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in reply to @bazelgeuse-apologist's post:

This is the sentiment that drove me to get both Monster Hunter Stories games and I will NOT apologize for it.

These days I get my fix in Grow: Song of the Evertree, which loses a number of points on the subject (not pokemon, fewer interactions, totally different game, etc) but is in fact built around "I see a strange wild animal. I love it and we're friends now" so I will not stop snorting dopamine straight off those pixels.

There's a lot more to Grow than patting the babey, but it does in fact contain procedurally-generated animal friends! Besides simple interactions you also unlock "selfie mode" once they love you back– various premade poses with the aminal in a /gpose kind of interface for MAXIMUM SCREENSHOT.

I really need to do a review of Grow because it's such a... I don't know... niche game? It's absolutely not for everyone, but the people it's for are catered to at an unprecedented level.

😂 Yeah the Steam page did not prepare me in the slightest– it gets the vibes and the art right, that's about it! Being fair part of the difficulty (imo) is that it's tricky to describe because it's not really doing anything that feels wholly new/unique, it's "just" remixing a lot of existing game DNA. But it remixes them hard enough that I don't know what terminology to apply anymore!

While I percolate I'll note my single point of displeasure is the bugginess– the game is overall fairly stable, but if you walk into a game-breaking bug, the game is BROKEN. You will at minimum roll back to last manual save, at maximum be stuck Googling for how to get around the bug because you literally can't play without triggering it! It's only happened once or twice in my 80+ hours playing, it's not constant or anything, but one of my saves got stuck for aaaages until a Steam forum thread of 20 other people with the same bug gave me a dozen things to try.

I don't think it invalidates how good Grow is, but it's definitely the kind of thing I want to disclose!