Orange Season Review (Naomi Tachi)
I have put 500 hours into the game. Back when Hudell was in charge, I would have recommended it to the moon and back. I made a new save and replayed it every time there was an update. Once he stepped down, everything changed. The graphics were improved, but that was about it.
The controls feel terrible to play with. They redid the game on a new engine from the ground up, so the previous fluid controls were replaced with a clunky mess (at least on PC), that makes playing extremely frustrating. They redid the entire town and layout, but did not include a new map. After over six months of having no map, they gave us a 'map' that didn't actually show you where anything was. Do you want to find the blacksmith? Good luck, the map doesn't show where anything is located. If you're lost, you're going to be lost and waste your time.
Marriage, and other core functions of the game are missing. Forageables are everywhere, sell for a good amount, and respawn, so it's an infinite money glitch, making farming and doing much of anything else pointless. The new devs seem passionless about this game, and just wanted to push something out and call it good enough so that they can be done with it and make some money. They don't communicate on their discord or give us any transparency on what's going on, what they're planning for the future (if anything), or why they're making the decisions they've made. Unless they step up, I cannot recommend this game. There are so many, better farming games out there to play instead, whose devs deserve your support.
Edit on Dec 6th: Over a month has passed, and I've seen no communication on either steam or their discord about the missing features in the 1.0 release. There have been a few bug fix patches, but that is all. When are we going to see real improvements? What improvements are going to be made? What missing features that were PROMISED to us when we bought the game, are actually going to be implemented down the line, and when? Communication and action would have been a nice way to try to build back trust with players who used to love the game, but I guess yall couldn't be bothered? I feel so scammed. I would have never bought the game without the guarantee of certain features that were not in the 1.0 release. I wish I qualified for a refund.