FUNKY BARN WII U GAME SERIES

The game’s opening sequence is a series of slightly wonky, still cartoon images apparently drawn in ten minutes by somebody who can’t quite get hands right. You can give your animals a wee stroke with the Gamepad to increase their happiness, which is sadly pretty pointless – happy animals make more produce, but you’ll never be bothered to take the time to furiously scrub at all your animals with the stylus once you’ve got more than about four of them. Every fifteen minutes or so you can order a new animal, ranging from cows, sheep and chickens in the early stages of the game to llamas and buffalo later on, delivered by a charming stork. Between collecting produce, building things here’s always just enough going on that your mind doesn’t get the chance to think that maybe you’d be better off doing something else. It gets that Farmville compulsion loop exactly right. As your farm starts to run itself more effectively, you’ve got more time to expand and build more stuff. It’s these machines – a gigantic egg robot that collects eggs for you, a shearer that plucks sheep from the field with its gloved, mechanical hand and relieves them of their wool – that give Funky Barn personality, making it more likeable than the bare-bones presentation initially indicates. Funky Barn puts you in charge of a run-down farm and tasks you with building it up to verdant productivity again, populating the paddocks with cute animals and building various barmy contraptions to make your farming life easier.

Funky barn wii u game