This game is great, but it could've been perfect if they'd taken the time to work on a few little nuanced things and not paywalled the final update. It's still one of my favorite games and something I return to with no small amount of regularity.
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The editor for the final update in terms of house decor and the areas outside of villager houses could've been worked into the main island by loading only certain sections of it and would've made editing/decorating your island more fulfilling as doing it one block at a time can very quickly lead to burn-out.
The crafting is one item at a time instead of allowing for multiples like others in the genre and is slowed down by a slew of dialog boxes.
Overall, a lot of the items are wonderful, but even if they hadn't added major content patches in the future it's disappointing that they discontinued it so soon instead of simply adding minor patches with new furniture later. Unfortunately, Pocket Camp will always be the priority for this sort of thing as they can't get you to pay micro-transactions in NH for special currency. Honestly though, I think I'm mostly sour they only added one variation of cactus outside of potted varieties - Suguaro are nice, but they're not the only kind of cacti you can find in the southwestern areas of North America!
They also failed to add back some of the fruit from previous games! They could've made the cooking list all the more exciting if they'd added JUST bananas in addition to the other farming stuff! And grapes! Grape vines would've been wonderful decor for my island!
..Anyway. I'm passionate about the series because we went so long without a proper installment it seemed like a lot of oversight missing out on these details.
--- Nitpicking follows ---
The editor for the final update in terms of house decor and the areas outside of villager houses could've been worked into the main island by loading only certain sections of it and would've made editing/decorating your island more fulfilling as doing it one block at a time can very quickly lead to burn-out.
The crafting is one item at a time instead of allowing for multiples like others in the genre and is slowed down by a slew of dialog boxes.
Overall, a lot of the items are wonderful, but even if they hadn't added major content patches in the future it's disappointing that they discontinued it so soon instead of simply adding minor patches with new furniture later. Unfortunately, Pocket Camp will always be the priority for this sort of thing as they can't get you to pay micro-transactions in NH for special currency. Honestly though, I think I'm mostly sour they only added one variation of cactus outside of potted varieties - Suguaro are nice, but they're not the only kind of cacti you can find in the southwestern areas of North America!
They also failed to add back some of the fruit from previous games! They could've made the cooking list all the more exciting if they'd added JUST bananas in addition to the other farming stuff! And grapes! Grape vines would've been wonderful decor for my island!
..Anyway. I'm passionate about the series because we went so long without a proper installment it seemed like a lot of oversight missing out on these details.
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2022