Black Friday Janitor: Clean the Whole Mall

Excellent! Scratches THAT itch big time

Not without its faults, but one of the better sorting games out there. Plan to play through again. I like the design of the spaces. Different areas have different carpeting, wall patterns, and lighting. The products had a lot of different shapes and colors to make it possible to work a few types at a time. They even had display models for some boxed products. There's also a variety of shelving: hats went on display heads; clothes hung on bars or were folded and sat on shelves; and some products in the electronics store hung from hooks. They even put actual foggy doors on the frozen and refrigerated section in the grocery store (though that product still should have been thrown out rather than stocked). I like that the objects have ish gravity. The way they flop isn't necessarily how it would realistically be sitting on the ground, but there's nothing floating a foot above the ground due to removing the object beneath it. Collision with other products did happen, though, in that a smaller object would sometimes have a small corner sticking out of a large box item when they should have been separate. I love that if you go to place an object on a shelf where there is already a different type of product, it doesn't chuck the product towards the shelf and have it fall to the ground. Nothing happens except an unobtrusive message on the screen saying that something else is already stocked in the location. Your item stays in hand. I like that every item CAN have a labeled space or you can choose to play more freeform. I like that there's more than just item sorting. There's also trash scattered about, and spills to mop up, and objects that have tipped over to be set right. The biggest negative for me: The way items were added to the list of what you're holding is kind of confusing and takes a bit of getting used to, and I'm still not 100% on how it works. At first, I had the auto-sort feature turned off, but I gave in upon feeling like I couldn't keep track of the list at all, so I'm not sure how everything was working without it. With the auto-sort feature on, if you're not already holding an item, it will be added to the top of the list. If you are already holding that item type, I think it's added to the top of that item's section in the list (relevant for items that come in different colors). But when you place an item, you get shifted down to the bottom of the list for that item, or shifted down to the next item on the list if you're out of that type of item. Example 1: Let's say you're placing item type 1 on a shelf, but then your mouse twitches minutely wrong, and you pick up item type 2 on the nearby shelf instead. You weren't holding item type 2 before, so after putting it back on the shelf, you are now at the top of your list and have to scroll down to find item type 1 in your list to continue placing it... Or, if you were already holding item type 2 somewhere, you're taken to that location in your list and you don't know which way you even need to scroll now to find item type 1... Totally hypothetical. Definitely didn't happen to me on several occasions. Example 2: You're trying to hang some dresses in order by color but you realize you need to shift four dresses one to the left to fit the color you're holding into the right location. So you pick up 1, 2, 3, 4 dresses, then place the 4th dress one to the right of its original location. The next dress you're holding is now the original dress you were trying to put in, as it was at the bottom of your list. Place that in the freed up location, and now the next dress your holding is the next one up from it, which is either a sixth dress you were already holding or the first dress you picked up, then 2 and 3. @_@ And if you try to scroll up again to place the other ones first, you will have to scroll up to place 1, then be put back down at the bottom of the list for that item. Then scroll up for 2. Then scroll up for 3.... (WHY?!!?) The small, nitpicky: - Something weird was happening with the candle design where if you look at them from a distance, it looked like their label was being cut through with the color of the candle rather than remaining solid. - Some items come in a variety of colors but all get stocked to the same location and there isn't necessarily an equal amount of those different color types, so if you try to sort by color, you might get a little annoyed, but it could also be seen as an added challenge. - I have never seen a spiral notebook be stood up on its shortest side with no support... why were they not stocked flat? - I wish the fruit and veggies stocked from the bottom of the bin rather than the top. Round objects being stocked at the top of a slanted bin looks really unrealistic. Also, would have preferred more variety for those products than two bins of each. Like, they could have even just done bags vs individual for the apples, oranges, and lemons. Could have easily added more onion variety just by changing their color to white or red. Could have had individual gold, red, and russet potatoes vs just the one shelf of bagged potatoes.... But in general, hope they make more content and add more item variety. Saw a different comment that mentioned possibly doing other holiday settings. I second that. A mall at Christmas would be fun.