About the Game
In Amber Isle you play as a prehistoric resident as the developers are calling it, you fall from the sky or that’s how it seemed in the cutscene at least now your aim is to run the shop. You craft, sell and upgrade the shop and village to bring more people back to the Paleofolk village.
Amber Isle can be found on Steam and Nintendo
Character Customisation
I wanted to touch upon the character customisation as I really did not expect to be met with the ability to customise my character going into this, however you can really go to town on this customisation screen there are tons of features you can choose from, you have the ability to make your own character or choose one from a present.
When making your own character you can choose from head shape, ears, nose, hands, tail, hair and so much more all of these can be coloured you can even choose a pattern if you want to make a pattern on your character to give a chest colouring that is different from the head and so on, I feel people will make some awesome characters with this.
Gameplay
Now in true to form fashion like most Nintendo released games there is a lot of dialog reading personally not the biggest fan of this delivery of story however it works so we will just mention it once and never again.
As you go around you will be gathering woods and other materials to craft products for the shop and residents of the village who will give you some chump change for handing over your precious goods. However that is not all that is on offer here, as you progress through the game you get the ability to customise the shop in any way you want, at heart the game is a shop keeper simulator with a social sim built in I guess you could compare to animal crossing in a way.
The Character within the game seem pretty cool and each character has there own little personality which is a nice touch from the developers as it can get a bit boring if your reading dialog and every character just seems the same.
Exploration within the game is as you would expect from a game of this kind there I would say there is enough exploration to keep the player focused but also not so much that you get lost and cant find your way back.
Our Thoughts / Overview
We actually had a really good time with Amber Isles while we are not normally big fans of these kinds of games Amber Isles surprised us. with the games exploration and addictive make it, sell it system it really got us hooked. There is a great customisation so you can make characters within the game, the ability to customise the shop and the ability to learn about the residents that inhabit the village. Amber Isles also has a really catchy jingle that plays while your playing that get stuck in your head.
