Disney Dreamlight Valley

I gave it a try since it is on Game Pass (a subscription service from Microsoft).

The game is very charming, I have never played Animal Crossing before but I imagine that this is similar. You walk around in a village, plant different kinds of plants and unlock new plants, fish, mine and unlock new things like clothes, recipes and furniture that you can decorate your house with and you can also customize the village. The disney characters are very nice and the game looks very good.

I have not hit any sort of "wall" yet where I have to turn the game off and wait until the next day but I imagine that there will be some sort of mechanic, right now it seems to be mostly energy that I need to refill and I can do that by making food.

There is a lot to unlock and I can imagine that we will get more worlds as they will keep adding more.

https://i.imgur.com/kgwZwvm.png

I played a lot more yesterday and this really is such a fun game. If you like Disney and games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley it's a fantastic game. It's cute, fun, relaxing, the music is lovely. I love some of the little details (like constellations in the night sky). I absolutely love playing at night it's so pretty. I love the outfit choices. Overall very impressed.

I still have quite a long way to go I think it feels like it and I saw somebody mention at about 40 hours they still had 1 area to unlock an a little bit to do. OFC this is a style of game where people will go at wildly different paces but I feel life after 10 or so hours that seems like about my pace probably.

I have had some issues. Nothing really serious mostly just patience needed as a lot of it is lag. Switch does seem to be the most unstable version and does crash a fair bit... at least the game autosaves pretty often so crashes are usually little to no loss other than the time to reboot. I still can't get online or use cloud save. Haven't gotten my founders pack stuff which is the glitch I'm most annoyed by. They have said that they are working on an update though to fix or reduce a lot of the common issues, should be out next week.

It looks interesting. :)
I am considering giving it a try.

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I played it a bit more, the game is really good. I really recommend it if you like games like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley. There is a bit of sims in it too with the clothes you can unlock and you can decorate your house and your entire valley.

Progression in the game seems fair, they seem to have balanced it by requiring you to earn a lot of money for later upgrades and unlocking new paths, but you can earn a lot of money by buying and planting a lot of seeds and then sell your produce for a profit. And there is nothing that's really preventing you from playing the game for as long as you like, you can replenish your energy at your house or by cooking and eating food and you can build storage chests where you can keep all your items for crafting and cooking and you don't need to bring the items with you to the crafting table or the kitchen.

https://i.ibb.co/2Mc3Qwx/DDV-1.png
This is the character I created using the demo creation tool. Despite the lack of options for clothing and accessories, I found character creation to be quite impressive overall. It seems like they could have offered a few more options for hair colors, especially for brown and red hair since the existing brown looks purplish and the reds look pinkish. They did a really good job with the blonde colors, though, which is why I chose to make my character's hair that color. Not sure if the actual game has more customization options or if more will be added at a later point. I'm very tempted to buy this game based upon what I'm seeing and hearing, but still haven't made up my mind for certain.

I have watched other people play it, and it looks good.
My aim is to get the Standard edition, which is the cheapest, and convert my avatar over that way.
Still haven't got the game, but when I can, I plan to get it for my PS4.

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