Oh man. I bought this game today and now it's 5 hours later.
Crack. Haco Life is crack.
The basic premise is that you have these squares, and you have to cut them up to make boxes in various ways.
To be honest, when I first saw footage of the game I thought it looked pretty lame and a little too outside of my puzzle solving abilities. So I didn't buy this game till today cause I beat GCCX2 and had nothing new to play. Now that I got it though and got to play the game a little, I'm seeing boxes everywhere. The game is separated into two parts, a puzzle mode called "Trial" and a free mode called "Factory." Trial starts you out with one way to make a box and presents you with 10 challenges, cutting up sheets of squares to make a set number of boxes per stage. As you go through trial it gives you more and more ways to cut up and build boxes which makes the different trials harder and harder. As you beat the trial your status in the company goes up and you get new types of clothing for your avatar.
Oh yeah, this whole game revolves around this isometric pixel art guy and his box of a house. I'll get back to this in a bit.
Anywho, after you play trial for a bit, you unlock the Factory mode. The factory mode is essentially a big huge sheet where you are free to cut up boxes how you will and you get money for the amount of boxes you make plus some extra stuff. The thing you need to be careful about is that if you leave extra squares, eventually youll have to drop them off and you end up paying for the wasted material. Also in this mode are bombs that drop and if are left alone destroy the surrounding blocks. If you wrap these up in boxes you get 5000yen per bomb. As you play this mode you get money that buys you stuff to go in your house. The first thing I got was a little fern to go in my garden, it's pretty cute, if I do say so myself.
If you have a DSi, and you have 500 wii points, buy this game. It comes with the sp0rsk guarantee of awesomeness.
On the other hand, Nalaku was really disappointing. Hacolife is definitely the better of the two. HacoLife is the best Art style game on the DSi at the moment, easily. I think.
Here's some video I found on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2ujljXK1Y
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