MySims to return this autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 14 May, 2008

Set in kings-and-castles fantasy.

EA has trumpeted the return of MySims for Wii and DS this autumn.

MySims Kingdom will be set in a land of kings and castles and wizards and fair maidens, and your job is to rebuild it all into a prosperous fairytale world.

King Roland is relying on you, y'see, as is his daughter Princess Butter and the Wizard Marlon. They all live in The Capital, which will be your early base of operations, but we're promised plenty more lands, characters (some familiar) and contraptions than the original.

The DS version will be based around the same world, but be treated to nine fresh mini-games such as kayaking and ski jumping.

MySims has you inviting Sims to populate your village to increase its reputation. You do tasks for them to keep everybody smiling, but you also have free reign over the town and can rebuild houses out of any old object you pick up from the floor.

We rather liked the original, and described it in our review as a "cuter, more hyperactive Animal Crossing in which you have obsessive-compulsive control over absolutely everything in the town, from who lives there to what their houses look like to their wallpaper to the design of their kitchen sinks".

We preferred the Wii version of the two, but you can pick apart both our MySims Wii and MySims DS reviews elsewhere on Eurogamer.

Meanwhile, pop over to our MySims Kingdom DS and Wii galleries for the first screenshots.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (4) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • chrisjm #1 4 years ago

    New yearly franchise ahoy!

  • catscrap #2 4 years ago

    Bought My sims on Wii for the misus she enjoyed it but it had a rushed feeling about it, loading was very choppy, swap from night to day was terrible, clunk night fell! It felt like it needed a few more months to polish it up. If they finish it off properly this time it could be good fun.

  • Vyse #3 4 years ago

    I agree re the loading etc. It really was quite broken at times. I was amazed that none of the reviews at the time made reference to it. Shame as it was quite good fun otherwise but I gave up playing it as the loading issues got worse the further you got into the game.

  • Landmaster #4 4 years ago

    "Final Fantasy: MySims As A King" then?