hey pat look on steam on the game u see theres a big update and they are gonna add alot to the game like metal detector so u can find stuff and new villagers its really cool and more :)
I played a demo of this and I got bored after a couple hours. The animals were too creepy for me and the collecting aspect didn't hit as well as AC. I'm glad it was only a demo and not the full game. I wouldn't pay for this game IMHO
It’s amazing what a single developer can do. This game was made entirely by one single person. considering the price and its potential for customization, especially in terms of making your own objects. It’s a pretty good deal!
Stardew Valley was made by one person, and it’s one of the greatest games ever made in my opinion. A great price too. It is inspiring to see that people can make something awesome on their own.
LOL I totally agree with what you said about the villagers looking like people dressed as animals 😂 Other than that though yeah it looks really cute and for $20 shoot, I might check it out. Thanks, Pat! 🧡
The animals don’t bug me at all. Ive watched the game play when it was first tested on PC and wanted it then. It’s a cute, cozy, and simple game that I like. What is really neat is that you can make your own furniture and that you can get other peoples creations as well. I am glad that this is coming on Switch, but I really want to see how switch plays and also how it functions in creating furniture. When watching the previous gameplays on PC’s, I heard it was easier to make furniture with a mouse then change to controller for the rest for the rest of the game. Since the Switch doesn’t have a mouse, I’m worried on the designs aspect. Pat, when testing out the switch, can you please get to opening up the shop to create your own furniture on both the PC and Switch. This way you can give us clear understanding how it handles. But for only $20, it still seems like a bargain. That price is for Switch too, right? Thanks for the review.
Glad I’m not the only one! If they were more animal shaped it would’ve been too close to ac. They have they’re own style and I like it. ^^ Sure they kinda look like mascots but I like it
I think this would be perfect if they didn’t take and unfortunately didn’t do well, the animal villagers. It would have been cool to have other humans. It would have then felt like it’s own game. I have played over 700 of ACNH and love it, but yes, people would have been better than animals that didn’t get enough attention in the studio. Other than that I will probably purchase it since I’m not ready for a new island on my game and it looks cool :)
So true!! Like if theyre gonna have animal villagers in a game just like ACNH they shouldve designed them well 😭 Animal Crossing devs really knew how to make their villagers aesthetically pleasing bc the game is *centred* around them, but Hokko Life could’ve very easily had Humans instead! The animal villagers feel so out of place especially with their poor design!
I appreciated when you were talking about the clock. I kept looking at the bottom trying to figure out if it was real time or on a clock because as you said that's a double-edged sword for me. Like, Ooblets does it really well. The days don't seem overly long but you still get a lot done while in the remake of Harvest Moon - Friends of Mineral Town I always feel like I'm racing against the clock and I super quickly got tired of it and stopped playing. This however looks super cozy and I'm really really interested.
Hmmm it looks pretty cool and I do like how its taking some of the issues that was with ACNH and making it better. Although I am not too keen on the villagers. Comparing them to how they are in AC they don't look right to me. I might get it in the future, but right now I am still saving money because you know stuff in the world is a pain.
It’s the proportions of the villagers that look creepy. They look so tall and gangly, but have cute animal heads. We’re so used to cute short villagers in AC. 🤷🏻♀️
i think the only thing that makes the "villagers" creepy, is the head proportion + them being taller than you in animal crossing you were always taller or the same height as the animals
I think I'd buy this if the dev agreed to fix little bugs like villagers popping out of chairs and door frames being to small for anyone to enter. It'd further entice me if they had a roadmap of seasonal updates.
@@iamjohnporter67 I'm learning a lot more about it now. I guess it's early access for PC since June of last year. I feel like I looked at it a long time ago and cringed. It's looking better but ACNH has really spoiled me for polish.
Yes I’m so happy you reviewed this! I saw your 5 cozy game recommendation video and this game I was the most excited for! This game and lemon cake I can’t wait to try out!
