It’s over.
great cause, a few suggestions
as far as gameplay, the only actual frustration I have is that leveling up refills your energy but it doesn’t overflow, so you effectively lose any energy that you already had. for the introductory segment it allowed for overflow, which makes this feel really strange. please add an ability to overflow energy when you level up, or allow us to wait to accept the level up—It’s very annoying when I forget to check how much xp i need to level and accidentally waste energy, especially because it’s easy to level when you use items.
also, a built in dictionary/recordbook of what items you’ve gifted to what creature would be super nice! that way you don’t have to write things down elsewhere.
Deleted my progress :(
Won’t load
Update
updated and lost everything
Can’t give gifts ?
Earlier review:
Today I opened the game to finish a mission and everything was gone. (I think I was at level 22. )I was going to play through again and rebuild what I lost. I especially liked a pearl rabbit I had tucked away in storage. I started to grind through again. One of my favorite activities this summer was untangling what everyone’s favorite items were. I especially liked hopping from character to character and making trades to get a needed item. So getting those pearls again was going to be worth it. Now it seems there will be no special items at all? So I really can’t see future enjoyment in going through all the reruns knowing that the things I enjoyed most have been removed. No art heist? No secret key? And don’t get me started on how long it took to get that level 14 gnome.:( What’s worse is there was absolutely no warning. So I couldn’t even take a screenshot for memories’ sake. I loved the real tree planting while having fun, but … this is no longer fun.
Railroads now
I also miss the special quests for individual animals. Now it seems like there’s no way to increase your friendship except by level up? Giving gifts doesn’t raise friendship, I think Fuzzalot is glitched so he can’t receive anything, and all the animals like different things now.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy and recommend this game. I’m already back to level 19, it still has cute graphics, and I love that I’m contributing to the environment!
Broken
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This was my favorite casual play game.
One of my favorite activities this summer was untangling what everyone’s favorite items were. I especially liked hopping from character to character and making trades to get a needed item. So getting those pearls again was going to be worth it.
Now it seems there will be no special items at all? So I really can’t see future enjoyment in going through all the reruns knowing that the things I enjoyed most have been removed. No art heist? No secret key? And don’t get me started on how long it took to get that level 14 gnome.:(
What’s worse is there was absolutely no warning. So I couldn’t even take a screenshot for memories’ sake. I loved the real tree planting while having fun, but … this is no longer fun.
Great but
Need help
Great - Three Trees!
Pal
Overall enjoyable
broken?
Helping the environment!
As for the gameplay. Even if you’re completely free-to-play, you still have the opportunity to plant trees. I have yet to encounter any forced ads, and after watching a handful of reward ads you get a bonus reward, so all in all it’s a win-win. The only problem is that it suffers from the typical merge game issue of wait times. Not only does the player have energy which can run out, but each of the item generators (or collectors, because they’re animal-characters in this case) have limits and cooldowns as well. This wouldn’t be a problem if each generator didn’t have such a small number of items to give before needing a cooldown. They can be upgraded, but early-game (which is where I am) goes slowly because of it.
However, the art is very charming, and the characters have fun dialogue. Helping restore the forest and unlocking new things along the way is rewarding and fun. Merging is simple and not overwhelming (at least for now), so overall it’s a solid game! Plus you get to plant trees :)
EDIT:
I’ve been playing for about a month now. The progression speeds up once you get farther in, although early game is still a little slow unless you want to blow through all of your diamonds.
What this game really needs is a way to increase your energy limit. You’ll reach a spot where multiple of your animals require 100+ energy to even clear, and obviously at that point you’re stuck waiting, watching ads until they no longer load, or spending your diamonds. Maybe we could have an overall friendship level? When you gain hearts for an animal, you could contribute to your own level, which then upped your energy cap? I think it would scale nicely.
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Helping the environment!
As for the gameplay. Even if you’re completely free-to-play, you still have the opportunity to plant trees. I have yet to encounter any forced ads, and after watching a handful of reward ads you get a bonus reward, so all in all it’s a win-win. The only problem is that it suffers from the typical merge game issue of wait times. Not only does the player have energy which can run out, but each of the item generators (or collectors, because they’re animal-characters in this case) have limits and cooldowns as well. This wouldn’t be a problem if each generator didn’t have such a small number of items to give before needing a cooldown. They can be upgraded, but early-game (which is where I am) goes slowly because of it.
However, the art is very charming, and the characters have fun dialogue. Helping restore the forest and unlocking new things along the way is rewarding and fun. Merging is simple and not overwhelming (at least for now), so overall it’s a solid game! Plus you get to plant trees :)
