House Flipper: Garden DLC Review (MirrorWave)
This was a complicated one for me to review. On one hand, I love the new items at our disposal, and though I was worried about spreading grass/mowing the lawn/placing pavements from the other reviews, those processes aren't nearly that bad once you get used to them. Plus the gardens can come out looking super nice!
However decorating things is starting to annoy me.
For placing gravel or similar, the lack of any grid-snapping for the painting tool makes it really hard to make a neat section with it. I'm sure it's for giving us more freedom, but for, say, the square brush, it would make life so much easier if there was a little more guidance placement wise, leaving the circular one as a free-draw.
Placing furniture isn't bad at all - just like inside, and the items look really good! But then you get to large ticket items far bigger than anything you can get in the house, and the system falls apart a little. You can't really zoom out to get a good idea of where you're placing them and how it aligns with everything else, and picking them up to move them little by little not only takes an age but still means you're shifting them back and forth by tiny increments to get the placing right because you're basically guessing whether it lines up.
Honestly I'd love it if for those huge items they used a slightly bigger snapping grid - like what we have for doors and windows - but again, I know that would get in the way of player creativity. But at least it would minimise SOME of the issue of placing these huge items in a way that actually looks deliberate.
All in all, I think the new tools work pretty well, I love the ability to decorate the outside of houses, but if you're a perfectionist who spends a lot of time on layout indoors? It might get a little annoying getting around the hurdles of placing paths, fences, and larger items in a way that lines up with each other.