Two stars, voice, graphics and game play are fine, but whom ever decided that there are no manuel saves, no exits saves, bare minimum auto saves AND no multiple characters needs to be fired. Probably won't pick the game back up unless this is fixed. Hey Paradox gonna charge for extra save slots?
The game just isn't as good as I remember it being. Not sure if it's just me getting old and slow but the game didn't seem to flow the same way and the controls seemed to have more lag than I recall. Personal opinions aside, I think overall it has the same funk as the original and will take some getting use to by new players. I also recommend playing on a smaller screen to avoid pixels getting fuzzy as this is a barebones re-release vs a remake.
This game is a cute foray into an easy cafe simulator. This is a good place to start for kids and for those who don't like high-stress games. You inherit your aunt's cafe and must return it to its formal, small town glory. You can have up to five companions, four on foot and one on your head, and ten at the cafe. You don't have to worry about taking care of them or after making a recipe once, the food at the cafe as the game takes care of that for you. Sometimes a character may ask for a specific food at the cafe and you may have to re-arrange food being sold but thats it. To progress in the game you must solve the villagers problems which are in all honesty fetch quests, with a little life advice thrown in. Choices are limited in what you can respond with, which is a negative for me, but takes the quess work out. The game is sparcely populated, but each person holds their own actions and responses. Your character has the funniest running animation, I have ever seen. Quiet honestly it looks like it belongs in a family friendly spooky mystery game. The soundtrack is easy to leave in the background and flows well with the game and its fun to run around with a horse on your head. Sticking points, the controls are a bit awkward and take a bit to get use to, there are some minor graphical issues like camera clipping but nothing game breaking. The bigger animals if brought inside do some serious dancing but again it does't break the game and its easy to fix. All in all a nice relaxing game for those who like cute animals, loe-poly graphics, and simple gameplay. Way to go you two-person dev team!
Yeah it's a bit short, and there are one or two minor graphical glitches especially waterfalls got a bit pixelated where they met pools of standing water, but this is a game I'd let my young child play... if I had any. It's fairly easy on the kid mode; which I played it on the first run through so I could enjoy the story, the writing didn't make me want to tear my eye balls out of their sockets, and the graphic and game-play styles brought me back to my childhood of Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, and Beyond Good and Evil. The way the game saves is a bit kooky but without a life system I think it balances out a bit. Plus please consider that this game is basically the companies first game I think they did an alright job. By the way an absolute ton of easter eggs in this game if you talk to characters in between levels.
