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---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
Looks decent for a farm-sim game, and has cute and emotive characters and animals. The pets in particular are adorable.
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
This is why you play the game. Have played SDV for hundreds of hours across multiple platforms, played Harvest Moon religiously as a child, and this game's gameplay, in my humble opinion, takes the cake easily.
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
Music is fairly good, but I will admit some of the tool usage sfx seems a little rough around the edges sometimes.
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
Anyone can play this game, but I do feel that the game touches on enough complex topics, such as environmentalism, parental/spousal grieving, loss of culture, and others that perhaps best suit individuals who have had the ability to be somewhat educated on the matter first.
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
Not a difficult game to run, but it does look good enough, and there are enough interacting systems that I wouldn't be surprised if some older computers started to have difficulties in running it.
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
Only thing in the game that I have even remotely struggled with, is the fishing, and that feels about right. Not a difficult game by any means.
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
You have the same kind of community board-style offerings that SDV did, but WAY more of them, with some pretty cool final rewards. The grind isn't intense, and the wiki is updated fairly often.
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
I personally think the other major reason to play the game is the story. Not necessarily the overarching narrative, as that's fairly cut-and-dry, but the stories in between characters. More than any other farm sim that I've played before, the people feel like they have relationships and lives. Obviously, given the scope of the game, you'll get several repeated lines from the same character over time. I am pleasantly surprised however, that seasonal variance, events you have completed and even just a long enough wait, and I am constantly being greeted by new dialogue and cutscenes. The devs really went to town with the cutscenes that serve no purpose other than to show the residents of starlet town going about their daily lives. Arguments, laughs, gatherings, grief, all of it. It's these wonderful little moments that make the game's characters feel fleshed out.
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
My game time is inflated by many nights of falling asleep with the game open, but this is a game, much like many other farm-sims, that you can easily spend hundreds of hours in. TONS of stuff to do and customize, with only more being added as time goes on.
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
As my hours played may indicate, I believe that this is worth every penny.
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
The bugs have gotten much better than when the game first went EA, and in my first save, I lost a core part of the game in multiple locations because some flag somewhere didn't proc, and I missed out on further quests, teleportation pillars, and more. On my second serious save, those issues largely seem to be resolved, although visual glitches still happen here and there. I have had a cutscene appear when only half of the quest is finished, but not sure about whether finishing the quest will still work as intended.
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Great game overall, I'm beyond excited for the full release, and I hope that the devs get all the love in the world.
BIG GAME TIP: Lower your in game speed to 50% in the settings. There are several ways to get energy, and endless ways to spend it. You're gonna want the extra time.