Is Coral Island Actually Worth The Hype? | Review

Instead of a Coral Island review, I decided to go with a Before You Buy so you can decide if it is, or it is not the game for you. I chat about both PC and Steam Deck performance so you can learn about Coral Island's gameplay, story, graphics and much more!
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[@MissBubbles]

Finally a farming game that does things right... you have no idea how happy I am. Now excuse me, I am off to play more PS: As in the comments, you can disable combat! ▶10/10 Farming Games: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn-qlYKqdtxom5Y 💜If my videos help you save cash & find hidden gems, consider supporting what I do! 🫧Patreon Bubbly: www.patreon.com/MissBubbles 🫧Bubbly KZbin Member: kzbin.info/door/1z0rotCfa_8r9TCYUcS6IAjoin

[@hazelowers5808]

in the settings you can toggle the combat to 'hit to aggro'

[@Leo_Blas]

Just got the game Ms Bubbles! its pretty dope & i agree on your Rating 😁 its an awesome game so far

[@ayafei]

You have NO idea how happy i am when i saw you were using my hair design that got implemented to the game! You are one of my favorite youtuber and it honors me to see you like the hair

[@MissBubbles]

You are so talented! The hairstyle is absolutely gorgeous

[@aldrea6506]

I'm glad you were able to try out Coral Island. I was an Alpha backer with the Kickstarter and the Devs have come so far getting the game ready for launch. I'm so excited about Coral Islands potential!

[@austinmoles2706]

Started playing the game on Xbox game pass 30 minutes ago after watching your video. It does have a few frame drops but over all I am loving it. I honestly feel like it is Stardew but with better graphics and more mechanics and I’m here for it ❤️

[@TascoSweeney]

Xbox version suffers from very bad gameplay pauses and stutters on Series X. I hope they patch as soon as possible.

[@ramiccaaa]

ahhh same with steam deck. didnt encounter some of that during the early access period. weird

[@MissBubbles]

Hope it gets fixed soon :/

[@lmendez1624]

Yesss and all the lags and objects having no textures and the game crashes. I could go on 😭

[@dustindavis5882]

@@lmendez1624 and music going in and out. Most of the time it’s making this annoying repetitive sound, I have to mute it sometimes. It’s awful

[@Maikeru101]

Same with the ps5 but it’s not too bad

[@tenchihira]

There’s a way to turn off combat! If you go into settings you can change combat to “hit to Aggro” which will let you just mine and not need to worry about the monsters until you want to!

[@kikia.4516]

Great review, love this game and can’t wait to start with a new save! Beautiful graphics and so relaxing to play. You can choose to “disable“ combat in the settings. Love that they added this because combat is really annoying on this game. 😊

[@Zodia195]

You beat me too it lol. I was about to mention the option to disable lol.

[@MissBubbles]

Added to the pinned comment, thank you!

[@xXEchoXxAssault]

Let's go! I've been excited for the full release of this game. Great video 👏

[@Bowflex2480]

thanks for the video bubbz. hadn't played much of coral island because i was waiting for the full game. its here!!

[@darin-ka]

Okay, your reference to Wylde Flowers is a key point for me! If the story is THAT good I have to give it a go. Thank you for the review!

[@midnighttcircus]

I came here 20 minutes ago hoping one of my subscriptions would post a video about coral island 1.0 and didn’t see anything. 5 minutes later it’s like you read my mind and here is exactly that!! You never disappoint miss bubbles 💙 thank you!!

[@jimstone5401]

Will love it when it adds multiplayer the Savanah ANd underwater farming. This is the BEST farming game EVER made. Hands down.

[@Luninareph]

Oh man, I hear you on not knowing who you're going to romance. I'm stuck on Noah, Surya, Rafael, Raj, Theo, Kenny, and Wakuu... and that's just who I'm EXPECTING to struggle between, lol.

[@yanicamizzi2786]

Miss Bubbles I actually paused your review, purchased the game and continued to watch your review 😂. It looks amazing! Cannot wait to finish from work and play it. I do have a question please, does this game have an ending or can we continue to play it for a very long time?

[@hikari5859]

The game is gonna continue having updates. They are gonna implementing multi-player, island hopping, a savannah area and many more features!

[@yanicamizzi2786]

@@hikari5859 Thank you 😊

[@MissBubbles]

Your comment made my day 🥹 As for the game's ending, 2024 has a roadmap to continue the story so some quests right now have a "work in progress" attached to them.

[@Zodia195]

I am torn between romancing Theo and Semeru, but I might go with Theo first.

[@martineguitard7639]

I want to buy it on the Steam Deck when I can buy one. I might buy it on PS5 instead.

[@traceyxxrose7454]

It’s not done… not even close. So many missing things it feels like wish an incomplete game. Makes me sad because I love the direction they’re going in but this def isn’t a full release.

[@MissBubbles]

Can you elaborate on what's missing other than the mechanics for the 2024 roadmap?

[@traceyxxrose7454]

Town rank S, the dating mechanic, slice of life scenes, children portrait, children dialogue & children grow up should have all been included in the full release and not pushed back for a later date. The game feels empty and incomplete without those mechanics. Also, you can see there is missing dialogue at some of the festivals, combat is still clunky, etc etc. Even all of the merfolk stuff is promised for backers of the game. Not as free DLC but to be apart of the base game. Them having an EA roadmap they were following for the longest time and then suddenly saying out of the blue that they are not finishing the EA roadmap, are increasing the price and doing full release without finishing their early access road map says it all. I don’t believe it’s the devs fault but administration that wanted to rush the game out incomplete. That’s how almost everyone in CI groups on FB and Reddit feel as well unfortunately. The game isn’t finished.

