Recent reviews by Piratical

Been playing this game for years. Love it.

This game is such a nostalgia trip. I'm in love.

This game is oodles of fun.

A fun little game. Took a bit to figure out but all in all it was enjoyable. Wish they had more pictures though.

Tried to play it. It glitched out and didn't allow file creation. Going to assume, based on playing other games from this studio, that it wouldn't have been worth it anyway. It'd just have begged for money over and over and over.

OK but why?!? Like...I like puppies. Everyone likes puppies...and kittens. But why do I have a fro-yo cabinet in my pet shop and why do people enter and loiter looking for human food? And why do they leave garbage everywhere?

I am a human, who exists in the real world, and enters pet stores in order to buy food, toys, and other things for pets. I do not expect human food in these establishments, nor do I pull garbage out of my purse and dump it in the aisles. It's just part of a money-grab, and it's WAY unrealistic. Dub Tee Eff, gaming studio. This is worse than Sunny Resort. If you want money, you charge for the game, you don't make it free and create all of these problems in an attempt to "coerce" us to give it to you.

I gave you money for Sunny Resort. Which was more than the game was worth. But...here you are with another game doing the same ridiculous nonsense.

Gross.

Quick and easy to win, fun to play. Some real burns in there...are we sure this isn't EA's model?

Make sure to pay attention to the achievements so you don't have to run it twice like I did...

Received this game for Xmas. I like it...fairly well-developed concept, cute art, there's a story mode that helps ease you in slowly and a sandbox mode.

Was bummed by these things:

- Game keeps lagging, especially the bigger my aquarium gets, and occasionally crashes to desktop. Haven't played on my gaming PC, so I'm hoping the problem is laptop-related but none of my other games crash.

- In sandbox mode, content stops at level 12, though I understand there was a recent update with more updates planned.

- These must be all male fish (even the clownfish?!?) because no matter how long my aquarium runs, no new fish appear. Having been a fish owner, this seems unreasonable, but would explain why so many breeds loathe being placed with members of their own species. Perhaps a breeding program to help add/recoup costs and add more things for guests to learn about and look at? It's not a real aquarium, so biodiversity and other conservation issues are irrelevant.

- I wish the "X has leveled up" message would list what zone they're in so I can know what to dump their leveling points into.

I love tycoon/management games, but this one doesn't make the cut. The interface is unnecessarily clunky. Completing quests causes a pop-up which lags your game and provides no interaction other than to notify you that you won XP. Could have just as easily done text on the side notifying us of this fact. Wouldn't lead to lag or having to move the mouse to click out of the interface so you can continue running your resort.

Holiday event keeps crashing the game.

And speaking of crashing, the game goes offline several times a day.

I love the perpetual frustration of these types of games, but the crafting times (especially if you want to send people out on a boat for fun points), constant pull to get you to spend real money on necessary things like craft buildings instead of on decor or something, and constant space-crunch are real buzzkills.

Needs a significant overhaul.

Annoying. Too many overlays and downtime while you wait for an upgrade to finish its animation.