Ova Magica

Ova Magica is definitely a bit rough around the edges, but manages to be a fun time. It shows a lot of promise, but some weird decisions hold it back. The game isn't a looker, but what matters it the gameplay. And the gameplay is overall solid. The battle mechanics are fun and unique, featuring a movement gauge thing that kinda reminds me of the older FF games. However, status effects are annoyingly good. Silence makes you unable to do anything but use items and defend for 3 turns, and blind reduces your accuracy an insane amount. You get XP from using moves, leveling in whatever attribute the move is tied to. it works fine, no complaints. Outside of battles you have farming which just feels really standard, I mean, it's farming. Bug catching which is basically just run up, swing net. Mining for upgrades which takes annoyingly long as the tiny mine only respawns ore once every 4 day week. There's also a dungeon system where you take a stone in and go explore through procedurally generated dungeons. It's fun, plenty of blobs to get XP off of. And then chatting with villagers... Which is where my biggest complaint comes in. In order to progress the main story and the battle competitions, you need friendship levels with EVERY NPC. As far as I'm aware there's no gifting. You get 1 heart a day by talking, sometimes an extra one if you get lucky and get an expanded dialogue and choose the right option. 1 for battling, and they get stronger each time you beat them so eventually this may not be an option. And that's it. I do not care about 90% of these NPCs, some I even downright dislike. Yet I have to get their friendship level up just to progress? Running around every day talking to everyone, even with the fast travels, is tedious at best. It takes a fair amount of time, which might be good as there really isn't THAT much else to do besides dungeons. Friendship levels take 15 hearts to progress, so if you just talk to everyone that's 15 in game days of running around the entire map just to progress the story. There is an NPC that lets you buy friendship at around 750 a heart, I forget the exact price. Far too expensive for early game. Blob barn decor is also weirdly expensive and I'm really not sure if stacking multiple pieces of the same furniture works or not. It's also pretty limited. This wouldn't be an issue if having furniture didn't increase Blob happiness. I've not interacted with Blob breeding yet because I want full happiness for the best chance at a better Blob, but in 8 hours I haven't managed to get enough furniture. I know that was a lot of negative without a lot of positive, but the game does do everything else well. The models may look rough but the art is nice, the map is well made and the gameplay loop is fun. The game isn't perfect, but it's definitely worth the time.

I waited for at least a year for this game to come out and I am pleasently surprised. It is perfetly paced, tons of character creation, tons of customzing in general, the graphics are silly and charming and the writing is pretty funny. This game reminds me of Hometown Story for the 3ds. Also I married Garnet because my birth stone is a garnet AND her boat is named Arielle which is also my name, cool coincidence!

I just love this game! Breeding blobs is so addicting. I'm trying to make the cutest ones and it's so fun when you wake up in the game and another egg is ready and you get to find out which new adorable blob comes out. Farming is pretty much like in other games with the one twist that blobs have abilities to help you do things faster such as watering or harvesting crops. This is instead of upgrading your farming tools and I found it a pretty cool choice. The characters all have such adorable drawings and they all have charming personalities. Heart events are pretty light hearted for the most but the game isn't shy to talk about more serious problems of the characters either. I felt that the characters were more engaging than the ones you'd find in similar farming sims. Combat is fun for the most part though it can feel a bit grindy at times. The boss fights are the stand outs. They are genuinely challenging and it just feels good to take a boss blob down. Though you can adjust the difficulty if the combat isn't for you. The one negative is the music which is pretty repetitive and felt annoying at times. I turned it off after a while and listened to my own stuff so it wasn't that big a deal to me personally. I also want to give kudos to the dev(s?) for releasing a complete and bug free experience. I don't buy early access games because I have no interest in playtesting and want a feature complete game and all to often it feels like 1.0 releases still aren't ready. Not so this game which is a smooth and full experience.

