Elements of Boku no Natsuyasumi and Shin-chan combining to make something not quite as good as either.
I'm pretty gutted about how this turned out. The peaceful vacation vibe is marred by essentially having a huge checklist that needs to be done, and that very same peaceful vacation vibe doesn't allow Shin-chan to really be himself. He feels watered down and one-note, as do most of the other characters. Everyone's so saccharine and nice. Misae doesn't lose it and give him a wee bonk on the head. Hiroshi never gets in bother by not thinking before speaking. Shin-chan doesn't get to do anything more than crap puns. Shiro's basically welded to a fucking doghouse.
It feels like such a surface level understanding of why people like Shin-chan, and maybe Boku no Natsuyasumi to the same extent. I can't speak with authority on that as Attack of the Friday Monsters is my only exposure to the series beyond gameplay clips over the years. But a big list of tasks to perform to progress a barely there story does not feel like what these games are supposed to be about.
Just a strange one, because the looping nature of your week's vacation makes it seem like things might go on forever, but then after finishing a certain mission, the game kinda completes itself. It was like I was walked through maybe eight different scenarios that all just suddenly ended missions I had gotten weeks earlier. It might as well have been cutscenes. Didn't feel like I had done anything to earn them. Just played long enough for them to end. Why am I even holding the controller?
He doesn't get his dick out once.
I'm pretty gutted about how this turned out. The peaceful vacation vibe is marred by essentially having a huge checklist that needs to be done, and that very same peaceful vacation vibe doesn't allow Shin-chan to really be himself. He feels watered down and one-note, as do most of the other characters. Everyone's so saccharine and nice. Misae doesn't lose it and give him a wee bonk on the head. Hiroshi never gets in bother by not thinking before speaking. Shin-chan doesn't get to do anything more than crap puns. Shiro's basically welded to a fucking doghouse.
It feels like such a surface level understanding of why people like Shin-chan, and maybe Boku no Natsuyasumi to the same extent. I can't speak with authority on that as Attack of the Friday Monsters is my only exposure to the series beyond gameplay clips over the years. But a big list of tasks to perform to progress a barely there story does not feel like what these games are supposed to be about.
Just a strange one, because the looping nature of your week's vacation makes it seem like things might go on forever, but then after finishing a certain mission, the game kinda completes itself. It was like I was walked through maybe eight different scenarios that all just suddenly ended missions I had gotten weeks earlier. It might as well have been cutscenes. Didn't feel like I had done anything to earn them. Just played long enough for them to end. Why am I even holding the controller?
He doesn't get his dick out once.