A town that keeps evolving,even when you're not playing the game.
There is no real jobs in the game except right at the start when you first move into the town.You can find/collect/catch things to sell for money.The rarer you'll find a worth more money,such as dinosaur bones,rare species of fish.
You can also buy things for your home and to decorate your home with.You can buy a TV,computer(that makes a modem sound,showing you are logging onto the internet) furniture,kitchen sink,toilet,fridge,tables and cupboards,you can even buy an indoor spa... and choose carpet and wallpaper designs(I choose a city design with giant sky scrapers all lite up at night and it looked very nice).
You can buy a giant toy train set(that you can turn on or off,which will make the train move or stop),and you can buy a pool table,fan,and you can turn the electrical items on or off.You'll see and hear TV shows and you can flush the toilet,use the microwave etc.
You can dig for treasures such as dinosaur bones and you can choose to donate them to the museum and look at them on display,or decorate your house with it(who wouldn't like a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull on display in their home)?or sell it for a lot of money.
There's many dinosaur bones you can find and you can try to complete the skeleton for that dinosaur(when you donate it's bones to the museum for display).
The museum even has a aquarium to view the species of fish,octopus,squid you collect(and they'll swim around and it looks very pretty)and there is also a telescope you can use to view space and name constellations after you.For detail there is even a canteen in the museum to buy coffee and it just makes the world feel that little bit extra detailed and realistic.
You can collect and sell just about anything,sea shells that wash in every few hours at the beach,fruit that grows on trees(which you have to wait to grow back).
There is rare species of fish that can only be caught in certain parts of the sea and rivers at certain times of the day,and during certain times of the year.If you really want to catch a sunfish,you might have to wake up at 2 am during a certain day in December.
The game uses proper seasons,you'll see snow in winter,red leaves in autumn,and summer and spring has bright sunshine.The seasons last as long as in real life.
The people in the town have their own personalities,some are grumpy,others are cheerful,you can write letters with the Stylus and mail them to characters and they will write back to you! If you don't talk to a character in a long time and nobody else likes them,they might move away!
It can be sad when someone moves away,and sometimes a character might be sick and nobody will buy medicine for them and you will have to do it and if you don't,they will think nobody cares about them and they will move away.
I guess a negative thing about the game is sometimes there isn't much exciting things to do,or you have to wait a while for something fun to happen.When you first start the game,you have a lot to do,but eventually,you won't have much to do for periods.
The characters and the town have the cutesy look,and each character who lives in the town has their own house with their own decorations and the town has a museum to visit(and like I've mentioned,it has it's own canteen),and the town has a post office and bank.There is nice trees and lakes/sea around the town too and it gives the town a peaceful feeling.
Overall,like I've said,the game could literally last you forever,and it's a charming and relaxing virtual life sim.