Apr 28 2009
Gardening Mama Demo, Fun?
I understand I’m not exactly in the target demographic for these games, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t understand the appeal. I just don’t get simulation games for things that are easy to do in real life. I can understand like sport sims or something along those lines, because not everybody, in fact practically nobody, gets to play a sport at the professional level for a pro team. But cooking? Really? You want to play a cooking game in which they try to get the Wii’s motion controls as close to real life as possible, but you don’t want to actually do something proactive and accomplish something in the real world by actually learning to cook?
Now I can understand kids playing Cooking Mama, because children really have no place around the dangers of the kitchen utensils and stove. But Gardening Mama? Anybody can garden can’t they? And seriously, aren’t there better things to demo on the DS than virtual bulb sorting, soil tilling, or pest spraying? I understand there are plenty of parents out there that want semi-educational as well as nonviolent videogame experiences like these for their kids. But there’s really no videogame that’s completely educational, so just let your kids have fun with Mario, because those are nonviolent and ridiculously entertaining.
Enough with the pointless simulations that just feel tacked on to use gimmicky Nintendo ‘innovations’ like a touch screen or motion control.
