Island Sanctuary

[Raoabolic]

It just miss a tracking materials for building. and everything else is nice !

I would love for a way to pin a construction project i'm working on and it show what materials is needed where the instance information is. Also, I hope a ton of things are not subject to decay. When I saw that the plants could decay I was worried that the game is coaxing me into logging in every day, (as if we need it enough due to the number of systems tied to dailies/weeklies, lol). Also, I don't mind if anyone spoils me on this but will there be more meaningful ways to customize the island? So far all I saw is the basic placement of the buildings and the flooring and walls of the main base. All in all, it's a 7/10. There is promise and i'm curious to see how they are going to expand on this idea!

[hobostew]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but I found it easier on the hands to use a controller when gathering things over M/KB. Figure I'd put it out there incase it helps someone!

[Kaurhz]

Fell in love with this already.

[Illmaeran]

I can't wait to try it when I get home. Y'all are making it hard to get through the day.

[Aorix]

Way too overpraised in this thread.

This feels like something put together by a couple people as some sort of side project over the summer.

Sure, it looks alright and the music is nice, when isn't it? However what else is there? Everything feels very static. Gameplay is literally run, click and done. FFXIV already has decent systems for gathering, crops, etc but none of it was used. It's very simple, overly so.

Is it bad? no. Is it good? not at all. It's just alright. I'm pretty let down by it personally.

[Deveryn]

Just 1 day messing around with it and have basically done everything I can (gotta wait a real day or whatnot to progress).

The actual content/map/story/vibes are great, but the mechanics… I felt some jankiness.

Like the need for various “modes” could have been more contextual. As in, have the pet bar pop up with relevant skills when contextual things are going on (like interacting with livestock), or utilize existing jobs (botanist/miner) to collect materials. Or why the need to go into “watering mode” when I could just interact with the garden bed. Or the sow mode, when we have a perfectly good garden system from housing.

You stumbled on the likely answer there in your comment on botanist / miner. The modes basically work the same as those jobs. When you switch to a gatherer anywhere else, the respective nodes go active. The same is happening with these modes.



It makes a little more sense when you use a controller.

[Fourbestintoner]

Soulless grind Diadem #5, not disappointed since it's what I expected it to be, it exists for you to farm tokens.

[SpiritTamer]

Way too overpraised in this thread.

This feels like something put together by a couple people as some sort of side project over the summer.

Sure, it looks alright and the music is nice, when isn't it? However what else is there? Everything feels very static. Gameplay is literally run, click and done. FFXIV already has decent systems for gathering, crops, etc but none of it was used. It's very simple, overly so.

Is it bad? no. Is it good? not at all. It's just alright. I'm pretty let down by it personally.

For those of us who grew up playing Harvest Moon games, it is fun. I haven't even touched the main story yet.

[hydralus]

Yeah I dunno. I'm gonna hold judgement until I play a decent chunk of it but so far pretty underwhelming. I dunno how anyone can get a feeling of harvest moon from it, though. There's no crop planning aside from sticking seeds in predetermined plots and if I had to guess, I bet there won't be a sprinkler system installed for improved automation (Thus far it just seems you use crops to feed animals anyway). Like I adore harvest moon, rune factory, and stardew. This ain't it. But so far, I'm just gonna truck along. Maybe it'll surprise me later.

[Deveryn]

Way too overpraised in this thread.

This feels like something put together by a couple people as some sort of side project over the summer.

Sure, it looks alright and the music is nice, when isn't it? However what else is there? Everything feels very static. Gameplay is literally run, click and done. FFXIV already has decent systems for gathering, crops, etc but none of it was used. It's very simple, overly so.

Is it bad? no. Is it good? not at all. It's just alright. I'm pretty let down by it personally.

For many, it's exactly what was expected and exactly what they promised. It's a mobile game fitted to the XIV environment. It's also a nice place to be away from the usual chatter and nonsense without having to deal with the housing lottery.