Ok, so we kinda caved a bit this weekend and downloaded the new Wiiware Final Fantasy game “My Life as a King.” I might be a bit of a sucker for both the FF mystique and also for a shiny new city builder. And this is definitely both shiny and full of Final Fantasy goodness.

You start out, a child king, walking into an empty city with your two advisers- Chancellor Chime, and Sir Hugh. After a quick chat with the giant glowing crystal in the middle of the town’s main square, you get right to work effectively summoning houses (thus conjuring a population to live in your city) and other assorted buildings. The twist to this RPG-lite is that you can’t go clearing out the dungeons yourself- you must commission adventurers and send them off to do the dirty work for you while you stay in town chatting up the common folks and basically waiting.

The game is divided up by days (Chime also acts as nanny, sending you “to bed” to cycle through the days,) and at the beginning of the day you issue behests, thus telling your adventurers what you want done. I’m only about a ‘month’ into it, trying to collect buildings from the dungeons so that I can find out about the shadowy monster mastermind, and solve the riddle of what happened to the old king who disappeared mysteriously years before.

I’m really enjoying this game, and look forward to the inevitable million or so hours that I will be lost to it entirely instead of participating in “Real Life.” Hell, I was barely able to tear myself away from the game to go out to a Jonathan Coulton concert last night, and man, I’d have missed one hell of a show. I didn’t know that three average-to-geeky guys could remove clothing that fast!

Stumble it!

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