But there are some differences between “The Sims” and “Simlife”. “Sim Life” is a streamlined, partial-text simulation game. Although it can’t control the character's freedom of movement, it doesn't affect the game's gameplay.
Let's talk about this mobile game.
Gameplay
As a simulation game, it pays great attention to the core element of "cultivation". It is necessary to simulate the six parts of the character's residence, occupation, food, health, game goals and mood.
Different from other similar games without a main line goal, Sim Life can experience a variety of careers, and ultimately the main goal to achieve, open and unified coexistence.
It is not difficult to get started with the game. The focus is on management. It needs to take care of the mood and health of the character. It needs to take into account his food and clothing, career income and the knowledge level of receiving. Each aspect complements each other and influences each other. Long-term work in a certain job, living in a certain environment, diet a certain level of food, will affect the mood and health of the character, if the mood value and health value drops below 50, it will start to prompt the player, if you don’t care about it, then the mood value and health value will accelerate to decline, finally the game over. Just like in real life, a healthy body and a positive attitude can create wealth better. Of course, players can choose different ways of entertainment and exercise to respond to different levels of mood and health.
In addition, the replacement work needs to meet the conditions: the last job is at least x months, you need to learn xx courses, you need to equip xx car and so on. A lot of settings in the game will make you feel the same, for example, income will not rise because of simple work experience, and the salary after the change may not even be as good as the previous job. Before you change, you must learn the necessary skills and knowledge of the industry. The learning system is quite real. It is not just click the screen to accept, you need to learn differently according to different courses. After purchasing your favorite car, you will need to pay a monthly fee. This fee may be for fuel, maintenance and insurance.
Of course,the "girlfriend" is indispensable for a simulation game . Players need to pay for their girlfriends in time and money to maintain their relationship with their girlfriends, to ensure that this relationship can go on in the long run until the end can form a family.
Compared with other games on the market that have joined the "girlfriend system", "Sim Life" clears the focus - the game character is the need to develop the object, not the girlfriend. It is worth mentioning that "Sim Life" also extended "girlfriend" to the "family" and sublimated the gameplay.
In "Sim Life", it is not only one way to make money through working. When we have surplus money, we can go to the "futures market" and look for opportunities to buy at a low price and sell at a high price. You can also unlock the card game in the back, and you can get wealth.
Game experience
I have played is about 20 hours. The overall feeling is still very interesting. The biggest advantage is that the sense of substitution is strong. It is completely through your own efforts that from zero to hero. Although game over for several times, depressions or bankruptcies that leads to the end of the game, but I still enjoys it. Making money, finding a job, studying, buying a car, and finding a companion. It makes me feel a new life to train myself. Later, I knew how to play well that the game character reached 40 years old. Through study, promotion, I finally got into the 10,000 yuan, extracted luxury cars, and a beautiful young lady to be a girlfriend. From the original simple environment, wearing worn clothes, now to eat well, sleep well, I feel that I am really going to the peak of life, step by step to achieve the president's goal.
There are also advertisement settings that are worthy of praise. The form of clicks is different from other mobile games, and there is no frequent jumping out of the advertisements, which makes the game experience decline.
A simulated business game that makes people feel real and has a sense of substitution is qualified. However, the shortcomings of this game are also obvious.
The setting of the mood and health values in the later period is somewhat unreasonable. At the beginning, the values just reduce a little bit, but late, the values reduce too many that i only can pay attention to the mood and health all the time. I hope that developers can modify the values to make the game more normal.
Then, about the choice of career. Only vertical career choices are not in line with common sense. According to this, when you become president, you can do anything. I hope the developers can change into a horizontal career choice and let the players can choose their job what they want. After all, life is so long, it is impossible to be only an industry.
General
In general, "Sim Life" is a good simulation game. The simple and refreshing interface has the right to choose the right for the playback of the advertisement; the easy-to-understand novice tutorial allows the player to get started quickly. The pattern of partial texts more intuitively reflects the various needs and desires of the character and the monthly income and expenditure. The process of the game experience is very real. Although there is no strong dynamic impact, there is still a sense of tension accompanying the players. In order to survive better, we need to constantly plan for each step of the future.
I hope that developers can see my suggestions, make some adjustments to the game, and expect the game to get better and better.
