This review has spoilers! The good -A very endearing and cute art style, it's easy to tell the artists working on this game really enjoyed it -A colorful array of side characters to interact with, though often only briefly -An excellent soundtrack -A generally cozy vibe with some stellar locations to build your B&Bs in The Bad - The story is vague and somewhat nonsensical, ending on a flat note that leaves you scratching your head, who knew that freeing a literal god from imprisonment could be so anticlimactic -For what's supposed to be a cozy game Barbara's betrayal comes out of left field and totally ruins the positive vibe of the game, all that work so she could go on a cruise at our expense? Really? -I can't help but feel as though there are some dropped plot points, such as Barbara's captain friend, Hank's father, and whatever's going on with all those animal monuments you find -To be polite, the dialogue is self indulgent and cheesy to an obnoxious degree, filled to the brim with jokes that I can only assume sounded funnier in the writer's head, to be impolite, it's cringe The Ugly -Not long after reaching Highlake the game starts tacking on additional gameplay systems that add a bunch of tedium that wasn't there before, first it's cooking which means you now need to scavenge for ingredients in addition to upgrading your cooking appliances, then there's the heating system which means making and upgrading heaters and constantly making sure they're topped up with fuel, until finally you get to Pinewood and now you need food, heaters, and literally every other type of room that the game had previously, it goes from being fun to build and deck out your B&B to feeling more like work -Just use the staff!, you might say. By the endgame and with minimal staff they were taking up about half my income every night. That's simply too much and I'm sure if I automated everything I would be in the negatives. - The last several quests are padding, simple as that.
