PascalMeow
This review contains spoilers
I love the atmosphere and the setting, I love the characters, and I love the setup this game has for the next game. I can tell that its cooking up something awesome for the sequel. But, holy crap the pacing and amount of exposition in this game is too much. The game is extremely long and padded out for an ace attorney game.
2020
liyue is atrociously bad.
the fact i cant skip cutscenes or just scenes altogether is so stupid. I DONT CARE ABOUT STUPID ASS ZHONGLI TALKING ABOUT HOW THE FLOWER OF LIYUE REPRESENTS THE SHIT ON MY ASS ON LIYUE TOILET I LITERALLY DO NOT CARE ITS SO BORING SO MANY FETCH QUESTS SO LITTLE ACTION I HATE IT.
the fact i cant skip cutscenes or just scenes altogether is so stupid. I DONT CARE ABOUT STUPID ASS ZHONGLI TALKING ABOUT HOW THE FLOWER OF LIYUE REPRESENTS THE SHIT ON MY ASS ON LIYUE TOILET I LITERALLY DO NOT CARE ITS SO BORING SO MANY FETCH QUESTS SO LITTLE ACTION I HATE IT.
literally ruined the future of the franchise. i want plants vs zombies shooters back.
on a serious note though i hope at least that this is what the developers wanted to make if it was gonna sink like this, but i cant help but feel they didnt wanna make a overwatch clone and wanted to make a proper sequel to garden warfare 2.
on a serious note though i hope at least that this is what the developers wanted to make if it was gonna sink like this, but i cant help but feel they didnt wanna make a overwatch clone and wanted to make a proper sequel to garden warfare 2.
god awful dialogue.
combat that lasts way too long and is just insanely monotonous.
graphics look pretty fire tho.
combat that lasts way too long and is just insanely monotonous.
graphics look pretty fire tho.
2016
This is undeniably the GOAT of farming games. No questions asked. From the get go as soon as you get past the intro you are free to do whatever you want. There are some core activities locked behind a couple of in day games but I'm guessing them being spaced out like this is to accustom you to the different mechanics and map of the game.
When you get accustomed to everything though this game just becomes so fluid. All of your core activities (Fishing, Mining, Farming, Foraging, Combat to an extent) are all interconnected into completing the Community Center which requires you to engage with all the activities. All of the activities gives you different rewards and sufficient enough income for each activity that it doesn't feel like you aren't incentivized to do one or the other. And that's what make the game so great. The fact that there isn't an illusion of different things to do, a lot of games fail from having so many activities and so many things to do but ultimately feeling meaningless as there is no incentive. I love the fact that I can feel like I can just swap activities without feeling like "but this would give me so much more if I just go do that", it makes the game feel a lot less repetitive.
I do have some minor gripes with the game. I wish the game went out of it's way more to make players read the lost books. A lot of items that are needed for the community center are practically impossible to find without the necessary criteria to obtain said items (something like weather/season conditions or exact times to find a specific fish for example). It's a shame because I doubt a lot of players would bother reading them and resort to a guide. There's a lot of neat and funny writing in the lost books too, I always disregarded them as unnecessary (why tf would i wanna read books in a game??). But honestly I wish the importance of these books were more emphasized.
Another somewhat small gripe is maintaining friendships with others townfolk. It's kinda stupid that it degrades at all to be honest I'm giving this hoe so many gems and then she gets mad I miss a week fuck you!!!!!!!
Stardew Valley is an amazing game. Definitely a 5/5. Don't use guides (dont use them too much at the very least especially on 1st playthrough) use the lost books in the museum like a chad.
When you get accustomed to everything though this game just becomes so fluid. All of your core activities (Fishing, Mining, Farming, Foraging, Combat to an extent) are all interconnected into completing the Community Center which requires you to engage with all the activities. All of the activities gives you different rewards and sufficient enough income for each activity that it doesn't feel like you aren't incentivized to do one or the other. And that's what make the game so great. The fact that there isn't an illusion of different things to do, a lot of games fail from having so many activities and so many things to do but ultimately feeling meaningless as there is no incentive. I love the fact that I can feel like I can just swap activities without feeling like "but this would give me so much more if I just go do that", it makes the game feel a lot less repetitive.
I do have some minor gripes with the game. I wish the game went out of it's way more to make players read the lost books. A lot of items that are needed for the community center are practically impossible to find without the necessary criteria to obtain said items (something like weather/season conditions or exact times to find a specific fish for example). It's a shame because I doubt a lot of players would bother reading them and resort to a guide. There's a lot of neat and funny writing in the lost books too, I always disregarded them as unnecessary (why tf would i wanna read books in a game??). But honestly I wish the importance of these books were more emphasized.
Another somewhat small gripe is maintaining friendships with others townfolk. It's kinda stupid that it degrades at all to be honest I'm giving this hoe so many gems and then she gets mad I miss a week fuck you!!!!!!!
Stardew Valley is an amazing game. Definitely a 5/5. Don't use guides (dont use them too much at the very least especially on 1st playthrough) use the lost books in the museum like a chad.