Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time

One of my favorite 3DS titles of all time gets a banger of a sequel. If your looking for the ultimate cozy game here it is 🦾

First time playing a Fantasy Life game, absolutely adore this it’s addictive, fun, chilled and has a lot of depth. Makes a nice change from the mostly adult games I play (38 year old male ) Truthfully it probably deserves a 9/10 but because of the awful 2/10 critical review which is insulting towards the developers, I’ve bumped it up once. Fantastic game to lose many hours into.

- Endgame has a VERY heavy "MMO" drag to it that did not exist during the story. - Crafting is not entertaining. The loop is fine during the story, then they add about 50 + roadblocks just to get once piece of gear, all using the same stupid mini game loop. Another MMO drag. - Single player mode mini bosses take a full 15 minutes to respawn. This is NOT AN MMO - You have over 50+ people to recruit for your town but limited to only 6 houses, meaning 40+ people are homeless in your town for no reason. - Item drop % on gear is not really opened til late game when you start hitting the MMO drag, it should have been available from level 1. Additionally you cannot even buy the sticker for this trait. It's gacha only. - Gacha boxes with important loot in a SINGLE player game??? Seriously?? (The boxes themselves are free $ wise, but they use once a "Real life day" collectables, this is a stupid mobile game trend that should have died) - The massive Coop+SP map has more grind to level the areas up than an "actual" MMO has for leveling a character from 1 to 99. It's absolutely ridiculous. If the loop for combat was fun I wouldn't mind this, but it's not. - You have to "remake" a lot of gear which is actually kind of cool, HOWEVER, it requires Redux stones, and lots of them. The problem isn't that they're hard to get, the problem is that you will spend 1 hour buying & selling long capes or similar, just to get enough Redux stones to last you for 3/4 crafts that take 5 minutes. It makes you not want to bother because for 1 hour all you are doing is running to the store, buying capes, selling to redux guy and repeat. its horrible Overall the crafting in this game really ruins everything. You can LOVE crafting in games, ffxiv or Atelier sophie, etc and STILL hate the crafting this game has in it. It's just trash. (It's not needed to beat the story, thank god) At first the game is a standard RPG, then it turns into Animal crossing RPG, then it turns into mini Atelier genre games . With a job system. Tacked on with decently bad coop. In typical JP failure to understand fashion, they don't know how to make Coop work properly. Don't expect to go through this game in "real" coop.

this used to a great game until they released snoozeland. it was/still is riddled with bugs the main one being when you pass though a gate sometimes it will CTD and they NEVER fixed it. they are as bad as the lego devs! also the primordial dragon is is aimed at MP

it's a simple made game for kids. including basic skills in the "life" concept was unnecessary, plus the pointless quests ,cheap mini games and the slow attack weapons were incredibly boring.