What Did We Play Yesterday?

Kamaeru

2025-12-26

Decided to tear myself away from FT2 before my game brain atrophies completely and I can't play anything else.

Kamaeru is a cozy frog-collecting game. The frogs are cute, but so far most of the species variations are uninteresting (different color combinations). You can buy items to place on the farm and you can build up wetlands and catch bugs. Cooking is a mini-game with reflex-based bonuses. It's also kind of buggy (ha) so I had to look up a workaround to actually play it. It's very much take-it-or-leave-it at this stage but I may play around with it a little more to see if it opens up.

2025-12-27

Well, I gave Kamaeru another shot, but when I got to the frog breeding minigame, which involves using tic-tac-toe to determine dominant genes (with the remainder being randomly selected) I threw in the towel. The game play is tedious and none of the things that "work" work well enough to be interesting or rewarding beyond a few minutes.