Kitaria Fables

fun to play co-op with my 7 years old.

relaxing time killer, but enemy power scaling per zone is absurd

For those too lazy to read: Save your money, buy something else. It's understandable that with the success of Stardew Valley others try to copy it. But most fail. Hard. This is a fine example of such failure. At first glance it seems like an updated 3D version of SV, which would be nice, but as soon as you actually start playing you'll quickly notice two things: Sluggish controls and loading times. LONG loading times. The game world is devided into dozens of, often needlessly small, maps crossing them quite literally is regularly faster than loading the next map. This screams serious memory management issues. The game doesn't really use that much ram but not due to good programming but because the developers were unable to cope with the whole map loaded and instead every few steps the world is just discarded from ram and the next piece loaded. Ouch! Secondly, the controls aren't what you'd call smooth. Movement response is sluggish and imprecise and fighting therefore is arduous and more a game of luck than actual combat. And there's a lot of fighting, too much actually. But that's something most SV copycats suffer from - since they're lacking original ideas they just fill the void with more enemies. Third, item usage shortcut and quickslot management is a mess. The game strictly adheres to gamepad-like controls even though it's not a console game. With a real console-type game you get a quickselect wheel or similar to efficiently and quickly choose items and tools from and a non-console game simply uses that big keyboard in front of you. This game does neither and it does it badly. Oh, and selecting from the inventory during fighting is a bad idea - time does not stop to let you think and plan. Bad design decision. And the game world itself is missing a lot. It appears too artificial and without depth, npcs are little more than quest markers and the story tries too hard to be mysterious and interesting and falls short of both.

First off, I was gifted a copy of this on steam by a friend who wanted to played "local co-op" (e.g LAN/direct connect). We were UTTERLY disapointed to find out that the devs had no idea what "Local COOP" means and found out that its couch co-op (in other words you need two pads or whatever to play). I also found out that to skip cutscenes you need to hold ESC for about 2 seconds rather than just tap it like normal. By the time I got into game and was getting about 15 frames a second (highest detail on a decent system) I had enough. I've already read enough about this game and how it's missing any kind of decent features like friendships, marriages, proper farming to know that I wasn't going to waste any more time. My friend promptly refunded his copy and the one gifted. the game itself is just a basic combat game with no fun combat mechanics and is advertised as something its not in ALL areas. don't waste your time if you're looking for something like Stardew or harvest moon with a little extra. The devs have tried to advertise this game as something it isnt and expect people to accept what it is.