My Hot Pot Story 12+

I was apprehensive at first, but I realize I really like this game once I started getting the hang of all the different tasks to complete. I have only been playing for a few days, but I really do like all the different options between characters (staff), the different areas of the restaurant, meals, different mini games to keep you even more intrigued. I will say that it seems a title unforgiving when you make a decision and you can’t come back from it without paying for it (star wise) to change something like the name of the restaurant etc, but I can understand how that’s a good technique for them to encourage people to pay real money to gain more stars because if you use just the ads to gain stars that would take a long time and it may have a limit how often we can use the ads to gain stars, I haven’t seen if that is the case yet, but you gain 10 stars per ad you watch and can trade it for valuable items such as money etc, but they seem to be pretty generous so far, but we do have to realize that they have to makeup so either we be patient and occupy ourselves in between time with other games possibly or pay to speed up the process, but to each its own preference in regards to that. The intricate details in this game is definitely amazing.

1 STAR BC OF NEW UPDATE made it 5 so my review gets seen. ever since the 1.6 update the game became a money grab. it was such a new simple game with optional ads if you want to gain diamonds which honestly made me want to grind and play the game more. now i’m unable to watch an ad to claim 10 diamonds which really helped with acquiring training books which was already hard before but taking the optional ads away makes it difficult and nearly impossible ! especially since you can’t have more try’s on the arcade which helps a lot with getting more training books! i’ve been grinding on this game for months now trying to get to gold 3 but now i don’t even have a motivation to play as much since now they are really trying to get you to spend irl money. i don’t understand the point of taking away this option other than a money grab. and either or you still receive when we do watch ads !

EDIT: Since this last update, you can’t watch ads in exchange for diamonds anymore. They reaaaally want you to expend real life cash on this game. So for that, I am knocking down one star. The game is slowly turning into a pay to win scenario. Which baffles me because each time we watch an ad to get diamonds, the devs get money so… the idea that they delete that extra income for them in the hope that people will cave in and expend RL cash, makes no sense to me. Unless they have data that we don’t have showing them that a lot of people are sinking RL cash on this.

I deleted my last review because I didn’t noticed you could hide the UI. Anyways! I love the game. I despise that after you reach silver 2 stars, the game gets considerably difficult. Every upgrade costs more and more and more (over 300,000) which makes the game a grind. We all know why this is. So you can buy microtransactions. Also I wouldn’t call this game a “game”. You hit 1-2 things and then close the game. The “game” plays itself. That’s not very entertaining now, does it? The little fish you need to upgrade dishes? Yeah, IMPOSSIBLE to get. Unless you buy them with real life money, play the lottery game which drops just 2 fish and that is if you get the fish at all. Characters don’t drop them, the create a pot creator doesn’t drop them like it does with journals to upgrade characters and getting them with points it’s expensive.