Too basic.

Story is severely lacking. The dialog is painfully poor (at least you can skip it). The animations are passable but slow. The art and style is A+ though. Gotta reiterate how bad the dialog is: unbelievably boring writing.
The open world item collection is clunky. (Good mods exist to fix the open world tool switching and to 1.5x move speed and to 5x rewards and get instant dialog speed -- and it STILL felt a bit grindy.)

The mini games are completely without challenge or depth. Ignoring the legit insulting clicker minigames for a second (mods exist to turn them off too), the main allure for me was crafting potions and treating patients. That main potion crafting is cool. Its a fun tetrising of your available ingredients vs a set grid for each cure but COMPLETELY UNEXPLORED design space. Your first 3 potions are nearly the same as the last 3. It never expands into anything like quality of potions, or manipulating ingredients. It never evolves or adds depth. Same mechanic, no new wrinkles.It is cool to collect a pile of stuff and imagine fitting them into the different configurations... plenty of effort went into making the potions match the ingredient shapes as the game went on. Very cool. But too basic. Like everything in this game.

A really nice game where I can just shut my brain off and farm materials for my potions and upgrades. But for the cost of the game, it feels like there's not enough depth in the game. It's really just repeating of the same things. Farm materials, talk to villagers, make potions, heal villagers, part time jobs and repeat it all.

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