Mixed Spirits: Bartender

Things I enjoyed: I did, in fact, mix spirits. Had me doing some minor maths, but that's only an issue becuse im discalculate 🥰 I only added ice and garnishes if they asked for it. You can keep track of your stock when you go to buy more spirits- it tells you how many you have in your inventory, and there's a restock button to max out all of them at once. There's small upkeep jobs like making ice, garnishes and growing certain herbs. There is an in-game version of social media which is cool. When you get to a certain level of friendship, you add that character on social media. The character design and overall art style of the game is very pleasing, each character has their own distinctive style and it's a very diverse cast-love to see it. Even the cocktails are beautifully detailed. Things that could be improved: As others have said, the dialogue needs some work. Even characters that are introduced as unserious or more relaxed have these moments of trying to be deep and mysterious. UNPOPULAR OPINION I did not like Elise. The last time she talks to you she's saying a whole lotta nothin. I personally was not too worried about it, soz x I js didn't feel connected to her enough for me to care. I feel the storyline would've been better if she was developed and fleshed out more or, alternatively, had it been given to another character. There's a rare bug that occurs after a drink has been made where it will mark the drink as being prepared incorrectly despite it being correct. Overall, I like the game, and I got it on sale for around $12, worth it for the price 😁

I'll lead by saying overall, yes, the game is fun, I enjoy it, and I plan to continue playing. If the idea of making drinks and running a bar (a very simplified version) sounds fun, then yes, pick this up. But, the game does have a lot of weak points which I'd like to address. -The dialogue. You can ignore it, pretty much, thankfully, because it really isn't good. A lot of it was clearly written, or perhaps translated, with AI. "Load-bearing", "quietly", the whole structure of the dialogue feels like AI to me. The characters also feel the same, literally just the same person wearing different costumes. The game also rushes their development, you meet some of these characters literally twice before they launch into telling you about their life story, which is pretty much the same story, just with a couple nouns switched around. -The drink making itself. It's decently fun, though I do think the game's focus on "we don't want to pressure players" does hurt it, it never feels like there's stakes. You can literally serve drinks that are entirely alcohol or entirely mixer and customers don't care either way. -The little tasks. Getting supplies, preparing ingredients, as far as I can tell is entirely manual. Would be really nice if you could hire employees or something to handle these tasks at some point, because it does feel like a chore rather than a challenge. It's not engaging, just tedium.

How many times have you cried yourself to sleep at night wishing you were a bartender? Well no more tears, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, it's time to learn

El juego está bastante entretenido, lo mejor que pudieron implementar fue el filtro para las bebidas, el parche para el logro de los mini games fue bastante rápido y no hubo mayores complicaciones.

Bought on release and such a nice game to relax with <3 I love how much the range of ingredients expands as you level up, there's so much flexibility depending on whether you want to focus on how your drinks look, making them accurate to real life cocktails or just messing around to fulfil requests in the weirdest ways possible. The only bugs I encountered were minor and got fixed in the very first patch. While I do praise the flexibility, I do wonder if there could be a mode or something that encourages you to mix drinks in a more realistic way in terms of amount of spirits, bases, tonics etc. I like that you build to taste but I think it could be a fun option to also have to balance what alcohols and mixers you can use. Because currently, you can build a large drink that's all gins and spirits without a mixer in sight and it's a little weird for the immersion. I also feel like the tipping system is counter-intuitive to the Classic game mode as it forces you to trade experimenting and slow-paced gameplay for trying to make a drink as fast as possible for the monetary bonus, which ultimately isn't too significant anyway. You can of course ignore it but it seems odd that it's a time-based mechanic in what's marketed as the slow and chill difficulty. I haven't finished the story but from what I have read I'm enjoying it. I think it's pretty sweet but doesn't impose on the gameplay, you can just choose to skip through if it's not your vibe. Only complaint I have is that the dialogue tree doesn't really suit you having multiple options to choose. A lot of times you choose one thing to say and the response is clearly written for the other option. Overall I definitely recommend this game for a relaxed shopkeeper experience, it feels decently balanced and the vibes are super cozy. Looking forward to playing this in the autumn and winter months :)

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I really enjoy the gameplay and the art so would definitely recommend on that front. The story is hard to follow and not well written, I think on account of being really overly pretentious in most places. I find myself not really caring and waiting for the interaction to end. Then again, that's really realistic to the experience of working in hospitality!