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• gamedeal user

  Oct 19, 2021

  I want to love this game, but I can't. I know this is in early access, so I will come back in a few more months to see if the issues have been fixed, but I have my doubts. I just spent 2 hours crafting a large storage chest fashioned to look like a hope chest. This was a great way to store items and it would look good with the shape and style of my character's home...then I tried to save. It said I met the outer size limits, but I did not meet the minimum size requirements. Sound confusing? it was. Nothing I could do, including changing the item type I was crafting would allow me to save my work, because apparently, my hope chest did not meet some arbitrary size requirement of being at least 1x1x1 square in dimensions while also being able to be much larger. I met the larger size requirements, but was somehow not large enough to meet the minimum size requirements... This is not the first game breaking "extra go to 10 line" bug I have encountered and as they piled up and up, I just couldn't handle it anymore. This game has potential, it's very cute and neutral, family friendly and creative...but the ENTIRE crafting system, arguably 80% of the game is fundamentally flawed from the ground up. It uses a fixed grid system that forces items to snap to it without showing you where the snap points are, resizing items does not match the snap grid (that you can't see) and to color your items, you need to craft so much paint you should be able to recreate the Last Supper across an overpass! Let you know if things have improved, or if they've just become more cluttered, but remain flawed and glitched out in the new year.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 19, 2021

  Super cute game. As many others have said, I am also a long-time player of animal crossing. It is a little clunky in areas, but nothing as unforgivable and dramatic as other reviews have made it out to be. I think there is only one dude working on this game, and it is going to take a little more time than a huge dev. SDV was also clunky in places when it first released, and look where it is now. It is important not to review bomb early access games just because they did not meet your extremely high expectations of the genre.. this is how you stop sales, stop the dev's income and then subsequent good updates and content do not get done. You can tell that the dev of this title put a lot of love into it, with the many systems that are in place and the pretty cute story. The only thing I would change, is the art style of the animals, and that probably would not even be possible at this point in time. I'd like them to look a little less Fisher Price and more chibi cute.. but that is just my personal preference. Everything else looks great. The furniture is also extremely adorable. 7/10 at this point in time!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 26, 2022

  Okay i see this game have a lot of potential, but i hope the developer improve it on next update and please don't abandon this potential games... I play animal crossing and i have it on my switch, i really love playing some farming games like story of seasons, stardew valley, and other farming simulation.. I request for other update to make this game awesome: -Please improve the character modelling, for villager and main character, maybe we can choose eyes, some face, mouth, just see refrence to make it better... - Is this game have museum? i just play only 3 hour right now, hope we can donate bugs, fish, other collectible on museum -Improve your UI, i just see some bugs, furniture image really not good (Not highrest, the edges of the image are not smooth in bugs image) -Hope we can cooking -Terraforming and we can apply / making road -Multiplayer, we can visit and invite friend to our village/city -Please some object have some function, why i can't turn on the TV XD and sit down on picnic table XD -Please look animal crossing, story of seasons, stardew valley, you can have inspiration for that amazing games - I hope we can swimming I hope this game is going to be big :) i will always support this game, we need some Animal Crossing genre and big community for this game
• gamedeal user

  Apr 20, 2022

  I really enjoy this game having dabbled a bit in Animal Crossing. What I like about this game versus AC is that if you don't want to play for a while, you won't come back to angry villagers and time stands still while you're gone. I can play at my own pace and get a lot done each day. I can water my crops, clear out the mines, and do an errand or two for the critters I've invited before it gets too late in the day. Someone else was complaining about the fishing, the only issue I have had with it is that it actually seems harder to catch fish with bait than it is without it and if you pull your reel in early to reposition you lose the bait. I've found that catching butterflies is a far quicker method of making extra coins if you need it, especially considering they repopulate rather quickly. I've paid for a few houses now with just money off of butterflies honestly. I would love to see other bugs added, more character customization, and I like the idea of a museum too as someone else suggested. On days when I don't want to run around hacking and slashing things in an RPG, Hokko Life is the perfect game to just relax and enjoy because it's simple and fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2022

  Imagine a child running around with their arms outstretched like an airplane, possibly making "vroom-vroom" noises, and then running up to you with a "really cool" bug that they think you'd like to have. Now imagine your town elders getting inebriated one evening and saying, "We're tired of running this dump. Let's let the kid do it!" That's the basic premise of this game (minus the inebriation part - I'm not really sure what their motivation is). If it doesn't make you run away screaming, you'll probably love it! I confess, I wasn't impressed with it when it was first released. I found the muted colors depressing, and there really didn't seem like there was much to do. After a short time, I got bored and uninstalled. But I went back recently and found it much improved. The beginning is still kind of slow. You arrive on the train, having no idea where you came from or why you're there, and you're given free room and board at the hotel in town. Then you're asked to do some simple tasks, but you run out of them quickly. NOW, however, there are a couple of broken down houses in town, and you're asked to fix them up. Then you're allowed to take one for yourself, and the game takes off. It's similar to many of the Harvest Moon-style games, though farming doesn't come into the picture for a long time. Instead, you do chores for people and learn how to build things and collect butterflies and fish, in exchange for cash. The creator wanted it to be similar to Animal Crossing, and it definitely evokes that game. When you catch a butterfly or fish, the camera zooms in and you display your catch. If you've played Animal Crossing, that will be very familiar. So will many other elements, including the animals moving into town. (Fortunately, I don't have to endure them asking for wardrobe changes and strutting around on the runway. Ugh.) It isn't Animal Crossing. It's a similar, but unique game, and after several hours of gameplay, I haven't even come close to running out of things to do. On the contrary, there seems to be more to do, as the game move along. I haven't even opened up some of the areas yet! So it's definitely fun and engrossing. The muted colors are a stylistic choice I don't really agree with, but at least there is a lot of variation in weather and the time of day. I recommend it!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2022

