I'm super conflicted about this review, but I have to give it a negative.

So when I started the game I was very confused about what to do. Very little direction is given to you, and you have to puzzle nearly everything out on your own.

Now that by itself was frustrating, but I eventually got the hang of things. But this issue with the lack of tutorials isn't the big problem. The problem I found, was how much time you just have to sit there, waiting for things to happen.

The 6 day week, with different NPC's being available each week, seemed fun at the start, as I knew I'd have to plan things around them. However when put into actual practice, I soon found myself idling as an NPC on Day 3 would give me a quest to talk to someone on Day 2... Which meant waiting an entire week to do it. And then, when I'd do so, the NPC on Day 2 might give me a quest to give something back on Day 3, which is convenient! Except... The materials to make the item take time to find and put together and craft correctly and- Oops! That 30% chance of crafting a lower-quality item just triggered, the resources you've built up have been wasted and so is the time, so it's now day 4.

Especially near the end game, I had to sit in the rock garden, reading a book IRL (because minimizing the game pauses everything even in loading screens) and occasionally glance up to see if enough time passed so I could continue doing my questlines.

A game where you're forced to actively disengage from the game in order to progress is one that I was pretty much just completing out of the constant feeling of "You're almost there! The end to the questline is right around the corner! One more quest! Oh, sorry, wait another week, but the NEXT quest in this NPC's line is definitely the last one!"

Now I will say that, around mid-game, things were going incredibly smoothly. Every day felt like a challenge, I was trying to time everything perfectly, and it was all around an amazing time! But the start and end being either me fumbling around confused, or me sitting there bored, ruined that section of fun for me.

I'm super conflicted about this review, but I have to give it a negative. So when I started the game I was very confused about what to do. Very little direction is given to you, and you have to puzzle nearly everything out on your own. Now that by itself was frustrating, but I eventually got the hang of things. But this issue with the lack of tutorials isn't the big problem. The problem I found, was how much time you just have to sit there, waiting for things to happen. The 6 day week, with different NPC's being available each week, seemed fun at the start, as I knew I'd have to plan things around them. However when put into actual practice, I soon found myself idling as an NPC on Day 3 would give me a quest to talk to someone on Day 2... Which meant waiting an entire week to do it. And then, when I'd do so, the NPC on Day 2 might give me a quest to give something back on Day 3, which is convenient! Except... The materials to make the item take time to find and put together and craft correctly and- Oops! That 30% chance of crafting a lower-quality item just triggered, the resources you've built up have been wasted and so is the time, so it's now day 4. Especially near the end game, I had to sit in the rock garden, reading a book IRL (because minimizing the game pauses everything even in loading screens) and occasionally glance up to see if enough time passed so I could continue doing my questlines. A game where you're forced to actively disengage from the game in order to progress is one that I was pretty much just completing out of the constant feeling of "You're almost there! The end to the questline is right around the corner! One more quest! Oh, sorry, wait another week, but the NEXT quest in this NPC's line is definitely the last one!" Now I will say that, around mid-game, things were going incredibly smoothly. Every day felt like a challenge, I was trying to time everything perfectly, and it was all around an amazing time! But the start and end being either me fumbling around confused, or me sitting there bored, ruined that section of fun for me.