The thing about Cozy Games is they are absolutely dominating the gaming industry right now. I have talked about the oversaturation in gaming, but this is the one genre where I thought people wouldn’t care. So what is this game it basically is Animal Crossing meets Pokemon with Minecraft mechanics. I wouldn’t mind this so much, but the Pokemon fail to stand out. Rather than making the Pokemon interesting NPCs it is more they seem to cycle through pointless dialouge.

This game is in competition with multiple cozy games too and it fails. It doesn’t focus on towns and NPCs like Grand Bazaar, it may remove the destruction of your tools, but the Animal Crossing games somehow feel better, I wouldn’t mind some combat like Rune Factory or Harvestella rather than none. Another problem is spin off Pokemon games give a lot of attention to Pokemon in their natural environments such as Pokemon Snap and its sequel or focus on the Pokedex and their interactions with other Pokemon like the Mystery Dungeon series.

The Pokemon habitats don’t feel unique or interesting putting them together is mostly easy, but these also act as the residents homes and unlike Animal Crossing or Story Of Seasons it seems the same even different habitats. This is actually the worst part in Cozy Games one of the first things most do is explore the town and see where the townspeople live and work most characters have decor that matches what the like or pertaining to their jobs while I understand this really wouldn’t be the case for Pokemon it makes them more bland than anything.