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"Oh wow! I hear there's going to be lots more co-operation in this one! Anything you can tell me about that? Do I still get to play a part? Why are you staring at my head?" - Fanny Franker
Golightly: (Dear readers, I couldn't help it. Never mind your Jelis and Dragonaches, the post office lady's head is one of the most grimly fascinating spectacles around.)
This new product indeed features a surfeit of co-operation, with a second person able to control a separate 'cursor' and help out in the garden to allegedly fill a magic meter. Magic, I ask you! Something called 'Xbox LIVE' is also employed, where other gardeners' blossoming plots can be visited or whimsical contests entered, while socially or technically disadvantaged players may yet take photographs of their accomplishments and 'upload' them to a 'server'. The sending of crates to friends remains in place, so do not fret over your treasured post office duties becoming sidelined!
"What's all this about printable trading cards? I don't like it. A little Robean told me that even if I get some, I can't charge for them. Are you trying to drive me out of business?" - Lottie
Golightly: I urge you not to shoot the messenger, Mrs. Costolot. The so-called Piñata Vision cards can be made from a photograph of something in the player's own garden, or acquired in one of the cunning ways in which they've been distributed, not counting the one that comes packed in the box, which isn't very cunning. They are indeed a free venture, but can only be read by an Xbox LIVE Vision Camera, whatever one of those is - maybe you could work around the other gratuities by selling the hardware in your shop? No?
"Okay, look, I've got people demanding refunds because this Pester guy keeps coming in and smashing their top-quality Piñatas. Tell me he's not as much of a major drag in the game as he is in real life, and if he is, that there are ways to keep his dirty hands off the residents." - Gretchen Fetchem
Golightly: A run of no less than three intimidating ladies! I was most uncomfortable at the time, old-fashioned sort that I am. Conversely, Poncho thinks he now has a hot date lined up with Ms. Fetchem. I fear he misunderstands the impact of his unusual and occasionally startling body language.
Early word has it that Pester is indeed being a 'major drag' to players of the new interactive product. Its creators point to its subtitle as evidence that things were never going to be easy, but offer some basic Pester prevention tips regardless: decoy Piñatas and hefty dips into the coin fund can both prove fruitful, while the Limeoceros and Dragonache garden residents both have properties that the Professor may find... off-putting. There are always ways and means, my dear woman! What? No, that wasn't intended to be patronising. Unhand me! I shan't be locked in a trap for a week... again... |
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