Are the controls awkward enough that I should wait for a patch or just say fuck it and but it when I get home?
The controls are frustrating because they're clearly not optimal, but they're tolerable. Just finished my first season on Switch after playing a ton on PC and I saw it's worth the frustration. Immediately turn off "controller style menus" and maybe turn on the thing that highlights which tile you're targeting.
This is probably a more important question but how are the story and characters? Not sure if I can motivate myself to play if I dont like the town and its people
I thought they were charming. There's no real overall "story" but I dug most of the characters and a lot of them have cool individual storylines and events.