Ratings and Reviews for June's Journey
By Sarah Thomas
Review by GuestSep 2nd 2021
I, like a few others, discovered this whilst lade up with a bad leg. I’ve been playing for quite a while and am currently waiting the next island to be released, in other words tearing my hair out with boredom! This is such a five star game if only………you are able to play along at a reasonable pace. It takes ages to build energy. I am a logical/practical person and so I build up my things to make for a scene that makes sense. Eg I do not have a snow capped rockery, a train, and an ornate bridge in the middle of the Wild West rodeo, or ten station platforms all in a row, unlike some people who just plonk their items anywhere and everywhere, that to me makes no sense, each to their own, but I like to build a proper scene/layout.
You can’t move the original buildings (which are now no longer being offered) from island to island. You can only move things that will go into the boat.
Some items cost extortionate amounts of flowers. When you have enough flowers for a big flower item, it then takes days to complete. Theses annoyances then mean you can not progress sometimes for days even weeks!
The changing of the help wanted…one change free then it’s 6 diamonds then 12 etc. I am not using my precious diamonds to change these…I have changed the collecting tips/buying drink one, for free several times, only for it to be replaced by a simple easy challenge, this in turn usually ends up back to the next one being tips/buying a drink. Which of course you then need to spend diamonds to get rid. I do not like the coffee lounge to me it’s pointless. Also, whilst on about the coffee lounge…the trophy challenge thing, how come I play quite a bit, yet from the time it starts I seem to only have a few hundred medal things yet someone who has probably started roughly the same time as me has thousands?
Each month you get a new set. Well I say new…. These sets are now getting repetitively boring. When you have played over 1000, the sets are repetitive. The current Wild West set, is pretty much the same, with only a couple of new additions. How hard is it to come up with different things for a scene? Have they nobody with common sense or imagination? I have a complete Wild West scene to which I can only realistically add the two new items, this obviously means I am going to struggle to obtain enough points to get the new prize. If I keep adding the same things it is going to look silly and make no sense, surely part of the game is to decorate properly not just randomly place, if that’s the case why bother with islands at all?
My only hope is the new island and I can move enough stuff over to expand the Wild West, however, there will be a lot of desert foliage! I am not going to plonk unrealistic things down for the sake of it!
The cash til where you go into buying things for your island hasn’t changed for ages, it has the same boring items in. The only thing I usually buy are trees and water to bulk up, or garden walls if I want a quick 60/70 flowers, I then delete them and put the pathways back neatly, Most of the things to buy now have not much relevance to the scenes. Perhaps when a monthly scene is complete they could add more to it, then next time they could come up with some new and exciting things for those of us who have seen these sets before.
Like a few people have said, it would be nice to have the option of rotating items, or buying items that face another way.
Why have a snowy island and then have items not related to snow to buy. I have moved the original snow items I had (xmas which originally were next to the Halloween set) to that island, but now am placing greenery tropical items on the island which are surrounded by snow edges.
Would it not make more sense to have just a snow island…. A wild scenery island, a Wild West Island etc. At the moment I’ve got Halloween next to a tropical island scene, a Wild West/funfair scene next to a nature trail, sheep in fields and mountain cabins etc. Ok, I may sound a bit ocd, but aghhhh! If the new island doesn’t come up soon, (hopefully no snow!) I may go bonkers! Wooga, if you’re reading this, please please think logically, bring out realistic, more affordable, less time waiting for things to be built, items, before people start getting fed up like me! I’m sure if I thought about it some more there would be other little niggles that I haven’t thought about…but for now…
Rant over, have a nice day everyone, smiley face!.
