NidragaStrike Calico Review

This is bad guys. This has all the backbone of a game, the art direction is beautiful, I love waggling the animals around. But it just doesn't seem playable. The mailbox absolutely doesn't exist and is not a real thing (unless you own the dlc, but even then it only spawns in correctly 1 out of 5 times), yet the game has a consistent quest pin telling you to open it that is really starting to get to me. It feels like no one ever comes to my cafe and that's really defeating the purpose for me, because I was told this was a game where I run a cafe darn it, waiting forever for this to occur makes it feel like I'm being forced to go do a bunch of fetch quests for people or else suffer eternal boredom. This game has everything in it that I didn't ask for, and almost nothing I did. It's extra yet somehow very nothing. The characters seem nice, I'm distressed that there seems to be no good way to make an even vaguely masculine player character, there a lot of silly potions and furniture... But the game fundamentally lacks a core. There seems to be nothing to do other than run around doing fetch quests, and that has NEVER been the best part of a game.