The AI did a decent job creating beautiful drawings, the story is kinda neat but the gameplay is sadly very ... very bland and so good damn boring and repetetive. Every day the same, read certain key words klick one of 4 bakery goods (wich never change)
No goal post, No penalty for wrong guessing, No info how many Custermers a day come by (also it's ecxatly 15 Customers every day), No hint when the next story piece drops.
Add to that, that sometimes the game just throws you into the main menue for no reason with no return other then load the last autosave loosing a day of "Dynamic Bakery Management"
I strugle to find the 15 $ Value in there ...
Sorry for the wall of text.
About the Minigame:
A bigger pool of baked goods would be a thing. Show 4 out of 8 when a customer makes her request, randomise their position halve the payout if you guess wrong and move on to the next.
Example: Customer wants item 'A' but you klicked on 'C' you get half of what item 'A' would have paid out, the Client goes away, maybe she shouts "but i wanted" 'A' ... (giving the player a hint what her request meant for the next time)
So one chanche per Visitor would speed up this situation a lot.
In addition, next to your money, display a total earnings number and link Rapunzels events to reaching certain earning milestones instead of just every X days.
That entices players who take the minigame serious to get the jucy story parts sooner.
Reduce the ammound of customers per day 15 feels like a slog to go through on a day.
(If you are in for the storry that just drags on and on, but if you later on decide to grind money for the gallery it is irelevant if there are 10 or 20 customers a day)
That would at least stir up the Monotonous Repetition. But the main issue is still the concept of the current mini game, it's just to weak to hold attention for the whole game.
Gallery Changes:
Add a section in the gallery where you can replay the Scenes with the main Protagonist.
Remove the chanche to get a duplicate wehn you spend your hard earned money for gallery pictures.
Bug Fixes:
Have a look at the crash straight to main menue, maybe just PC related but if you klick slightly outside of the baked good you wanna hit there is a high chanche you get sent straight to the main menue, no return only load a previous save.
also, if you hit 'Skip' during the baking mini game the same thing happens every time.
Oh man, you cannot imagine how grateful and happy I am to see this wall of text!
It makes for me so mucch easier to improve this game. I'm planning to do an update after a week or two, actually. Because of your detailed feedback I can really tell what will be for sure.
1. "A bigger pool of baked goods would be a thing. Show 4 out of 8 when a customer makes her request, randomise their position halve the payout if you guess wrong and move on to the next."
That's definitely what I will do (thanks to you).
About Monotonous Repetition... I plan to make at least 2 more minigames. Every working day will be random minigame from 3, I think it will help the situation a bit.
2. "In addition, next to your money, display a total earnings number and link Rapunzels events to reaching certain earning milestones instead of just every X days."
I think I will do this too.
3. "Reduce the ammound of customers per day 15 feels like a slog to go through on a day."
I will, but I'm not sure which amount will be ok? 5? 7?
4. "Add a section in the gallery where you can replay the Scenes with the main Protagonist.
Remove the chanche to get a duplicate wehn you spend your hard earned money for gallery pictures."
Okay, will be done.
5. I will have a look into these bugs, good that you pointed it out.
6. And additionaly I plan to make a one-time clients who just came to a bakery to hook up with the player, hope it'll make the game more engaging.
SUMMARY:
I really appreciate the time you spend to write all the things I can improve, thanks you a lot!
Hope you'll check the things out when I'll update the game ♥