{"id":23657,"date":"2023-08-28T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:46:44","slug":"pretty-princess-magical-garden-island-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/pretty-princess-magical-garden-island-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Princess: Magical Garden Island (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Believe it or not, this game is actually a sequel (or spinoff) to one I reviewed a couple of years ago<\/strong><\/a>!\u00a0 In the first game, you play as a girl who gets whisked away to a world inhabited by rabbit people.\u00a0 You get transformed into a princess and the rabbits need your princess magic to help rebuild and decorate their castle.\u00a0 The game was pretty much a rip-off of the indoor decorating aspects of Animal Crossing, and the sequel rips off pretty much everything else from that title.\u00a0 In the sequel, you and your princess friends decide they want to try some Princess Cake.\u00a0 Your rabbit butler knows an island where you can get the ingredients.\u00a0 So now you set off for that island, where you\u2019ll farm, fish, and gather materials to build shops and farms so you can make more things to restore the island to its former glory.\u00a0 The game even uses the same \u2018rolling log\u2019 viewpoint that Animal Crossing does!<\/p>\n

When you land on the island, your princess friends and rabbit butler set up some shops in a central square.\u00a0 You can buy seeds and plants, craft buildings and bridges, and make new clothes and hairstyles.\u00a0 Another friend lets you sell excess material you don\u2019t need.\u00a0 Your rabbit butler has requests that you can fulfill, and when you do, you\u2019ll earn experience points and money.\u00a0 When you get enough experience points, you\u2019ll level up and can do more things.<\/p>\n

The game is also a bit like Harvest Moon in that you can till the land and plant seeds and wait for them to grow.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use the crops to feed chickens, sheep, and cows to get eggs, wool, and milk.\u00a0 You can also hit trees for wood and fruit, and catch bugs and fish, too.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use all these things to fulfill requests and build shops where you can craft more things.\u00a0 While you must wait about five minutes or so for things to grow or regenerate, the game doesn\u2019t have a day\/night cycle or any other passage of time like Animal Crossing does.<\/p>\n

My only problem with this game is that they show you pictures of the things you need to craft for requests, but they don\u2019t tell you what it is or how to make them.\u00a0 And the text can be too small in places.\u00a0 But as an avid Animal Crossing fan, I even found myself a bit addicted to this game, at least for a little while.\u00a0 So if you have younger girls who love Animal Crossing, they might like this one, too.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretty Princess: Magical Garden Island is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Alcohol Reference.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember seeing anything like that when I played, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s just used for cooking purposes.\u00a0 Even though the controls are simplified for younger gamers, reading skill is still a must for all the text.\u00a0 And I think kids would rather play Animal Crossing anyway, but if they can\u2019t get enough of that, here\u2019s another one for them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, this game is actually a sequel (or spinoff) to one I reviewed a couple of years ago!\u00a0 In the first game, you play as a girl who gets whisked away to a world inhabited by rabbit people.\u00a0 You get transformed into a princess and the rabbits need your princess magic to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23658,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions\/23658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}