Creatures Caves

Their are a few reasons why some people think it's aimed at young children. For one thing, the visual style does look a lot like children cartoons.

The new norn design on the other hand, makes them look more like clever monkeys whom by all means shouldn't need any help staying alive. Not to mention, none of the creatures we've seen so far looked in any way ugly or threatening. Might be perfectly safe previews for 3 year old Suzy, but since we're not getting grendels(as far as i know for the release version), to (some) older fans it can seem as if there's no opposition or challenge to keeping your norns alive at all. Toddler friendly games that play themselves are so boring even the target age group can't be kept interested, and the thought of the creatures series turning into toddler fodder scares some people. (even though we already have creatures village/playground for that. I could never figure out the point of those games...)

The key to understand people's opposition is to understand their fears and putting yourself in their shoes. Yes, it would be horribly disappointing if C.O. turned out to be exactly like that, but the developers have told us many times it won't, so we should at least give them the benefit of the doubt and trust them a minimum with THEIR game.

While i hate micro-transactions and find them to be a repulsive money siphoning gimmick in most cases; it makes sense to use them for C.O., and might actually give us all a chance to get everything we hoped to see from the game, given enough time and a few dollars to throw their way.

I'm still rooting for norn tails(they're adorable, deal with it), ettins/grendels and c1/c2 looking norns -in the future-, but i won't complain about the game not having them on release day. We've already been told and shown it wouldn't be part of the original release, but FC have already said that things like ettins and grendels were on their list of possibilities for future add-on options. Just because we don't start off with something doesn't mean we'll never get it, so we should reserve judgment until after we actually play the game.

I think it's amazing how much fishing cactus has been listening to the fans; and if past behavior is promise of future behavior, it's not at all unreasonable to think we're going to see "everything the game is missing" as extra downloadable content somewhere down the line. Who knows, we may even be privileged enough to be polled for and given exactly what we want.

It all comes down to: Sometimes we just have to trust the developers.

EDIT: Sorry for the length. @-@;