A fair game, however there are too many areas which let the game down for me to recommend this for others to play.
The prestige mechanic is my favorite. It is there to accelerate games, making progress fun, engaging and thrilling. This game, however, I feel the mechanic has been utterly let down. When you prestige, you gain 10% more XP, an extra tractor moving across the screen, an extra cloud to give crops a 2x drop rate, some extra sickles to auto-harvest crops in their path, but that is it. The items you gain do not help you progress through the game at all. If anything, they allow you to auto-collect crops, however the cool-downs, even when max upgraded, take too long, so they provide no benefit to the game, so you still have to collect crops yourself. Even when the collector radius covers 80% of the entire screen, you still have to manually harvest, as the tools do almost nothing. The clouds are the only thing which add any value to the game, to a point. If you want to be able to to auto-harvest everything, you will have to prestige 20 times, to give you enough tractors to cover the screen to make it worth while. Given I am about to prestige for the 5th time, which has been an absolute grind, with no incentives to continue, bar the achievements, I will not be continuing past that point.
Prestige mechanics should give an increase yield in crops per level, including an increased level of value, set aside from the upgrades the player makes. The 5th prestige is taking just as long as the first, which completely defeats the point of a prestige mechanic. There needs to be some solid additions to the prestige mechanic to make this game more fun, taking it away from an absolutely pointless and lengthy grind. I really enjoyed the first 2 hours of this game, the rest has been grindy torture. Adding to this awful grind, the amount of crops you have to collect doubles each time, in order to meet the prestige criteria. Given that the amount of crops harvested and the value of crops never increases due to the prestige levels, this gets harder and harder to obtain (due to the cost of storage for the high end crops) so the more prestige levels you attain, the longer and harder / more grindy the game gets. There is nothing that speeds up your progress.
I would like to check out the other games from this developer, but I fear they will all fall into the same trap of grindy for the sake or grindy.
If you really enjoy the prestige mechanic, DO NOT play this game, you will be let down and utterly disappointed. If you want something to pass your time mindlessly, this is the game for you. I will happily adjust my recommendation from 'not recommended' to 'recommended' if more is added to the game via the prestige mechanic, making it more fun and enjoyable to play.
Developer:
Add a crop value increase per prestige.
Add a crop multiplier increase per prestige for the rain clouds.
Add a tractor speed / radius increase per prestige for the tractors.
Add a mechanic allowing the auto-sickles to bounce around per prestige.
Adding these would make the prestige mechanic actually feel like it's doing something beneficial to the gameplay.
Info for players: When you level up, you gain a slight increase in the radius for the harvester, however this is almost negligible. When you prestige, the amount of crops required for each subsequent prestige doubles, so don't get too excited about increased speed per prestige, it gets slower and slower. If you don't like grindy games, stop playing.
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