Animal Crossing: New Leaf vs My Time at Portia
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!
My Time at Portia
My Time at Portia is a charming fantasy-themed adventure RPG that is set on a gorgeous, revitalized world after a post-apocalyptic event wiped out the previous technologically-advanced civilization. In this game, you play as an up-and-coming Builder, a respected role in society, whose sole purpose is to help solve the town's problems by engineering a solution.With a gameplay which may fondly remind you of games like Harvest Moon, My Time at Portia may be grindy in an RPG sort of way (think repeated dungeon runs or resource-harvesting), but the game has a nice relaxing pace, where its quests (both main and side quests) are slowly revealed as you progress. Being a Builder, you can also complete a commission request daily to collect some cash. The game also features an elaborate gifting/relationship-building system, fun ruin-diving areas, tons of interesting characters to meet, and challenging dungeons. You can even romance and eventually marry an NPC (not all though) you like!
The best part of the game is definitely its in-depth crafting system. There are tons of machines you can build to help you generate a wide variety of materials to build other stuff. You can also unlock new machine technologies via the Research Center.
My Time at Portia feels a lot like an adorable MMORPG minus the MMO part. It has the grind, the dungeon runs... but of course, this game places a lot more emphasis on its resource-collecting, as well as crafting and building aspects. Sounds like a game you'd like to play? Well, despite still being in early access, the first chapter of the game is already ready and bugs-free, so if you do buy the game, know that you can at least get a good 40 hours or so out of it.