Wew, where to begin. There's quite a lot of pretty dumb design choices in this game that are really frustrating or not dumb just.. Poorly implemented. I know there was the alpha beforehand but it still feels as if this game just wasn't playtested beforehand, nothing about it seems fluid or normal.
Firstly, the tutorial is terrible. I'm the kind of person who can pick up literally any game without reading the manual or playing the tutorial and within half an hour of playing I'll have grasped the mechanics and I'll be playing comfortably. With Tomorrow Children, even after the tutorial I'm still left wondering what I should be doing, what things are, how to do certain things etc. I got a medal for doing something and the police officer was like "hand it in for a special surprise".
Hand it in where? I have no idea, I've been to every building and they wont accept this medal/coin thing.
Another thing I have issue with is the screen effects. Such beautiful visuals are ruined by the filter and the vignette border. Self explanatory.
I have issue with the pop-in characters. I think this was a really poor decision, I hated it in the alpha and I still hate it now. I can understand that it probably takes some load off the game to not have to have everyone visible and running around the town but at least make it so everyone within 10 feet or so is visible, this would be far batter than what we have at the moment. I'm sick of going to pick something up, only to have somebody pop-in a brief second later and pick it up instead.
Islands are odd. I've been to several where they're just tiny with no resources on them (except for maybe a handful of trees to cut down and a few apples to collect). The problem is, the bus will only go to that island until it disappears so there's basically nothing to do in the meantime.
People basically standing around and giving each other the thumbs up constantly for tokens.
People using the jackhammer thing to create blue landmass all over the town so you have to run around with a shovel and clean it up. Want to give them a thumbs down? Better do it quick otherwise they'll just pop-out of view again.
Not being able to move the houses.
Just the overall sense of "what the fuck is going on?" and "what should I be doing right now" that plagues this game. I know I'm not the only one.
I feel really bad because I know the devs worked hard on it and they've been great answering questions here on Reddit but I'm just really having a hard time trying to enjoy this game as it is right now. It's like squeezing blood from a stone to make this enjoyable.