What are you thoughts on this event? While it’s nice to get a proper version of Sideshow Bob added to the game, is the event surrounding the fanfare fun? The new characters and buildings are nice, and the story is certainly enjoyable. The problem is how you go about earning new content.

Some things need to be crafted. Sometimes you need to use crafting materials to upgrade a building, but you also need crafting materials to craft certain prizes. Plus you need to collect materials to unlock prizes that are different than the prize you can craft. Then you have things to tap in your town and your neighbors town, and that doesn’t even include the things you can send to your neighbors town, and also stop in your own town if you can manage to do so in a particular window of time. Plus you have a character giving our four daily tasks, which earns more crafting material. It’s all too much!

It’s sort-of my job to breakdown things to explain them to our readers, but even I’m getting spun about by all this craziness. I’m not sending characters on jobs because I’m afraid I’ll need them when Cecil has a new job for me. Then we I do send characters on material earning jobs, I don’t know what I should be trying to get more of, fertilizer or corn. Then tapping certain things seems to randomly generate these things as well as spades and mutant seedlings.

What am I even doing!?

Really, I just want to enjoy a simple storyline and earn some prizes. Oh, and this is only act one. There are some more acts to follow that are going to turn this event on its head and complicated things even further. Look EA, we know you need to stretch out events so they last a while and we don’t all get bored after the first week. This time though, you’ve got a bit too much going on and it’s making things a bit unpleasant.

Maybe it’s just me, but maybe it’s not. Let me know what you think about this event in the comments. Content aside, how do you feel about execution of the event and all the things players are being asked to do in order to earn new prizes.