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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town announced for Nintendo Switch, coming March 23, 2021
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I bought it twice for ps4 and switch, havent touched it yet. I feel like I would spend tens of hours in this so I am putting it to backlog.. i have like 150 more games in my backlog so I guess i will get to it sometimes in 2022.
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They correctly translated it to 3D?
The massacre would have been to use a stylised artstyle.
the name "Harvest Moon" is owned by Natsume, who don't make these games. Natsume and Marvelous split up and now Natsume makes their own games with the name Harvest Moon. and they don't look that great
Not too bothered over the graphics, though I do agree I wish there was more clutter in some of the town environments we've seen. Bokumono has always been more about systems than looks though and I'm extremely interested in finding animals in the wild, rebuilding the farm, and what maaaay be a museum feature? That hasn't been in the series since GBC3 back in, like, 2000.
Story of Seasons is the classic "Harvest Moon" fans know and love.
Story of Seasons is the classic "Harvest Moon" fans know and love.
It's fine if you prefer the newer style but you can't seriously look at this and say they 'correctly translated' the old character designs
Yeah, I feel same too, I'm still waiting for SoS series to impress me graphically on Switch like it did on 3DS.
But this is understandable. Marvelous is hard at work on Rune Factory 5 (which looks gorgeous) and this should be the starter course for the fans. Doesn't seem to have many new features like 3DS games like Trio of Towns did also.
Oh it was there, hard to ignore!
The argument against crops clearly
The faces are what really get me here, damn rosy cheeked goobers!It's fine if you prefer the newer style but you can't seriously look at this and say they 'correctly translated' the old character designs
It's fine if you prefer the newer style but you can't seriously look at this and say they 'correctly translated' the old character designs
They intentionally changed the character designs because most of them weren't made for Mineral Town's characters to begin with. They were copy+pasted from 64 with zero regard for the changes in personality, family, and occupations. Should be pretty notable that the characters from A Wonderful Life that cameo didn't get design changes at all because they didn't need them.
Do hope the next remake project is 64 so those designs come back though.
Yeah that's fair. And honestly, I'm fine with them changing the look of the games if they want and evolving over time, the current style is just not my cup of tea.
Whoa damn, the original character designs are way better. I kept thinking in the trailer how bland and samey the characters all looked.It's fine if you prefer the newer style but you can't seriously look at this and say they 'correctly translated' the old character designs
edit: oh I see you are talking about the FOMT remake. Either way, I don't think I could come up with more boring graphics in my sleep. Some of the environments looked good but everything just lacked so much character.
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I've not played a story of seasons game since a wonderful life on the game cube, but something about this trailer caught my eye, so I think I'll give this game a try something about it just looked fun to me.
I'm not feeling the art style, especially considering I'm in the middle of my Doraemon Story of Seasons play through, and it has an amazing art style. But always hyped for a new SoS. Gotta start dusting off my switch more, two of my favorite genres have pretty much moved exclusively to it - VNs and Farm Sims.
This new game actually seems to be adding quite a bit going over the details and that's cool to see.
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It was in the Friends of Mineral Town remake, so I don't see why it wouldn't be in this one as well.
It will be like Friends of Mineral Town: The Japanese version will feature a "Best Friends" ceremony, while the NA versions will have gay marriage.
edit: the graphic from the official website:
There are five male partners and five female partners for a total of 10. By
You can become partners with members of the same sex by doing a Best Friends Ceremony.
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It's already confirmed. They've also added more skin tones and customization options based on the customization they've shown off
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town announced for Nintendo Switch, coming March 23, 2021 News
I'm SO excited!! Also gay marriage confirmed on the JPN website (well, "best friends ceremony" in Japan) but XSEED will undoubtedly localize it as gay marriage like they did with FoMT. I love the dude in the biker jacket and the girl with thigh highs omg. Customization looks great too!
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It's already confirmed. They've also added more skin tones and customization options based on the customization they've shown off
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town announced for Nintendo Switch, coming March 23, 2021 News
I'm SO excited!! Also gay marriage confirmed on the JPN website (well, "best friends ceremony" in Japan) but XSEED will undoubtedly localize it as gay marriage like they did with FoMT. I love the dude in the biker jacket and the girl with thigh highs omg. Customization looks great too!
Great! It's a shame about the best friends bullshit in Japan, but it's good to know they know this isn't acceptable anymore on the west.
