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Outstanding game that manages to deliver a big experience with very simple game mechanics. The game concept is super intuitive and addicting in the best meaning of the word. Learning of the first two languages is straight forward enough for you to get hooked and get a feel for the different cultures in the game. Reaching the third language will really put your patience and deduction skills to the test. This game will reward you in the best ways for finding solutions and exploring the world, with the occasional easter egg here and there. Not to mention, the soundtrack and sound design are just as incredible as the visual style. Everyone should play this. You don't need to be super puzzle savy but rather willing to observe and try things

Don't get me wrong, this was overall entertaining. But even if we assume this game is supposed to be easy to digest "dumb fun" it just has too many flaws to be really recommendable. So I'll just list the flaws. If you can tolerate those things by all means buy the game. You'll have fun for sure.

Gameplay: The biggest flaw this game has overall is that you are FORCED to try different choices to be able to progress to later chapters. You simply can't do a proper first playthrough and reach an ending. There's a certain amount of choices you need to "collect" in order to unlock the later chapters.

Tech: Oh my god the ADR is bad. I don't mean the performance of the actors, but how incredibly dry it sounds. It absolutely sounds like the studio recording that it is. Was it really too much to invest in a handful of voice packs for the actors or at least a boom mic operator so get some live into those scenes? Besides that, there is also easy to notice splicing for many of the video segments. Not too bad overall, but it takes you out of it a bit. The English translation has some flaws too but I've seen worse.

Characters: Even for a visual novel the characters are sooooo bland. Everybody sucks. While I could excuse most of them, I absolutely can't even begin to comprehend what the creators were thinking with adding a character like Seung-yi. This "woman" who is apparently 23 at the time of meeting her was secretly taken in (kidnapped?!) by your (main character's) parents when she was an elementary school kid or even younger. The reason we're given for that is that she came from an abusive home. So this kid grew up completely isolated for something like 15 years in your attic with no outside contact. And she absolutely behaves that way. Mentally she's still a little child. To see her get treated like a genuine love interest is not only weird and disgusting but also extremely problematic. This girl needs therapy badly. The only upside is that you won't have to deal with her too much and only appears in about the second half of the game.

Bring back asbestos

Fun small game and it's FREE

GOTY

The game is awesome. Just like the first one you will start playing and suddenly 6h have passed. The puzzles are interesting and fun. Personally I preferred the first game as the puzzles seemed a bit harder there and also rewarded / required you to "break rules" and think outside the box more. This one seems a bit more "linear" in a way and more story-driven in the sense that it is telling a more elaborate story with different characters as opposed to the first game which was more like you in a weird world figuring out what's going on.

So since this is overall an extremely positive experience I will just list the more negative aspects that aren't a deal breaker in any way but what could have been better:

• Missable achievements: There are some things you can miss and not do later. This should never be a thing with any kind of game.
  
• World exploration is tedious and slow. I get you're supposed to embrace the world but collecting things becomes too much of a chore
  
• Not all collectibles are tracked meaning you have to rely on fan-made guides if you want to collect them all while still maintaining your own sanity
  
• While the "chase puzzles" are a nice change of pace in a way they tend to be more annoying than fun, especially if they force you to get to areas and show some kind of platforming skills. It's not too hard, but especially in a puzzle game the audience might get frustrated getting "skill checked" like this
  
• No map and proper fast travel. Weird design choice

I get some of these things might be story-driven choices and have to do with the philosophical aspects of the game but I don't like it regardless. I feel like QoL should be the priority here. At the very least, some options should unlock "post game" when you've experienced the story.

Edit because I forgot: South 3 Pandora Star is absolutely HORRIBLY designed. While I appreciate those kinds of puzzles being more in line with the first game it's absolutely not fun to not have any indication of what the things you do change unless you somehow manage to see 1 pixel change in the distance

Perfect for lazy gaming sessions and super fun

Don't get me wrong, the game is awesome. It's fun, it's great to have all these familiar Disney characters in an interesting world that you can design however you like. You can design your character in many different ways and the quests are mostly fun too.

So what is it that makes me give this a negative rating?

No, it's not the micro (or rather macro) transactions in the game for otherwise unobtainable items. While I'd prefer the game to have ways to obtain these items without spending even more real world money it's an aspect of the game I'm somewhat willing to accept. But what really frustrates the hell out of me is the blatant exploitation of FOMO in the players. While the seasonal events are fun in its own way, what's not fun is certain items from those events being completely unobtainable when said event is over. So many live-service-games (or whatever you want to call them) do this and I don't see why anyone would see this in a positive light. Just now I was trying to craft something but I couldn't find a certain ingredient anymore and after looking it up online found out the item is simply GONE for now. That's not fun. Meanwhile, old quest items that should have delete themselves when said quests were done somehow manage to glitch and are stuck with you forever. No fix from the devs for those. This might be petty or whatever but as long as this game doesn't get some type of vendor for past event items or properly integrates those items to the game I can't give this a positive rating.

UPDATE December 2023:
So now they've added an expensive story DLC (which they promised they'd never do) and it actually messes with the game in the worst ways. For example items only available in the DLC will now sometimes be required as gifts for villagers. This is unacceptable

Fun but very short game with an interesting concept

Will Ramos? Instant purchase