At first look, Hokko Life undeniably bears a sturdy resemblance to Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s juggernaut series of existence sims. Both video games are set in an idyllic little metropolis, populated by means of animals who walk and speak and live out lovable approximations of human lives.
Both put an emphasis on farming and adorning. Like the villager player character from Animal Crossing, you have got a touch ax. The obvious similarities, you’ll note inside the video above, do no longer stop there.
But Animal Crossing has simplest ever been playable on Nintendo machines. There’s a vacuum for that precise flavor of game in the PC and mainline console ecosystems, which Hokko Life has purported to fill. Last year, quickly after it became available in early get right of entry to on Steam, Kotaku Australia mentioned that it didn’t quite feel meaty sufficient to justify public availability.
