Animal Crossing: New Leaf vs Banished
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is one of the newer Animal Crossing games mainly because of its most recent free update which includes all of the new features and amiibo-related features from Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (it's something like an expansion). This means you'll be able to simply tap on your amiibo figures and cards to invite them to visit your town in your game to to get them to move in. Of course, the same features that had made the series great are also present in this game, including the fun customizing aspect of your character, home and town.Animal Crossing: New Leaf was literally given a new lease on life with the brand-new update and has renewed interest in this 2013 game. If you own a Nintendo 3DS, you might want to check this game out!
Banished
Banished is a medieval-themed city-building simulation that can be pretty difficult to get into at first mainly due to its many nuances and lack of a comprehensive tutorial. But once you get the general idea of how things work (we'd recommend starting with easy mode), you'll start to truly appreciate the game as the challenge that it is. In some way, this game is quite similar to SimCity in many ways with the obvious difference being the themes and the lack of piping, waste management or electricity. Different maps will pose a different challenge and of course, the bigger your village is, the more stuff you'll need to manage. Although it does have some strategy elements to it - mainly in the form of village management, the game is not a war game. There is no fighting involved but your villagers will die from natural causes or disasters like illnesses or famine.However, once you've gotten the hang of the game, Banished becomes less of a punishing game and a bit more boring due to the same-y looking buildings and the soundtrack. When it comes to replayability, we'd say that the game has maybe tens of hours in it before you'll get bored and move on to the next game... and this play duration may be drastically reduced if you happen to be a pro SimCity player.
So, in short, Banished will appear to be a somewhat frustrating game at first, but once you've gotten the hang of it, the game might gradually becomes boring mainly because there is nothing else to do except to expand, expand and expand! However, we can't say that we didn't enjoy playing the game, and even for the shorter play duration it has to offer, as opposed to triple A city-building titles, the game is worth the money it costs.