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If I leave a review, is Majima going to appear to leave one too?

The heck's a mah jong?!

catdoru

After 30mins in Endless Mode.... "Oh, I'm die, Thank you forever."

Seems to have some promise, there are features I liked like the customisation options and signage options however this prologue feels like it's an alpha build and somewhat early in development, there's a lot of item descriptions not completed and I "think" I got softlocked in on Day 1 where I had to add the Tomato Soup to the menu the game wouldn't proceed and the time was stuck at 11:49pm? Nothing I did seemed to progress, unless... this is where the demo actually ends?

Also thankfully while this game does have grid snapping options (So many sim games don't for some reason), a few counters would try and snap on backwards if they were a different colour scheme to the other.

All in all, this kebab isn't fully cooked yet but the smell from the kitchen seems promising. Will recommend "Yes" for now but this is really more of a neutral score until the bugs are worked out.

(On a side note... why does this game have "THOSE" slider options when you play in first person? Haha, I mean I'm not complaining but it is an interesting design choice) (Editing cos steam doesn't like the slider names!)

"How to get your dead game attention long after it's launch date"

The game can be fun but there's just too many unpolished elements that make it feel sloppy.
Spark Plugs are labelled inconsistently in the Delivery Screen and also are awkward to pick up from their holder.

There's no snap to grid/wall function and it's way too easy to accidentally pick up things, even worse there is no cancel/undo function.

Workers don't remember what they did before going on a break and don't have a task queue system so if you want them to stop serving a customer on the cash register, you have to spam press it until they actually finish the current customer.

Scrolling on the delivery order menu is bugged so if you need to scroll down to remove something, good luck. On that note actually, why does it need to be a pop up window? Why can't the order menu have both products and the current basket on the same screen, there's definitely enough screen space to do so.

Pathing is also bugged so if you have a larger shop and place ice cream freezers in the middle, the customers will get stuck on them and can't path around them.

Picking up items is awkward as sometimes they won't actually move, or you can't rotate larger items to get them through a door.

Also the garage aspect is extremely frustrating, why on earth does practically every car need 2-3 tyres replaced at the same time? There was even a run where I had multiple cars needing all 4 tyres replaced. Keeping up with inventory for this part of the game is an absolute nightmare.

It's such a shame as there is a good game buried in this but it really needs a lot more polish but it doesn't seem like they will do it.

GOTY 2023
(Updating for the actual voting thing, still my GOTY)

So much mini golf. Ticket finding was awful too (Mini Golf didn't give any!)

Bans inactive users, which puts a Game Ban flag on Steam User Profiles. Avoid.