Despite the Expansion only being a couple of weeks ago, we have another new update bringing in Sally and the newest Star Path… which also has bonus items now because it needed to give me more reasons to dislike it, I guess. In general, I just dislike “bonus” items because sometimes the recolors are nicer than the original ones and I have so many friends who have struggled with the Star Path, especially as it’s become longer already. It’s one thing if the Bonus was just more moonstones or in-game items, but I’ve never liked the concept of recolors being locked to this. Hopefully they can at least come back in some way at some point.
Regardless, I’m most excited by the new decorating additions with the floating items and additional rotation options. I don’t know how much I’ll use the latter just yet (nothing is really coming to mind that I want to rotate that way), but I am excited to make use of the Islands. I kind of wanted to use one for the Villains, but ignoring that Mother Gothel can’t exactly be moved, Ursula’s house requires water and none of the Floating Islands will have any, so it seems that idea is unlikely.
My other ideas are maybe a Critter Island and/or an Island for my favorite Villagers to help free up the Meadow more.
For now, though, the update is here, so I quickly loaded up the game as soon as it finished updating.
Immediately upon logging here, I had a quest from Merlin in reference to the Floating Islands, plus a letter explaining how to unlock Sally which I think was pretty good considering all the questions any other time a new character is added that isn’t just in a realm or already there in some way. I had already finished all the prerequisites, so I had a letter from Jack essentially starting things off.
While I did briefly talk to Merlin (who essentially just said to teleport to the Floating Islands to continue), I decided to focus on getting Sally unlocked first.
It was then time to get Sally leveled up. First, she had a date with Jack. Technically two as the first one didn’t really go that well.
We then set up a Compost that Mike ended up eating (I had really been hoping for a special Critter we could get, but my hopes were quickly slashed) followed by Sally finding a sewing buddy in the Fairy Godmother as Daisy and Minnie didn’t work out. I get they wanted their usual style for their “new venture”, but I think they still could have fit in some nice collaboration stuff…
That said, considering the quilt was supposed to be about memories of our adventures, I was kind of disappointed it was essentially just a tiled picture of the Castle…
Sally’s final quest was kind of disheartening with Sally thinking she was going to have a nice friendship with Ursula only for her to try and use Sally instead. Every time I think the Villains have some character development, it’s quickly a step back… Maybe I’m just too naive too.
In between all this, I did finish up the Floating Island questline and unlock them all. Merlin essentially asked to be moved up there and I moved him and the Fairy Godmother up there for now, but I still don’t feel as inspired as I hoped to. I think maybe making the Plaza floating island a Village and using the current Plaza as some kind of home base could help or even putting favorites there and expanding stuff on the Meadow, but I just don’t really know what I want to do just yet.
As for the Star Path, it has been drawn out even more and I already know so many people who prefer the bonus colorations to the regular and this is why I just do not like this kind of thing. As always though, my first purchase was the new Critter.
Finally, I took care of the new DreamSnaps. You can’t really see the full outfit with the picture I took, but I’m honestly pretty happy with it.