Am I the only one who find the animals cute? LOL I have a few online friends who played the early access Steam release and have loved it overall. I am definitely picking it up but, there's SO many cozy games this month and I can only swing one this payday so am currently torn between this and Potion Permit haha Thanks so much for the review though! Will look forward to a Switch specific review. I love that it looks like you can completely customize the colour options in character creation at least! Ooh, bulk crafting and customizing villager houses right away!? Nice heh Love the look of the weather and mining mechanics so far too! Agree on SDV and Harvestella days being a bit too fast so am happy to hear time seems slower. I really like the day time passage in Ooblets, it's fairly slow, so happy to hear this seems similar. Making this decision super hard hahaha
I don’t care much for how the villagers look because I’ll likely focus on the designing part more. But I am a little worried on the performance and whether they’ve fixed the bugs from their Steam release. According to the latest Steam reviews, the game (on Steam) has a few game breaking bugs on save issues. Some people lost their 80 hour progress (now fixed by the devs) so I hope this is fixed for the Switch release
I believe I'll check out this game on Switch. It looks pretty interesting, I love the idea to be able to bulk craft and have more customization options from what I saw in the trailer. And hearing you praise the music and sound has me excited. I've already bought it and I'll be playing it after I'm done with work!
Thanks for the review. I like how the placement grid is more refine. But the creepy villagers and your character’s odd proportions will likely give me nightmares though. 😢
Thanks for sharing! This was actually my first time hearing anything about this game! I think for $20 I may give it a shot when it comes to the Switch in a few days!
I wasn’t super interested based on the little bit of the trailer I saw but this made me much more interested! I’m still not sure if I’ll get it yet but it’s moved up my list lol
It's a single developer. Amd I'm in his discord. But he is working non stop. He is also always asking for improvements. And has plans for future updates
No one is doing new coverage of this game since they played it a year ago. And apparently it's had a few updates since then I hope you cover it some more and show more game play 💜
This was one I wrote down during the direct. Good to know you will be covering it, at least a bit. You're correct.....for $20 why not? Although I'll probably wait for your Switch review. I have enough PC games and looking for another Switch game to play.
This game basically looks like the result of someone thinking "Well if New Horizons won't add these 'quality of life' things, then I'll just do it myself!"
Totally agree on the creepy villagers but the game looks so good - especially for the price. Thanks for the review, look forward to you playing it on stream and more videos 🧡
This reminds me a lot of like an animal crossing/MySims mashup with the mining aspect. And if they did get inspiration from MySims I wish they had done what MySims did with having humans instead of animals.
I'm interested. I'm over New Horizons for a while now so this game (hopefully) will get updates to keep the game alive. Here's to hoping there's a bunch of new animal characters out there to meet and live alongside.
Glad people are getting excited for this game too because I've been playing the game since early access. They're going to add house expansion on launch and I can't wait for that tbh.
I hadn't heard of this game before but it looks pretty cute. For only 20 bucks I'm definitely tempted o: Most games that are described as being "like Animal Crossing" are...nothing like Animal Crossing imo 😆 and don't seem like games I'd enjoy. But this seems cute! And not having to wait for bridges and inclines sounds good, lol!
Are the different home designs resulting in different floor plans? I wish that was a possibility in ACNH- the house styles can be so different now and it would be fun to have 2 second floor rooms (I know we can create them, but it would be fun to have a landing and then go in left and right sides and have 2 rooms.)
I played on Steam when it was in Early Access. I’m curious how crafting turned out because I remember it being confusing and somewhat cumbersome. I know the intention was to allow complete open creation, but at the time I played, there weren’t any tutorials and I felt lost. In your next video, can you show some crafting?
I hadn't even heard of this game until I saw this video. I agree the animals are a bit odd but this looks like a game with a lot of potential! I like that it's not real time, which is something I enjoy in theory but not so much in practice. I will definitely have to check this one out.
