Milano's Odd Job Collection

Actually this is a good game for nostalgia to who has PS1 since Milano's odd job used to be PS1 game but they never has the EN version. so for the game without post game, and you can finish the game only for around 2 hours. I do not recommend this game since the price is quite expensive.

Three hours of beautiful visuals, snappy minigames, and bokunatsu-shoujo vibes. This is videogames!! The pixel art here is so sumptuous it made me throw up all over my couch. Every night, when Milano slips under her duvet, my brain starts overheating. My mind is telling me "60fps PSX game", but my optic nerve is shrieking "that's 120fps!! that's gotta be a billion frames!!". Not every minigame is a banger, but a handful really Hit. Being forced to vary my minigame diet through the weather system kept them from getting stale until day 35-ish. And by that point, the game was nearly over!! The new English voice acting so perfectly evokes "late-90s anime dub" that I actually kept it on, but for those who prefer JP audio purity, the subtitling was shockingly effective. I wish we had more translations with similar subtitling approaches! Hilltop does it again, best in the biz, #1 linguistic master, no notes. I hope this is enough effusive praise to get you playing Milano's Odd Job Collection. I NEED more ports like this to get made. There has never been a better videogame subcategory than "JP-only PSX game".

I really do love these cases, where an old Japanese game I never even heard of, seemingly out of nowhere, gets an English release. I went into this game really only knowing the base premise of it being a minigame collection. What I found while playing is that, although fairly bare-bones, the game offered an enjoyable couple of minigames, carried by its cute design. Like mentioned before, the game is pretty lacking in content, as there are really only eight minigames to do. Each minigame never gets extremely complicated; a little hectic on max difficulty, but nothing crazy. The real gameplay loop comes from trying to get stats up fast so you can make max money on the minigames. This is to try to get as much stuff as you can for the house. I really do like the charm of it all. The main character is adorable in her actions, and it has all the charm you would imagine of a late 90s anime. The set time of 40ish days does a good job of preventing the minigames from getting too stale, as I feel any longer and I would have gotten tired of them. This game ultimately is not amazing on any level, but it does have a massive amount of pleasing design that I think it's still worth a look at. The sound design was also surprisingly really well done, I found myself hoping now and then to some songs, and really enjoyed the vocal song that plays during the idol minigame and credits. The biggest props I have to give are just the fact that this game exists at all on modern marketplaces. I love the fact that a random game like this can just get a full official English translation, including new English vocals. I think the port does a great job of doing enough with the port to make the game a smooth experience, while doing their best not to alter the game in any way that is unneeded. I love the fact this game exist even if I don’t really see myself putting more then one 3 and a half hourish playthrough in it. Just really cool to see.

I feel like i'm 6 years old, playing ps1 games with my sis during summer's afternoons, i truly miss that, thank you 💚

Enjoy a game about mini games? Milano’s Odd Job Collection might be just for you! Play as Milano and complete “odd” jobs for the next 40 days during her summer break in Zucchini Town while she awaits her mom’s return from the hospital. There are a total of 8 odd jobs to choose from ranging anywhere from washing dishes at the restaurant, pizza delivery, catching fruit, healing patients, and more! Doing jobs will also earn you money which you can use to decorate your house. You will also need to improve Milano’s skills, mood, and energy in order to progress through the game by cooking, doing laundry, cleaning the house, reading a book, etc. Milano’s Odd Job Collection plays perfectly on the Steam Deck and/or a controller is required to play. I don’t think you can play with a keyboard and mouse, but don’t quote me on that as I’m sure it can be done somehow if you’re tech savvy enough. 🤓 The gameplay itself if very retro as it was originally released in 1999 on the PlayStation 1. This will definitely take you back to 90s style gaming so you’ll need to have a palate for pixel art games. Overall, the game is cute, but be wary that it’s very short. I was able to 100% it in under 4.5 hours and did two play throughs, spending a total of 80 days with Milano. I don’t think it’s worth the $14.99, so if you can, wait for it to go on sale. Other than that, I would still recommend it because the mini games were enjoyable.

decent japanese life sim minigame collection thing. buy on sale if you're interested, it's pretty short.

The mini-games are kinda just OK, but it's really cute and charming. It's also just very cool that a game like this could still get a brand new localization this many years later, and they really nailed the localization too - it manages to evoke that classic 90s anime dub style without just being deliberately bad. The emulation wrapper is solid too with all of the features you would expect - save states, rewind, CRT filters, etc.

Very lovely game, the minigames are fun and the artsyle is really really cute, I enjoyed it and had a great time, especially after learning the gameplay loop. It is kinda short and limited, but that's expected from a game of that time The port and translation is absolutely good, it has compatibility with every official gamepad and it actually changes the button glyphs in-game, it also comes with neat stuff like screen filters, backgrounds and scaling. The translation is well done and I feel like the english voices fit the 90s style dubbing pretty well. I'm glad they ported a kinda niche game and I hope they do with others like this