
I like to play through and get all the characters I can before I go back through and try to find all the mini kits.
As for the wildlife, well, I live in a pretty rural area. I think the entire population of Maine is about a million and a half, and one tenth of that is in Portland. But even in Portland, they get the occasional moose, bear, and other wildlife. Twenty miles out where I'm at, there are big chunks of woods, and I work in a state park with 250 heavily wooded acres. Hard not to have wildlife encounters.