She lost all her tomboyness though. Ann and Karen are like the same vibe now, visually. The new girl too. They all look bohemian.
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I like the new Ran design a lot, personally. Like the core... style of the art? I don't like the style. But some of the designs are better for sure.
I think there is a separation between the style of the art, and the design of the characters. The rework of design is mostly good.
Edit: I think what I'm trying to say is the design is better but they are poorly drawn.
I think there is a separation between the style of the art, and the design of the characters. The rework of design is mostly good.
Edit: I think what I'm trying to say is the design is better but they are poorly drawn.
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I honestly love the new designs.
I've been hooked on this game all day and I have to stop playing lol.
I've been hooked on this game all day and I have to stop playing lol.
After getting Ran and Popuri to red, Popuri won out and the wedding date is set for December 5th. Joycons are dead so I guess that's where I leave off for today.
For the design debate, I like the hand painted feel of the originals, but I feel a lot of the super chibi style was a product of limitations from working on GBA and recycling old designs for the third time. It's good that they completely went back to give these characters a lot more of a unique feel... But I'm in agreement with most that the big issue is just how the mouths look, especially when smiling.
Still it's far from legitimately bad, just a small oddity that you get desensitized to over time.
For the design debate, I like the hand painted feel of the originals, but I feel a lot of the super chibi style was a product of limitations from working on GBA and recycling old designs for the third time. It's good that they completely went back to give these characters a lot more of a unique feel... But I'm in agreement with most that the big issue is just how the mouths look, especially when smiling.
Still it's far from legitimately bad, just a small oddity that you get desensitized to over time.
If you liked stardew valley enough that you feel like you would enjoy an older version of that game with less features in order to have a"new" experience with different character and events instead of what you've been getting from stardew, this is a very good game.
Stardew has a real advantage of being a game that came out over a decade later than the original version of this game, and with a guy who has just been dedicated to doing nothing but constantly work on stardew updates for years now.
Something Special: Igusa Matsuyama Interviewed by Ranch Story Community!
As a fan of Story of Seasons since the earliest days in Flowerbud Village, I have always adored the artwork of Igusa Matsuyama, who has helped make the worlds of Bokumono feel so alive, colorful, v…ranchstory.news.blog
Oh neat, I helped with that! Yeah, a lot of the new cahracter design stuff stems from wanting Mineral Town to have its own sense of identity, with the original designs being very obviously meant for the 64 iterations of the cast. Stuff like Cliff and Karen's blonde bits being because they descended from Eve and whatnot.
It's from the period of Story of Seasons games that directly inspired Stardew, but it's still pretty different. Personally I could never stomach Stardew in part because of how much slower it is by comparison, but if you're after the vibes, you'll be fine. My memory of Stardew is iffy, but I feel like even the festivals and annual schedule from that game were direct callbacks from 64 and BtN/FoMT.
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Novibear asks: Was there a character you really liked, but wasn't well received?Something Special: Igusa Matsuyama Interviewed by Ranch Story Community!
As a fan of Story of Seasons since the earliest days in Flowerbud Village, I have always adored the artwork of Igusa Matsuyama, who has helped make the worlds of Bokumono feel so alive, colorful, v…
Lol, thanks to the producer who got him approved.
Its a really interesting little touch that on Autumn 5th Ran has to run the inn on her own because it is the Anniversary of her mother's death, and her Dad is disappeared mourning. So the inn closes at 5 that day.
It doesn't really effect anything, but its just this little specific bit of world building or character fleshing out that I think is pretty neat.
It doesn't really effect anything, but its just this little specific bit of world building or character fleshing out that I think is pretty neat.
Thanks for the input, much appareciated.
Carter: It's truly a blessing to have you in our community. Thank you for generosity in donating crops to the church. Gay wedding? Of course you can have it here!
Also Carter: You overslept? That shows you're a person if horrible moral fiber and you will not be forgiven for your horrible sinful ways!
