Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and other similar games!

Me several hours ago: I should write a nice, simple animal parade fix

Me: starts making Spreadsheet

Me: oops

Me also: well I guess I'll finish it so I can be a detail oriented number crunching fucker

 

oh biggest of moods

 

has anyone tried My Time at Portia? Looks cute but I donno much about it/ if it's worth picking up O:

 

ive heard good things about it and its on my list

 

I have put in like a hundred hours so far in portia. I really like it. It can be kind of grindy but I enjoy that. The game is much more building/resource gathering/dungeon diving focused than farm focused. You don't water your crops, fertiliser is optional. I didn't really bother with it until after I had an irrigation system set up

I like the social stuff. The base dialogue for each character doesn't change too much day to day but they all have commentary on the major stuff that happens in town. The playdate system is also fun. Once you get people befriended enough they will even come hang outside your house in the morning to ask you to hangout. If you like marrying in such games p much every unmarried person in your age bracket is marrigable.

Also a fan of the seasonal festivals.

It was given it's full release a little before it should of been but the game breaking bugs all seem to have been removed now. Some weirdness remains. Like it's kind of a coin toss on if any given line of dialogue is going to be accompanied by voice acting for normal social interaction and cutscenes both.

 

spent all day and a good chunk of the past night playing the steam version of HM: Light of Hope

its fuckin cute you guys

pretty simple storyline, and the game itself isn't very hard, but i can see some people getting into the regional variations of crops and crop mutations. also donkeys for some reason? they refer to donkey "wool" as fur

did they lose alpacas to the story of seasons people? or is there a whole world of donkey yarn i don't know about?

shrug

people have complaints about the graphics and the lack of character portraits, but i don't mind it too much. bachelor/bachelorettes are still cute, and the personalities differ enough to make me happy. most of the villagers are cool

there is a strange multiplayer feature where you find a large gem, keep it in your house for a week, and then a sprite comes out and can be controlled...and if you befriend it enough it goes from a chibi sprite to a human sized gem critter. and then you can marry it

not my jam, tbh. she is my sweet gem daughter and i love her but i think raising something and then marrying it is kind of weird ( *coff* JAPAN)

(seriously, those anime/mangas make me sad. stop fucking your daughters guys)

anyway I LOVE HER and i give her bread or seashells every morning and she is a Good Girl

for my actual marriage, my first playthrough i'm playing as a boy and I'm marrying Melanie, and for my second playthrough I think I'll go for Edmond. He is a chill Wizard Dad. i cannot stand his apprentices though.

 

Somehow I totally missed that Rune Factory 5 got released most of a year ago :P Has anyone played it? It looks like it's getting worse average reviews than RF4 does, so I'm not sure if I should pick it up (I did like RF4 a fair bit.)

 

Y'all so I've been playing Raft and Farmer's Dynasty during my covid solitude and raft is good, very addictive and pleasant despite my fear of the ocean, but farmers dynasty scratches a real itch for me

I don't like farming simulator because I don't like modern machinery, im a harvest moon girl, gimme a hoe. And FD has machinery too but if you ignore the quests that get you your first set of tractors you can just farm in greenhouses and raise animals. I make a couple hundred a day off my chicken coop (try to cook the food into recipes first, most of them are canned and it's kind of strange selling canned eggs but I'm not fussing about it when it makes me money) and im waiting for my first greenhouse crop. Once I had the chance, I paid a couple hired hands to harvest and sell the two fields that came with the farm.

But the most fun part to me is fixing up the farm! One of the first quests is filling in holes, loose planks etc in the farmhouse and all the farm buildings, which was fun. BUT THEN you get to buy materials and replace all the old stuff, once it's repaired, with new stuff so it looks clean and beautiful. Its expensive but SOOOOO freaking satisfying. Im not even going to use half of these buildings but darn if my farm isn't going to be pretty! And it's really nice to get rid of that ancient wallpaper in the house. The furniture you can buy is pre-chosen, it's pretty casual farmhouse style, cute. But whoever choose the paint decided that the interior walls should be gray with white trim, which isnt awful....and warm yellow-earthy toned ceilings. I can't understand it. Another shade of gray, even white would be fine. I just suck it up lol you don't look directly at the ceiling too often. I just thought it was A Choice.