Kitaria Fables

Kitaria Fables is an RPG with extremely sympathetic and vibrant harvest elements, from the same creators of the highly praised and excellent "Cat Quest" and "Cat Quest 2", both available here on GOG. The aesthetics and gameplay are very reminiscent of MMOs of the genre, especially those from the 2000s. That's a positive point. It pleases me. The world, although not so big, has its sympathy and is nice to be explored. The game has a clock that computes the 24 hours a day. This is important as services close at night and only reopen in the morning; monsters also have this cycle, some can only be found at night or day. At this point, what I didn't like is that the 24-hour clock is = 24 minutes. That is: 1 minute = 1 hour. This can be annoying because sometimes you need to be in a place at night, but until you get there it becomes day, or while you're there it's dawn and you need to wait another 16 minutes to be able to defeat certain monsters. The harvest also depends on the cycle to grow. From a battle standpoint, it's very accessible and quiet. The combats work well, however, the same cannot be said for the equipment, as the game is very linear in this sense. The variety of equipment is very low, basically it's a linear line of upgrades for the same equipment, except for some that you can drop from bosses. However, the biggest problem is the grind system. If you don't like grind, skip this game. Whether collecting or dropping items from monsters, the repetitions are very intense, whether to upgrade your equipment and buy items, or to complete quests. It's far from being a game that has any kind of complex mechanics, and this can be frustrating if you like managing attributes or the like. The lack of a level system is also something that bothers me. In the end, Kitaria Fables is a simple, fun but repetitive game. It's far from bad, and it has great potential. I would rate it with 3 stars, but I will rely on future updates.

My wife and I really enjoyed playing Cat Quest II together (we connect the laptop to the TV with an HDMI cable and play with PS4 controllers), so I got this for us to try. We aren't finished yet, but after 14 hours here's our preliminary review: Pros: +The animals are cute, and the monsters strike a nice balance between cute and threatening +Great sound effects. Harvesting sounds are really satisfying and attacks sound like they pack a punch +Nice variety of enemies (golems, orcs, giant ambulatory carrots, bats, hyena-folk, giant caterpillars, turnip headed ghosts, etc.) +Not all enemies are aggressive. It feels like a world that exists on its own, with or without you. +No serious bugs so far Cons: -Inventory icons and item counts are hard to read from the couch (very small font) -Player 1 centric. Player 2 gets teleported to player 1 if player 1 moves away, but not vice-versa, so player 1 gets to dictate where you go -Smallish game world and simplistic systems (farming is pretty shallow and gameplay is mostly fetch quests and grinding for ingredients to upgrade your gear) Ultimately, the cons aren't that big of a deal, and we've had a lot of fun playing Kitaria Fables. I would recommend it if you want a simple, cutesy, grindy ARPG and you have already played Cat Quest II. If you haven't played Cat Quest II, I would play that first, since its an awesome game, and come back to Kitaria if you're looking for another cute ARPG later.

This game is so annoying in its grindy-non-rewarding way it is almost funny. You have to farm to get money (d'oh) and to do so, you have to water your crops daily. To do so, you need at least 42 clicks per game day. The quests are a joke. Most of the quests are like "I have forgotten my lunch and can't leave my post, would you help me?". Typically, to fulfill these requests, you have to grow some crops. This will be done strongly sequentially like "I need 5 tomatoes" (growing tomatoes takes 5 in-game days, meaning 210 watering clicks). After you finished growing the tomatoes, the same NPC tells you, he now needs 5 grapes (there go the next 210 watering clicks) and so on. If you do not have to grow crops, the quests are simply running around the world from person A to person b "buy me eggs at Aunt Christies'". Fighting is 95% boring and 5% panic. Boring as you soon get the feeling how to beat almost any enemy without really thinking and panic, because if you meet 3 per-se simple enemies, you must not get hit once or you are dead. Why? Those enemies might stun you for like 10 seconds and three of such enemies will reliably perma-stun you (one of them hits you after the other) and in the end, you can only sit by and watch your mighty warrior get killed. Also, there are opponents who are not aggressive unless attacked first. You might take a guess, what the KI usually chooses to attack if you do not pick an enemy? Well, sometimes even if you select a specific enemy because if said enemy only approaches you visual range, the lock might be lost and then the KI is free to choose an innocent bystander again. I am now on roughly 2500 watering-clicks within the game and the original quest ("prevent calamity") is long gone. I have no idea, how re-inventing pizza, brewing refreshing beverages and farming the same bosses over and over again gets me closer to rescuing the world.

It's not a farming game like Rune Factory or Harvest Moon. Cats are adorable,the world is charming and that is all! All you are doing is grind materials and search for the next quest. No real farming,nobody to befriend or marry. And I keep losing my save. I played 45 mn the first quest endlessy...I sleep,crash and no more save to load. Refunded.