I imported Animal Crossing: Wild World. It’s kind of like the Sims, except with animals. You wander around, catch fish, dig up fossils, talk to people, send them letters, buy furniture and try to pay off the absurdly huge mortgage some crafty raccoon by the name of Tom Nook has saddled you with. Today, there’s a fishing competition on in my town.

It’s a curious game with no real point – there’s no way to “win”, as such, and there’s no real guide as to what you should be doing; you just sort of bumble along making friends, designing shirts and doing interior decorating (I got a space station, but it took up too much space so I sent it to Nibbles the Squirrel; I notice he hasn’t put it in his room yet, either).

But despite the lack of objectives and that, it’s strangely addictive – especially with the addition over the Gamecube version of being able to visit other players’ towns over the internet. It’s silly, cute and quite fun. It also has one entire screen on the DS devoted to showing blue sky whilst you’re wandering around. How can it not be great, eh?

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