Potion Permit

Firstly as someone who loved Palia in the past and wants to get into Stardew but can’t really get into it this scratches the itch in a big way! The graphic style, music (repetitive, but easy to listen to) the relationship building and the puzzles are all so engaging and has me constantly taking an hour or so on the mobile version. My ONLY gripe is sleeping being the only way to save is a big downer. If I leave the game for like 2 minutes or have to take a phone call, even if it’s a short one it closes and I have to start that day over and when you’re in the middle of the night cycle it’s VERY frustrating. Currently taking a short break because of it, I’ll be back into it soon. If there was a small auto save somehow like saving every 30 minutes or when you accept/finish a new quest would be a great feature. Other than that this is one out of 2 games I’m currently obsessed with and appreciate that the team put so much love and hard work into the development of this game!

This game is ok, and can be pretty engaging at points. It just feels like it’s lacking a lot of the love and detail that makes games like Stardew and Fields of Mistria so excellent. There is a sense of hollowness to the world and the repetitive gameplay and simplistic / unnatural dialogue. I don’t know any of the characters well enough to have any interest in romancing them, except for maybe the bath house owner but she isn’t romance able (I guess she’d been deemed too old?) Feels like the developers were checking off boxes vs trying to make engaging gameplay. One example, healing people is supposed to be the core of the game but makes up a tiny fraction of the gameplay and seems to have little impact on the story or other activities. Really not a fan of the rhythm game for healing. It’s very awkward on a small screen and is not fun. The Simon says style game is extremely easy and also not very fun. The third type is flappy bird basically, also not fun. The 3$ price point makes it a very fair deal, I wouldn’t be satisfied if I’d paid much more for it. Ultimately, I’ve enjoyed spending a little time with it when it fits into my life but overall have no drive to finish it and find it forgettable.

I absolutely love this game and think it’s so fun & cute, but I have a couple issues with it. I am playing on the iPad Pro 13 inch and the UI doesn’t fit properly on the screen. Buttons are constantly off-screen or overlap each other in the UI, chat bubbles go off-screen, dialogue gets cut off, etc. and it makes it very difficult to play. Also, I seem to be encountering a bug where the thumbstick control gets stuck constantly and the only way I can seem to fix it is to enable the floating D-pad, which I do not enjoy using, or go in and out of menus until it decides to fix itself. Overall the game is fun, I just wish it would fit on my screen!