by applesnraisins » Mar 28, 2015 9:16 am
I'm going to have to give the game a 4.
It does function! That's cool! No gamebreaking bugs (that I've run into)!! YEAH!
But I have a pretty long list of things about the game that I don't like. While I do appreciate the ability to have so many different variations of things like crops (and apparently animals, too?! I didn't even know until now!), you have to TELL the player about these. Or at least give a way to unlock the information we need. The only -- ONLY -- reason I was able to beat the game at all was because I used the fogu site to learn how to get what.
The cast of characters is pretty darn small. In some games, like A/nother Wonderful Life, this was okay because each character radiated their own separate personalities. But the characters in TLV all seem very bland. There doesn't seem to be much depth to their characters, which is essential if you ARE going to have a small cast.
Jumping. JUMPING. "Hey, do you wanna get down? Have fun jumping at this exact angle for fifteen seconds until, by LUCK, it works!" I don't like jumping. And while you do eventually unlock the ability to terraform rock, all the while, there is a chunk of the map that I can't easily access where villagers love to go.
On the topic of rock, there are some mines that are incredibly difficult to reach because you have to stagger your rock breaking. I can understand a little difficulty, but having to go back for in-game weeks because you have to carefully stagger your way down to this new mine is ridiculous.
FINALLY (sorry about the length), I don't like that you can't upgrade your tools. Especially the watering can. I'd like to be able to water my plants faster than one at a time when my fields are gigantic. Kind of wards me away from farming at all. :<
I'm going to have to give the game a 4.
It does function! That's cool! No gamebreaking bugs (that I've run into)!! YEAH!
But I have a pretty long list of things about the game that I don't like. While I do appreciate the ability to have so many different variations of things like crops (and apparently animals, too?! I didn't even know until now!), you have to [i]TELL[/i] the player about these. Or at least give a way to unlock the information we need. The only -- ONLY -- reason I was able to beat the game at all was because I used the fogu site to learn how to get what.
The cast of characters is pretty darn small. In some games, like A/nother Wonderful Life, this was okay because each character radiated their own separate personalities. But the characters in TLV all seem very bland. There doesn't seem to be much depth to their characters, which is essential if you ARE going to have a small cast.
Jumping. JUMPING. "Hey, do you wanna get down? Have fun jumping at this exact angle for fifteen seconds until, by LUCK, it works!" I don't like jumping. And while you do eventually unlock the ability to terraform rock, all the while, there is a chunk of the map that I can't easily access where villagers love to go.
On the topic of rock, there are some mines that are incredibly difficult to reach because you have to stagger your rock breaking. I can understand a little difficulty, but having to go back for in-game weeks because you have to carefully stagger your way down to this new mine is ridiculous.
FINALLY (sorry about the length), I don't like that you can't upgrade your tools. Especially the watering can. I'd like to be able to water my plants faster than one at a time when my fields are gigantic. Kind of wards me away from farming at all. :<