Sad to give this rating. It is a great game with solid mechanics and wonderful art style... that is rendered completely unplayable by a comical amount of game-stopping, slow-animated, repetitive, and unskippable notifications. You eventually get a game-wide speed up option - that only speeds up the area map. The area map is the actual good part of the game. Notification animations are not sped up. So with the bonus you just get even more notifications! So sad this game is such a chore to play.