MySims is about learning to live life in a bizarre town where everyone has a cult-like fascination with racquetball. This game treats its racquetball minigame like God bestowing Moses with the Ten Commandments and it has stuck with me for over a decade. It's one of the only things I clearly remember about MySims - that, and eventually living in an isolated mansion away from the villagers. The more I think about it, the more I realize MySims is actually a tragedy in which you don't fit in from the start, and your ultimate reward only alienates you further from the townspeople. A rare work of art that highlights the utterly hollow fruits of bending to your peers.

Apart from the fact that it feels like a loveless Animal Crossing, there's something that won't let me go.

In the city there is no crime, no cars or other traffic, no demos and no border controls (at least there are none when you enter the city). So why is there a policeman?

Actually, it's quite obvious. He is there to monitor the residents. Furthermore, since there is no judiciary and he alone embodies the executive, I assume that the old woman who represents the legislature has only de jure power but the game takes place in a de facto police state.

Now you can take that seriously or not.