This is not-a-professional review #1 - Cozy Grove
After around 10 hours of playing this game (in about 15 days), I thought it was the right moment to release my opinion on the internet.
Cozy Grove is a life-sim game; your character, which you can customise at the very beginning of the game, lost his/her boat and ended up on this haunted island/forest. It’s not as spooky as it sounds, as a matter of fact this is a family-friendly game and everything is extremely cute. Nevertheless, in the game you’ll have to deal with themes such as death, regret, depression, abandonment and loneliness - but still…in a “cute”, slightly sugar-coated way.
The gameplay itself is pretty smooth, as simple as it is, and it’s all about crafting and finding items that will allow the ghosts to “enlight” themselves, adding colour to the area around them in the island.
The character lives in a tent, built in a small camp in the south of the island. There is the possibility to customize the tent and enlarge it, similarly to animal crossing, paying with old coins. You can basically place animals (yes, animals) and items, including trees and bushes, everywhere around the island.
Compared to animal crossing, the story has a stronger impact and the daily tasks you have to accomplish will keep you hooked and interested in the game
It gets repetitive and redundant, but the amount of items you can craft and find will kind of make up for this inconvenient
Villagers themselves are kind of repetitive in their dialogues
The possibility of customizing the environment, however large, is limited by the reduced space, in the face of a considerable quantity of items
Personally, I find it a relaxing and cozy game, designed for those rainy days (or sunny days, I don’t really mind the weather outside) that I will probably continue to play, although not as diligently as in the early days.
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