"The Good Life" has loads of Swerys Goofiness that I've come to love so much and the art style is quite enchanting. The slice of life-ish elements of a farming simulator are inconvinient, but I actually do not mind them too much.
The real problem is that the story here is a choppy and incoherent mess that is clumsily told, hard to follow and seems to be going everywhere and nowhere.
It jumps Genres like it's on crack. It's starts like an Animal Crossing Style slice of life sim, then goes to regular small town mystery crime thriller, then to UFOs and Aliens, then to Government Conspiracy, then to Legend of Camelot and then all the way back to crime thriller again.
... just an absolute clusterfuck.
All in all, the game just went everywhere and nowhere at the same time, making much of the storytelling feel like a pretty meaningless waste of time and energy. And Dialogue.
"The Good Life" has some effective moments and made me smile and even laugh at times, but the overwhelming feeling I had when I saw the credits roll was indifference.
The real problem is that the story here is a choppy and incoherent mess that is clumsily told, hard to follow and seems to be going everywhere and nowhere.
It jumps Genres like it's on crack. It's starts like an Animal Crossing Style slice of life sim, then goes to regular small town mystery crime thriller, then to UFOs and Aliens, then to Government Conspiracy, then to Legend of Camelot and then all the way back to crime thriller again.
... just an absolute clusterfuck.
All in all, the game just went everywhere and nowhere at the same time, making much of the storytelling feel like a pretty meaningless waste of time and energy. And Dialogue.
"The Good Life" has some effective moments and made me smile and even laugh at times, but the overwhelming feeling I had when I saw the credits roll was indifference.