![]() Things get tough for Fennel and his new friends when Button City closes and you find out a greedy fat cat named Peppermint Pepperbottom is buying Button City to replace it with a big-box department store. Here our shy, sheepish fox protagonist shines as he is suddenly enlisted to help his new team win the Golden Gobabot. On arrival to Button City, Fennel finds a bevy of other kids currently embroiled in a rivalry over a MOBA-styled arcade game called ‘Gobabots’. In Button City you play as the new kid in town named Fennel, who finds an arcade named Button City within his neighborhood. Side-by-side, it makes Animal Crossing look almost manipulative and nihilistic in how that series pushes you to never ever stop playing. ![]() Soft, comfortable, and completely normal in both subtle and easily appreciable ways. Button City is a brief hug of an afternoon adventure game. The designers of Button City fundamentally understand games as totemic, with its ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ stylings, short playtime, and a tightly curated selection of mini-games that work together to target a 90’s nostalgic audience. Sure, we’re a bunch of kids playing games in a silly arcade, and maybe we’re feuding over a plastic toy that doesn’t really mean anything outside of our group, but us being together and goofing around is not trivial! Our fun is our community and it’s worth protecting. It isn’t escapism, until you come back – and then in its wake, escapism becomes adventure. If you are based in the US, you can text SUPPORT to 23368. The Games and Online Harassment Hotline provides confidential mental health support in relation to games. ![]() In addition to severing ties with them, Silva will not earn any profits off of the game. You can read the Button City team’s statement here, which addresses that they have employed Silva in 2019, prior to these allegations being made known in 2020. Edit: This review was written before being informed of the horrific abuse and assault allegations against the game’s composer Pedro Silva (fka Slime Girls).
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