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My Exotic Farm Review

by Daan Koopman - May 10, 2014, 4:30 am EDT
Total comments: 3

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The highly anticipated sequel to one of the saddest games on the Wii U eShop.

In My Exotic Farm players continue where the first game left off as the established farmer has now been invited to an unspecified African country. The game starts simple with only an ostrich, 100 coins, and some grain to feed said animal. Players are tasked with feeding and cleaning animals, collecting natural resources, and expanding the farm. If you played the first one, this will do nothing different for you. The game even goes as far as recycling the tutorial from the first game, which is quite lazy in its own right.

The player is constantly forced to do the same monotonous tasks day in and day out. All these management tasks are done on the touchscreen of the Wii U GamePad, but I barely felt like I was in control of the place. Animals barely react as they are interacted with, they will just walk about and ignore the player almost entirely. There is no quick way to feed these creatures either, so you are guiding yourself from animal to animal to make its needs are fulfilled.

Between some simple cleaning of the African farm and feeding your new animal buddies, there is pretty much nothing else to do. Players can move the camera about and see what the animals are doing with the control sticks, but they are mostly sleeping or walking about. The game also allows players to switch to a 32x time rate to skip right to their boring tasks, which get more irritating with every passing second.

My Exotic Farm is not a hot looking game either. The menus are fine, but the actual happenings on the screen are mostly dull and unimpressive. The game looks colorful, but it is muddy and nothing about it really stood out to me. The sound effects and background effects are equally unimpressive and are directly lifted from the first game. The game even includes the sound of cows mooing, which is strange because it does not feature any cows.

My Exotic Farm does almost nothing to improve from the first title, and just keeps on doing the exact same things wrong it did there. It will drive you nuts after moments of playing and it is probably better to steer clear entirely.

Summary

Pros
  • Controls quite good
  • Decent introduction
Cons
  • Actions do little to impact the game
  • Lazy reskin of the first title
  • Very monotonous
  • Visually unimpressive

Talkback

rlse9May 10, 2014

Wii U needs a Harvest Moon game...

Harvest Moon for me is a series perfectly suited to handhelds, especially now that there probably isn't much of anything gameplay-wise that couldn't be done on 3DS.

Pixelated PixiesMay 11, 2014

Any excuse to watch this again.

http://youtu.be/MMBQrbtjPWI

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Genre
Developer BiP Media
Players1

Worldwide Releases

na: My Exotic Farm
Release Apr 10, 2014
PublisherBiP Media
RatingEveryone
eu: My Exotic Farm
Release Apr 17, 2014
PublisherBiP Media
Rating3+

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