The Spring Festival holiday is approaching. If you are looking for a game to kill time, in the simulation game “Real Estate Master 2” launched in December last year, you can renovate a dilapidated house and clean it in the game.
Speaking of real estate in Taiwan, it is a sensitive issue. Since the “shellless snail” movement 30 years ago, the hope of owning a house can be said to be one of the dreams of every generation. However, due to various reasons As well as human nature, there will always be people who cannot buy a house, and there will always be people who want to get rich by speculating in real estate.
The main feature of “Real Estate Master 2” developed by Frozen District is that it allows you to decorate your own dream home, paint the walls and design the interior, make it beautiful, and then resell it to earn the difference. .
Well, that’s exactly what the game description says.
However, the author’s thoughts after spending two weeks here are: This is actually a cleaner and foreman simulator, a new treatment option for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The background story of the game is actually very simple: the player moved back to his hometown from a big city and wanted to become a real estate renovation expert to support himself, but found that his parents had abandoned their hometown and moved to the beach to live happily. Not only do you have to take care of this old home that is too big for two people to live in, has no one to clean it up and is extremely ugly, and you have no money and no job.
In order to earn the first pot of gold, players will cooperate with a local renovation veteran “Tom Marino” and take over projects from him to earn commissions so that they can find ways to renovate their dream home.
The game is divided into two modes: sandbox mode and story mode. In story mode, the game will slowly introduce you to various new jobs to familiarize you with various functions and game systems.
For example, at the beginning, the senior introduced a case where “after the decoration was completed, it was turned upside down by raccoons.” The whole room was covered with raccoon footprints. Flower pots were overturned, pizza cartons were torn, and the TV was stepped on. Overturning is a disaster, and what the player has to do is to restore the house to an orderly state.
Shit, according to experience, it may take a day to clean the footprints on the wall and glass alone, not to mention the mud marks on the furniture and the broken soil scattered in the gaps. If this is done in reality, it will be guaranteed tomorrow Can’t straighten my waist.
But in the game, players are simply invincible cleaners, and all dirt can be removed with the rags and wipers in their hands.
Clean a floor in two or three times, throw all the garbage and debris into the trash bag at hand with one click, and shoot three-pointers at the trash can outside. You can also get money for scoring consecutive goals, plus sweeping. I can finally get 2,000 US dollars (assuming it is US dollars, because it only costs 1,000 to buy a table), which is so happy.
Alas, it is a game after all. This level only allows you to sweep the floor and familiarize yourself with the operation. There is also a rodent book on the floor “Even Idiot Beginners Can Sweep the Floor” to teach you how to become a cleaning expert, which is a bit funny.
Immediately afterwards, the next commission came from the senior without any concern for your waist: to help the sloppy designer Ms. Yang, who has just moved into a new home, organize the housework and unpacked luggage that she has no time to unpack, so that the room looks like a room.
When the player arrived at the scene, he saw that except for the workbench, which was in a mess and barely looked like someone was living in it, the furniture in the kitchen and other rooms had not been dismantled at all, and the bedroom was filled with empty food boxes that had not been lost. Just thinking about Xiao Qiang’s behavior. The author’s PTSD is about to break out.
The game basically specifies that different rooms must achieve different goals, such as how much garbage should be cleaned or how much dirt should be erased. Stars can be obtained according to the degree of completion. The higher the stars, the more rewards you can get;
On the other hand, players can also finish the minimum work and walk away. After all, when people say unboxing, the box is opened. No one wants me to help you put out the furniture, right?
However, when I was cleaning up the mess, the author’s obsessive-compulsive disorder began to show up: This work table is messy enough…well,Although the game does not requirebut it would be okay to tidy the table, right?
Papers should be stacked together, and pens, penknives, and paints should be arranged in rows. (Cannot insert the pen into the pen holder, bad review)
Unused files and utility knives should be placed in the tool box.
The finished cup should be placed in the kitchen.
Finally, put the slippers in order.
I don’t even bother tidying up my desk.
Don’t look at me with that weird look, I guarantee you will also have obsessive-compulsive disorder attacks while playing.
As the game progresses, players will begin to receive more strange cases, and various renovation functions will be enabled. For example, they can do water, electricity and electrical appliances, knock on walls to do soil and water, paint floors and wallpapers, and choose to Purchasing furniture for interior design is truly a real estate expert.
And almost without exception, almost every house is full of garbage. Just collecting garbage and doing detailed cleaning, even if the player is the invincible cleaning king, it will take a while before he can start to do other tasks satisfactorily. It is simply impossible. Imagine how long this will take in reality.
However, in contrast, “Real Estate Master 2” is very comfortable in terms of operation and simplifies many real-life decoration actions (otherwise I tell you that it takes at least two hours to apply primer after painting, which is guaranteed to be tiring) Kill you);
Players will not be asked to do certain tasks repeatedly. Each story level will bring new functions to players, or allow players to have certain discretion (furniture only specifies the type, not the material and color, and can match the style). You can also change the color of furniture instantly, which is a great gaming experience for a simulation game.
And although the story component is not heavy, each level has a specific background story and link designed.
For example, if you want to redesign a basement for board game enthusiasts where good friends can play together, your daughter volunteered to renovate the bathroom but ruined it and asked you to clean it up, or your grandma wants to transform the attic into a room where her grandson can stay when he comes to play. etc.
Each case actually has its own theme and details, and these details are the important components of “home” in these stories, which are very thought-provoking.
At the end of the game, when the player has earned enough coins to buy a house of his own, the ultimate question of the game will appear: What do you want to transform this house into?
Or put it this way: What is your imagination of life and the pursuit of happiness? Is it postmodern urban style like a professional? Or is it a rustic style full of flowers, plants and natural flavor?
I believe everyone will have an answer of their own, and maybe you can find your answer in this game.
Currently, “Real Estate Master 2” is available on Steam, priced at NT$646. It is definitely a good choice for you to spend time during the Spring Festival.
