As you complete quests, more areas are opened up, revealing more characters, more resources, and, of course, more quests.Īll this is quite fun, and it only becomes tedious toward the end of the game, when you need 12 coffee beans and you’re lucky if you find one your pet doesn’t eat. You can also collect other animals via the eggs that are dropped, which have different stats and different bonuses that can be applied to your in-game actions. It’s a little bit like Harvest Moon, a difficult comparison to avoid making, but without the agonizing day-after-day grind of farming. Someone wants a candy bar? You farm some materials, buy some milk, find some cocoa beans, and before you know it, you have a new best friend. Yes, gamers, sometimes the animals poop diamonds.Īll these items you collected (and I hope washed off) are then used for the completion of quests. To say nothing of the dietary habits of the local fauna in Wandering Willows, charming an animal results in it…”dropping” wool, eggs, flower seeds (in their original packets), recipes, or precious gems. Good thing here’s there, too, ‘cause you will need him to climb trees to collect fruit, dig up holes to unearth collectable resources, and charm other animals. To accomplish these things, you will have to become friends with all the strange and unusual inhabitants, and there is no better way to do that than by doing them favors and becoming a part of the in-game economy.Īlso, you have a pet that has started following you around. You also have to acquire several items from the island residents you probably should have had in the first place, like a telescope, a radio, and a compass. Your goal is to get off the island, and, to do so, you need to complete several tasks, like repairing the basket and patching the balloon. PlayFirst, a quirky company you might recognize from Diner Dash if you’ve ever helped Flo in any of her incarnations (incarcerations?) of restaurant entrepreneurship, has entered the adventure-RPG realm with Wandering Willows. Otherwise you would die of starvation floating around in the ocean, which would make for a very poor game indeed. The fate of the bird is unknown, but, fortunately for you, there was an island underneath.
As proof, your character in Wandering Willows, as molded by you to resemble yourself, your favorite hero, or Alyson Hannigan, has crash-landed on a mysterious island after a bird flew into your hot air balloon and destroyed it. This game has confirmed what I have always suspected to be true: hot air balloons are NOT a reliable method of travel.
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