Big Blue Bubble has announced the development of Home Sweet Home 2: Kitchens and Baths, a game which takes you into the hip lifestyle of uptown apartment living to create the kitchens and bathrooms of your client's dreams. The game features hundreds of new furnishings and appliances from twelve different categories and an all-new collection of brain-teasing riddles. Home Sweet Home 2: Kitchens and Baths should be available on all major game portals by the end of August.
SquareGo writes:
"Two of the most annoying words that can be used when discussing video games are casual and hardcore. It's not so much the words but the internet bile that they produce. They are also very easy labels to apply to games. Case in point: Home Sweet Home 2: Kitchens is a casual game. Well, it looks like a casual game. Inside, it's as hardcore as a professional South Korean Starcraft player."
Casual Review writes: "Who'd have thought that kitchens and bathrooms would be the subject of a Top 10 game? Apparently, people really enjoy building toilets and kitchen sinks on their computers, and Home Sweet Home 2: Kitchens and Baths lets you do exactly that. It's quite deceptive, how they did it: you think it's just an interior decorating game, but actually half of it is click-management. The other half is spent decorating for clients who are more cryptic than the Riddler.
The game is divided into two parts. In the Design part, a client describes what he wants in a strange riddle: e.g. "I love trees and frogs" (he likes green) or "I need to be up and moving quickly" (he wants a coffee machine). You guess what furniture and decor he likes without going over budget, and fill up a happiness meter to pass the stage. Truth be told, we didn't enjoy the riddles; thankfully there's a Hint button that spells it out for you, though it'll cost you points. And points are everything, because they unlock more furniture. I ran into a level I couldn't finish because I didn't have the right furniture unlocked yet."
Still, even alongside a few minor niggles – dropping workers on closely-located items can be a hit-or-miss proposition, client riddles remain mostly simple and one-dimensional – it's hard to complain. Giving fans more of what they crave, Home Sweet Home 2 undoubtedly delivers the goods when compared with the average time management outing. GameZebo just hopes that, should a third installment happen to grace casual game portals, creators Big Blue Bubble won't be above giving the series a much-needed extreme makeover to keep curb appeal high.
