Egregiously Disappointing
Get prepared for a long rant. To start off this review, I’ve been a Gloomy Bear fan since august of last year and started playing this game around august of this year. And let me just say, it’s boring at the absolute best. I don’t want to be too harsh because the concept is fun and the special events for it that occurred in Japan were nice, but oh my god, the ads are one of this games worst and most overwhelming flaws. I’ve seen people leave 1 stars just for a game having banner ads, but I’m being completely serious when I say you can’t even progress properly without watching 2 minutes of ads depending on how many friends visit, not to mention how repetitive the visitors can get (95% of the time it’s just the Gozowroppers, AKA the organs) and the only way to change that is to grind for furniture that requires, you guessed it, a lot of ad binge watching and literal days of work. And if that wasn’t bad, a majority of the art featured in the pictures that Pity & Gloomy give to you after their trips is blatantly traced from the anime, and it’s done VERY poorly at that, which makes the game feel like more of a bootleg than an official one especially when paired with the English text that feels like it was hastily shoved through Google Translate. That’s only an issue for people who play the game through English (like me) yet it’s obviously not like the art is any prettier for Japanese users, it’s bland and feels like they made this game behind Mori Chack’s back or something, and a lot of Gloomy Bear merch in the west as of late has that exact same feeling. It’s bad. The only good things this game has going for it are the cute idle animations for Pity & Gloomy, the inclusion of more obscure characters (like Kumakikai & Slitgill), and the traveling motif… yet those are merely visual pros. The cons come from literally just playing the game itself. If I were to be given the free will of how to make it better, I’d make it so that you could interact with all of the characters more closely, and that tickets and coins being accessible weren’t locked behind grinding and constant ads, along with having art featured in photos that’s actually accurate to Mori Chack’s style. It’s been a while so I doubt this game is gonna get any more content aside from the occasional bug fixes, but I hope there’s something way better than this dumpster fire for Gloomy’s 25th anniversary, yet this of all things won’t be something hard to beat.
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