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Wanderstop review
Eurogamer's review of Wanderstop, a warm-hearted, funny, sincere, and deeply pleasant place to stay - but a less successful vehicle for mindfulness itself.
Boro is always on hand to advise you to maybe do a few simple, recurring chores - trimming those weeds and sweeping those dust piles - or perhaps decorating by moving a few plant pots around or taking some photos for the empty frames inside the store. What Wanderstop feels like it wants to be, from its many lines of dialogue, is a kind of timeless sandbox, where you can spend forever growing plants, tending to the garden, decorating and brewing tea, but its emphasis on a progressing story - with a particularly nagging urge to fix the heavy sword problem, repeatedly voiced by its protagonist throughout - stands in direct opposition to it. This also takes me to a slightly bigger problem here, which is: you would almost certainly get better results for your own mental state by going outside and doing a bit of gardening of your own, or making yourself an actual, real, elaborate multi-stage cup of tea and then drinking it, than you would from playing Wanderstop.
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