  I should have listened to the reviews about bugs, I was hoping for a cool PC Animal Crossing style game but in the short time I played I had the following: getting stuck on invisible walls in a field I just walked through, displaced text in conversation so it was difficult to read, tutorial overlays not going away, and there are parts where you get automatically sent to bed however no sound indicator states you even went to sleep so I had missed a few days due to the sequence. Really cool concept I hope the devs can figure out the bugs though, as for now I'll stick with Dinkum for my PC Animal Crossing fix. some QoL would be appreciated too, inventory in most other games is the Tab key, but on this game it's B? You cant activate things with a left mouse click which feels awkward using E while trying to move as well.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2022

  This game is not a replacement for any possibly related game you might see a resemblance to (ex. Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon/Rune Factory, Stardew, Ooblets or the like). My current recommendation is to play those games if you haven't already. If you need something new and you’re okay with a different animal crossing-like experience(one focused more on design than connections or story advancement), I think Hokko Life mostly delivers. It takes some of what those games have offered and delivers in a semi-unpolished way with a focus on creation. (The unpolished parts of this game lead to a lifeless or unfinished feeling.) For the price offered, I think that's a deal. Even more so at a discount. (I picked it up for 13$ after its post-EA release.) I recommend it if you're looking for a town design simulator with a few extra moving parts. I haven't seen all Hokko Life has to offer, but I plan to spend more time in it. I was really struggling to find a review post-early access with the information I wanted, so wrote this and I will add-on when I have more to say. I'd like to expand on why I think Hokko Life is a good experience, and also on what I feel is missing from this now complete game. I did not experience any bugs or crashes during my playtime. Why I like Hokko Life: - the biggest asset the game has is the furniture customization process, so if that isn't interesting for you then the game might fall flat; being able to share these is really great - there are settings for audio, display, and controller/keybind remapping; bonus points for separating the music and sound effects (nintendo pls take notes) - inventory stacking is great! I specifically love that bugs stack which brings me to.... - money is easy to get, bugs are quick to catch and easier to sell - the environment looks nice (though I still prefer to use reshade for additional fine-tuning) - the controls are easy to use, tried both, prefer controller for easier bug catching - the loading screens are fast, but there are a few of them between some important tasks (like selling or crafting at first) - the characters have a bit of personality to them, in design and dialogue (though the game maintains a quaint happy-go-lucky village vibe. pro/con) - Mayor Merits are diverse and provide very real buffs (ex. endless watering can, plants growing faster, shopping catalogs, SPRINTING) - the furniture customization is in-depth enough that it feels unique and fun (with multiplayer sharing) - NO TOOL DURABILITY, thank you. - Uses game time instead of real time, so you can progress at your own pace - the ability to freely move and edit housing & furniture (including neighbors) - so far at least one villager wants for something/has a task for me, which i personally enjoy - biased but fishing is a plus, i love a good fish catalog - havn't used yet but multiple save slots is always a plus - ongrid and offgrid furniture placement with full rotation is lovely! What is missing: - 1440p resolution support at least, widescreen support would be a great bonus (playing on a 3440x1440 monitor) - It locks my mouse in the window and the game freezes when not in focus. (playing in windowed mode) - there are no text display/speed options - character models feel weirdly squashed flat on the sides, most notably on the pigs (Rosa & Poa), and are stylized in ways that make them love/hate; plus their outfits not editable (can't wear your designs) - being dropped into the game without direction or controls (took me a second to figure out which building to enter and how to do so, and then how and where to 'sit' for the intro.) was jarring. - Mayor Merits are too obscure. We need to see what is being unlocked, and some of it should not need to be 'unlocked' in the first place like sprinting. (also sprinting does not need stamina, this is not a survival game) - there should be a basic set of things we learn to build immediately from Sally instead of just a planter box; a storage box should be one of them (you acquire the storage box way too late) - the current player dialogue feels... meaningless. There is no personality in the options, and never an option to refuse or postpone things. - there are currently no hairstyles that I personally think look good in game, nor does the character's face look 'right' to me (I'd love the ability to choose another face type or something.) - in standard directionless fashion for these kinds of games, there is no guidance on unlocking specific tools or buildings which is only made worse by the obscure mayor merits (I don’t want a wiki to play the game please) - not having a space or anything to really show off our ‘collections’ in game feels odd. (bugs/fish) - most of the furniture has no interactions, a tv doesn't turn on a picnic table cannot be sat at. this leaves the world feeling a bit lifeless - for the mine area, a wearable lantern should be the first available option to deal with the darkness, crafting a ton of light posts seems excessive and expensive A running list of what is NOT in the game for people coming from similar games: multiplayer of any kind, swimming/diving, cooking(?), any sort of combat or enemies, an in-depth story, friend ‘connections’/heart events or gifting, player owned businesses, a museum In honesty: I think this game is decent. From a one person studio. I'm interested in designing a town stylistically, but returning to or staying with the game long-term is probably off the table.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 6, 2022

