Milano's Odd Job Collection

This game was made in the 90's, being a PSX Japan-only release. So the music and graphics feel a little retro, but that's the charm. It's interesting to note that this game was sold at 5800yen when it first came out in the 90s. Now you can play this title for less than half the price, so definitely worth the price if you've always wanted to play the english version of this game. The game itself is fun, cute and simple. Nothing too complex -- pick any job you want to do during the day to earn some money, do some house chores when you get home, then go to bed. The replayability comes from experimenting with different routines, buying different furniture to decorate your house, and just trying to get all the achievements. One playthrough can be completed within 2~3 hours if you know what to do. You can sort of abuse the quick-save and quick-load to complete difficult levels (especially the Pop Star one) -- it's a great quality-of-life feature for people like me who are bad at certain mini-games and don't want to waste time replaying them.

11歳の少女を真夏に40日間も放置する両親。姪っ子が泊まりに来るのに旅に出るおじ。まさにネグレクト一族。 発売当初に少女だった私は、素直にストーリーを受け入れることができた。 しかし！親になった今の私には、なかなかに受け入れ難いストーリーである。 ゲームプレイに関しては、画質も何もかも全て当時のままである。よくも悪くもそのまま。 追加された巻き戻し機能はチートくさいけど、とてもありがたかった。 追伸 OPのおじさんの優しい声、たまんねぇわ...

Actually this is a good game for nostalgia to who has PS1 since Milano's odd job used to be PS1 game but they never has the EN version. so for the game without post game, and you can finish the game only for around 2 hours. I do not recommend this game since the price is quite expensive.

Three hours of beautiful visuals, snappy minigames, and bokunatsu-shoujo vibes. This is videogames!! The pixel art here is so sumptuous it made me throw up all over my couch. Every night, when Milano slips under her duvet, my brain starts overheating. My mind is telling me "60fps PSX game", but my optic nerve is shrieking "that's 120fps!! that's gotta be a billion frames!!". Not every minigame is a banger, but a handful really Hit. Being forced to vary my minigame diet through the weather system kept them from getting stale until day 35-ish. And by that point, the game was nearly over!! The new English voice acting so perfectly evokes "late-90s anime dub" that I actually kept it on, but for those who prefer JP audio purity, the subtitling was shockingly effective. I wish we had more translations with similar subtitling approaches! Hilltop does it again, best in the biz, #1 linguistic master, no notes. I hope this is enough effusive praise to get you playing Milano's Odd Job Collection. I NEED more ports like this to get made. There has never been a better videogame subcategory than "JP-only PSX game".

I really do love these cases, where an old Japanese game I never even heard of, seemingly out of nowhere, gets an English release. I went into this game really only knowing the base premise of it being a minigame collection. What I found while playing is that, although fairly bare-bones, the game offered an enjoyable couple of minigames, carried by its cute design. Like mentioned before, the game is pretty lacking in content, as there are really only eight minigames to do. Each minigame never gets extremely complicated; a little hectic on max difficulty, but nothing crazy. The real gameplay loop comes from trying to get stats up fast so you can make max money on the minigames. This is to try to get as much stuff as you can for the house. I really do like the charm of it all. The main character is adorable in her actions, and it has all the charm you would imagine of a late 90s anime. The set time of 40ish days does a good job of preventing the minigames from getting too stale, as I feel any longer and I would have gotten tired of them. This game ultimately is not amazing on any level, but it does have a massive amount of pleasing design that I think it's still worth a look at. The sound design was also surprisingly really well done, I found myself hoping now and then to some songs, and really enjoyed the vocal song that plays during the idol minigame and credits. The biggest props I have to give are just the fact that this game exists at all on modern marketplaces. I love the fact that a random game like this can just get a full official English translation, including new English vocals. I think the port does a great job of doing enough with the port to make the game a smooth experience, while doing their best not to alter the game in any way that is unneeded. I love the fact this game exist even if I don’t really see myself putting more then one 3 and a half hourish playthrough in it. Just really cool to see.

