The gameplay loop for this game starts off satisfying enough. It’s cute, the music is fun, and then you get the first taste of how a scarce resource is going to slow your progression. But there’s always a point where the pace picks back up and you have a good enough farming loop in order to keep progressing. Nothing feels like a setback, until you get to the Submarine building part. Everything you enjoyed now stops. You’ll grind multiple scarce resources now, and be forced to use those to create other items to progress through 110 check boxes. So you have to start prioritizing - upgrade your tools, or feed the build monster. Then you upgrade your tool, get to the next room, only to be laughed at that now you need 1 or 2 more levels for you tools to do anything. I foolishly got annoyed with the first two parts, but this third part is literally designed to make you pay or watch the ads in order to get a surplus of items to reduce the grind a tiny bit.
I only can give 3 stars because I still enjoyed the game. If not for that this would be a 2 star easily. Addictive loop, but punishing in the end.
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