Recent reviews by dragoon4

That monocle ♥♥♥♥♥♥ can stick his dynamite up his ass.
Thank god it was free.

8 hours to 100% for a low price. What else would you want from a time managment game? Also new variation of matching mini game.

Say goodbye to sanity, chucklenut.

If you didn't start back in 2007. Don't bother to learn. You'll face hoards of 10 000 hours layers who fused with their gaming chair playing it. You won't be able to step outside of spawn for more then 2 seconds and you'll already be dead. They know this game better than they know their own parents or themselves. This isn't fun like you coul've seen it on YT, this absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ piece of ♥♥♥♥ garbage. Let those players boil in their own pondand never touch this game. Almost as bad as Dota.

I'd rather give this game neutral grade in recommendation rating, but as usual there is no such option and by a hair I think this game deserves a thumb up. Well let's get to it.

It is time manager published by Alawar so it is a bit different from what you usually see by the, how i call it, "time manager giant" Game House. What it is about? The standard mid 20-40 girl doing standard job (cooking, nursing humans/animals, investigating crimes, managing store/hotel). This time it's a ginger woman that cooks and serves food on a big cruise boat. There is also a plot that involves rich granny and scammer dude that pretends he's knows her long lost grandson. There are 60 levels (6 side levels) which seems to be standard for time managers. How would I rate plot of this game, "barely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ remember it". Don't blame me I've played nearly every single one of TM’s on steam and plot is usually so similar that they are fused inside your memory into one. It is always girl doing her everyday job while some stuff happens while she's doing it. So my grade for the plot is "Standard out of 10".

Graphics. They are quite good, nothing fancy. But it makes your eye happy so it is enough out of 10.

Gameplay and difficulty. Now that's the only part, which from time to time, infuriated me to the point of loud screaming. And that is because some preparations could be a bit tedious, but that is not what made me angry. It is because how order looks compared to the ingredients you have on your table and how many of them and how inpatient customers are. For example, sushi in the last level. You have two sets of ingredients for them one is on six different plates and the other on five. So, customers comes in, ssks for 2 different sets of sushi and ramen. And for easier understanding let’s use numbers. 1 for Rice as base or foundation, then comes 2, 3 and 4 which are yellow, green and red "stuffing" (I don't know sushi never ate them) and 5 and 6 are different side sauces or something. So it could be from 1-2-5, to 1-2-3-4-5/6. And it could be very hard for your eye to register needed combination in 1 second so you don't lose your "momentum" of mixed running around putting ingredients together while also serving finished orders. Not to mention just to recognize what customer even ordered the details on pictures are too small and you'll, most likely, would need to squint to see it. Okay Now apart from trying to realize what is ordered others thing could happen, like tea you set to boil over boiled and got spilled , misclicks, lack of space on your tray for orders and just sheer anxiety over seeing all this orders hovering in the air and hearts going down and down. So you may need to replay some levels because you would be able to 3 star and heart them. Plus there are barely any tutorials that tell you how to prepare some of food items. Also there is only 1 mini game, It's find a match. Every first side level is that mini game, every second side level is to fill side quest heart delivering order in time before customers patience gets lower than 3 hearts. So in the end, is it good? It's okay not GM's Emily game but okay.

Not a bad f2p game, but not that good either. It suffers badly from "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HOW ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LONG DO I HAVE TO GRIND SAME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LEVELS OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL I GET THOSE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ALCHEMY ORBS" syndrome. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ gets old and repetitive very fast.

Now let's talk about chances. Remember those meme chances in modern UFO games? Yeah same ♥♥♥♥ here. 30% means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ zero. 50% means 20% and 100% means 100% but that's just for 1 level up, double LVup and prize box are chances to get. And all this ♥♥♥♥ cost fire crystals to do which also doubles the amount you need to use in order to LVup your weapon, triple the cost if you want a guarantee.

