KOTAMON: My Sis Found A Super-Rare Card In Her Cereal Box, So I Became A Garbage Man To Find The Entire Collection And Earn $1,000,000 - 日本語レビュー6件・全言語レビュー431件・評価・同時接続数

The art is great but the gameplay is absolutely abysmal. There's no game in this game. The entire experience boils down to holding left click on a garbage pile, press Q to restore energy, throw bag in trash compactor and repeat forever. There seems to be almost no thought into the game design aspect because even the upgrades are uninspired and only make you slightly more efficient at rummaging through garbage. The card collection aspect is probably the worst part because nothing feels worse than spending 10 seconds piecing together a card just for it to be a busted POS that sells for $10, you could've just filled another bag of garbage and made 15x that in the same amount of time. I wanted to keep at it long enough to 100% the game because it's simple enough and in theory should be an easy 100% but it's just such a boring uninspired slog I can't. Here are some ideas for fixing your game if you care to: 1) Collectables should give permanent upgrades. One could increase the size of the card cleaning brush, another could increase your chances of piecing together rarer cards, another could give you a chance to instantly piece cards together, etc. Collectables currently do nothing and it doesn't feel good to find them, they just go on a shelf and get forgotten about. 2) Upgrades from Jenny should do more than just be multipliers. How about an upgrade that adds an energy over time buff to beer? A chance to pick up extra pieces of garbage at a time? Increased chance of finding unopened cereal boxes, a chance to find cards that are already cleaned and assembled, etc. There are a lot of ways to make the gameplay more interesting and upgrades more rewarding past the "you do what you were already doing but 1.3x better" situation that they currently are. 3) It's the same dump, all the time. 5th time cleaning out all the piles? Jenny just brings more garbage to the same place. It shouldn't be that hard to scrape together a 2nd or 3rd location to mix things up and maybe have different locations be more likely to have either dirty cards, busted cards, or cards of a certain set. You could even have fixing up the DUImobile its own upgrade for going to different locations. 4) Add a bonus for landing shots into the dumpster from far away. There are already achievements for it, now add a cash bonus and there's suddenly a reason to invest in Magnet past level 1 or 2. Could also add bonuses for landing trick shots over the garage or bouncing off the ground, etc. 5) Add a collection gallery for the garbage you've picked up. A lot of the milk cartons and stuff have cool assets but you don't really get the ability to take a good look at them while just playing the game. The one thing this game does really well is art and assets and you don't get a chance to appreciate most of them outside of the cards. The reason games like powerwash sim are enjoyable is because even though you're doing a monotonous task your experience with it is constantly evolving. You're getting new tools, better nozzles, suddenly you have to use ladders or scaffolding to get the job done, you're seeing new buildings, new challenges pop up, etc. This game fails on literally all of those fronts so you're doing the exact same thing at minute 1 as you are minute 400.

One word: Disappointing. :( I want to love it. I really do. I like the art and the core concept. I liked the fundamental style and gameplay in the demo, but the game is just far too shallow. If you have played the demo, you've played 90% of what the full release has to offer. The added/expanded content in the full release is minimal. There's not even 100 different cards to collect (unless you're including the numerous quality tier ratings for each individual card). It's satisfying to collect and clean up, but the process gets stale rapidly and the arbitrary grind is so damn steep (EDIT: developers listened to the feedback and overhauled the advancement pricing. Great step in the right direction!) I put a few hours into the game to see if it offered more depth or substance than the demo, and it unfortunately really didn't. The content is as shallow as a kiddie pool. Hold down the mouse button to collect the cans while draining your stamina bar, guzzle beers to replenish stamina, toss the bags into the trash compactor, run back and forth between the beer vending machine and trash piles. Grind money to upgrade stats by fractional percentages. Lather, rinse, repeat Ad Nauseum. EDIT: Props to the developer for taking criticism to heart and rebalancing the upgrade costs. It helps greatly, but doesn't address my remaining concerns surrounding meaningful advancement and content. Once you've cleared a single pile of garbage, you've pretty much experienced everything. The juice isn't worth the squeeze, especially when the content is so shallow and lacks substance. It has no legs to motivate me to continue grinding. Checking off a box "collected all the things" isn't enough.

I can't recommend this game in its current state. I was hoping it would be OP with the full upgrades and I'd be pounding through trash, but it was still very tedious. It has a lot of potential, and I hope the creator can continue to expand on it, but for the current price I just can't recommend this compared to similarly priced games that are much more fun. Things I liked: -The concept -The art Things I disliked: -Trash bags behaved like bouncy balls, you'd throw it and it would bounce all over the place -The final upgrade for most things doesn't feel OP and is very expensive -Putting the cards together seems like a waste of time as they're always 1 star, if you're trying to get all foil cards you effectively need to put together 243 of a single card to get one foil card. -$50,000 is wayyyy to much for a cereal box, I thought it was $5,000 at first which was fine. Did you not play your own game? With maximum upgrades it would take 2-3 hours to get $50,000. -At max upgrades, collect speed should be 10x what it is now, bags should hold 2x what they hold now.