Today I played 'Build-A-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville' for the Nintendo DS, just to feel something. This is a game for toddlers, mainly, and so it can easily put an adult into a trance as the slow, peaceful music plays, and the overly long waits between dialogue stretch out before you like a highway.
The first thing you do, obviously, is choose your stuffed animal. I chose the pink cat, because I can sense her crazy personality. You then have to "rub the heart" to imbue your creature with a soul.
After this act of witchcraft, you're plopped down into Hugsville, the place where all the other stuffed animals live. There, you can play mini-games presented to you by each animal, that are, as suspected, uninspiring.
The elephant offers you a maze game. You can win a gold trophy for doing well. And it's delightfully easy to do well.
I named my character 'GLUMP', as you can see, and I think she is shortly going to be the champion of every mini-game in the village. I like that she wears a little denim skirt. A very simple outfit, but I like it. I enjoy the super boring style of the animals here.
At one point you're introduced to a rabbit who knows about fashion, and then you're asked to dig a hole. This is society. This is real. This is Build-A-Bear.
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