You'll be guided with your tasks early on, but it opens up a bit later. By completing these, you unlock more items that you can use to build the world around you, which in turn makes the citizens and friends happier and easier to deal with. After that, you get to take part in a competition that ends up granting you the main ability of the game, which is the creation of various items to overcome specific goals and tasks that are assigned to you.

From there, you'll be introduced to a few of the characters from the story side of things and taught some rudimentary tasks, like hunting down a few pigs for a local villager. When Kingdom begins, you'll design your Sim from a variety of choices, with my end result looking a bit like Harry Potter. There's still a heavy emphasis on the interactions between your character and the other residents, and while we've long since expanded past the one home setup that the original Sims used, Kingdom seems to favor exploration more so than a lot of the prior Sims titles, making the experience feel more like a lighthearted RPG than anything else. The weird gibberish speak is still present, along with some of the strange behaviors present in the individuals who populate the world of MySims Kingdom. There are a lot of Sims references here, stuff that's going to be instantly familiar to the fans of the series. It manages to stand alone quite well, offering up a pretty solid entry into the Sims world while using a building mechanic and story-based gameplay that are actually pretty well done. Thankfully, though, MySims Kingdom for the Wii doesn't require much working knowledge with either title (or titles in the proper Sims universe, for that matter).

I'll preface this review by saying that I haven't played much of the original MySims title on the Wii, and while I have played more than enough Sims at some point in my life, it's been a while since I sat down with the series.

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