wanted to make a review since, before i played, i saw a lot of the negative reviews made this game seem pretty ass and it's really not. not sure if maybe the people who made the reviews played an earlier version or something, but it's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard to kill your nanomon. as long as you remember to not walk away from your computer actively while the nanomon is unpaused, you run away from fights, and feed your nanomon treats to raise its health, happiness, thirst, and hunger, it's gonna live on. it is A LOT more forgiving than what i remember tamagochi being like when i was a kid.

the claim about the lag on the minigames, i could be crazy but i haven't noticed too much lag? maybe weird hitboxes, but your nanomon sucks at everything when its a baby. you need to start off in the peaceful areas, grind a bit until your nanomon isnt a little weakling, and then you can go out and explore the other areas, and you'll notice the minigames are way easier.

also, there are cues for pretty much everything, they're just subtle. before the fish pop up in the minigame, they do two splashy water noises. on the second one, fire, and you'll hit it. for the box minigame, the stream of water will narrow down right before the box drops. i count one Mississippi, two Mississippi, click, and you'll hit it every time. the only ones i'd say that rely on luck are the tree climbing one (it's impossible to predict when your nanomon will fall out of the tree, but a lower leveled one is more likely to fall out) or the weight lifting one (a weaker nanomon will hurt themselves working out if you do it too much, but it's impossible to tell when it'll happen). i'd say it's a pretty fun game, there really aren't that many games that are, idk for lack of a better word, tamagochi-likes. so far i've been playing for a few days and i feel like there's plenty of stuff to do, there is challenge but it's not impossible to overcome--it's a p good productivity game, if not a little distracting.

for those that are curious about the actual game, i'd say it's pretty much just like what i remember tamagochi being like, except your pet doesn't seem to get sick, and there's a 'fighting' aspect where the levels you put into your nanomon's stats effect how good it is at battle. it's a bit grindy, but for something i play alongside doing my job, i prefer it that way. ♥♥♥♥ would suck if your nanomon died every ten seconds.

I love this game! listing to a podcast while playing this game is such a vibe! The two things I'd like would be I would love a second save file so I don't have wait for the poor nanomon to die before I get a new nanomon especially since there's vs battles sometimes you wanna weaken yourself for a fair battle! Also I think another version of do nut disturb mode that turns off the HUD and other distracting things but still keep the eye candy :)