You know the saying, in each of us are two wolfs.
One of the wolfs sees this pack as something i wont use in forever. The scenery is very neat and i like it alot, but besides the netting and thatch wall it really wasnt spectacular, but still generally solid. The animals are a mixed back. I like the devil, its an icon and currently spreading through zoos around the world and i even have seen them myself, making them the only animal in this pack that feels right in most non oceanian zoos. The quokka is both a yay and a nay as i love what it is, a small filler macropod for oceania, but at the same time the brush tailed bretong would have done all the same things while being more endangerd and actually quite common in both europe and north america, so even if the quokka was the only animal in this pack i used so far i admitedly mostly pretended it to be the bretong, but still better then nothing in that category.
The birds though. Oh The birds.
What do we have here?
The stunning and beautiful victoria crowned pidgeon, commonly found in many tropical houses?
Is it the magpie goose? Finally our first species of waterfowl and one of the most unique and ancient ones still alive at that?
Is it the black swan, propaply one of the most efficent animals that would be usefull to literally anyone?
Is it the budgie, rainbow lorikeet, kea, a cockatoo or maybe even a kookaboora to finally introduce aviarys birds to the game at a moment that felt so right for them?
I could continue this stick but to cut to the chase we got a 3. Penguin and a walking potato thats borderline only usefull for new zealand zoos.
Great.
Oh also they choose a whacky exhibit bat when australia is the one place that could really justify another normal exhibit like a frilled lizard, tuatara or bearded dragon, animals that while not the most exciting would add nicly into our current exhibit selection.
So good scenery, 1,75 animals i like, let down otherwise. Props worst pack for me personally
Meanwhile the other wolf tells the first one to shut up.
Was the pack pretty useless to me? Yes but thats not the point of the pack.
The point of the pack is to expand on oceania for players from oceania and then yeah duh all the picks are great
Tassie no brainer, was good still is good, quokka? The quokka is kept way more frequently in oceania then the brettong and while i would have prefered the bretong who cares the quokka is easily the more iconic animal. Kiwi? I dislike the kiwi with a passion but you cant do an oceania pack without it. Its newzealands most iconic animal and in every new zealand zoo so ofcourse it needs to be in this pack.
Little blue penguin? Is it another penguin? Yes but its also the only penguin thats kept in oceanian zoos and very visually distinct and also introduces new gameplay opportunitys with its smaller size. They are also found across the costs of tasmania new zealand and southern australia so they cover alot of ground for the pack.
The bat still sucks but oh well. There isnt a clear better choice besides yk ditching the bat, as the globally kept flying foxes are allmost all from africa and asia and they picked the one which looks the coolest, which i can respect.
From what it does for the game, easily an above average pack and by far the most impactfull of this year so far.
As you might have noticed, im torn on this pack.
Its very much not for me but thats okay, it was amazing for many other people with good reason and unlike other packs i dislike or do nothing for me this pack brings i agree with the macro decision that its trying to do.
Its not for me and its likly not for you, but this pack single handidly made this game a whole lot better for everybody that wants to build in oceania and thats propaply the biggest honor you can say about a pack titled oceania pack.
I also really appreciate that it isnt called islands pack, good job frontier you learned
but not my favourite 
