The Cuteness Train Went Full Speed and Cut the Breaks
There are two very strict criteria that must be met in order to become a happy home designer:
- You must be happy.
- You must design homes.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer gave the gaming world all the necessary tools to become the interior decorators we were all meant to be. It may not have been enough to many, as it was just one portion of what made the standard main entry Animal Crossing games fantastic, but it brought joy in spades anyway. Don’t lie to me and tell me you haven’t wanted to design little homes for anthropomorphic, and slightly judgmental, animals all your life.
The cuteness didn’t stop there. Nintendo brought Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash to stores and jammed it into our hearts. Seriously, Chibi-Robo has to be up there with Wall-E and BB-8 for being the most painfully adorable robots. Fortunately, the game was also great, with the “zip lash” mechanics offering a nice twist on the general 2.5-D platforming, giving Chibi-Robo an adventure unlike any of the previous titles, but a great one nonetheless.
