Recent reviews by stinky

There's fishing... a lot of it

Very good, very fun. I love my horse named Flesh Tax.
For the guy wondering, you can sell things in your storage.

There's fishing.

i don't know how to play this game. but i am having a good time :D

so many balls, so little time.

It's silly, it's stupid.

You end the world, you also can go home a loser.

I played this back in 2020-2021.
To say that the attachments you grow towards fictional characters without a world-wide pandemic stopping you from doing every-day life activities hits something a little too closely would be an understatement.
The range of customisation and relationships you can build in such a small amount of time (ignore the 100 hours) was an enjoyable read.
Honestly, the only "problem" I had with the game was by the end, when you'd need to make a choice for where you want to leave your character heading. In my experience, it might have been a pathing issue, but the result didn't really match what I had chosen to the point that some of the characters' dialogue felt off.

A lovely game that I miss because I've seen it all.

god, this really is a love story

have you ever thought- that despite it all, your efforts will mean nothing?

man, the Winterhome DLC makes me feel things.

Problems with SKY.
+ The daily candles earned to weekly candles spent ratio is unbalanced. Saving for two weeks to get the next TS doesn't work when there are events constantly that also require these candles. Especially with the Group TS rotations not accounting or accommodating for the market.
+ The daily play cycle. It's monotonous, encouraging a solid 2 hours to only get a fifth of the candles needed for one cosmetic, if that. You go in, you run for candles, getting 12 - 15 if you aren't running the whole map which is 49 areas (sans one completely void of any wax for some reason.) It encourages a grind mentality in which you don't want to miss a day, because that can set you back and risk you not having enough candles for the next event or spirit. When FOMO is incorporated into your game in a seemingly deliberate way, that's not good game design.

Fixes that could help
+ Increase the amount of daily candles earned. Make that max instead of 20/(21 if you're insane) to 30, or double it to 40 like the cosmetic prices. This is viable, without running the risk of running out of wax to farm, because of the bi-hourly events and the wax boosts.
+ Add more Wax events, there are so many areas that have no use outside of their season. When was the last time you visited Prairie Peaks (a no wax location) or the Repository outside of their seasons or getting the WLs?

For Peaks, there was that mechanic of taking photos of what the guide requested, which relied heavily on the environment (raining, sun, night, birds etc) that could be a nice hourly - daily task for people to complete for wax.
For the Repository, we could fix up a space for one of the many spirits residing there, earning wax in return.

These add something more for the players to do in this vast world, another way to interact with it. The current state of the game is a F2P daily grind trying to get you to spend your fortnightly paycheck to keep up.