TASOKARE HOTEL

It took a little over a month to complete the story without purchasing any tickets. Overall it was enjoyable and fun. Really loved the characters and the story overall. The translations could be improved significantly to flow more naturally and not be so awkward, but the story is still understandable. If you were to make a purchase to support the developers, I’d recommend the Special Stories because after you finish the main story and the mini game, you really don’t need tickets or bells or whatever. You can grind for everything except those additional stories. The puzzles are all doable without hints except for the last chapter; I still do not understand what the game wants you to calculate and/or do in this one specific room, especially since it involves more intermediate knowledge of Japanese or Japanese puzzles. I had to look up the answers for it, and even then I didn’t understand the explanations for those puzzles in the game. My only big complaint is the game should be optimized more. I was in the My Room and the battery on my iPad started heating up. I am also concerned something else is loading when I click on the title screen because I can hear something not from the game (some kind of ad running?) That really bothers and concerns me. I don’t want weird things running in the background without my knowledge. I will watch ads if you want me to, but don’t hide them in the background 😒

This game has kept me hopping back on my phone every morning ready for more of it’s addictive story and puzzles—it’s got surprises around every corner and has even brought me close to tears. I enjoy the side tasks of the game, as well as the option to achieve multiple endings with differing dialogue by selecting certain choices. I do wish we could pay maybe $5-10 (or more!) upfront for the full game with no IAPs so that we could get those early completion bonuses a bit easier and be able to play back through our favorite chapters without buying tickets all of the time. It’s a great game, but the struggle is real when you’re trying to get through a chapter and you’re blocked by EXP requirements or a lack of tickets.

I guess I’ve come to expect a lot of unfairness when it comes to free to play models in mobile games. However I’ve been playing this game for a little over a week now and I’m still really enjoying it. I don’t feel cheated or that I have to wait an unfair amount of time in order to play the episodes and progress the game. Every day you get five free tickets to play so no matter what I’ll get there eventually. The incentive to complete things faster is easier access to cosmetic stuff (unlocking CGs, BGM, and character profiles). Every week you’re guaranteed to at least get two extra tickets for watching ads but there’s always the chance to get more through the gotcha system as you can play up to nine times a day (watching ads or 3 times without). This is on top of the free coins that you’ll get throughout the game to help unlock things if you weren’t able to get them earlier for free. I’m very happy with how non-bothersome it is to progress through this game I will certainly be taking a look at some of their other games. I enjoy the fact that whenever I’m stuck on a puzzle I can get hints as many times as I need to as long as I watch an ad before. So far my ad experience has been really good nothing is too long or annoying. Anyway definitely recommend!!