When you’re in that stage of life between being a child and being a teenager, you’re so painfully self aware about everything you do, whether or not your interests are considered cool, and being so desperate to be seen as “grown up”. While characters can be chippy or sarcastic with each other, it’s never cruel, and it’s unashamedly positive. Not only is it extremely funny, it’s incredibly kind. It’s in the interactions between the group that Button City shines. The group Fennel joins is made up of Chive, a sarcastic rabbit with a love of making robots, Sorrel, an angry cat and leader of the gang, and Lavender, a kind panda. One of the teams is missing a player, and taking that leap in confidence that we all had to take when we were 10, Fennel joins in. As Fennel arrives at the arcade, he overhears two groups of kids arguing over the game.
The arcade, Button City, is gripped around one game, Goba Bots, a 4v4 action game where players must collect berries and drop them into the central blender. After spending the summer inside his room, his Mum encourages him to go down to the local arcade to meet some people. You play as Fennel, an adorable, shy and clumsy little fox that moves to a new town with his mum. You know that very specific anxiety you feel when you see someone that you’d like to be friends with, but you have absolutely no idea how to make that connection? Or when you’d go on holiday with your family, and you spend the first few days seeing the same kids around your age around the hotel, desperate to strike up a conversation? That prepubescent mix of self consciousness and longing to belong is something that Button City captures better than any video game I have ever played.
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