got from a games magazine was Cube magazine gave away, I think maybe a sample of freeloader just to let you play Animal Crossing. So it's like if you import Animal Crossing, this disc will let you play us Animal Crossing on your UK GameCube. So specific. Yeah. But I think that's a great gift. Like, here's…

in the 3DS days? Yeah, I don't know if it's like a like an all time favorite or anything. It's an interesting curio. It was certainly a great game when you're working on magazines, because just to you know, fill people in it's like, sort of Nintendo's I'd say Nintendo's take on a social sin that isn't Animal Crossing. It's a bit more like The Sims in that it's about lots of little humans living together and interacting together, except all those humans are me. So if you are a magazine editor with no games to…