Life/farming sims are the game equivalent of easy-listening music. Though I’m content with the same old basics when done well, I still appreciate it when a life sim puts a fresh spin on things, like by throwing loveable dinosaurs into the mix. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Paleo Pines makes even the most ferocious carni𝔉vores look adorable with bright colours, soft features, an✅d big puppy eyes that melt your heart.
The game begins with an eerily sou🐓ndless, flat 2D cutscene that shows your dinosaur outgrowing your home. At this point, I worried that Paleo Pines might only be🥂 aimed at a younger audience and that those cute little graphics I had been admiring weren’t meant for me. Fortunately I was wrong.
It took me a while to g𓆏el with the controls, as ꦦplaying with a keyboard and mouse felt unnatural. The mouse automatically controls the camera movements, but not all keybinds are bound to the keyboard. This meant sometimes I’d press a mouse button and spin the camera by accident. Fortunately, swapping to a controller made everything feel much more intuitive.
It’s a slow start, with the game introducing the basics of moving and interacting with things, but once you’re past that, it’s all too easy to enjoy familiar life sim features. But your dinosaurs aren’t just fulfilling the role of cattle here. They🅠’re your mounts, they help do farm work, and you must befriend them in the wild, too — the best part of the game.
Entering the Veridan Valley for the first time had that ‘welcome to Jurassic Park’ moment, showing a range of dinosaurs roaming free, from styracosaurus to gallimimus, as well as points of interest. With other areas to unlock in the full game, I’m eager to see which other species will feature, and let🎉’s face it, we’ll all want to find our personal faves.
I’m all for games where you’✤re collecting cute critters, and the journal that records every species you’ve befriended in an area calls out to the completionist in me. Each species can appear in various colourations, with some dinos rarer than others. It’s the kind of gimmick I’m highly susceptible to, and you can bet I will want those hard-to-find beauties onﷺ my ranch.
Befriending dinosaurs is a unique aspect of the game, and it isn’t a straightforward process, which put to rest any lingering ideas I had that this game might only target younger players. It involves replicating correꦡct music notes in succession, then playing a careful balancing act with a friendliness meter by feeding the dinosaur treats and soothing i♌t, before ultimately giving it the Poppin cake it likes.
Finding out which type of treat and Poppin a dinosaur likes is part of the process, and I certainly wasted a bunch of items by not paying attention. Poppins aren’t exactly cheap either, and you can mistakenly use these as treats if not offered at ꦰthe right time. Too much food or🎉 soothing can also ruin the attempt entirely.
While I managed to befriend a couple of dinosaurs, I didn’t get either to the point where I could saddle them, as the game explained — I’m presuming this was a limitation of the preview. The same applied to a co♌uple of thing🐎s. One quest asked me to cook a dish, but either I’m far too dense to realise how to do it, or it simply wasn’t available in the demo.
Ranch life is as expected, though I only had a small taste of what the full game will offer. While you can use tools to till the soil, you can later use dinosaurs for farmwork. It was a little frustrating that clearing junk couldn’t be done with tools, as your dinosaur and character have separate stamina b🉐ars, but your character has far fewer available jobs to deplete theirs.
I liked that building was more involved, as you’re not just choosing a pasture and plonking it down in a set area. Instead, you 🍸build it fence by fence, choose how large it is, and where to place all the items within. On the flip side, while there are furnishings that you can purchase in town, it doesn’t seem that you enter your house. This will be a little disappointing if it remains the same at launch, but I’d like to think those couches aren’t intended for outdoor use.
We’ll be able to build relationships with the townsfolk, though I don’t know if romance w🦄ill be involved. A prompt appeared o𒐪utside of Owynn’s house to ‘stay the night’, but I couldn’t actually do so as the game declared I didn’t know him well enough yet, so maybe?
My time with Paleo Pines was brief, so I’m going to chalk up the few things that confused me or didn’t seem to work to demo limitations for now. There’s still plenty to love about the game, as it checks the boxes for♌ life sim features fans look for — building a farm, turning a profit from crops, quests, and exploration. The main appeal for me, and likely many others, will be filling the journal with every plant and dinosaur possible and giving my dinos Jurassic Park-themed names. A dilophosaurus named Nedry? I think so.