holoVillage: Our Cozy Days

As cozy as it can be

200時間超えてたので、感想を・・・。 釣りだけは大変でした！！

I wish I could give this a mixed review I really do. I enjoyed the game but there are several things that are stopping me from replaying this, I'll start with the good: The music is fantastic, with some of my favorites being Mumei, Shallys, and Non Fiction. The models are super cute, and the art style is pretty. Now my gripes: Lack of original stuff: The game has a severe lack of stuff like original outfits. In the Kuromarine shop (More on that later) about 70% of the outfits are the hololive members outfits which only ONE of them are dyeable that being Pekoras. Not there's a good bit of original furniture but I do wish there were more. Lack of members and representations: Now there are quite a good number of hololive members about 70% of them are here. However gens like: Councilrys, Justice, all of ID, Flow Glow, HoloX, and Gen 1 (Fubukis there but part of gamers) are missing. Now in the furniture shop there are some sections that have furniture dedicated to the girls however some are a bit weird. Examples being Councils section, I'm wondering if it was something with Hololive or the devs were Bae fans because Bae has: two skateboards, one tapestry, and a cushion. Now the cushions are the only representations for the other members, except it seems either they didn't want to or chose not to include anything for Sana. ID has three furniture options that are all for Area 13. Justice has NOTHING, no furniture, outfits, nothing. Gen 1 has six items which sounds a bit better but they are all multi options meant to represent all of them. Flow Glow has a single tapestry of Chihaya and that's it. HoloX has three items, a meeting table with changeable colors to represent each member, cushions, and a plush of La+s crow. I'm hoping they plan to add more members in the future as free updates so we can have all the members. Now there are some representations of the members in terms of items, fish, and enemies. (In the mountain enemy there's a Koyori themed enemy and there's a rare Chloe fish) We also have Ckia which is some representation for ID but I'm really hoping to see the rest. Lifeless Residents: Honestly these are the most lifeless residents I've seen in a game like this. In a game like animal crossing or other games the residents will often talk to each other, go fishing, and go about their daily lives. The members don't do any of that. They don't even interact with each other besides when they are on a bench together. The only time they do something is when you make them work the shops (More on shops later). Now I THINK they could fish or they might only do it when given the fisher job. They also don't have much to say. They have like three dialogue options: One for talking to them when they aren't a resident, one for when they move in, and one for when their a resident. Their also literally just walking soundboards. They'll walk around aimlessly, say and repeat 1-3 voice lines and that's it. You can interact with them but only to have them follow you and pose for pictures. They won't even follow you outside to gather or fight with you. Some of the voice lines are questionable as well. My main suspect being Suisei. She has two voice lines when she's in the village: one where she sings a bit, and then when she screams. The amount of times I've gotten jumpscared by Suisei screaming in the corner upsets me. The Kuromarine store: This store which accessed through the main menu or a menu in game is the only way to get inside furniture and clothes. Now you'd think you'd use the coins you earn from selling items in the two stores you can place or to the shop NPC's to buy these items. Well unfortunately you use a completely separate currency to purchase these. This currency is obtained at the end of every day where your given some for: Logging in daily, doing quests, and selling stuff (very little though). It's with these items you can buy stuff. This is the only way to get cosmetics or inside furniture. Now thankfully everything is super cheap being 1 for a piece of furniture and 2 for a piece of clothing. Combat: The combat could use some improvement. Magic is absolutely broken as range is super important in this game. Now I did do my first playthrough of the game going pure melee and with potions it's pretty manageable. But when I started a second playthrough with magic the bosses I struggled with when I used melee I beat quickly and on my first try. It was night and day the difficulty difference. Not saying it was hard it was just obvious how much easier the game gets when you use magic and spec into that tree. I wish there were more weapon type varieties but that's a me thing. My conclusion: I had a bunch more complaints but a lot of them were fixed. Going for rare fish was made a bit easier, bugs were fixed, placing was made easier, and a bunch of other things. Do I recommend this game? To a Hololive fan yes. To someone looking for a cozy game not yet. I really wish this game was launched into early access and not as a completed game. I wouldn't be as critical if it was an early access game. The game was still fun during my first playthrough. Doing all the quests and seeing all the weapons I could make was enjoyable. I hope the devs continue to work on the game giving use more members, outfits, and furniture. They recently gave us a new set of furniture so we can replicate the hololive office from the HoloGras. So I believe we'll get more stuff in future updates. I will happily edit this when those things happen.