

Who says it has to match? As you progress you can also become the island VIP, which opens even more options up to you. My house currently has a snowman, sports car, pot of gold, saxophone and a drum kit, in it. The clothes and the furniture are all cosmetic and do not offer any buffs, but the large selection means there is something for everyone. Each level gained opens a huge number of customisable objects such as clothes, seeds and furniture.

This can however be useful when trying to complete certain quests quicker.Īll these activities offer XP that help your player level up. There are cooldown timers associated with each one and whilst you have the option of harvesting your crops early, you don’t get as much yield as you would for holding out. There is a big emphasis on growing plants, trees and crops and these will be your biggest income throughout the game. When the game isn’t imitating Animal Crossing, it is taking a big leaf out of Harvest Moon’s playbook. Upgradable in the sense the storm that ravaged the island and made you a castaway in the first place has destroyed most homes on the island.

With interest.Īlso upgradable are the other residents’ homes, and a few other buildings on the island.
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Instead, Castaway Paradise offers you a tent for free at the very beginning of the game and allows you to upgrade that as and when you see fit, as opposed to holding that against you and demanding you pay it off. Instead they all appear to be available at any time, which is good for younger players whose evening time is at a premium.Īnother feature it doesn’t include – and is made all the better for it – is a Tom Nook replacement. Castaway Paradise has seasons and seasonal events – where snow can cover the island or houses can be lit up and all decorated – but it lacks a day/night mode where different fish, bugs and even characters could appear.
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What it doesn’t include though is a full day/night mode.

These characters also happen to be anthropomorphic animals, so that’s another tick for the Animal Crossing clone. They aren’t always the most engaging quests – if ever to be perfectly honest – but with a game like this, you don’t have to complete them and can instead focus on other things such as picking weeds or smashing rocks. These can range from a simple fetch quest – particularly in the first couple of hours – to asking you to grow a few crops for them, which aren’t cheap to buy the seeds for. It features many of the same mechanics as Animal Crossing such as catching fish and bugs to be donated to the museum, an island economy complete with a bank and stock market to buy or sell and make extra bankroll, and a cast of colourful characters that each have their own pet name for you and will happily abuse your friendship in the form of giving you quests to do that they simply can’t be bothered with themselves. Here you are left to your own devices, within the confines of the island at least.Ĭastaway Paradise would be best described as an Animal Crossing-lite game. A brief tutorial occurs where I think Viktoria is checking to see if you are capable at menial tasks that the other residents appear unable to do so (I’m not sure what she would do if you were unable to complete them), and then it’s on to the main island to go about your business. When they come to, the mayor of the island – a pig named Viktoria – is stood over you. Players can play as either a male or female character, one that gets caught in the middle of a horrific storm that capsizes their boat.
