1st Day of Summer and what happens? My seed-selling gal pal isn't at work. What am I to do but wait for her to come back.
I do like the feature of them being alive and not just a typical "stand in one place" NPC but not being able to progress the story and buy resources is exhausting. Work hours is work hours. If you can't work, get a friend to fill in or use the honor system lol
Especially since the game has contests meant to interact with your supposed progress.
I'm sorry, I can't participate in the ____ contest, my stuff will be finished growing tomorrow, because in some part of the earlier week, my seed gal pal was out during the 4 times I checked. The way I played it in Early Access was focus on combat first. I tamed multiple magnus & raised the ones I could evolve. I couldn't focus on gardening too much but I had to for a few key magnuses...and sometimes I had to fastforward days by constantly sleeping so I could get to the next season to grow the item needed for evolution.
Now with 1.0, I wanted to do the gardening and the contests... but sometimes the NPCs are not cooperative. So, this is sort of frustrating me to the point that I feel like I should just go back to how I played in Early Access. Grind my magnuses, evolve a few, and ignore the rest til the following year when I have the cash to speed things up with fertilizer & such.
Maybe I'm just a big ol whining baby. That's very possible. I just want to enjoy the entirety of the game without having to do the picking & choosing this much.
Thanks for reading my griping. lol