Five labor-intensive games to play on Labor Day
by at September 6, 2010 4:00 pm
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Just to keep you in the “working” mood, I have picked out 5 labor-intensive games that can be played this Labor Day (September 6, 2010). Too bad you won’t get paid for it.
1. Cooking Mama or Gardening Mama (Wii and DS)
Both games are interactive and involve a lot of work. In Cooking you have to mix, flip, sauté, chop, mince, you name it, to food. In Gardening you have to plant, water, dig, root, and seed flowers and other plants, and you have to decorate your garden. Geeze, I’m sweating just writing about it!
2. Farmville (Facebook and IPhone)
No one can deny that farming is hard work. Planting crops, harvesting, then selling crops, tending to your animals, raising a barn and a hundred other things. All while sending gifts to your friends and making sure you collect all the pieces you need for the various things you need to build. Real farmers don’t even work this hard.
3. The Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series (Wii, DS, Gamecube, SNES, Gameboy Advance)
These games are similar to Farmville in the sense that you have to do all of those things I listed, only it’s not as easy just clicking a few buttons. You have to actually move your character around the screen, too. Plus, you also need to talk to people and develop relationships (possibly intimate ones depending on the game), work small jobs to make money while your farm is developing and help out your neighbors with whatever they need done. In Rune you have to do all the above plus fight off some annoying monsters that are attacking your farm and town. Who wouldn’t want a day off from that?
There are about a billion Sims games but SimCity was the first so we are going with that. In this game your main goal is to build an entire city. You have to include towers, houses, streets, grass, parks, fire departments, police stations, football stadiums, movie theatres, everything that a city would have. Also if you play scenario mode, you have to worry about issues like tornados, earthquakes, and even Godzilla destroying your city. But at least it’s union work.
This one is probably one of the earliest forms of “god strategy” games (like the original Warcraft and Black and Whitegames). You play as a deity who is aimed with the task of shaping a civilization by adding landscape and buildings, like in SimCity, but here you also have to maintain control of the people through direction, manipulation, and even divine intervention. Eventually you will build up an army and have them attack the opposing armies, which is lead by an opposing deity. It’s good to be a god.
Site [Harvest Moon Otaku] Site [SimCity @ EA]
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