With developer Glumberland finally ready to release version 1.0 of Ooblets, does it live up to its potential or buckle under the weight of carrying multiple genres at once? You're just a nooblet Removing all the weeds, rocks, and logs will give open farmland to till, plant, and water crops.
So if this review starts reading like the Rick and Morty commercial for a Plumbus, that's by design.
The names of the crops, items, and Ooblet monsters sound like something Dan Harmon might come up with. The game's unusual humor, music, and art fit somewhere between the more chill vibes of Animal Crossing and the mellower side of Katamari Damacy. Even in its unfinished state, the game was lauded for its quirky style and its strange blend of genres: a farm simulator with monster collecting and card-based dance battles. And feels like work, tbh.Ooblets will be familiar to anyone who read impressions of this kooky indie title when it released in early access on Xbox One and PC in July 2020. So many strange oversights considering the lengthy early access. The UI is poor (illegibly small inventory icons and a pop-up text box that covers your inventory, a jumbled-up approach to organising info in your journal no map unless you literally go to the one town map).
There are several woefully underdeveloped central mechanics, such as a pointless fishing game (you only cast! That's literally it!) and a simplistic card game (that can usually be won by playing any card you're dealt in any order). There are several woefully underdeveloped central mechanics, such as a pointless fishing game (you only cast! That's Simple and sweet, but comes with a very expansive and demanding economy (re: character energy - you need to consume three intensely expensive coffees, two laboriously produced hot dogs and have a nap or two just to perk up after a couple of minutes of light gardening?). Simple and sweet, but comes with a very expansive and demanding economy (re: character energy - you need to consume three intensely expensive coffees, two laboriously produced hot dogs and have a nap or two just to perk up after a couple of minutes of light gardening?).
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