Pardon if this is port begging, but does the PC version Friends of Mineral Town announced alongside the Switch western release or is it announced separately ?
I hope the Doraemon and FoTM did well enough sales wise on PC they consider porting this one.
I hope the Doraemon and FoTM did well enough sales wise on PC they consider porting this one.
Either of these would be excellent choices!
The PC version was announced later I believe.
The producer wanted it, but it straight up isn't legal in certain areas the games releases including Japan, so they just call it best friends with it being marriage in everything but name. It doesn't really have anything to do with them doing it for the west. It was a requested addition WW.
I think this was the most interesting announcement of the Partner Showcase to me. I'm not going to get excited yet, but they're saying all the right things about this game so far (gay marriage, better customization)
The farm-building seems very Stardew, and for some reason the clip of cutting down trees reminded me the slightest bit of BOTW. I'm interested to see if they took some inspiration from the recent FOMT remake to capture some of what used to make the series so compelling. It also helps that the art style is way easier on the eyes than the FOMT remake (just in my opinion, lol)
I like that the name is even sort of reminiscent of Mineral Town. Interested to see how this ends up reviewing.
The farm-building seems very Stardew, and for some reason the clip of cutting down trees reminded me the slightest bit of BOTW. I'm interested to see if they took some inspiration from the recent FOMT remake to capture some of what used to make the series so compelling. It also helps that the art style is way easier on the eyes than the FOMT remake (just in my opinion, lol)
I like that the name is even sort of reminiscent of Mineral Town. Interested to see how this ends up reviewing.
I think that was a misunderstanding. Pretty sure there are no laws preventing that in Japan. Probably just meant that some in Japan aren't comfortable seeing gay marriages.
Weird take, given the objective stylistic improvements made between this entry and its predecessor.
The traditional formula usually also includes at least one "secret" marriage candidate that has extra marriage requirements and/or a hidden relationship value. Examples from the games released in the last six years? A New Beginning had Yuri and Amir, Story of Seasons had Kamil and Licorice, Trio of Towns had Inari for both genders, and the FoMT remake had a good handful of those characters which were also present in the original games. I know that Tfritz likely knows this information but it is worth keeping in mind in general that there may be extra options. They usually don't put these "secret" candidates on their website until after the game is launched, if they do so at all.
I feel like I haven't seen enough of this game yet to make a decision either way, but a lot of the information that's currently available is very promising. Honestly, a full cast of playersexual marriage candidates and extra player customization options are excellent moves on the part of Marvelous and are pushing me in the direction of a Day One purchase. I'd really like a few more details about the core gameplay loop. Really hoping that reclaiming farmland and restoring buildings isn't too onerous of a grindfest, but the sprinkler system displayed in the video and multiple screenshots has me hopeful for more modern QoL improvements in the endgame.
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Really hoping these are part of a DLC bundle for the rest of the world. They should be in Japan as well, in my opinion. Japanese preorders are so backwards. Tchotchkes like stickers, keychains, tote bags, posters, etcetera are fine for retailer exclusive preorder bonuses, but in-game content should never be held hostage behind buying extra copies of the game. I feel awful for Japanese Bokujō Monogatari fans every time a new game is in the preorder window.
Keeping my fingers crossed that NA's preorder bonus is another adorable pocket plushie. An alpaca or goat would be magnificent.
Sorry for double posting, Marvelous is putting up short character introduction videos of the candidates on their bokumono_PR Twitter account.
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I'm still liking the look of this game, but the lack of 2D character portraits during dialogue is a massive bummer....The 3D models aren't good enough still.
This looks like a GBA Pokémon in 3D. Not the best possible thing, but certainly a lot better-looking than most farming sims out there.
I wonder if this will be like New Horizons and end up being the same as always after a different start, though.
I wonder if this will be like New Horizons and end up being the same as always after a different start, though.
Now that you mention it, it's a bummer considering how pretty those portraits are...
It really is a massive bummer about no 2D portraits. :( The 3D models don't convey emotions that well IMO.
Gonna be honest here, the three or four bachelors that have been released haven't wowed me and this animation right here makes Bridget a strong contender for my marriage choice. I didn't jive with the FoMT remake and I really want to get gay married for the first time in the series though. Maybe I'll just break the mold and play as a girl this time.