![]() When you try to head down here, it asks if you’d like to visit somewhere new. The same flower, nothing else, and we were engaged before the end of Autumn Year 1.Īt the far end of the town, there’s a path leading out to faraway villages. I literally wooed one character by giving her a flower growing around the town each day… and that was it. Character dialogue and relationship progression could have been way more fleshed out than listening to the same three or four lines from each character over and over again. I’d have expected there to be additions to the standard crops you can grow, but there are none, with the additions focused on new hybrid crops that you won’t be able to begin experimenting with until Year 2 at the earliest. I’d have assumed the archaeological site would be more in-line with that of Pioneers of Olive Town or Stardew Valley, where you can spend entire days mining away for rare minerals and high-value items. ![]() But if you’re done with everything you need to do on your farm and social life by midday in each of the 24 real time minute days, it may suggest there’s not quite enough to do to tide you over. ![]() Offering you enough, without overwhelming you. That’s what I assume A Wonderful Life is striving to maintain here. That’s a shame, because the core gameplay loop of any farming sim, Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life included, is a cryptonite-like combination of compelling and calming. The game may have had new content added since the original’s release back in 2003, but the foundations are feeling incredibly dated two decades later. Though, in my experience, only the same three or four characters would wander past, and one of them was a very annoying child that wouldn’t buy anything because he didn’t have any money anyway. And you can set up a shop in the middle of town and sell items. There’s an archaeological dig site, which has a limited amount of items and dig spots you can excavate each day - though this does expand with each ‘Chapter’ of the game. That all sounds quite a lot, but before my first year in the game had come to a close, I soon realized that, actually, Forgotten Valley is very much stuck in the past of the farming sim genre.įishing can earn you some extra cash, but the number of different species seems limited. ![]() In terms of changes over the original, this ‘Story of Seasons’ version adds pronouns and customization options to the character creator, gives you different outfits to purchase and wear, adds more crops to those originally on offer, adds more romance options including same gender, and enhances the various events that take place throughout each year. ![]() You’ve inherited a rundown farm from your father and travel to the sleepy town of Forgotten Valley to give revitalizing it your best shot. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life aims to freshen up the 2003 original, but the premise remains the same. It was a heart-warming experience, encountering the cast of weird and wonderful characters all over again, but soon enough the cracks in this remake/ remaster started to show. The guitar-twanging soundtrack kicked in and transported me back to playing the original, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, on the GameCube over a decade ago now. Within minutes of booting up Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life on PS5 ![]()
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