(Edit) Got married, watching the credits, see TOSE's name all over them. Honestly wasn't even aware they still existed.
Also Carter: You overslept? That shows you're a person if horrible moral fiber and you will not be forgiven for your horrible sinful ways!
(Edit) Got married, watching the credits, see TOSE's name all over them. Honestly wasn't even aware they still existed.
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The pitfalls aren't on every floor. There will be areas where you will have to go through one floor at a time.
Spring mine pitfall floors:
Level 20 to level 93
Level 101 to level 193
Level 200 to level 248
Lake mine pitfall floors:
Level 10 to 68, except for any level that ends in 9 (19, 29, etc.)
Level 80 to 90
Level 130 to Level 140
Level 150 to Level 160
Level 170 to Level 180
Level 200
Level 240 to Level 248
(yea I know, fogu site is borked at the moment. Just waiting on an ordered server upgrade.)
Recipes mostly, but also access to parts of their house you can't normally see/get to.
Grinding fishing rod right now.... Have to move quick since winter is nearly half over. I don't have the patience to wait another year to get cursed tools.
thank you!!
(Also if you run fogu have to say thank you very much for years of hard work. I've been using it since I think I was in like 5th grade!!)
Being At least green heart with them and you've seen all of their previous events (2 black heart, 1 each purple and blue).
I wish there was a fast harvest tool of some sort. Like I've got this killer watering can that lets me water all my crops really quickly every morning right, but my desire to expand my field beyond its current size is pretty minimal because I just don't want to spend entire days press a on crops you know?
Need some sick crop vacuum.
Need some sick crop vacuum.
gotcha, I must be missing some heart events then!
Harvest Sprites not working for you?
That's the primary use for the harvest sprites after you have good tools.
Just need to over lap them so you don't have any dead days.
It's pretty easy to... Some can be kind of out of the way.
Been using this wiki as needed (character list is at the bottom, careful of scrolling down too far on any individual one of you are trying to avoid spoilers)
Jennifer (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town) - ranchstory
As a wanderer who escaped from city life, Jennifer moved to Mineral Town to live in a tent in the mountains by the Lake Mine.
ranchstory.miraheze.org
Does the time continue to tick when you're inside houses like the newer games, or does time stop like the original? I think having the time constantly ticket down adds to the pacing of the newer games.
No, inside the clock stops. That said, the clock outside is significantly faster than newer games.
The map though is slightly smaller and has more shortcuts. So if all you do is farm all day, it'll feel the same as the GBA game, but if you want to explore all areas or get around to talk to everyone, it's much easier to do.
For example, the hotspring is no longer it's own map, it's part of the mountain area and has a path from it that leads right to the lake.
(Edit) on thinking about it, it may not be much faster than modern SoS games, but definitely faster than Rune Factory series I'm more used to.
I think the hurricane I forgot to save scum to avoid has prevented me from getting three yields from my pineapples. Well I will still make a good amount of gold and have gotten the first home upgrade out of the way and now have a fridge and the other two fruit trees.
The game is just so fun/gameplay loop so addicting, played pretty much every Harvest Moon/Story of seasons game released since the gamecube days but just something about this game that I haven't been so addicted to the gameplay loop since magical melody. Just wish the time didn't go by so fast.
If it was slower the game would ground to a halt imo. The limited day time is about the only tension the game gives, and even then with all the shortcuts versus the original, I'm finding it hard not to accomplish everything I want to do (farming, chopping wood/rocks, socializing).
I keep wanting to befriend the Harvest Sprites but then my schedule catches up and suddenly its 6pm lol.
Maybe it's because I'm trying to grow too many crops so early on but it usually takes until 1pm to water everything and then after talking to everyone/giving a gift to the harvest goddess it feels like 5pm and no time to really do anything optional. Feels a bit shorter then previous games though i imagine using the sprites when i unlock them to help me would help a lot.
Yeah it sounds like you put out way too many crops to start. Plant fewer after the next harvest and focus on getting the sprites befriended and your schedule will open up immensely.
