Become a boutique owner and stylist using only your thumbs!
WHAT YOU’LL LIKE:
Lots of Variety
The game boasts 16 different brands, some similar, some very different in style. Some styles repeat with varying colors but overall the selection of pieces is impressive. You can even mix similar brands to create an outfit your customer will appreciate. Acting as a personal stylist to your customers, you can offer them something you know they already like or try to introduce them to something new. Every item you purchase from the Buyer’s Center ends up in your own wardrobe, so when you get tired of trying to please your customers you can go to your apartment and play dress up by yourself!
Change Up Clientèle
Changing the interior and music of your boutique draws in the corresponding customer. The customers you attend to range in a wide variety of types – couture, high end fashionistas to Earth-loving bohemian stylistas. Their budgets also ranges from anywhere between $50 to a couple thousand, depending on their need and tastes. Changing your window mannequins also draw in a specific shopper, and it helps make one large sale when they’ve set their heart on your fashion masterpiece.
WHAT YOU WON’T LIKE:
Limited Space in your Stockroom
Unless you focus your attention on one style and one type of customer, stocking your shop with a variety of products gets difficult when you start out with limited space. In order to unlock more space, you have to sell more stuff. It’s reminiscent of those addictive Facebook applications (Be my neighbor on Farmville!!) that keeps us coming back to the game.
Getting to know the Customer
While it’s fun to play dress up, trying to read the customer and fulfill their needs can be almost as tiresome as having a real retail job. Don’t you hate it when you spend all that time with a customer and they end up leaving empty-handed? When a game starts to feel like work, it’s over!
RECOMMENDATION:
The gameplay is simple and easy to understand, and the perfect gift for a young girl (or an older one who likes to play young) in your life. The game follows the real time calendar, and it offers different special buys in the Buyer’s Center and social events with your customers, making it worth the daily gameplay. Be sure to pick this one up in time for Christmas!
December 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Definitely not my type of game, nor is it supposed to be, but I’d certainly want my daughter (if I had one) playing this instead of doing all the other things kids seem to do these days.
December 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I’m gonna recommend this to my Nieces. Nice review!
December 18th, 2009 at 1:02 am
This is waaaaaaaaaaay girly. I thought real girl gamers hated these things
December 18th, 2009 at 1:20 am
yeah. um. wow.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Heh. At least paper doll dress up gets the video game attention it deserves?
Fathamburger: I know about 6 girl gamers, and 2 are actually playing this right now… But yeah, the others thought the gameplay was too shallow for them.
Probably best for the kiddles!
December 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Phantom, good point on paper dolls! I never thought to compare it to that, but yes. Way to update old fashion toys!
Fathamburger.. well, I am a girl gamer, and I couldn’t put it down for about 4 days straight. o.O Girl gamers are people, not feminists! At least not all of them…
July 10th, 2010 at 4:09 am
hey style savvy is so cool i don’t know what is your people problem