Ooblets (2022)

I wasn't expecting this game to grab me as much as it did, but MAN this is quite the time sink. There's a lot of cool things about the game, and I like how it's casual but a twist on the genre. My favorite part are the dance battles which are VERY original and super FUN! It's basically a simplified card game and I love it!

My only gripe is the music is soooo repetitive and sometimes out of place (like there's piano music for dance battles sometimes?). But that's what the mute button is for. This game is really solid otherwise.

I'll write a review at some point, but it is between a two or a three. It moves at a snail's pace, and none of the stuff it gives you to do is that engaging. That being said it does give you a lot to do and it makes up for its deficiencies by being visually bright and cheery. But even that isn't without shortcomings, albeit the shortcomings seem related to an indie budget. Lots of rough edges on this baby... But they updated it recently?

I'm going to finish Shovel Knight Dig. If I come back to Ooblets when I'm done, it is a three. If I forget it and go straight to some other game, this is a two.

So I picked up an item or something and now I'm stuck in my inventory. I don't have room and you can't drop or discard so I can't exit because it just keeps saying to "condense my items" but there's nothing to condense so I literally cannot do anything.

Won't let me use an item that I swap to hold either. Could make room if it would let me eat this cupcake but none of the options come up.

This is stupid. ;--;

This dropped on Switch today. So cuuute.

There's fishing, but I think it's a fishing mini game even @BMO could get behind.

You turn random stuff you've picked up into bait and then go "sea dangling" by simply approaching the pole on the pier, and automatically getting an item without any actual fishing mechanics. They're items like speedy growth for your crops and other bits and bobs.