Disney Dreamlight Valley Review (MikiraMonster)
6/10
You would think that for as many hours I have played this game that I would fully recommend it, but I don't, really. I bought the cheapest version, and refuse to spend anymore money on it. I just save my moonstones from blue chests to spend on the events. Speaking of which, I used to get 2 blue chests a day, but for the longest time now, I only get one per day.
At first it's a lot of fun, collecting characters, critters, clothing, etc., but it really just gets tedious after awhile. I have to turn off all the voices and sounds because those get annoying really fast. The quests are all just fetch quests.
The thing I enjoy the most is changing my wardrobe, but even that gets old.
Decorating my house is okay, but you can't really interact with things. As a long time player of the Sims, I wish I could do more with my house and the items in it.
I've played so long that there is rarely anything new in Scrooge's shop, and when there are things, they are often just stuff I can make myself in the customization area - things like different colored head wraps and turbans, or tee shirts with motifs I could make myself.
I like the new Dream snaps event, because it is a good way to get more moonstones. I also liked the Potato quest to get the rainbow fox.
Speaking of critters, I have collected almost all of them, but there are a few rare ones that only show up once in awhile, and sometimes even after feeding them their favorite food, I still don't get to collect them, so I don't know if that's some kind of bug or what. Edit: Apparently you need to feed some of the critters more than once, but who knows how many times. So that makes it really hard to collect the ones that only show up once a week.
I am not a fan of the in game clock because sometimes the only time I have to play is at night, at it's so dark in-game that it is really hard to see anything. I don't really like when it's foggy, either, for the same reason. Edit: I found that in the graphics setting, it is possible to offset the time to combat playing in the dark, so that helps. In in-game clock remains, but at least I can see what I'm doing. Now they just need an option to turn off the grass.
I do like that it's controller friendly, because I play on PC with a controller, but I do find that setting up furniture and decorations is a little easier with a keyboard and mouse.
There have been some bugs in the game, but the devs seem to correct those pretty quickly, and usually they will give some sort of compensation.
After you've collected pretty much everything, there isn't really much to do in the game anymore. I log into it each day just to see if there's anything new in Scrooge's shop (usually not), and to find the blue chest. Other than that, I just wait for a new event to come up.
I think it would be nice to be able to make some of the characters stay in their houses. I don't like some of them, and wish they weren't wandering around all the time and talking to me if I get too close to them.