To the right of your front door, you quickly unlock a clinic where your patients will be transported when they need your help. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Īlthough exploring the town is an excellent pastime, Potion Permit quickly reminds you of your purpose if you drop the pace: Helping the townsfolk feel better. However, we can't complain too much, as the town of Moonbury is incredibly well-designed and a delightful place to meander around we were quite happy to spend a large amount of our time walking through it at a leisurely pace. The town lacks fast travel posts unless you want to go directly to your house from your location, so most of your time will be spent traversing rather than completing tasks. Unfortunately, while this keeps you on your toes, the days occasionally feel too short, and we found ourselves wondering where the day had gone the moment it started turning dark. Like Stardew Valley, you are given a set number of minutes of daylight to complete tasks, forage, engage in combat, and heal the necessary citizens. The game follows a day and night cycle entirely unrelated to real-world time. Potion Permit introduces romanceable bachelors and bachelorettes as you slowly progress through the storyline, and you're also quickly introduced to the town's neat little tradition of gifting Moon Cloves, which provide a decent friendship boost when needed. Moonbury is filled with unique characters for you to meet and speak to and to match the level of visual detail of the town these aren't bulk-created NPCs, and each has recognisable and unique personality. Yes, it's video game time, folks! Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) You may meet a character who has a farfetched connection to where you are now, they could play a vital role later down the line. The majority of Potion Permit's story has you running around the town in an attempt to satisfy everyone's whims, be it make friends or engage in fetch quests via the local bulletin board, but each completed mission will unlock a piece of the mystery with the story coming together like a puzzle. So even though you're quickly whisked away to a private neck of the woods and instructed that it's your sole purpose to heal the townsfolk of any number of unlikely illnesses, the game focuses on the distaste toward the capital and its chemists and requires you to prove yourself. But upon arriving, the town's citizens turn a cold shoulder toward you and won't explain why. You've been called to Moonbury through a special request sent by the mayor, so you must accept. Potion Permit immediately thrusts you into the role of the village chemist. However, unlike the majority of life simulators currently dominating the eShop, Potion Permit presents no crops to cultivate and no farm animals to tend to, and instead relies on medicinal foraging to help those around the town, which may be a welcome change of pace for life sim fans who've had their fill of farming. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Ĭoming from developer MassHive Media, Potion Permit is a sweet little social sim-meets-adventure RPG.
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