TV Archive: Tidy Up Together

A wonderful game about cleaning up a video rental store, where you can play not only alone but also with friends. I recommend buying this game!

It wishes it could be the Arcane Library Tidy Up Game but it isn't. The "magic" in this is that you have to do everything manually. Even though there ARE "magic" abilities. To use the "auto-shelf" ability you have to be looking AT THE BACK of the vhs case. as in AT AN EMPTY SPOT and the thing you want to shelve has to be the top item. If it's anywhere else in your stack it doesn't care it only matches the top item to that EXACT spot. If you want to do MORE than one you need to repeatedly hit the button as your timer runs down on the BACK of the shelf. The "Sort" feature is actually THE WORST EVER AND I WISH IT DIDN'T EXIST. It does NOT sort your items. It does NOT sort 1-10. It does NOT sort 1969 then 1970 etc. no. For all I can tell this button does LITERALLY NOTHING. The "skill tree" FORCES you to get upgrades that you don't need. Making the SIX HOURS of time of review I'm only HALF DONE with the game because the skill tree prevents you from getting ANYTHING useful until NOW. AND I HAVE HELP!!!! This is one of the most frustrating games I've ever attempted to relax with. A LOT of the VHS spines look IDENTICAL so good luck to my friends that struggle with any sort of colorblindness when that is sometimes the ONLY difference on the spine. I love the titles -> Vampire Slayer Sarah. The Teenage Witch Melissa........ Stone Family and Jet Family. I think those are funny and I was happy to spend $4 on this game to play with some friends but I'll never pick this one up again. The only difference in MOST sections is arbitrary YEARS so have fun sorting "News" from 1969-1983 and Basketball and Baseball and Tennis and Racing and Boxing <- LITERALLY ALL DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. 15+ shelf spaces on each one. It's the EA Sports edition of this type of game. Sorry but this one. Is a "save your money" game.

this was gonna have a good review but the ending part with the news was so scary i cannot tell you how poopied my pants were

On a scale from 0 to Librarian: Arcane Library, this sadly lands at a low 3. It really shouldn't, because there's some good here: the controllers are smooth, you never have trouble picking an item out of a pile, there's no weird frame drops. They try to customize your play-through by choosing if you unlock abilities or start with all unlocked, and you can have several save files. I have not personally tried the multiplayer so I can't speak anything for it. But the core of a satisfying sortslop (non derogatory), the actual looking for items and sorting them, isn't here. If I can only have fun by spamming the abilities to find matching items and where to put them, because I cannot look at the item you're giving me and have a decent idea of where it should go, you haven't made a satisfying sorting game. The devs disclose, "AI was used only as a supporting tool for the design of fictional images on the videotapes," but boy does the supporting tool turn out a load-bearing beam. It's incredibly bizarre, because at least four or five categories of tapes are sports: Rows and rows of "Tennis/Baseball/Basketball" yearly championships with no creative flare to the covers, just "random person playing the sport", which 100% should not need any AI help to create. Nowhere is this more jarring than the weird homoerotic AI Popeye the Sailor man knock off in the cartoon section, with an increasingly bare-chested sailor in each season flexing and chomping on spinach, looking straight out of a Mr. X-toon parody. It's SFW but it's clear that the AI didn't assume that's what it should be. And that's what really sours the experience of playing this game: there's no intentionality to the design of these items, no unifying design elements. Arcane Library gives you a super solid guess of where a book needs to go just from the title, nevermind the fact the actual color choices and design of the books themselves serve as double hints, letting you sus out how to sort them with high accuracy when you consider both of these elements. In TV Archive, you can only easily tell two categories from sight alone: cartoons, and sports. If something sounds or looks like it's horror, think again, because it could be drama or a documentary, the visual design and title don't help you nail it down. You'll either put it in every shelf to check, or give up and use the ability that shows you where to slot the thing. Perhaps TV Archive thought "well, real life VHS tapes don't try to design things similar to each other!", which is fair enough, but does make the core cozy gameplay of sortslop fall down a drain. Realism doesn't give any points in this particular case. If you're hungry for more flavors of sortslop and don't mind GenAI used to design textures in games, give this a go. It's cheap and it scratches the itch. But consider browsing through other sortslop games first for sure.

[b]The room of that one friend who never cleans up:[/b] The main issue with these kinds of cozy games is usually the solo gameplay. It’s super relaxing, with repetitive actions, a pleasant atmosphere, and rewarding upgrades that majorly speed up your progress. But in this game, you can actually team up with your friends! Walk around, collect cassettes, and even upgrade special skills. After all those action games, this is the absolute perfect place to just unwind. [code]If you read the review and liked it, don't forget to give it a thumbsup;)[h3][i]The further - The better♥️[/i][/h3][/code]

非常公式化的整理收纳游戏，所有录像带的封面都是AI生成的，技能必须按顺序一路点下去，不能优先点自己想点的，所有录像带公式化按年份、按季别无脑换皮个十几年十几季，最具反面代表性的就是体育项目录像带和汽车竞速录像带，网球锦标赛196X~198X年（还有田径、足球、篮球、棒球、拳击），最致命的是玩家在收录的时候并不知道这个项目到底是从哪一年开始的，不知道要不要给架子预留空间、以及预留多少空间，于是就会出现你从70年开始一路摆下去突然间你发现其实有六几年的，这时候你就得全部取出来再重新排列，我的天哪这也太有意思了吧！ 就是说想抄图书馆也多少用点心行不行，整理起来一点成就感都没有，联机还做得差得要死。

My first playthrough I played for just under an hour before the game froze and I had to hard close it, loosing all the progress I had made. Sadly didn't realize this game used generative AI or else I wouldn't have purchased at all in the first place.

If you loved Librarian, you'll enjoy this one. Evocative covers/titles, bonus for clearing the game, useful abilities, and even optional co-op. The only thing I find unbelivable is the lack of... erhm... Adult titles in a TV Archive. Could use a side room DLC.

I didn’t think I’d start working in an old store so early as a simple salesperson who sorts goods — in our case, cassettes. Sometimes it’s unclear how to determine the genre, but fortunately, the game supports many languages.