Fantasy Life I: A Girl Who Steals Time It seems that a cozy gaming community is offering exactly what you’re looking for. The community eager to dive into the cold and cute world of small characters has reached the mark of 1 million copies of the latest title in Level 5, flooding Tiktok and Reddit with posts about the game. To customize from cute characters to the entire island, it is a typical cozy Sim game and I love it. But in the end I learned that zen of the game lasts as long as I’m away from the cooking mini-games.
life Fantasy Life I: A Girl Who Steals Time It is equivalent to the normal job of other role-playing games. This is a class that can be equipped to perform specific actions. In no time, each can unlock the lives of up to 15 people in different categories. A life of fighting like a mercenary allows you to engage in combat. Minor-like gatherings allow you to harvest ingredients from the environment. And by creating a life like cooking, you can make clothes and food dishes.

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After enjoying my time a little, I chose a chef as my life. The cooking mini-game has three stations: a pot on the left, a cutting board in the middle, and a frying pan on the right. There is a time limit for performing a sequence, and each of them may require you to quickly press, hold, tap multiple times, or rotate the joystick. The idea is to perform the actions shown above the characters at each station. Great work and a satisfying “Great Job!” screen.
The whole concept is simple. It’s challenging, but not annoying Stardew ValleyFishing mini game. If you respect the level requirements, you complete most dishes, but once you do an OK job and still complete the dishes, the game simply describes as “finished.” I couldn’t help but feel that it could improve. I should be better with that. I wasn’t going to simply accept the compensation awards the game was offering me, saying “Hey, at least you did something” every time I finished cooking. No, teacher. I was planning to hone my skills.

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I started studying all the options I could think of to save time and get all the sequences perfectly. There is about 8.5 seconds to complete 3-4 actions in a mini-game, and the cooking will vary in the maximum number of sequences that can be performed when you try to prepare them. The first step was to stop playing with the controller and switch to keyboard/mouse.
To speed up the process, I tried to cancel the animation. I checked if the little guy could change the station, chopping vegetables and stirring the soup. Being stuck in long animations makes sense in games like League of Legends And more Genshin Impactloses damage output. but, Fantasy Life iI had lost the chance to fry another steak.

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The next step was to reduce the reaction time, which involves remembering the symbols for each station. It took me too long to realize that I needed to hold the button instead of tapping multiple times when practicing my omelette. And I wanted to quickly identify which station I should be at and what actions I should take. When playing endgame content like MMOS’s Raids, progress in battle requires identifying mechanics and responding quickly to them. If that’s coming Fantasy Life iThe goal of the cooking mini-game was to ultimately have my brain understand the symbols not as kitchen locations, but as controller inputs. Instead of damage per second, I was adding more soup per second.
The final step required reading the game’s interface more efficiently. In the cooking mini-game, there is a series of actions above your head that you have to perform, but you can see the following on the right side of the screen: It’s like Tetris is indicating what the next shape is: You can always be one step ahead. So I practiced checking the next sequence while running the current sequence and preparing all the brain’s abilities for the next three or four steps in my mind.

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However, I have never mastered the cooking mini-games completely. Fantasy Life i. I still need to understand what the fastest way to level up is. I need to upgrade my gear. There are many skills to unlock and you need to learn how to apply them better. I have to understand the economy to raise funds and buy materials. But once I reach the maximum level of this life, I’m fine… maybe it’s going to take some time to actually relax this game and start another life where I need to grind my path to become a master again.
So Carpenter seems fun, right?