Bobo Bay

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i love my bobos

Past a certain number of bobos the game turns into a bit of a resource management game, but other than that, well... Did you play Sonic Adventure 1 or 2? Did you enjoy the Chao Garden? Do you miss the Chao Garden? Then this game is for you.

First 3 hours and its okay. I've heard from others that it really shows its value as you play more, and I'm already starting to see a bit of that but only a little. At the start of the game there's not too much content but there's a mountain of stuff to learn and understand (even for those familiar with Chao Garden). The charm is there, but the graphics are anything but charming. The character designs are fantastic though. I supported this game through its Patreon page for a number of months prior to its release, would have been much longer if I knew about Bobo Bay when it initially opened its Patreon page, but unfortunately I had to stop my financial support when I ran into money problems. Although I continued to support the game by word of mouth, I couldnt afford it until today. I'm happy I waited as more content has been added since its initial release, and more seems to be coming in the future as well. This game definitely has its positives. For chao garden fans there's a lot to love here. For people unfamiliar, there's still a lot of fun to be had. It's a very niche genre for sure, but its one I've always been a fan of ever since the first Sonic Adventure game came out, playing Duck Life during class, picking up the second Sonic Adventure game on Steam decades later for the mods specifically made for Chao Garden, and now finally playing Bobo Bay. Despite all this, as of right now I feel $25 is a bit outrageous for what I'm getting so far. I'm definitely going to update my review as I play more, as like I said earlier people have stated that it really opens up down the road, but for right now I feel like this is a solid $10 game, $5 for people who have never played something like this before. It's a love letter to one of my favorite niche genres in gaming, but so far it hasn't felt worth the $25.

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I want to like it, but it's so heavily rng based. There was an update with the goal of giving players more agency, but it still feels very far off. Along with everything being rng based, the grind is just very slow and so each day feels like it has no impact. The UI is also clunky and it can be very tedious tracking each bobo's stats and you have to navigate to different menus a lot and it just feels bad. Love the art and dialogue and story, so I'm planning to return and hope I can one day recommend this game :) Also this is just for the dev I know the field rations are the idea for auto feeding, but I'd love if there some was some kind of like mid to late game coconut autofeeder for all the bobo's who I'm actively indifferent towards. I want to own several bobos just for their aesthetics for breeding, but it gets so overwhelming to have more than like a max of 4 bobos per shift.