Let's switch to alchemy orbs. they are doodas needed to star up your gear. Each gear needs whole grocery lis of items to upgrade plus money plus 3 of equal quality orbs. Only through story mission you'll get 3 of those orbs and you need minimum 12 of them (in order to progress in story missions). That's where the stalling starts. How do you get those orbs? REAL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MONEY if you want to save your time. Yes. you have a CHANCE to find one during a mission. but so far I was lucky only 2 times. You do not want to pay real money? Then you'll need to grind levels over and over again untill you either find those in reward crates or get enough in game money to afford premium currency to buy orbs. Orbs, regardless of star quality always cost 200 premium for 3 orbs. Current exchange rate is about 5.7k-6k ingame money for 100 premium money. How fast can you earn those 6k ingame money? I say in about 1-2 hours of mission grinding. And I just had about enough of this ♥♥♥♥.

Cool game, now give reward

Pay to win garbage. I wanted to have fun but no, whales with their golden premium star ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ one hit killing weapons here too.

Well... What can be said about this one that can't be said about other SQRT3 tame mannagers? Not much, it is just different story... and it has murders. It's like those Hidden object games. If you played one you played all of them.

So... Is story any good? Neither meat nor fish. You play as a young adult girl, only this time it's about an expedition. So you'll be managing documents in university, artifacts and knick-knacks at antique shop, wine at wineyard, resources at excavation site and training amazons in a flashback. Gues this is it.

Well. I beat this game as 1 character Ash Kencorp's panda girl. I thought she looked cute and cool. Little did I know that I picked hardest one to control. It felt really awkward trying to fight enemies with her. Bosses were even harder. Till I turned on auto guard, it helped a lot. It is my personal weak side, I neglect block/parry button harder then any black dad neglecting his kids or responsibilites. Well as I said auto-guard made it comfortable enough to play till the end.

What else. About exploration. To me it felt like game tries to make opposite saides of a magnet to stay together. All because this game wanted to be Sonic 3 but also wanted for you to explore. And it would work for me if I still was a 10yo kid high on corn syrup. But as I got older I noticed I liked more and more to look at scenery and trying to visit every corner of a stage. Hard to do in game like this, well as Neera it is quite hard. And that stage near the end where you get teleported here and there via telepot beams and arrows. Hated it.

Combat. Sucked mostly. Hard to avoid being hit. Had to wait till energy bar refill to throw 1 ice lasso. Extra hard when game wanted be Sonic but also wanted to have more than basic combat system. Felt very awkward wanted to shoot my ice spear, nope not shooting... ah now it is shooting. Wanted to hit an enemy but the tip of my spear decided that hit box will appear just behind a monster. In the end I felt discomfort every time I needed to choose either to ignore and run or stay and fight. But combat moves looks cool. But once again I only played as one character, who wasn't playable in the first game and I didn't play first game.

Story. Okay nothing special, didn't make me tingle but was not cringy. Maybe a little cringe, every time I had listen to Carol the green cat I cringed. And that time I had to witness Lilac's "teen angst". Neera felt to me edgy and angsty but only very slightly. If I had to desribe the plot I say 90's saturday morning cartoon with 2017 sjw soy sauce on top of it.

Did i liked the game? Yes. Graphics are good, though i had a bit of a problem with some levels trying to figure out which platform is solid and which is a part of the background. Quite a common problem with indie platformers. Voce acting was good. I know I said Carol sounded cringy but I still liked it and she's cute, I love cat's ears and big eyes. Should you play? Yeah of course. I'll probably play through it one more time just to feel the diffirence.

Two last thing. Some stages are way to bloody long. Whoever thought designed boss areas that don't zoom out and 80% time you have no idea what boss is doing and instead get bombarded bya barrage of warning signs that are often counter productive and not helping. I wish your vision becomes a boss arena that doesn't zoom out.

UPDATE. Beat the game with Carol. She is more suited for level exploration and boss fights appart from Final boss. I'm very angry at the final boss (Merga not weapon core).

UPDATE Milla ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.
UPDATE Milla sucks but she's cute. And Lilac is not an instant win easy mode.