The game feels like it should be a very casual experience where you are just leisurely trying to climb the ladder of capitalism via alchemy, but it's not. It's a time management game where failure is gameover. They also try and cram these characters and story down your throat while this is happening and I don't understand how they expect someone to enjoy both of these aspects together.

If you care about the characters (which is really hard for me to do personally) then you need to spend time segments hanging out with them and talking with them, but the everlooming competitions ***require*** you to be more efficient with your time.

The most recent patch where they nerfed the boss battles is also a really poor design decision. It was never hard to beat her, it was hard to *make it* to the boss fight, but once you got there it was easy as hell to win.

So with that patch, it's now a stressful, time management game with characters you don't have time for (and that I don't care about anyways) combined with an unsatisfying boss fight which chains into the same loop all over again.

Very poorly designed game loop, would not recommend.

The game feels like it should be a very casual experience where you are just leisurely trying to climb the ladder of capitalism via alchemy, but it's not. It's a time management game where failure is gameover. They also try and cram these characters and story down your throat while this is happening and I don't understand how they expect someone to enjoy both of these aspects together. If you care about the characters (which is really hard for me to do personally) then you need to spend time segments hanging out with them and talking with them, but the everlooming competitions ***require*** you to be more efficient with your time. The most recent patch where they nerfed the boss battles is also a really poor design decision. It was never hard to beat her, it was hard to *make it* to the boss fight, but once you got there it was easy as hell to win. So with that patch, it's now a stressful, time management game with characters you don't have time for (and that I don't care about anyways) combined with an unsatisfying boss fight which chains into the same loop all over again. Very poorly designed game loop, would not recommend.