So Iām currently working on getting to the third dungeon of RF:ToD which, from what I gather, means Iām a little over half way through the main plot?
First of all, the game is gorgeous, I absolutely love theĀ āWind Waker, but with farmingā aspect of it, Aden and Sonja are pretty fun protagonists (Aden is so randomly savage I love it), and TBH I actually like the focus on taming monsters over the actual farming. I also think it was a neat idea to have little events you have to watch before you can get villagers up to the next friendship level! It gives them a lot of personality
I just wish you could tame more monsters total. I believe thereās something like 90 different monsters but you can only keep about 30, and thatās kind of depressing because I love taming all the monsters in RF games. I think the game would also be much improved by having a way to bulk craft a bunch of items at once and an easier way to quickly transfer full stacks of items, because the best way to do it is esoteric enough I didnāt figure it out for about 25 hours of gameplay. Iām guessing because the game was originally made for the Wii, which has a lot fewer buttons than the PS3. But thatās nitpicky stuff
Iād say my biggest complaint is that you canāt play Sonja from the beginning of the game (and instead have Aden be the one trapped in her body. I get that thereās probably some plot thingy with that but just like. Change the plot so you can have a female protag from the beginning?), and you canāt get married before the end of the main story. Since, from what I gather, thereās really not much to do in the post game aside from marriage since youāll probably have maxed out your monster capacity and thereās only one little post-game combat challenge to speak of. IDK how much I can motivate myself to keep playing when thereās literally nothing to do aside from talk to NPCs and pass time, since Iām not the biggest on completionist aspects like finding all the fish or maxing out all the skill levels or whatever.
I can definitely see whyĀ people consider this one a āblack sheepā, even if I 100% donāt agree. Itās the farming. The farming in this game is extremely pared down, which frankly doesnāt bother me too much. I mean, in 99% of RF games youāre just taming monsters to take care of your crops anyways. All this does is take some player control away from what you grow and when, since you no longer buy seeds, but your crops grow so fast in this game that itās not really that big of a deal? Youāll get plenty of everything once your monsters are friendly enough. Too much involvement in farming honestly would have taken a lot away from the ocean exploration aspect anyway, since it takes up so much of your time.
So yeah, itās not bad. Itās different (which IME tends to be a hallmark of black sheep entries, not badĀ but not what people were expecting or necessarily wanted).
