From time to time it is good for a game to come and close your mouth with a good slap. Prejudices are not usually good advisers, and although you end up welcoming the surprise, they can also cause you to overlook ideas that you would enjoy very much. I didn’t see it coming , but Youtubers Life 2 is one of those games.
From the first adventure I was aware of his existence and had seen over where the shots were going, but there was nothing there capable of making me think that I could fall into his arms. With Youtubers Life 2 the shots were even more in that line of indifference, but seeing the game in motion and stopping to appreciate the good ideas behind it has changed my way of thinking about it.
Be youtuber today
The youtuber landscape has changed a lot since the first game was released and, although the Game Dev Story-style formula is still fun, before watching Youtubers Life 2 I wondered how they would have tackled all that maelstrom of trends, advertising and fashions with hours of expiration.
To my surprise, this is still a management game where you make videos, get likes and amass money to buy more games and tools with which to keep rolling the wheel, but it also turns towards a cross between The Sims and Animal Crossing that It suits him fable.
Houses that start as small rooms and then you can expand, a city with shops and activities that you can go out to explore, friends whose relationship you must pamper with gifts and conversations about their tastes, and an unhealthy attention to detail when giving shape and life your character and home .
One of those wells of decoration and social mechanics that, without being the great objective of Youtubers Life 2 , are one more excuse to play it beyond what its main campaign can offer and the challenge of becoming the best youtuber in town in barely a year.
Much more than videos and streams
With new minigames when it comes to creating streams and videos, the foundation of what Youtubers Life was in the past remains practically intact. There are changes to the interface and some playable tweaks here and there, but what really makes the difference is the new trending system .
The idea is that, as we mentioned at the beginning, social networks raise topics and games every day that the next day may no longer interest anyone, and Youtubers Life 2 collects that witness inviting us to exploit it to gain more visits and money.
This, which could well be as simple and crude as playing the game that day, actually has a series of ideas that I have found a real joy. Hand in hand with a drone whose camera you can easily reposition to highlight key aspects, trends are not only limited to what you are playing, but where you are and what surrounds you. From making a promotional video of a store that has just opened to the things you have in your room.
An example that completely blew me away: if there’s a game launch in your neighborhood store, you can go there and get a poster signed by the developers. To take advantage of the trend, you can not only play that game in one of your videos , but you can also place the poster in your room and play with the camera plan to highlight it in your recording. You not only get game-related points, but also a score boost thanks to related decorations.
A simlife with much to offer
Also supporting other leisure and social aspects such as taking care of ourselves with food or throwing away what we have achieved in the gym by eating a hamburger, Youtubers Life 2 will arrive this year on PC (Steam), PS4, Xbox and Switch with the intention of getting closer a little more to the youtuber universe.
Not from a completely realistic perspective, of course, but with key details intended to give value to that experience, such as the difference in monetization and the problems involved in working on one platform or another.
With ideas such as customizing your drone to give it new abilities -for example, that it does not break down when you want to record in the rain, expand its memory or allow you to record from anywhere-, Youtubers Life 2 is adding layers of depth that I neither expected nor would have. imagined they were going to get my attention.
It remains to be seen in what conditions it arrives and to what extent it is capable of surprising us with more new ideas, but what I do have very clear is that a few days ago my response to what I expected from Youtubers Life 2 would have been completely different. Today, on the other hand, I look forward to it with curiosity rather than indifference.
Disclaimer: Youtubers Life 2 is a game published by Raiser Games, a company of the Webedia group.
