Bridget Rice

I’m two 3rds through the game and I’m done. I’m bored and I’m tired of doing puzzles to fight. This game is extremely disappointing compared to the original PM64, which I grew up playing. I hate that you don’t get partners to fight with you. Olivia is annoying and her origami changing power is lackluster and some of it doesn’t make much sense. No more using strategy to get a partner that will help you fight, and working on upgrading them. Like others have mentioned, the motivation of saving toads, finding trophies, and filling holes is fun for only so long. It is so easy to earn coins, and not much incentive to spend them. I currently have 75k coins and I really haven’t spent more than 20k coins total. You find so many different shoes and hammers out in the wild that I have never had to buy any. And I am not going to buy any fighting items because they are terrible and using my own moves are much more useful when fighting. I will say the first half of the game kept me entertained. The trees being alive was a fun idea, as well as the amusement park. Once I got to the boat and finding the different islands... it was a little too much boating around imo. I’m working on completing the ice dungeon now, and I just don’t care anymore. I dread fighting. Please no more puzzles. And the puzzles for the bosses are agonizing. I’m giving this a 3 because the story is okay. The game has enough challenge to not be too easy, but not undefeatable. I can even deal with the partner Olivia and the other partners you meet and leave along the way. But the puzzles are the downfall of this game, as well as the lack of “leveling up.” Filling holes is stupid. The trophies are not exciting. Finding the toads is definitely fun; nothing to change there. I’m probably just going to play PM64 now to actually have fun with a well made game. And probably sell this game...