Evil Simple Happiness

Having just picked up not one but TWO copies of this game:

I can now safely confirm that the Nintendo DS is the single most diabolical and brilliant tool for sucking in female players in the history of video games. You don’t shoot anything, you don’t kill anything, and the highlight of your game is catching fish/digging up fossils and donating them to the museum, or making your own shirt and wearing it. IS THIS EVEN A GAME?!?

I dunno. But the fact that you can play it wirelessly with other DS owners, or just leave your chosen town open to internet access so that other Animal Crossing owners can visit your town and leave you stuff walks that fine line between genius and creepy.