Eddie Cibrian filed for a divorce recently. Prior to smacking my head into a wall from playing this, I think I will too.
+ You can argue at your virtual girlfriend and she doesn't even care.
+ Surprisingly good graphics for a mobile phone.
- Nillistic goals and objectives.
- Repeatitive; You do the same thing each and every time.
- Your girlfriend is hideous.
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How would you like to marry somebody who does not exsist with your mobile phone!?
Ya, neither did I. Anyways, I stumbled across this while trying out The Sims 2 mobile. I couldn't stop laughing at the name, Virtual Girlfriend, so I gave the free trial of this "game" a shot. BAD IDEA. This is Artifical Life's latest mystery. While it is far from horrible, its generally shallow and (get this) pretty lame, but what can you expect from a mobile phone game. Virtual Girlfriend is good if your onward to a place where boredom is at large. Like a stranded island with no source of fun. Or perhaps my own house. Whichever way you put it, fostering yourself to be a future husband isn't as enticing as it sounds.
In Virtual Girlfriend, you play as yourself in some cheap apartment with a nameless wacky chinese disco chick with glasses portraying as your girlfriend. Over the course of the game, you spend most of your time doing stuff with her-- social interraction to be exact. The game has over 30,000 social interractions that involve talking, dancing, arguing, and some other mushy stuff in real time with real-life subjects. Its exceptionally fun to aruge and repeaditly slap her over and over again; although doing so will result in a devorce and a game over screen.
Positivness is the key to the game. If you want her to be happy, you have to keep her mood in shape (Note similarity to The Sims) and her trust lubircated, and the only way to do that is to help her with menial taskes -- for instance, one goal states that she lost her right sock, so you have to go wondering around the house, her work, and her school looking for it. Your next challange is to resist falling for another catty chick across the street. Meanwhile, you may go groccery shopping or buy jewlery, and wasting your precious money to keep her happy. Other side taskes involves cooking her meals, fixing things she breaks, taking her to dates, helping her clean, wash her clothes, taking her to the doctor, help her at work, hand over her towl in the shower, and many more painful tasks.
The ultimate goal of the game is to applaud a built-in leveling system and get your way to lvl 20 and marry her. And guess what you get to do after that! This get to be too good -- you get to do more work. Holy crap, that's amazing. To say that going fresh with a make-believe virtual chinese disco chick made me want to smash my head against a wall is a bit of an understatement; I was in a countless subvertion of contrivinces where I'd probably be miffed into a nag-fest involving giggly "replacement" plans and her 'monster-in-law' trying to alter my personality with stereotypical love potions.
The graphics are actually fantastic for a mobile phone. While it's definetly not the shiniest one on the chandiler, Virtual Girlfriend has an attractive graphic engine that uses neat reflections, window glares, and bumps/specular. Your V-girlfriend is not at all pretty, except when she wakes up from bed (Seeing her hair flipped is irresistable!) Animations are purposly limited to stick figures to make it the 'cute' feeling that chinese always go for, but in a game that simulates computer love, the presentation is iffy at best.
There's nobody that says "Buy this!", but if your really bored, a trial is as foolish as you need to be. It's a cheap date sim that comes complete with countless interractions, decent graphics, and a person to slap again and again. What pains me to think is that the pimps at Artifical Life are mind-conditioned into concocting a belief of a frightening audience all more than willing to hand their cash over to babysit a girl on a phone. But if this horrifying faction of people does exsist, they should heed this; Pick up a copy of The Sims 2 and recreate yourself and your girlfriend to your heart's postulation. You'll thank me, and I'll sleep easier knowing there will never be a sequal.