Sort of related, it's spring year 2 for me, and all of my cursed tools are now blessed and I am an actual harvest God(dess). The sprites now exist solely to collect the fruits of my labours.
(Seriously, blessed watering can and axe are game breakingly great, and there is still a whole level above that)
haha, this was my exact reaction as well to the blessed watering can. It's absurd, just wish it could hold more water.
This is my HUGE hang-up with the game. I can finally be gay in mineral town and its with these lifeless, basic designs. The Mineral Town games are some of my most beloved games of all-time but I think I might have to skip this one.
Is the gameplay fun and the writing unique/fun enough to warrant checking it out?
It's friends of mineral town, but with some very nice QoL improvements, and a bit of new content here and there.
It's friends of mineral town, but with a slightly better localization.
If the only reason you don't want to play is because of the character designs/graphics, you'll quickly get used to it.
The gameplay is just as solid and addictive as it ever was and the tweaks remove most of the annoyances from the game (especially the early days before the bag upgrade. Remember 3 bag slots where items didn't stack?).
🤣 Sounds like some JRPG's church figurehead when you find out that they are actually the baddies.
I always figured this was a commentary on religion lmao
I really adore the writing of FoMT and it's really my favourite part about this remake. I don't know what specifically about it since I go so long between farmgames usually but the only character I really vibed off in RF3 was Forte, and I didn't vibe with anyone at all in Stardew, but FoMT has one of the comfiest communities ever. And it's not just that everybody is wonderful and fluffy, because there's real problems around minor and major, but it's still a good place despite it all.
Also the TV shows are great. I watch them every morning before my chores lmao. Wish you could just toss shit onto the stove and see what works though. There's a lot of new stuff from the newer games (crop stacking etc) I kinda miss, but ah well
One thing I always loved about FoMT is that the economy is really well geared. Getting anything feels like a huge achievement in early game because, well, it is. Unless you horse bet of course.
I feel like a lot of the more modern farming games just throw stuff at you and it becomes less fun as a result. I miss TV shopping tho.
Nah, you can put them down and pick them up "normally", it just has to be on the tillable part of your land.
Yeah, that's a pretty good point.
Honestly, it's the mouths. The mouths manage to make them look younger than the chibi designs of the original...
Amen!
Amen! I've grown to be ok with the designs, especially the context around them, though it's still disappointing having played the original and this one being a remake and all. But yeah, they still don't look that good to me. The designs I can live with, but the style is eh, and the mouths....
That being said, it really does look so much better in motion that it all bothers me way less than expected. It's sharp and smooth and that helps a lot, though a little style still wouldn't hurt....
I really like the color design in the game. The environments all have a pleasant and even tasty look to them. Color balance is extremely important in games like this because of how small a place it is and because it goes through dramatic changes every season. One of the ways a game can look cheap, and this is what a lot of people mean when they speak about cheap mobile games, is that the colors do not go together. There is a clash of tints, tones, and shades. You have to balance these so that the colors fit. This requires a lot of time to get right. Mobile (or other cheap games) games don't get that attention because they made quick and fast.
Does the mine ever save your progress in it? Like if I manage to get down five levels does it give me a permanent ladder to start there? I can only get down like three or four levels before my guy is just gassed. How are you supposed to do like 200 levels?
Save your game manually every time you reach a new floor. Find the ladder, reload and go straight for the ladder. Rinse and repeat.
At first, yes. but...
After you give 100 daily gifts to the Harvest Goddess, she will install an elevator to the mine entrances. This allows you to skip to floors 50, 100, 150, 200, and 225, but only if you made it that far into the mine on your own. If you only made it to floor 60 with the standard staircase/pitfall method, the elevator will only go to floor 50 until you manually reach floor 100, and so on.
How do you give gifts to the Harvest Goddess? She's randomly spoken to me a couple times about my pedometer but I've never actually found her on the map.