Restore Your Island Review ★★★★☆

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Tutorials need work

The game doesn’t tell you everything you need to know up front, I feel like.

Such as using one trash bin for one specific recyclable. The tutorial for that didn’t happen until I threw two different types into one bin, and I just think it needs to state that at the start, instead of waiting for you to screw it up.

The only reason I knew not to do it was because I remembered it from the demo.

I also ran out of stamina at the start and had no idea how to fill it up. No tutorial to tell you anything, no hint, no house to rest in, nothing.

You have to interact with the boat at the end of the dock in order to pay for a stamina refill. The main reason I didn’t notice this, because I did go toward the boat and nothing happened, is that I think you need to have your cursor over the boat itself, and not just get close to it.

I could be wrong. Maybe I didn’t get close enough to the boat.

Either way, not knowing how to fill stamina at the start of the game isn’t good and should have some kind of tutorial to guide you.

Scenes triggered at random

I think every time you fully complete an area, there’s a scene that’s supposed to play in order for you to know that area is clean. It did that in the demo correctly, but in the full release, there’s some weird kind of delay that happened for me.

I completed two different areas, but instead of the scene happening individually for each, they played back to back, and I’m unsure why.

I really like the concept of showing the island improving with you cleaning it up, but I don’t think they happened when they were supposed to for me.

Creepy doll

I’m not sure why, but it threw me for a loop when some creepy doll suddenly appeared near me out of nowhere. When you look away and look back it’s usually gone.

The doll spawns at different locations and doesn’t do anything. There’s nothing that even stands out when you inspect it. I’m not sure the reason of the implementation of it on an island where we’re cleaning up trash.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Find different cassettes

Unless you enjoy listening to nothing but the equipment you’re using to pick up the trash, you’ll probably want to play a cassette as you work for some tunes. They’ve got really good music to listen to, and I’m not sure if there’s one or a few tracks on each tape (I don’t pay close enough attention), but they do end up looping.

As you clean the island, you can find treasure, which might also be additional tapes to listen to, just so you don’t get tired of the same one on repeat throughout.

You have pets that you can pet

Not just a dog, either, which you have the option of choosing the breed at the start of the game. Once you acquire the dog bed, you have a chance to change the dog breed there as well, though I don’t know why you’d want a different dog at that point, unless you’ve gotten bored of the one you own.

Rude.

After saving a couple other animals, you can also, kind of sort of have them as pets? I mean, they’re wild animals, but you get to name them and pet them whenever you want to.

I won’t say what animals, but they’re cute.

And you’ll probably want one as a pet.