Enjoy a game about mini games? Milano’s Odd Job Collection might be just for you! Play as Milano and complete “odd” jobs for the next 40 days during her summer break in Zucchini Town while she awaits her mom’s return from the hospital. There are a total of 8 odd jobs to choose from ranging anywhere from washing dishes at the restaurant, pizza delivery, catching fruit, healing patients, and more! Doing jobs will also earn you money which you can use to decorate your house. You will also need to improve Milano’s skills, mood, and energy in order to progress through the game by cooking, doing laundry, cleaning the house, reading a book, etc. Milano’s Odd Job Collection plays perfectly on the Steam Deck and/or a controller is required to play. I don’t think you can play with a keyboard and mouse, but don’t quote me on that as I’m sure it can be done somehow if you’re tech savvy enough. 🤓 The gameplay itself if very retro as it was originally released in 1999 on the PlayStation 1. This will definitely take you back to 90s style gaming so you’ll need to have a palate for pixel art games. Overall, the game is cute, but be wary that it’s very short. I was able to 100% it in under 4.5 hours and did two play throughs, spending a total of 80 days with Milano. I don’t think it’s worth the $14.99, so if you can, wait for it to go on sale. Other than that, I would still recommend it because the mini games were enjoyable.

decent japanese life sim minigame collection thing. buy on sale if you're interested, it's pretty short.

I feel like i'm 6 years old, playing ps1 games with my sis during summer's afternoons, i truly miss that, thank you 💚

[quote] [h1]“妈妈住院后，我独自生活了40天。”一款简单、真挚的老游戏[/h1] 《Milano's Odd Job Collection》是一款诞生于PS1时代的生活模拟小游戏合集，时隔二十余年终于跨越语言障碍与全球玩家见面（不过只添加了英语，没有简中）。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3630274224 游戏讲述11岁女孩Milano因母亲住院、叔叔临时外出，不得不在这里独自生活40天。Milano决定充分利用这个机会好好锻炼自己，而玩家你则需要扮演Milano打工赚钱、打理小屋、照顾猫咪，度过这个意外独立的夏天。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3630274098 游戏采用清晰的生活节奏管理：上午根据天气与心情选择一份零工，完成诸如送外卖、挤飞牛奶牛、餐厅洗碗等迷你游戏；傍晚则能自由安排两项居家活动，比如烹饪、清洁、喂宠物或喝茶。这种张弛有度的循环，配合像素风格与灵动配乐，营造出宁静可爱的夏日氛围。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3630274040 小游戏还蛮有意思的，特别爱玩那个快餐店打工游戏，需要根据顾客要求去拿指定食物给顾客，如果拿错了顾客还会生气，你需要鞠躬说对不起。 不过岁月也在其中留下痕迹。部分迷你游戏操作略显生涩，如果实收集的判定、护士关卡的频繁按键等，易带来重复作业的疲惫感。家中新菜谱与家具需手动启用才能使用，且缺乏明确提示，这些设计都透露出老游戏的年代感。所幸现代版本加入了即时存档与回退功能（SL大法），让挑战变得友善不少。另外玩家还可以手动调整滤镜，让你梦回PS1首发时代！ 尽管缺少中文，画面有一定年代感，但游戏仍以其纯粹治愈的气质打动人心。透过日复一日的打工与布置小屋，你能真切感受到Milano在这个小小世界里努力生活的轨迹。它或许不像当代作品般丰富，却像一本偶然翻到的童年日记，简单、真挚，闪着时光赋予的温柔光晕。 [quote] 游玩百态，将游玩心得用汉语化作玩家的指明灯，(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402408/]点击这里关注汉化语录~[/url] 如果喜欢这个评测，请点个赞让更多人看见 [/quote] [/quote]

Man this was so nice. The presentation does a lot of heavy lifting for what is only a relatively simple minigame collection with a slim home decoration reward scheme. Maybe I'm just a big sappy baby but Milano is so lovingly animated that I was incredibly invested in making her summer vacation as nice as I could. The face she makes when she picks up the phone and hears the voice of one of her parents...... I came close to crying every time! It's a little unfortunate that the bones of this game are so scripted in a way that defied my impression that this should be freeform; I got close to the end of my first playthrough before I realised I was simply not reading the right book that will increase the minigame difficulties. I get that this is an arcadey game that encourages replays so memorising the sub-routines is part and parcel, but I feel little for trial and error minmaxing like that. Still, if that's what I have to do to give Milano activities to master and food to yam on I'll do it gladly. This Steam release includes an emulation frontend button so you can save state and rewind and all that, furthering my feelings that this isn't as holistic as I'd like it to be. Thankfully the frontend has a gallery option so you can see high quality scans of practically all of the art assets in the game and that's incredible.