Minion Forest

SERVERS TERMINATED. GAME NO LONGER PLAYABLE. DO NOT BUY!

This is a 50/50 rating to be honest. First off this game is actually a mobile game and no I have not played it on mobile so not sure of what "cash" options were taken out. + Cute art style + Customisation on character & farm/homeland - Repetitive - Was a mobile game first - Grinding for materials may bore players You pretty much train adorable creatures to new levels, take it as Pokemon mixed with farmville. The artwork is very cute and I actually like the designs for each creature you can unlock, specially the one you get first, that has some pretty great power and cute transformations. The animations for each creature is smooth and the game runs very well. I do find it fun but only in short bursts after the first two villages because for most of the game you are sadly grinding the first few beginner levels for materials to level up your creatures, this is mostly noticable with honey & logs. I often train new creatures while grinding for some of those items but it still does not make it fun, it becomes a chore and to be honest it makes me not want to use the creatures that need so much honey/logs to level up. This would not be as bad if there was an auto-advance button, there is a speed up button but to continue to the next part of each stage/battle you need to just click on the screen. When it comes to grinding materials specially in low-level areas an auto-advance button would of been nice to have. Then again mobile games like this are to be expected to grind, it is not as bad as some other games where you need to grind around 1 hour just to level one thing up, here it seems harmless at around 5 minutes to grind the materials for said creature past level 20. This may put players off but you can buy x10 of the items in the shop if needed but I don't like doing this mainly due to the quests often want you to pretty much spend all your candies anyway on decorations just for a quest, no you cannot pick the item. If you want a purple rose, too bad it will not count for the quest you need to buy 5 of the damn pink ones. I don't like this, let me at least pick the colour! after the quest I just put it in storage because I never really use them compared to other decorations not even mentioned in quests. I find this such a waste specially with the cost of some of these items. I got to be a bit ranty but it does not mean this game is not worth your time however you may want to wait for a price-drop because after you done the first 3 levels you pretty much rinse and repeat of playing the next level, unlock a creature, play a previous level for resources to level said creature and repeat. This may get very boring so look up a few videos of it first but if you like the art-style then maybe keep an eye on it. The real fun for me is seeing what my creature will look like on the next transformation as well as which one I will actually unlock next.