Moonlight Peaks

It's fine. I have found some enjoyment, but I don't love it enough to keep playing. My main complaints are that there is so much grinding and waiting, the dating system is one of the worst ones I've ever seen in a game of this type, and you cannot skip cutscenes. I doubt the creators will actually listen to the fanbases complaints. I hope to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath. I still recommend it as I know there are people who love this game, I'm just not one of them.

I'm really enjoying this one. Think Animal Crossing, but less cute and darker, in a good way. Here are some random reasons. 1. Things unveil slowly 2. Your farm animals can wear hats 3. You can date Death 4. My draculamb sometimes go into a trance and float 5. My hellkitten, Cyclops, who has a very cat attitude 6. I married the werewolf carpenter and he made us a double coffin to sleep in. What's crazy about this one is that earlier I thought about making him a bed cuz he's always just standing around the house but I didn't know how to craft one yet lol 7. Orlock 8. The fact you need sunscreen to talk to the Sun God

Incredibly poor pacing, extraordinarily mid writing. This is a half-baked stardew valley clone with vampires, except more of a middle-school drama simulator. The music is forgettable when it is rarely present, and the overall sound design is practically non-existent. The art is nice, but is inexplicably more of a dark valentines style than what fits the overall theme. It seems like they started a great game, ran out of time, decided to sell it anyway, and charged too much.

If you're thinking about getting this game, maybe wait until it's on sale; I'm personally regretting my purchase. Quests are slow to come, leaving me aimlessly just running around to make money and improve my tools. Day to day dialogue with NPCs is typically just a one-liner greeting, so even going around talking to villagers doesn't provide a fun break or little bits of daily in-game interest. The character interactions are just overall hollow, and I've come across multiple cutscene relationship events where there are no true dialogue options, both of them are just agreeing with the NPCs in question. I just want to disagree with someone when they say something I think is stupid! The food and stamina system seem kind of broken, with tons of recipes that offer very little energy, bug catching is really buggy with creatures disappearing or passing through walls or straight up just flying through the net somehow, and even if you don't catch anything, each swing costs quite a bit of energy. There's so little information on items, even in the grimoire. I don't think I ever really appreciated how much work must go into writing flavor text, but man I'm really missing it here. Overall, this game is really glossy and pretty and cute but feels strangely unfinished underneath.

酔っ払いキャラがうざい、というレビューを見てからプレイしたので酔っ払いが出てきた瞬間爆笑してしまいました。たしかにめちゃくちゃうざい。 さておき、以下によかった点と気に食わない点を記載します。 【良かった点】 ・世界観 ・変身機能、魔法機能 ・公式のアプデが早い ・マップ広さが丁度いい ・農場ゲームとしては比較的遊びやすい ・農場とか家カスタマイズが楽しい ・釣りが簡単 ・死神かわいい 【気に食わない点】 ・日本語版キャラ口調（ノエルは完全にオカマさんと思ってますがそうなんですかね？） ・作物に水やりするときちゃんと水やれてるか分かりづらい ・ヴァンプスター収集（運搬するのがほんとうに面倒くさい　見つけても無視しがち） ・虫取りで体力持っていかれすぎ ・メインストーリー進むのがめちゃくちゃ遅い ・ジェダ？ジャダ？とかいう博物館の眼鏡女（嫌い過ぎて見かけても素通りしてる）

Let's keep this short—and explain why Moonlight Peaks gets a thumbs-down for now: It currently offers too little for what it sets out to be. It does have a few great ideas—interesting “dating mechanics” with mini-games. And yet, at the end of the day, the game is currently just “mediocre.” The game’s gimmick is being a vampire—but aside from your own background and the fact that you now play at night, it doesn’t really have any impact—though that’s not entirely true: crops have to be associated with “blood,” otherwise they aren’t very helpful. The NPCs are generally cute, but there’s currently a severe lack of depth to the individual characters. And the late game is practically devoid of content. As a starting point, Moonlight Peaks definitely offers a solid foundation. Now, though, it’s up to the developers to step up.

I've absolutely fallen in love with Moonlight Peaks. As someone who's obsessed with vampires and anything spooky, this game feels like it was made for me. While I know Stardew Valley is an amazing game, I personally enjoy Moonlight Peaks even more simply because of its gothic vampire theme.