Quite the nice collaborative experience as usual! I was a bit unlucky in that I was following it at first but then lost track (due to sickness and work) and missed out the later days, including Christmas. So really, all I got to experience was the initial period where there wasn't much to do (though I did like the cool intro experience where you discover the village), and then the after period where I missed all of the potentially cool events! Sigh...well...maybe next year, haha!
Anyway, if I was to have some feedback, it would be:
*When opening presents, I found the text at the bottom (title, artist, link to page) to be both a) very difficult to read due to it being gray on gray (either outline the text or make the difference between text color and background color bigger to make the text pop) and b) not obvious that it's a clickable link due to the pointer not changing to a hand and the text not highlighting when hovered over. These mistakes just made it look a bit unprofessional, especially considering its the main selling point and surprising it was overlooked.
*I kept thinking I could click on things to interact with them and move around due to the presence of a mouse-pointer on screen, but I found you could only move with the keyboard and interact with space bar. Why even have a mouse pointer then? Though I swear when I started, I thought I could move and interact with the mouse, so what the heck is going on??? (Now the mouse is working again? Dunno why it stopped working for awhile...though even with it working, it can be difficult to figure out where to actually click on things to interact with them)
*For such a potentially social game where you get to walk around with other people opening presents and hanging out at cafes and such, I found the game to be incredibly anti-social: from what I could tell, the only method of communication was a heart emote and that was it, no other emotes, no chat, no coop mini-games or activities, nothing! I could understand not wanting to have a public chat that just gets spammed with racial epithets or what-not, but it still felt odd that, for the most part, you couldn't really communicate or play with each other. (Though of course, I got in late and never got to experience the theatre, so maybe there was something there and maybe the cafe as well)
*Are the cafe graphics glitched or something? All of the images for the drinks and food are exactly the same (it's kind of understandable for drinks, but all the food is just the same image of a plate of mish-mash). Perhaps it's an intentional joke and I'm not getting it, but it just seems odd.
*There were periods where I visited where there were tons of clone avatars lined up in odd formations, like a wall of Pico clones and what-not. Wasn't sure if it was intentional or not, like whether it was just a funny joke set up by the developers or people hacked the game or something: just made me confused on whether to laugh or be worried, if that makes sense.
Anyway, Merry Tankmas all!