Glittermitten Grove

I feel bad leaving a negative review, because each individual piece of gameplay is SOLIDLY good. They just don't come together in a way that's enjoyable. The starting section is lovely. A bit annoyingly opaque at times, but simple once you figure out how things work. The tree physics is nice, and the light mechanics are interesting. Winter can feel punishing, but it's actually quite forgiving in the end. Everything from here on is a spoiler. [spoiler]The dungeoning section is again opaque at first, but simple once you understand what everything does. This section is the real main game; every other mini-game you complete brings you back here to the dungeon with some upgrade or altered state or other. It feels like a puzzle most of the time, which is a pretty interesting mechanic. None of the other games follow logically from each other or from anything in the main section, which is a little disappointing; at least in Frog Fractions, there was a comedic narrative tying each section together. I would have liked to see more comedy and story.[/spoiler] But many have said this. That's not enough to make me uninstall. My real gripe is more acute: [spoiler]They won't let you retry some minigames. Frog Fractions doesn't let you retry either, but it was short and simple. This game is so much longer and more complex that if you want to replay it all again to get back to that minigame, you'll be there for several hours. Picture this: You're doing the detective game set in Dante's Inferno. You've narrowed it down to two suspects in the database, you know one final piece of information that will make the difference, and you know where the suspect ran off to. You think you should maybe put that last bit of info in, but you decide you'll head to the next circle of Hell first and [i]then[/i] log it. Except as soon as you arrive in the next circle, the game locks you out of putting your info in and then tells you you've found the suspect but didn't have a warrant. Because it doesn't let you log the info. The info that you HAVE. And then you lose. Because it doesn't let you log the info that you were ABOUT TO LOG. And then it kicks you out of the minigame. That you WOULD HAVE WON IF IT LET YOU LOG THE INFO. And then it DOESN'T LET YOU TRY IT AGAIN.[/spoiler] It's too maddening. Don't get invested. Save yourself.

It's okay. Its cute and I liked it to start, then I found the underground cave that made me play a different game that I didn't want to play and there was no way back to the fairy village. So I started a new game because heck that I want to play fairy games, but then the plants stop producing food after a few "years" even though they haven't died and they won't grow anymore and all my fairies leave because there's zero food and if I cut down perfectly good trees all of their houses, wood sheds, and pantries will be gone. So I focused on mining, except once you hit a certain point the fairies won't pick up anything anymore so if you find food they just leave it down there with all of the crystals. Then after you play for a few hours the game stops working.

this is FIRE

I actually quite liked Frog Fractions 2. But it is in the style of a MUCH older game. The minigames were a lot of fun in my opinion, and this game was my hyperfixation for a while.

Love It! I wonder if the real frog fraction was the fairies we killed along the way

I won't say anything other than you will need a microphone peripheral from the hit game rock band 3 in order to experience this in its full glory. There are next to no games that I leave a review that's as short as this, but look, you're going to be playing this game if you already know about frog fractions so I feel like you should know what you're in for by purchasing this game so saying this is a requirement should be enough of a selling point here. You won't regret it unless you're not a fan of clever puzzles.

i went in blind. i recommend you do too. play frog fractions 1 first, if you want, there's no coherency between them

Is a relaxing city sim - not something I would play but I can see the beauty on it.

My brain cannot even comprehend what has happened, first being stressed out by fairies and then having a fractural trip through my kingdom. 10/10 would vibe with it again