After 4 years of pushing myself to finish this cause my autistic brain can't deal with lefting a game unfinished I'm officialy giving up. This isn't that bad, I still put 60ish hours into it which I wouldn't do if it was insufferable but man the transition with trio of town was BRUTAL.
Main reason I love HM/Sos games is for their overall vibe : running around in cozy lil your town with your cozy ost meeting your quirky villagers while stressing out with the clock is best feeling <3
Idk if this is because of the town amenagement mechanic (which didn't add anything for me) but this one lacks of charm. The graphics are real bad and the art direction is so cheap I feel like I'm playing the sims 1 but worst. Ost is still solid and villagers are still quirky though.
Also, what the hell was the garden tour (???), I feel like most of the new features just sucks.
But what made me mad and reason I dropped this, is the game stupidly blocking you (oh you have to ship 30 yams but it won't unlock until Fall year 2 so good luck spending 3 seasons with little to no objectives !) I still don't know what they were thinking.
(Okay I also gave up because I was mad that I was already dating Allen when Soseki aka the hottest bachelor of the game decided to show up but that's for another story...)
Expect for those complains it's your usual HM drugs, you'll be busy running around all day but still be unable to finish your never ending tasks.
But there's one of the biggest highlight of the franchise in this game imo : dancing in the festival while the intro theme of the original HM DS play made me cry and feel so alive. For that moment alone I knew the game was worth it :')
Main reason I love HM/Sos games is for their overall vibe : running around in cozy lil your town with your cozy ost meeting your quirky villagers while stressing out with the clock is best feeling <3
Idk if this is because of the town amenagement mechanic (which didn't add anything for me) but this one lacks of charm. The graphics are real bad and the art direction is so cheap I feel like I'm playing the sims 1 but worst. Ost is still solid and villagers are still quirky though.
Also, what the hell was the garden tour (???), I feel like most of the new features just sucks.
But what made me mad and reason I dropped this, is the game stupidly blocking you (oh you have to ship 30 yams but it won't unlock until Fall year 2 so good luck spending 3 seasons with little to no objectives !) I still don't know what they were thinking.
(Okay I also gave up because I was mad that I was already dating Allen when Soseki aka the hottest bachelor of the game decided to show up but that's for another story...)
Expect for those complains it's your usual HM drugs, you'll be busy running around all day but still be unable to finish your never ending tasks.
But there's one of the biggest highlight of the franchise in this game imo : dancing in the festival while the intro theme of the original HM DS play made me cry and feel so alive. For that moment alone I knew the game was worth it :')