Poor game design – Farm Story 2™ Review

I used to play Farm Story (yes, the original) back in the day and it was my absolute favorite! So when I was searching for a new game to play it wasn’t even a question that I’d download Farm Story 2. At the beginning it was fun collecting animals, building buildings, and delivering orders. Then once you hit level 14, all of a sudden you’re shown like 10 new pop ups which indicate new crops, new trees to buy, and new building to build. The only problem is that each one of these things costs 1,000+ coins (and all the buildings are 2,500-9,000 EACH), and to make coins you need to fulfill deliveries. However, EVERY SINGLE delivery order you get requires items from the new buildings, even if you keep discarding them. So now you can’t make deliveries because you don’t have the new buildings needed to craft the items. And you can’t buy the new buildings because you don’t have the coins because you can’t fulfill any of the delivery orders. So option 1 would be to pour money into the game to buy diamonds to trade in for coins. Which I don’t want to do because the game is slow and freezes on me all the time, and the picture of the game doesn’t even fill my iPhone 10 plus screen all the way to the edges. Now your next option is to try and sell things on the market, but depending on what you sell it takes days, if not weeks to save up 2,500 to 9,000 coins, per building, and there’s like 10 of them they want you to buy. All in all, I wish the game only gave you 1-2 new buildings for each level you reach because that would be challenging, yet much more manageable to achieve for the gamer.
Review by Hahdicisjsieocka on Farm Story 2™.