Growing Up: Life of the '90s

This game is awesome, I love the gameplay. The love interest’s stories are really interesting and they feel like actual people and not archetypes. The gameplay is really fun, I love that there’s very little pressure to “win”; even when you do poorly in school or disappoint your parents it’s still part of your character’s story and personality. I’m able to give my player characters unique personalities and well-rounded skills. However, I bought this game a while ago and now I literally cannot play it. Whenever I try to load a save the app gets stuck in a never ending loading screen. This is in addition to the already long loading screens. Obviously this is a port of a PC game, but it seems like very little was done to optimize it’s performance. I play on IPad but I can’t imagine these issues are any better on IPhone. I love this game and I think it has great art, mechanics, and graphics but now that I can’t load my generations long save I feel cheated. I think this can be a 5-star game, but it needs issues sorted out immediately.

One I think you should have the option to have siblings or somthing like that and I think you should make more games in the same art style, maybe like, growing up: life of the 20’s to show more of what it was like a long time ago or even life of the 80’s or the current year, with new characters in the same art style and option to have pets as well and I think another thing with the siblings is once you grow up you could have the option to have twins, where you play as both players or you could customize your character further (more hairs and outfits) and customization your parents and even friends (maybe).

I LOVE this game. I get on it like 5 times a day. The story is captivating, the gameplay is fun. However, there are some things that make me hopeful for the future development. The good sides: the game is a great way to pass time. It’s fun to manage your health and parents’ opinion. The characters are fun, and there is LOTS to do. The bad sides: the game has TOO MUCH to do. Because you only get so much energy and only so many spaces for schedules, more than half the things you CAN do, you CANT do. It makes me sad, because i’d love to buy all the items i can and make the game so much more bearable. Also, some of the penalties are INSANE. Your parents’ opinion of you goes down 8 points for playing RPG?? The constant struggle of getting approval is tiring, and that also contributes to the lack of available game features. Also, i wish the game went a bit further. Maybe slow down the time, or increase the age that you can play to. When i first saw the ad and the introduction, i thought that most of your life up to 18 would be restricted, then up from that would be all on your own. You could get married, break up, become a crippling alcoholic (jk). But seriously, working to do all of my school work and then the game ending with: “this is how the rest of your life will be because of the options you chose” is kinda saddening. Just my opinion, though. Will the devs listen to me and change the game? Or will they find an audience that likes it as is and i move on? Either way, thanks for reading.