Disney Dreamlight Valley

I've been playing since the start of Early Access in September 2022 (first on the Nintendo switch and then switched to PC) and this is one of my favorite games!

The good:
- Many things to do in the game, especially for new players (quests, exploring, collecting, levelling up, farming, decorating, DreamSnaps, etc.)
- Fun to decorate & interesting challenges with DreamSnaps
- Touch of Magic tool allows players to create & share custom designs with motifs for certain clothing / furniture items
- Aesthetically pleasing, pretty immersive & several biomes / realms to explore
- Love talking & hanging out with Disney/Pixar characters
- Interesting main story plot line
- Lovely community on Discord
- Seasonal events, Star Paths & community challenges
- Multiple content updates per year

The bad:
- Sometimes grindy / repetitive
- Premium shop & its weekly rotation feels a bit like something from a mobile game + can cause FOMO for players. You can earn Moonstones (premium currency) via DreamSnaps, but that's not nearly enough to buy all the new weekly added premium items & buying more with real money is very expansive (1 house skin is 10-15 euros; 1 character skin is 10 euros; 1 critter/companion is 5-7 euros; 1 tool set is 15 euros).
- Gameloft often doesn't communicate well (although they do send out surveys once in a while)
- Many QoL improvements needed in almost all aspects of the game (e.g. better RNG, better UI, better filter/tag system, search bars, placing items diagonally, etc.)
- Some character quests lack depth
- Multiplayer not available for DLC & you can only look at eachother's Valley's, so not really play together
- Some characters shown in the original trailer are still not in the game
- Had to buy the game again to be able to play it on my PC
- Not able to have multiple profiles
- Lack of consistency in creative freedom
- Item limit for decorating outside
- Slow in implementing fixes for bugs

I was having a great time playing the Disney Dreamlight Valley game, but then I realized something. I'm the main character, and I've just been running around this valley doing chores for everybody. The whole experience feels more like slavery than it does playing a game. I'm building homes, gathering supplies, and doing random tasks for the other characters so that they can open businesses or go on vacation. I don't want to be anyone's damn slave. I'm the main character, and I should be getting other people to do my bidding. I've started this whole game off wrong

I'm just at the beginning of this adventure and I'm pleasantly involved. Graphically it reflects what is expected and without too many pretensions. The soundtrack is obviously taken from Disney films, so nothing new. The photo mode is the one that disappointed me a little more, it could have been better with more movement and the possibility of taking fantastic screenshots, unfortunately however it is very focused on selfies and little on the surrounding setting which I consider beautiful.
The gameplay is fluid and there is really a lot of farming and many things to do.
I expected many more "old-time" characters and much less new entries (perhaps because I come from the 80s generation).
Overall it is really a nice game and the price is adequate. my rating 8/10

Oh my gosh!! Finally a game you can think about during the day. I'm always at work expecting or wondering what to do next when I'm back home playing this game. What should I do next, what new unlockables I'm gonna discover, the story I'm gonna dive into!
This game has such a magical atmosphere. I can't believe I haven't tried it before. It really keeps you excited with joy, giving you a few laughs and cute moments with all those Disney characters!
The soundtrack is such a throwback to when I was a kid watching the animated movies. The Disney Castle's music intro is so powerful, I hope people keep supporting this game for future updates because this game has A LOT of potential!!!
I always loved the Disney games when I was a child and this surely is a carefully (very well) done improvement of em'all.
Yes I highly recommend this game:
It's fun, it's beautiful, and has all the elements you need to keep yourself entertained.

Do I hate the fact that this was suppose to be F2P and then they changed it last second? Yes
Do I still enjoy the game as a whole? Also yes.
If you love Disney and cozy farming games, this is absolutely for you. If you want to collect everything including cosmetics, I would not recommend, as many of the fun cosmetics (such as tool skins and houses) are locked behind an additional paid currency. However, they have added a way to get this paid currency for free by doing voting and looking for certain chests. It's alot of grinding, and if you buy this currency it's not exactly the cheapest either.
TLDR: Buy if you like fun farm game. Don't buy if you are a collector of all items in games.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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this is a great, fun game -- when it works.
dev needs to focus on:
1. fixing the issues with Scrooge's store never rotating in new items. it's always the same 2 beds, L counters, and tables. there's never anything new like they promised to be patched several updates ago.
2. fixing the issues with build mode not saving and losing / resetting half your changes when you exit build mode. or just breaking build mode in new ways now-- like, i can't even move my camera and mouse at the same time anymore. it just glitches and flickers around.
3. add a redo button with the undo in build mode and clothing mode already.
they also need to stop expecting people to literally live on this game with some of these challenges and time limits. some people aren't going to be able to gather that many marshmallows for the event for all the things to cook that many times to unlock all the rewards AND craft all the items for it unless they spend all day every day in this game. that's just not possible for many of the players.
all the negatives out of the way, it is a great game overall. it just needs some fine-tuning. i love the story, i love the worlds, i love how clear it is that there is a big path forward to expand on this game for a very long time. it's safe, it's fun, it's nostalgic and has all the elements of a cozy game.