In terms of technical issues the big thing is the loading and that first patch should be out before the first DLC pack even releases. I don't think either will affect the other.
This game is more like that and it's one of the things being referred to when people say the game is different from the previous titles.
This bit from the Nintendolife Preview really makes me consider my pre-order :/
Seems too fundamental to be revised via Patch.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2..._town_is_not_quite_as_pioneering_as_wed_hoped
They specifically mentioned changing the makers and improving immersion.This bit from the Nintendolife Preview really makes me consider my pre-order :/
Seems too fundamental to be revised via Patch.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2..._town_is_not_quite_as_pioneering_as_wed_hoped
Seems they took ideas regarding the scale of storage/ crafting from Stardew Valley (i know makers existed before SV), but didn't translate it well into SoS building system (aka plop an object with 5 m of free space around it). Already seventeen (!!) different makers O_o I don't want my farm to look like a My time at Portia workshop :/
They also mentioned correcting and adding more dialogue.
You posted that in response to someone who was talking about stuff being too fundamental for a patch.
Not really. You would just make it so people need less makers by allowing one to do more at a faster rate. That's the main issue people have the with makers
Based on the impressions this game is better. One World has it's own issues.
Reading these takes me back to Back to Nature. The load times were so insane. The game was great but I remember compared to the uber similar N64 game it was super glaring. Hopefully the patch will improve things for POOT.
It actually reminds me a lot of the way they did things in My Time At Portia. Which was fine for that game because the focus was on workshops and crafting, but it's not something I'm thrilled about seeing in an SoS game.
I'll be honest, of all the weird things in this game this is almost enough to make me not care about it. Being able to have a perfect, organized, aesthetically pleasing farm is half the reason people play
I'm just not a fan of makers being in the game, period. I played about 70 hours of My Time At Portia, and getting one material out of each machine at time was a fucking chore. That shit could drive me to check out the new Harvest Moon instead. I hate to say it but it does seem to have some interesting mechanics.
Issue with Harvest Moon is it's one of the ugliest games I've seen in years, the visuals are actively awful. I'm just going to play Stardew until Rune Factory comes out haha
Yeah, I definitely hear the argument about visuals. Let's be real, SoS isn't winning any awards, either. Rune Factory looks fantastic, though.
Yeah SoS isn't mind blowing, but the art style pulls its weight in a way HM doesn't. The new SoS has quite a nice watercolor effect to the visuals that kind of mask how basic everything is.
The visuals in Doraemon: SoS were lovely, but the gameplay was so bare bones in that one.
The general sentiment seems to be that One World is better than their previous attempts, but it has it's own issues and this game is still better in almost every way outside of things like character expressions. Even the people who like it are saying to wait for a sale because it's still limited by budget in certain ways. If you're interested check it out I guess. It seems like it's worth trying this time(though I'm personally probably not going to give Natsume my money for anything going forward). I would probably wait with both games if stuff like the Makers turns you off that much.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with FoMT for now and maybe grab this later on sale when the issues have been addressed.
The impression from fans who have played the game seems to be that they enjoy it despite issues with things that are being patched like loading times. We'll see what the other planned changes bring when we get more details though because depending on exactly what they do it could change the game a lot.
FOMT is a very different style of Story of Seasons than this it sounds like, tbf.
Friends of Mineral Town, which got a remake on Switch has been considered one of the best games in the series. The thing with it though is that it's pretty close to a 1 for 1 remake of a GBA, which is obviously limiting feature-wise. It's of course still a good game though.
FOMT is fairly rigid in what you can do with your farm. You have one barn, one chicken coop, maker slots, 5 tree slots, etc.
The game also has skills you need to level, the idea that the character should be crafting a lot of their stuff instead of a blacksmith, a bigger focus on the town vs farming(i.e the changes to festivals) compared to previous games like how Grand Bazaar's big thing was the Bazaar, and they made it harder to fit doing a lot of stuff in one day through various changes. Like the game just throws you into a forest rather than some person having you take over a farm.
