Collecting Happiness Points

And just like that, I'm bummed again.

Alright, maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but its been a rough week at work (what do you mean its only Wednesday?!) which, in a psych hospital, is draining in every way possible. I haven't had much energy to work on all my projects but the excitement is still there, don't worry. I just have to get over this hump and remember that this is how it is at work... for now. Things get chaotic for a while but then they calm down, they always do. Just...

Doctor who, anyone? (source)

Anyway, If I'm not feverishly sewing, what am I doing with all my free time you ask? 

Yup, lounging on my couch playing a new game called Chibi-Robo. M does a freakishly good job figuring out what type of game I'd like then magically producing them for me to play exactly when I'd want to play them the most (all part of his nefarious plan to get me to love video games as much as he does no doubt). My preferred game style is adventure game, something I can just kind of putz around in without a lot of pressure but with enough tasks and storyline to make it interesting. Cute stuff also helps. 

This GameCube game is one M already had in his stash. He recently got some sort of adaptor that made GameCube games show up clearer on our TV? Or something? Honestly, I have no idea but M was pretty excited about it which led to him going though all his games which then led to me becoming a Chibi-Robo zombie for 3 days-and-counting.

You can read the Wikipedia link I provided above for a, frankly, better synopsis but basically, you're a tiny robot that goes around cleaning and helping to serve the Sanderson family which gives you Happiness Points and Moolah. 

Yeah. 

That's pretty much it. 

You collect different tools to help you clean and navigate the house, either by finding them or using your Moolah, and you're equipped with a plug you use to recharge yourself (there's an energy meter on the screen). 

I'm not kidding, look at this little guy scrubbing a stain off the floor with a toothbrush. He's probably getting like 4 happiness points from that. Thats the kid in the background, Jenny who's inexplicably obsessed with frogs.

If you plug yourself into these weird little... things which are found randomly throughout the house, you can enter into a mini acid trip where you collected Moolah. So far there appears to be absolutely no other function for it.

Oh and did I mention the toys come alive at night? That's the father's Drake Redcrest action figure who the dog toy is in love with. The dog toy. In love.

You know, I've been mindlessly playing this but as I describe it, I'm quickly realizing just how bananas weird this is. Of course I love it. 

It seems strictly quirky and silly at first but once you get into it, you realize its a little on the dark side (no, not that dark side). You're basically helping this broken family drowning in debt be happy- the father is unemployed but still buying strange tiny robots, the mother is stressed about money and is making the dad sleep on the couch because she's pissed at him, and the daughter will only say "ribbit" or forms thereof but expressed to this nonverbal robot via her teddy bear that she's upset that her parents aren't getting along. Heavy stuff to deal with between picking up trash and scrubbing some floors but there you have it.

Anyway, I'd recommend this if you can get your hands on it. Its not helping me be productive whatsoever but I'm earning myself a few Happiness Points and sometimes... that's enough.

Here's to a better second half of the week and, if all else fails, a chill weekend.

*All game pics are from HERE.