Saturday, July 15, 2023

Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island

Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island is the sequel to my former favorite Switch game, Pretty Princess Party.  The graphics are the same, but the gameplay is entirely different, more along the lines of Animal Crossing.  You are the same princess you made in Pretty Princess Party, and your bunny kingdom has expanded to include an oddly square shaped island named Carrot Island.  This island has phenomenal soil, and can grow most items in 5 minutes.  The primary gameplay loop in this Pretty Princess game is planting crops, gathering them, processing them into food with the use of buildings, which also take 5 minutes, and delivering the food to your bunny villagers.  As you fulfill their requests, you level up, unlocking island decorations, outfits, and more crops and recipes.

I hated Animal Crossing, but Magical Garden Island has only a 5 or 10 minute timer on things, so gameplay doesn't have to wait until tomorrow, so I like this game a lot more.  It might be my new favorite Switch game.  It's my favorite farming sim so far, and I've tried a few.  I don't know how many levels there are yet.  The story quest ends around level 15, but you can keep leveling up and unlocking shit after that.  I'm level 17 as of this writing.  My guess is there are 30, since I basically had to grind 30 levels in the minigames of Pretty Princess Party.  I love this game, 100%.