ポケモンっぽい牧場物語という感じ ブロップなる生物を集めて育てて配合して戦わせてリーグを上がりつつ 牧場も運営していかないといけない (厳密には牧場見捨てても生きていける鉱山物語or漁師物語なのも限りなく牧場物語に近い) 最近日本語化したけど翻訳自体も良くできており今の所変な誤訳は見かけていない 肝心の牧場運営はやや大味な感じで 牧場物語のようなMAP農機を使うためにはそれぞれの固有能力を持ったブロップを手に入れないといけないので そこ怠るとただひたすら辛い農作業になる、特にジョウロが強化できないので農業をやるなら水撒き系ブロップは必須になる、一応そういったタイプのブロップはストーリーを進めてると手に入る救済はある キャラクターは日本人好みながらこちらも今時の感じではなく牧場物語を意識したようなデザインでこういうデザイン好きな人はそこそこ居そうだし絵無しのNPCもそれなりの人数が居そう プレゼントの概念はなく話しかける、バトルに挑む、ダンジョンに誘うだけで好感度上げていくタイプ ただ時間による移動をしないので生活感を感じにくいが真夜中でも会いに行けるのでこの辺りは良し悪しか？ 戦闘は属性による増減が激しいので無属性の技もあると捗る あと最初に入手したブロップが結構強いので全体技覚えさせるだけで蹂躙が捗る トータルで全体的に粗めな仕上がりだけど昨今の牧場の煩雑さと登場人物の好みや生活ルーチンの情報管理に辟易してる人には気軽に遊べるはず

Unhealthy obsession to this game! It is so fun for no reason. I was truly astonished playing this. It is exactly what I have been looking for! The possibilities with breeding blobs is crazy! There are a million different combinations for breeding blobs. I really enjoyed making the best combos to make the ultimate fighting team. Fighting, building, and interacting with other villagers was great. I loved the museum aspect of the game as well which led me to exploration. The dungeons were fun to discover as well. There are some things I wish the game had like the villagers walking around the village and dungeons having more to them scenery wise. But overall, super great game!

This game is a rare treat. I play most of the farming/life sim games that I can find on Steam, and often they don't manage to keep my attention. This game keeps me coming back. Despite the cartoonish art style, the characters are compelling and interesting in a way that is engaging for me as an adult. And the blobs are adorable. Breeding and leveling blobs while managing your farm is surprisingly complex. I love this game, and my 4 year old does too. Guess there's something for everyone!

剧情和人设方面算优点，牧场物语玩家看见这种建模讲真反而有亲切感吧？反正因人而异，立绘很好看外加人物剧情方面很丰满，说完优点说缺点，养成方面真的是太简陋了，就是纯数值刷刷刷，等你可以培养出彩色的时候会发现这玩意儿根本没意义了，外加这游戏很古典的一点是什么东西都是藏类似彩蛋性质，这肯定是不符合现在玩家节奏的，比如我想种植想要相关的宠物如果你不看攻略只能随缘，外加经验其实游戏底层决定了你只养一只就够了，如果能忍受这几个这游戏整体还算是在及格线的，特别剧情对话方面给了我一种符文4弱化版的感觉，不如但是在种田里文本量真的算丰富了，这点是最大的亮点，反正如果是冲着宝可梦的玩家我其实不推荐，如果是冲着XP角色的话可以买，塑造的真的不错。

Ну, я прошел игру, собрал всех блобов, выполнил все квесты, нашел все рецепты, всех сфоткал, одолел всех боссов, выбил все ачивки, построил успешную ферму и почти накопил 2 ляма, женился, вывел имба светящихся блобов тройку команду и т.д. Когда покемоны скатились ищешь себе заменитель, но находись мёд (буквально, разводись блобов пчел для меда). Симулятор фермы и покемоны - что ещё может быть лучше? И да, я наиграл 100 часов, просто те 40 прошли на моём аккаунте в зелёном магазине, решил поддержать деньгами данный продукт

Very cute farming sim, easy to pick up and put down as needed. 10/10 would squish the blobs again

une pépite se jeu je vous le conseille bravo les développeurs pours se bijoux continuez a nous faire des mises a jours pours de nouvelles aventures