Slime Rancher 2 is a continuation of the first part of the game (Slime Rancher). It's worth admitting right away that I'm a big fan of the FIRST PART and played it for 66.5 hours, collected all the achievements with great pleasure.

In Slime Rancher 2, in almost 4.9 hours of pain and suffering, I reached the conditional early access wall, blocking the locations that are not yet available, and as a result, I was very upset.


Disadvantages:
• Targeting an audience that is too young has led to a global and irreversible simplification of all mechanics
• Money is rapidly accumulating, but there is nothing to spend it on
• Merciless resource grind artificially stretches gameplay
• Basic things like farm automation are missing
• In comparison with the first part, stagnation mixed with degradation is felt

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1) Very unpleasant graphics for the eyes.
Developers have moved away from the contrasting “orange sand” as it was in the first part and merged together the sky, sea and grass in blue, added a blue haze. There is no way to adjust the color balance!
2) Disadvantages of the gameplay. Comparison with the first part of the game (briefly)

- Short training and "empty plot"
After appearing on the farm and a short training, Slime Rancher 2 leaves you alone with a cannon and slimes. As a result, you will have to entertain yourself on your own, study the meager domestic economy, catch a limited number of slugs and study an empty plot.

- Gameplay.
There are no mini-games, quests, and the mechanics of resource extraction are simplified and tightened
In the first part (Slime Rancher) there were two mini-games where the heroine had to look for hidden vegetables among evil mobs or shoot at electric slime on the race track in order to have time to collect plorts. This dilutes the gameplay.
There is no such thing in the second part.

- ENDLESS RESOURCE GRIND
Unlike the first part, where you need to install drills, apiaries and other mechanisms for resource extraction, everything here rests on the incessant search for materials at all locations.

- Lack of automation of monotonous work on the farm.
Unlike the first part, there are completely no drones that provide automated control on the farm when the player is on a journey.

- Limited number of slugs
The first part (Slime Rancher) — 17 species
The second part ( Slime Rancher 2) — 16 species, among which only FIVE are NEW