The 3D graphics are lovely ; all the cartoony visitors walking around your towns is cute. This helps Make the game feel more realistic. The music for the game is what I would imagine upbeat Japan style music to be – it is real pleasant at first, but I is the same melody that continues to repeat, after a while you want to turn the volume down. The bright colors, and sounds have an inviting quality to the game. This should help players feel more relaxed and comfortable.
Loading Screen
In the beginning, there is a small tutorial, which I did not find very helpful or useful; but since I have played other games of this genre I already knew what the base objective was. The base objective in this game genre is to create the largest, and wealthiest city. You do this by creating businesses, houses, attractions, and other building to collect taxes, and earn experience. Players are given objective or quest to complete such as build a hotel. By completing these objectives players will gain money, experience, and sometimes energy. Some objectives ask you to acquire a specific animal, you will have to wait for these animals to appear (sometimes hours apart), and they will be marked with a green exclamation mark over their head. Once you tap on them, they are flown away, and the objective screen will appear stating you collected "x" out of "X".
Objectives to Complete!
Some small differences in this game verses others of this genre are you have shops instead of buildings, hotels instead of houses, icons are different in this game as well. The menu button ( where you pick to build or place items) has a bed to represent your hotels, a Ferris wheel representing farm like areas, a shopping bad to represent restaurants, etc. Other differences include: the experience gained within the game is represented by a pink flower icon, and energy is a white hut. These differences made the game a little difficult for me to play, as I had trouble understand what each icon represented, and what each building was. Half the time I wasn't sure if I was buying a shop or restaurant.
Once one of these businesses are bought, there needs to be an employee running it for operations. These shops and restaurants can also be set up to hold sale's events ( this will also be one of the objectives to complete within the game). You can hire the in game character - Monggi, the monkey, to work in the shop part-time; there is also an option to spend premium currency for a part-time employee or hire a friend. This is part of the social aspect within the game. Players can also visit Monggi's town, random town, or a friends town to do chores. Players can also send tourist to these other town to help increase business. This will help the player gain experience, and energy points. Players can also invite other friends to play with them, and create their own towns.
Shop Upgrade! Is this a shop or restaurant?
Like most building genre games, as you increase the level of your town more objects will become available to build, or set up. In Japan Life, there is a mini game which becomes available for play at level 7. You will access the mini- game through the airport, which is built at level 5. I have only played one of the mini-games so far. There appear to be others, but I guess I am not high enough level to access those yet. The one mini-game I am able to play is like a slot machine type game, but I have yet to complete a set, so I really do not know what rewards you can receive. I do know there is wait time between plays, unless you spend the premium currency to quickly reset the game.
Mini Game Screen Shot!
There are a few things I would like to point out about the game; but these are all based on my personal experience with Japan Life. First, The objectives or quest system seems to be a bit messed up to me, as I have worked on 2 quest multiple times, and did not receive credit for it. Example: You are asked to complete 5 shop sales – I have had several shop sales, and all for different hours, but I only receive credit for holding 2 shop sales. Another issue I have with the game is I am not sure what all of my buildings are or what they do, I mean, I know there are 2 shops, but not sure which is a restaurant and which is a store. So when dealing with the objective quest mentioned above, I had to hold sales on all my buildings which allowed sales, to make sure I held the sale in the correct building. Another issue I had with the game is more of an annoyance. There are ads not related to the game at the top of the screen, which I have yet to find a way to remove completely. Some of the ads are for Blackberries, others for ITT Tech or other places. You must be real careful not to tap on them by accident, because you will leave the game instantly, and go to the site of the ad. After awhile of attempting to play Japan Life, I still have some issues understanding what some icons do, and the purpose of others.
I found this game to be beautifully presented and inviting, but lacked common symbols universal to this genre of game. The lack of symbols combined with the lack of explanation made this game more difficult to play. This in turn made for a frustrating time playing the game, meaning I did not enjoy the game as much as I could have. I rate this game a 4 out of 10, but give caution to all those thinking of playing the game.
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