For me it seems like a sort of mix of animal crossing and story of seasons. The only thing is that you don't have to care for animals, they are the villigers. Thanks for the video, still thinking of buying it, but it looks amezing. 😁👍🏻
gonna get this soon, a far more affordable alternative to animal crossing, ive barely gotten any games on my switch since i got it a year ago because theyre all so expensive, so a reasonably price AC clone is good in my book
I hope they add vehicles and minigames and everything we've been asking for from AC for YEARS. Then maybe Animal Crossing will get mad or jealous and do some updates to catch up
Aside from the creepy villagers, don't some of these assets look ripped from ACNH? Like the tree cutting and the door knocking animation. They're identical. Is that not legally dubious?
Agree with the look of the animals. I like the look of the humans, but the animals look odd. I bought the game for Switch, but will not be able to play until I come back from my holidays mid-October. I’m really looking forward to playing it. Good to know the timing/clock for the game isn’t based on real time. I don’t like most farming games because the “day” is too fast, and I can never get everything done. It’s more stressful than relaxing. And can I say that being able to put a bridge across a cliff/chasm is awesome!?
I see this game on sale and I keep hearing its like Animal Crossing. But this doesn't feel like Animal Crossing, so idk. It looks more like any other farming game, which I do love farming games, I just need to be very particular about it now.
Judging by what I see in this video, I still have the same minor complaint that I posted on Twitter several months ago. The main character seems to run too slow. On Twitter, I was told (by the developers) that the slow motion was only because the clip on Twitter was purposely slowed down. SOMETHING like that. But nope, it's still the same in this video. I think that with more work (and a bigger budget), this game had the potential of being even better than Animal Crossing.
Wait omg i think i saw someone try this in like early access or beta or something like a year ago and I wasn’t sure I liked it cause it looked a bit wonky and weird and not my style but this looks so much better and fun! Definitely doesn’t look the same at all!
Ive been playing for two weeks on the switch and there are many bugs in my game. For one I cannot download things from other players because it’s always saying “there’s an error connecting” and of course I always check my connection and it’s always fine, so that’s a bug. The next bug was getting into the train even though that was unlocked. I find myself having to manually save it to the cloud, log back into the game, in order for me to use the train. I love this game and I have also played animal crossing and no they don’t compare. The way the game is set up is different but you get the vibe of animal crossing that’s it. If they can only fix these bugs this game would be amazing. I downloaded to Steam and I seem to have no problems there. I wish someone did a video on this.
Somebody needs to recreate miami nights or new york (smth i forgot)... those games are legendary. I love the stories as well. Has anyone found something similar?
Nice review! I just bought it today. But yet i have not figured out how to get the fishing rod, how to upgrade my bag and will you be able to move your house? Ty guys :))
You gotta see the first trailer for this game, it was adorable. They got a publisher that sucked the soul out of the game. The gameplay its awesome tho, played >100 hours, begrudginly, makes me sad to think about what was lost.
You are so right about the animal villagers looking like people dressed up! Eek! ;D Like everyone is a worse version of Zipper T Bunny. No hate! I think I like the look of everything besides the animals and the player character. I prefer the more simplistic design of acnh.
my question is: I got bored pretty soon with animal crossing. is this exactly like animal crossing or does it have something more than can be entertaining? for reference, I loved stardew valley and graveyard keeper
The "general store" puts New Hroizon's Nooks Cranny to shame. It's so much more detailed and inviting. Also the placement system for things like bridges is a lot more freeing than the clunky New Horizons setup, which is copied from New Leaf.
It’s a cute game and the visuals are nice but the animals are definitely creepy to me. Tempting to get this, but i feel like i already have too many farming like games that i haven’t finished.
I was planning on getting this game after watching your first video about new games and now I am definitely getting it after hearing and seeing your review Pat! Thank you !!❤️🧡
It feels a bit disingenuous to call this a full review when you've barely played any of the game.. Are you playing a review copy or the early access everyone has access to on steam?
