This is Baby's First Management and Material Harvesting Sim and it's full of a bunch of different gameplay elements that were all done better in other games...BUT, when combined, it actually kinda works? This is a Rune Factory and a restaurant management sim with much lower stakes but it having a lower skill ceiling and lower risk means that it's much easier to come back to this game after a long absence without Mickey Mouse breaking your kneecaps because you didn't make his special Shining Star Waffle within the last three days. In making this for children, they accidentally made one of the more chilled out management games and I commend them for it.

Sure, it's a bit hard to recommend this game since the sequel exists and the sequel has a lot of QOL changes, but also this game honestly has the better dungeon crawling and it also contains the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC (that I ironically had to pirate since I missed the eShop cutoff date) where you see Jack Sparrow harassed by a mean-looking Mii in an eyepatch.

Regardless of what game you play though, you end up turning Rabbit's garden into a corporate farm for your restaurant and watch as the cuddly animals of the Hundred Acre Wood all start pitching in free labor for your growing enterprise. Capitalism at its finest.

Reviewed on Apr 02, 2023


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