Promise Mascot Agency

10/10, would trust Pinky to disappear my enemies any day. In all seriousness, the core gameplay loop is great casual fun, the truck mechanics are pretty satisfying, especially the generous gliding and boosting mechanics. There are lots of little touches I really appreciate (like disabling collision detection on tall trees - everything else has it by default, but it woul be a pain to glide around the mountains if they didn't, or that gliding passively regens your boost, so you can fly pretty much anywhere). The characters are highly eccentric but quite likeable. It's also got a surprisingly good story, one that has plenty of intrigue and suspense while also being realistic about the yakuza and not excessively glorifying them. Give it a shot!

Its like 8 different game genres in 1 without it being overwhelming. Its peak

It's like a unique crossover between Yakuza/Like A Dragon and Sesame Street and shares themes with both. The game can touch on topics of the sex industry and government corruption before seamlessly transitioning to talk about friendship and the importance of supporting each other. It works shockingly well. The map design is a standout. I'm a big fan of a well designed town and the island feels very real in how it is structured. It's very authentic, to the point where it has these inconveniences that make sense once you learn the backstory. If you've ever lived in a small town, you know that we do in fact have our absurd little landmarks hidden out in the woods. I've never felt more represented. Some things could stand to be really sped up. I don't need a reintroduction to every minigame every time I start it up. The one intro is enough. There's seemingly no option to have Pinky stop making noises while I'm driving around and doing ♥♥♥♥, and that did drive me crazy.

A great, funny collectathon that also gets at the "management sim" mechanics that I love.

If you play their previous games then you would love this one too! This one has a more silly funny vibe to it and I love all Pinky expresssion~

it has that "one more thing/turn" magnet to it that make me keep playing lol.

Promise Mascot Agency is a wonderful game I wholeheartedly recommend, but it’s also the kind of game I think can be tough to convince others to take a chance on because of certain barriers. This isn’t meant as a mark against the quality of it, but there are things about its structure that are worth being upfront about. First, there’s a lot of reading, as well as dialogue that’s backed by a delightful Japanese voice cast, that’s not unlike something you would see in a visual novel. I can say confidently that you’re getting a great and wholesome story here, but I get that for some people it’s just not what they come to video games for. Second, one of the primary methods to advance the story is indeed managing your agency of mascots, but because this isn’t a simulation akin to Sim City or Theme Hospital, the gameplay leans more toward in service of progressing the story. There’s enough there to keep you engaged, but others might desire just a few more layers. But this game truly is worth making space in your life for if anything at all in the various trailers speaks to you. I would also encourage trying the demo to get a pretty fair shake of what you’ll be doing and the general vibe the developers crafted. For a quick sum, you’ll rely on a simple delivery truck as your method of traveling around the small Japanese countryside town of Kaso-Machi, which is full of charm, mystery, and classic video game map icons to interact with. If you’re adventurous enough, your truck will upgrade and have you moving around the map in a satisfying state of flow like a certain bounty hunter. Time exists here, so days passing by will matter as nightly bills are due and your employees take breaks and earn their pay share reviews. While taking a break from driving, gameplay revolves around navigating menus and selecting the best work for each of your mascots based on their skills. What follows is largely hands-off until a mascot gets into trouble and requires help. This amounts to a simple battle where cards representing the citizens of Kaso-Machi are used to deal damage to the particular source of trouble. Each card has its strengths in damage types and can be upgraded via quests and other methods. Upgraded cards become more important as your mascots take on higher level work. These were all fun distractions, and I think for most people that today are looking for video games that don’t ask too much of them will find something here to relax and enjoy. On that note, there is a story-related time pressure for earning money that appears after around the first few hours. However, I didn’t find the normal difficulty to be too demanding, but there is an option to lower this if it becomes a sticking point, so no real worries there. Likely what has me still thinking about this game today and probably long after is the world that the developers crafted here. The setting is rich in character, the cast are all interesting with problems that can be related to, the soundtrack is too good to be missed, and if you’re a fan of Yakuza/Like a Dragon and/or Persona, I think you’ll really appreciate Kaso-Machi because I have to believe this team are big fans, too. The UFO catcher and real-life photos of food were a nice touch, just saying. If there’s one last thing I can say, and why I want to recommend this game, it’s that I think it tells a story about an inspirational little town that really speaks to people who don’t want to accept this meaner, nastier version of the real world certain people are trying to cultivate. Kaso-Machi is a refreshing example of a diverse, complex community of people working together to change things that are both wrong and destructive. It’s the kind of hopeful story I’ve cherished among some of the greats, like Dragon Quest, and I think they’re even more important today. To Kaizen, I bought your previous game after finishing PMA, so consider me a returning customer. Also, Pinky belongs in the hall of great video game characters.

Hope Goro is in the sequel

Un jeu à patoune ! Bref le gameplay principal du jet est de se balader sur la map pour récolter des items. Les graphismes sont ok-tiers. Le jeu est sauvé par ses personnages, complètement loufoques et au final, plutôt attachants. Au moins, ça dure pas longtemps, entre 10 et 15h jusqu'à être lassé des minijeux et de la collecte et rusher l'histoire. donc on a pas vraiment le temps de se lasser. Je recommande pour la curiosité et l'originalité. Passez votre chemin si vous n'aimez pas les jeu de collecte, même court.

divertido, mas vc precisa gostar bastante de ler