Dr. Galen's a decent guy, but there's only so many times you can hear the same three lines of dialogue before you start looking for actual professionals to run your camp.

Windrose slaps labels like "Luxuries" and "Munitions" onto half your inventory and then never bothers explaining who's supposed to buy them.

Every level in Windrose hands out points for stats and talents, and the choices made in the first ten hours decide how smooth or sluggish the rest of the run feels.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream has a real ending, and reaching it means paying a lot more attention to your Wishing Fountain than your wallet.

Every island eventually ends up with one resident who just needs to go, and thankfully, Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream makes fixing or removing them pretty painless.

A pink heart bubble floating over an apartment window means one of two things is about to happen, and both of them come with real stakes.

Five sliders during Mii creation look harmless enough, but they quietly write the social code every resident lives by.

A happy island prints its own money, and an unhappy one leaves residents standing around a fountain with nothing to show for it.

Managing the fragile egos of these digital clones is a full time job, and leaving them miserable will completely tank your island's economy.

Left alone, the residents of your island will sit in an empty room complaining about hunger instead of walking to the store, so a little daily supervision goes a long way.

Fleet progression in Windrose comes down to hull size, and picking the wrong variant means redoing the grind later.

A weapon that hits like a wet towel doesn't stop mattering just because the armor underneath it is good.

You won't get very far building anything if you can't tell one tree from the next.

The ocean in Windrose stays calm right up until a galleon puts a hole in the hull.

Sprinting, mining, blocking, and swinging all pull from the same bar in Windrose, and hitting zero mid-fight leaves a character standing there with no options.

The game spends the first few hours teaching you how to punch boars, and then it locks you in a cave with a heavily armored pirate captain who can kill you in two swings.

A chest full of gold is completely useless if you try to hand it to the wrong vendor.

You are going to collect a massive amount of weird currency before you ever see a cash register.

Four separate pirate factions run these waters, and every one of them will happily arm you to the teeth in exchange for proof you're worth the investment.

Eating a raw coconut keeps your hunger meter happy in Windrose. It does nothing for the fact that a single pirate can still turn you into chum.