This is a productivity timer more than it is a game, please keep that in mind as you read this review. I am happy because this product is perfect for what it was aiming to do: Provide a study tool that's fun and limits the amount of time spent using a device for unproductive means.
The customization is cool. Almost everything aside from certain spirit companions, outfits and environments are offered to the base game users. This includes Collab cosmetics and music.
You can customize colors, customize your spirit companions, customize your outfit, customize your room, customize your ambience, etc. The ambience you start with in the base game is the ambience you get throughout the dlcs as well.
Actually I played this game before the first DLC was even announced and I still had a lot of cosmetics to unlock far after I unlocked all of the spirit companions. My options were always plentiful and if I wasn't so greedy then I wouldn't even have gotten the DLCs.
Customizing the UI is also an option. You can also hide the Ui, change the colors of the UI...Basically, what I love most about this game is that it can be personalized so easily. That is definitely its biggest strength.
I haven't had any issues with glitches and such and the optimization settings are easy to access so when you have the game running in the background you can have it take up little to no Memory (which is much easier on your computer/laptop than leaving it running full blast the whole time).
Dlcs: Now for the DlCs. Is the base game worth its 12 dollar price point? That is definitely up to you. However, I do think the DLCS are priced a little high for what they are compared to the main game. I'm unsure if they add any of the DLC companions to the base game but I think $9 per DLC is a little high even considering how high effort they are. I also think it's unfair for people who buy the base game at full price.
I love the cosmetic options and I love being able to unlock more spirit buddies and I CERTAINLY love the DLC environments but I don't know, $9 per DLC feels just a little high. I think what would make the $9 per dlc worth it is if each DLC had its own original album or original collection. Nothing big, but even just a four song album would make the DLCs feel 9 dollars worth. Or even reducing the price and then releasing some of the Spirits in the OVERALL compendium rather than having just a new section of the compendium being DLC exclusive.
I suppose when I'm speaking of DLCs I'm thinking about the kitchen and the garden DLCs in specific. These are the only ones that don't really feel deserving of the $9 for me. The All Aboard DLC was phenomenal and the upcoming magical library DLC excites me a lot.
I suppose I just want them to provide more content to the base game outside of collabs and would enjoy a unique music selection other than having to use the browser or the file upload.
Oh and the level up ability starts to scale very slowly around the level 50 mark. I'm fine with locating spirits longer but the longer it takes to level up the more my reward system suffers. Just a personal little thing.
Other than cosmetics and stuff though this game works spectacularly for what it does. For me $12 for the base game was a perfect price, some of the dlcs ARE really worth it (The All Aboard DLC is my favorite) but others may not hit that mark. But that's okay because no collab content is locked behind a paywall. It's also okay because the base game is already high quality and you'll be occupied with it for a while, you might not even want the dlc after this anyway.
