What initially feels like a shallow, sterile, and aggressively pleasant game transforms into something serene, cosy, and enriching. This can be anything from clothing to homeware, and it ensures that the plainly tween town of Hokko becomes more and more a place with your own personality stamped on it. You draw up plans, drag and drop the shapes and colors of the object you want to make, and adjust in minute detail. The item design options that you eventually get to have the capacity to be utterly engrossing. It soon becomes a pleasant game to dip into every now and then, and sometimes find yourself losing a few hours to because you thought of a really interesting design for some furniture. Hokko Life’s relative flexibility and freedom may be something of an initial burden, but it really makes the most of the ‘do as little or as much as you like’ mantra. Powering through the first season or so and then relaxing the pace once a sizable amount of tinkering options become available. So is it down to just two choices really? Either accept the trade-off and power through to the meaty part, or construct a self-enforced limit and take it on in little chunks? I think it’s a bit of both. Fortunately, there’s worth in going with the former. It’s either, ‘gee-willickers! I’d love to!’ or deleting the game. After meeting a couple of the residents (a pink elephant and a giraffe) at the local Inn, you get asked about staying on a more permanent basis. You are a person who falls asleep on a train journey and ends up in the equally sleepy town of Hokko. Hokko Life PS4 Review A Sterile Start Gives Way To Cosy Charm In This Cute Community Simīefore I end up going down that rabbit hole, I better get back to what Hokko Life actually is. Just why are these anthropomorphic residents so bloody keen to give you a house for nothing, and make you convince others to join their dead little town? It’s just a Wicker Man/Crypto Bro away from being a confirmed Cult Sim.
It out-wholesomes its inspiration to the point it kinda swings around into creepy cult territory. It does all those Animal Crossing things, throws in a few Stardew Valley bits, and doesn’t make you wait a whole actual day to build something and there’s no money-grubbing git trying to cripple you with debt the minute you get into town.
That’s the mantra behind cutesy community sim Hokko Life, but is it worth the effort? Wonderscope’s Hokko Life is a friendlier Animal Crossing.
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