  I wouldn't recommend this one. There's too many game breaking bugs in the tutorial that block progression in the game. - You have an item cap in your inventory but nowhere to put down items. - You have a required tutorial quest to fix a chair that you can't do so you drop it in the house to save inventory - Now you can't pick the chair up to finish the tutorial - Tutorial is required to unlock all the features of the game... Its not ready yet guys. Its kind of embarrassing. Fix the tutorial, then maybe people can play it. Most of the progression problem is level design / usability. You need to progress through several days, get all the way into the back of the mine where the Iron Ore is, make sure there is inventory space in your backpack (which it is not clear where the cap is). Then locate and make sure at least TWO villagers have moved in (specifically Poa). None of this is obvious. It took me 5 hours of beating my head up a wall to get through it before I saw any design features and customization that we were promised. Only 6.4% of players (at the time of writing this review) actually got this far. Oh...and i still haven't figured out how I'm supposed to make bait to fish with yet. You could go back to learn Design 101: -Put a bulletin board up for getting / returning quests. -Make a storage solution available right at the start so you have somewhere to put stuff. -Give players the ingredients you need to craft stuff to get through the entire tutorial. -Break tutorials into smaller pieces as you 'discover new areas', don't force it back to back. -No tutorial event should take place over a day span.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2022

  I really tried to like Hokko Life. I am a big fan of cozy games and I am forgiving of the types of issues that I saw in other negative reviews (lack of direction and story, graphical glitches, grinding for resources, the fact that it comes across as a clumsy Animal Crossing knock-off). I did enjoy some aspects of the game, especially the look of the town, plants, and pre-made furniture. I found the lighting from the lamps very cozy and I liked that there was no energy bar. Notably, I found that this game is well above-average in terms of remapping key bindings (I did not use a controller so I cannot speak to that). Despite enjoying being in the world of the game, I found that the experience of playing was unpleasant, mainly due to two key aspects: the object interactions are frustratingly slow and the progression scaling to upgrade tools and skills is very unbalanced. I would argue that the game does not feel playable in its current iteration. Slow Object Interactions: Using tools, fishing, and moving through dialogue was excruciatingly slow. It felt like swinging the axe, casting the fishing line, or watering a tile in the garden took several seconds with each movement. This meant that I dreaded having to gather resources to craft, even though I am normally someone who loves mindlessly grinding for materials. Additionally, the payoff for resources was often low; for example, no iron veins spawned in the caves on some days, so I would have to clear all of the other veins in that level and hope that iron veins would appear the next day, meaning that crafting a single chair could take several days of grinding. I wouldn't even mind this fact if it didn't take so long to swing the pickaxe! I'm not sure if the highest tier of pickaxe would be faster, but I haven't found out because of the second, much bigger problem. Progression Scaling (Mayor Merits): I finished many of the requirements to unlock upgrades and abilities for higher tier items much faster than lower tier items. For a game that heavily encourages crafting and customization, I was not able to access some of the resources needed to take advantage of this because I could not upgrade my tools enough. I understand slowing down the pace of the game by delaying access to certain abilities. However, the requirements are so severely exaggerated and seemingly RNG-based that I no longer want to play the game. Currently, I need to fish up 10 treasures to get the next tier of axe and pickaxe. In almost 30 hours of playing, I have only seen ONE. I looked up guides online as to how to find the right fish, I spent probably 15 hours grinding for bait (which is itself seemingly RNG-based), and I was largely unsuccessful. I do not enjoy the fishing mini-game (it's boring and easy), so I found this entire experience aggravating. I think adding multiple types of materials slowly through normal gameplay is a measure achieved in most other cozy games, and this game feels uncomfortably front- and back-loaded with gameplay, with almost no payoff in the middle. Other Issues: The comments that the villagers make are largely judgmental and kinda mean. Also, it feels rude to say it, but the villagers and the player character are not nice to look at. I wish there were more crafting recipes. My personal preference would be for the Steam Achievements to reflect full completion of certain tasks instead of arbitrary milestones, such as finding every insect or growing every type of produce.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2022

  My biggest gripe about the game is all the villagers you can invite look like badly dressed dudes. I wanted to do a girly, cutesy kinda village and I went day by day to check out the possible new neighbor. I put all kinds of time with the tutorial and dealt with the weird mechanics. I would have been willing to see past the the glitches and play on, but once I realized there were not female villagers I didn't want to play anymore. They're not even normal looking dudes... it feels a lot like middle aged men hanging out with my childish player and it is weird. I'm surprised no other views mentioned this.