Mineko's Night Market

cute art, sweet lil story, and i swear i pet every cat i see. i love it but wow trying to 100%ing will def feel like a chore still really fun tho just a bit grindy ♡

好玩爱玩

あまり乗り気じゃない引っ越し先の田舎の島で、物作りと冒険する子供の体験。 かわいいキャラクター。たっぷり猫。ちょっとズレてる文化。ちょっとメンドクサイ。ちょっと不親切。ちょっとイラつく。ちょっと感動。ちょっとバグ。ちょっとしたetc.... クラフトの素材収集、クラフトレシピ、どうぶつの森的な感覚で出来るがちょっと収集先などが不親切（場所・時間・季節での制限、どこでどうやって取得できるのかわかりづらいものもある）なのでサクサクとは進まない感覚になるところあり。序盤で受けたサブクエみたいなものが達成するためにストーリー終盤で解放されるマップの季節限定産物だったのでストーリー終了後に達成したなんてのも。一週間に1回開催される夜市でしか買えないアイテムが多いがランダムで店に並ぶため1年近く買えないとか…。2年目に入ったらストーリーは終わってるし作れるものも素材も集まって住民全員のサブクエも終わりやることないのに入手先不明のあれこれ。 ストーリー終わりにやってくる新規加入住人たちのサブクエでの必要アイテムは、会話後に配置される事に注意。 [spoiler] 最後、日光さんが全ての記憶をなくすって設定いらなかったんじゃない？主人公が彼との共通点に共感を持っていたのを一方的に断ち切って「所詮人外とは上手く行かない」とか「勝手に共感しても相手はそうとは限らないよ」ってことを言いたかったのかな。どの道ストーリークリア後にゲーム再開したら永遠に裏庭で素材収集装置になってるしもっと物語的に上手く落としどころは作れたんじゃないかと思ってしまった。仮面付けてた意味もわからないままだ。キャラクターとして表情がわからない二足歩行の猫はたんなる着ぐるみに感じて（中にミネコのパパが入ってるんじゃない？）親しみは湧きにくく、昔話に語られる素晴らしい猫らしい神秘性も感じられなかった[/spoiler]

Fun, relaxing, and great challenges.

C'est mignon, graphiquement marqué, avec plein de petites choses à faire, j'adore

its was really good my only problem is that you can't use a mouse but i managed to have a LOT of fun playing it without a mouse

Jeu sympathique et drôle aux graphismes agréables. Par contre, il faut faire des recherches sur certains items qu'on ne trouve à des saisons et météos précises. Sinon, on est bon pour refaire un tour d'année, comme sur Stardew Valley. Il y a quelques bugs d'affichage, notamment quand on fabrique des objets, mais c'est globalement un chouette jeu.

このゲームはとても楽しくてリラックスできます。音楽とサウンドは素晴らしく、特に猫の鳴き声が気に入っています

It's a fun game and the day mechanics, while restrictive, are unique and don't take away from game play, instead it requires some strategic thinking. The story is fun and easy to follow. Some of the mini games can be frustrating, like waiting for the fish in the fishing game, sewing and woodworking are the bane of my Mineko existence. Overall, this game is a lot of fun.

I think my favourite thing about this game is the art style. The world and the characters are very cute, and it's a consistent style, even the UI is great. As for gameplay, I enjoyed it for the first half and less so for the second half. Both completing the story and selling at the market are great, but the game falls into a common pitfall for these types of games where I'm not sure what to do with my money. While leveling up the market, I quickly found I'd already bought everything I needed so nothing ate up my funds. It completely lost the fun of needing to save up and worrying about what to buy next, because there simply wasn't anything. Aside from that, I did encounter a few glitches (one of which crashed my game), mostly visual though. Not great, but could be worse. One of my main grievances came from the fishing mini game. I like it's style and had fun collecting all the fish as I always do, but I believe the game needed to implement a system to remove the glass bottles after all the crafting recipes are found. It ate up a lot of my energy. The drop rate for bottles was absurdly high, and when they stopped giving me anything it became a huge nuisance. I'm also not a huge fan of the gift giving mechanic. In Stardew it offers a lot of rewards, but here it was mostly gifts I could buy elsewhere. It's like they felt like they needed to add it as they are a 'cozy game' without thinking through why other games implement a gift system. It's still a game I recommend if it's a style you know you enjoy, but I think it needed either more time or a larger team. It feels empty later on, and a total grind to finish the museum. As nice as it is, I understand why so few who've bought it have finished it. I hope this team continues to make games, but I also hope they can carry through the mechanics and systems throughout the game in a satisfying way.