[@catbirdstudios]

I had the same issues with selecting items using a controller. Everything else worked just fine but not being able to select stuff precisely was enough to switch back to the keyboard. I was a Kickstarter backer so have been delighted to see the progress the game has gone through over time.

[@MissBubbles]

I believe one of the trigger buttons will help us replicate the Cntrl form the keyboard. But still, it is tedious 🥲

[@catbirdstudios]

@@MissBubbles I need to figure that out then as I prefer the movement with the controller.

[@TheKeybladeKeeper]

This right here. I actually felt more comfortable for the first time using K+M, and the fact that you can (like SDV) move the cursor far enough away that it doesn't affect the tile you hit? Chef's kiss. I also have a gaming mouse that I bound the dash and strafe to, so I don't have to worry about weird hand positioning

[@OceanWilds]

I LOVE this game and 100% Wakuu is my husband. That adorable astronomer is mine LOL

[@jimstone5401]

YOU CAN TURN OFF COMBAT. By selecting, in options, monsters will not attack unless you hit them first.

[@MissesSisters]

Great video! I love coral island and just to add to what you said in the video you can actually turn combat off so that the monsters only attack you if you hit them with the sword first. Might help those ppl who want to avoid the combat!

[@dustindavis5882]

I was a huge Stardew fan. So I’m thoroughly enjoying this game. Even though it has a few bugs. Hopefully they fix them soon.

[@watersMO]

Thank you for the early review. Do you think Stairway Games is committed to supporting Coral Island for years, as Concerned Ape has with Stardew?

[@sarahreed-eurogamergirl]

I'm enjoying Wylde Flowers right now, but when I finish it, I'm thinking of getting Coral Island on PS5. I just want to see some reviews of how it plays on the PS5 first. I'm not a PC gamer, so PS5 is my only option right now, unless I wait for a Switch port.

[@Mario26-v2u]

I am one of players who are waiting for this to be released on switch. While waiting, I was playing Sandrock and I realize that although Coral Island looks really good, maybe it wont on the switch. So I sold my switch and bought a Steam Deck. So I specifically bought a Steam Deck just to have a good experience playing this game 😂 I am that excited to play this game.

[@MissBubbles]

Welcome to the Steam Deck gang 🤭🫧

[@NickybobGames]

Been playing this on XGP and I love it so much I may just end up buying it! $25 is such a great price for this game! You get way more than your money’s worth!

[@MissBubbles]

100% agree

[@martineguitard7639]

Thouth I will definitely buy it. I had my eyes on it for a while. Your review just implified that.

[@Tuinuiski]

I'll have to wait for the Switch version because that's all I have 😅 Thanks for the review, great as always.

[@zevraluna1899]

Something not touched on when speaking about combat; you can turn it off. Or rather, you can make it to where creatures will only fight you if you hit them first

[@msisland30]

I am loving this game it is wonderful. Its challenging but not too challenging.

[@cayreet5992]

Combat can actually be turned off in the settings. The monsters will just stand around then, unless you engage them. It's what I really like about the game, because I'm not a fan of combat, either.

[@martineguitard7639]

Did you play it on your computer? I wonder if I should wait to buy it on the PS5. I saw a few comments about the game lagging on Xbox.

[@MissBubbles]

Yes, PC and Steam Deck

[@TheRoadKam]

I'm enjoying this game a lot!

[@tollewaan]

Im looking at a farming game to play. I'm thinking about Paleo Pines or Coral Island what would you reconment?

[@MissBubbles]

I have a Before You Buy for Paleo Pines and I personally had a few gripes with it. Here's my video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHW2e6uJfZKIqZYsi=Rv0D-8jVaKPPd9cz

[@Ser-Smiley]

I want this. I NEED it! 😋

[@sierrasmith1813]

My steam deck didn’t really handle it the best. I had to cap lock my FPS to 40 with medium settings and I still get stutters here and there. My character and everyone else looks a bit blurry (might be the textures I should turn up) I wanted to love it so bad, maybe I’ll get used to it

[@sierrasmith1813]

What settings did you have?

[@MissBubbles]

Mine's on Medium with FPS locked at 30

[@jimstone5401]

Coral Island is AMAZING.

[@GeminiSunrise06]

Just bought it on ps5 but i only had 15min to play 😭 This game looks promising.

[@MissBubbles]

Hope you get to play it more soon 🥹

[@GeminiSunrise06]

@@MissBubbles well i went over to mario rpg. I'm not in a mindset to enjoy coral island yet (or any cozy games at the moment).

[@MarkGrimes-Williams]

Museum is buged it crashes when you get second reward when you donate

[@MissBubbles]

Def let the devs know. You can join their Discord server. Mine works fine, so bugs like this will be helpful for the devs to know about

[@m.di.c.]

There should be an option setting that allows you to only enable combat if you run into the monsters in the mines. It's not on by default, tho, so you have to change it in the settings. This option was not available in early access.

[@ChrisWinters_993]

love coral island but it Stuttering in the game on coral island i hope it fix it play on Xbox series x

[@StevieD1x]

👀

[@CleheJessGamer]

[@Rose-vz8jv]

I'm waiting for the 2024 update 🥲 took a peek and almost couldn't stop myself to play but I'm waiting for the hangouts feature and merfolk!!

[@MissBubbles]

It's only getting better from here! Gonna keep playing for a month or so and then dive back in at the end of 2024

[@PhoebeOnTV]

It looks so perfect!