

Having fallen asleep on a train and arrived in the humble Hokko village, you are handed a full-blown house, which is not something you’d expect in the current economic climate.

The big heads and lean, human bodies, particularly of the rabbits, gave us the willies. These animal-tronics lack animations or expressions, so they come across more like furries than feasible characters. The characters in Hokko Life are Animal Crossing by way of Five Nights at Freddy’s. If we were being unkind, it doesn’t feel much like a Team17 game at all. It makes Hokko Life a little on the disappointing side, as it is more humdrum and uninspiring than it is innovative. Hokko Life is published by Team17: a cheeky, puckish publisher who makes us smile just as much as they innovate.
