Disney Dreamlight Valley

After producing almost nothing but garbage for 20 years, Gameloft has finally published what is a half decent game. While there is still some F2P garbage in this game, as of the time of writing this the game feels about a bit less fair and grindy than Animal Crossing [どうぶつの森]. The game's currencies have not felt difficult to get at all, and nothing is feels insane to unlock excluding a few things you can (optionally) craft.

The game is mixed when it comes to its polish. While I can excuse some of the glitches because it's currently early access, the inconsistency in the quality of animations is odd. Some characters like WALL-E or Stitch feel right at home while Woody feels right out of the uncanny valley. Thankfully, the writing of the game helps save this as the devs clearly hired some Disney AO3 writer to create fun interactions between the Disney universe. This helps keep the quests somewhat interesting as they feel like they have purpose. The soundtrack is also pretty fun with some great variations of classic Disney tunes.

The game needs to provide more ways for players to learn recipes as it barely teaches any of them. Some are obvious to figure out (ex. a mint boba tea is just a boba tea with mint), but the game gives no indication on how to make most of its recipes.

This game is no masterpiece and there's not much to even write about, but if you just want a game to sit back and relax to, this isn't a bad choice.