Nintendo’s domestic design sim is as cute as you’d expect,but although the lights are on, there’s nobody homeIn life, and there are things you just know you shouldn’t do. Never eat the yellow snow. Never trust anyone who is rude to waiters. Never take on one final job before retirement. And,of course, the golden rule: never, and ever recede on Grand Designs whether you don’t really know what you want,where you want it and whether or not you hold the budget to build it besides.
Grand Designs is a show in which Kevin McCloud joins a series of couples as their ambitious home-building plans are crushed beneath the caterpillar tracks of fortune. Every single episode follows the same plot. A pleased couple describes their perfect house, Kevin raises his eyebrows, and then they embark on the project besides. A year passes – then we see the couple,now a shadow of their former selves, squatting in a concrete house-shell, and taking it in turns to wash themselves in a stagnant puddle. For some reason,they always decide to hold a baby at this point. Then Kevin says: “I told you so”. This makes for entertaining viewing. Related: Animal Crossing: fresh Leaf – review Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com