Creatures Caves

Well, speaking on that point about how the 'heroes' look, you gotta admit the Creatures Online norns look creepy as sin. I don't find them cute at all. The big-eyes and cartoony grins worked in the 2D games, because unrealistic proportions don't look weird on cartoon characters. Once they started 3D-izing the games, for C3 and especially Creatures Village (seriously, what on earth happened there? Those creatures give me nightmares! Their eyes don't even face in the same direction half the time; are they supposed to look mentally slow? I mean, is it intentional? Because a big part of me thinks not!)

So now that they're fully 3D, it just looks so weird. At least their eyes focus, which is a bonus... I think? But really now. I expect to see these things in a Five Nights at Freddies game. So creepy.

Anyway... not to just post a whine, as I tend to do that a lot when it comes to this game.

I'm pretty convinced about the sort of product we'll get. I've played a lot of time-wastery browser games with "wait for the build timer, click the chicken to feed it"-type mechanics. I don't think they're inherently bad games, just formulaic. Predictable. Like virtual pet sites. It's all about the user waiting for things. But I'm sure Creatures Online is going to be an interesting flavour of this type of waiting-for-things game, at least for a while. I'm almost certainly going to play it for the 1-2 weeks it stays entertaining, until my brain realises I'm waiting 5 hours for my next egg to hatch, and sitting here clicking a flower every 5 minutes to gather enough 'coinz' or whatever to buy a Ball toy that can be used 5 times before it disappears (real example btw; I've seen the Creatures Online shop during their livestreams, this is exactly how items work).

So yeah, like I said, I'll play it. It'll be kinda fun for a while. Fallout Shelter was fun for a while, same story there. It'll tide me over until the next Grandroids demo.

(Speaking of which, Steve released a new one last week! The Gloops are now able to walk around, 'see' objects, and follow them. As they follow, they're visually mapping the island and making associations about where to find things. Then they 'sleep' and their brains organize the information into long-term memory, just like ours do. Pretty neat, although still very simplistic and mostly just a crowd-sourced diagnostic test for Steve's coding so far. But hey, they're starting to come alive, at long last!

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