I bought
Cozy Grove on switch almost 2 weeks ago! I’d been looking for a new game to play since completing
Mail Time, and was most intrigued by
Cozy Grove out of all the other games I looked at. I’m very picky about the games I buy though, so I didn’t get it right away. With how expensive games can be, I want to be 100% sure that I’m going to enjoy a game and get my money’s worth before I decide to get it. Especially digital copy games since I can’t return those.
I’ve heard nothing but positive things about
Cozy Grove, though! All of the reviews I read spoke highly of it, and any complaints I saw were from around when the game first came out. I also noticed that it was on sale for 43% off, and that was the final push I needed to get it!
I’ve only been playing for the past 8 days, but I’m enjoying
Cozy Grove a lot so far! It’s such a charming, relaxing game for me to sink a couple of hours into each day. The art style is so lovely; I can’t wait to be able to admire it in all of its glory once the island is permanently in colour! I love all of the characters that I’ve met so far; their unique personalities are all so charming, and all of their designs are so cute! Jeremy, Patrice and Francesca are my favourite bears so far, but Mr. Kit and Pandam are adorable as well! I love red pandas, so I can’t tell you how excited I was to see Pandam for the first time! I have a soft spot for all of my bears, though.
I can’t wait to meet the rest of them!
Gameplay-wise, I have a love/hate relationship with it being a slower paced game. I really appreciate that there’s only so much to do each day and that it’s the kind of game that you can only really sink a couple of hours into at a time. It made starting and learning how to play a lot less overwhelming for me knowing that there wasn’t going to be a bunch of things thrown at me all at once. It does kind of suck at times when I’m so into the game and there isn’t anything left for me to do until the next day, or I just want to find out a bear’s backstory right then and there, but I love that it seems like I have months of content to look forward to! Time travelling also
is technically an option if I ever get too impatient, but I’ve heard that it can mess up your game file, so I don’t really want to take that chance. Plus, I think it adds to the game’s charm to take it one day at a time.
I honestly don’t really have any complaints so far. I love doing tasks for my bears each day and getting to enjoy their areas and designs in colour, even though it doesn’t last. The spirit birds are so pretty, and I love that they glow at night! I also love that I can have cats, and I can’t wait to see a spirit deer for the first time! The critter and fish names are so silly and unserious I love them; I love how some of them kind of have scientific or realistic-sounding names, and then you just have others like “Future Banker” and “Kpop Anti-fan”.
I love, love,
love that I can hug the bears!!! I have a feeling that I’m going to need the hugs more than they do once they start remembering and revealing more about their backstories.
My only complaints so far are very minor:
° The game can be a little buggy at times, especially when I first boot it up and when colour is returning to an area. It’s not a big deal or anything that causes the game to crash thankfully, but still.
° My eyesight might just be bad lol, but trying to find items on the ground for the bears when the island is mostly still uncoloured is a pain in the ass. The items are uncoloured just like the island, so they blend in. That, plus all of the greenery and the imps, makes stuff really hard to find sometimes.
° Why is my backpack so small!!!! I’m begging for there to be a bag bear or something, because I’ve had to upgrade my tent so many times now just to get more storage room because I’ve run out of space in my backpack!
° Let me hug Mr. Kit
Overall,
Cozy Grove has been so lovely so far. It’s been a welcome distraction from some of the stuff going on in my personal life, even if just for a couple of hours each day. I look forward to playing every day and seeing what new things I’ll get to discover! I can’t wait to meet the rest of the bears and continue helping the ones I’ve already met, even though I have a feeling there’s some heartbreak in my future. I’m also so excited to check out the DLC once I’ve gotten further along into the baseline game!