STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town Reviews

finally can buy my childhood game

This game has to be chill game, until someone challange you for a race

[b] Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is not a bad game, it is just that I played Stardew Valley first. [/b] This is my first ever Harvest Moon experience. It is cute and cozy indeed, but I think gameplay-wise it was atrocious, and maybe I'd enjoy it more if I hadn't played SV yet. And with this being said, I'm only giving SoS:FoMT a positive review out of respect for SV because I know Barone was inspired by Harvest Moon. Launching the game for the first time, I thought to myself, "it's so cute how the cows are chonky", but— [i]oh boy [/i]— never did I imagine that those fat mammals were going to make me mald. I'm okay with a bit of body blocking, but the [b] volume [/b] they occupy is way bigger than their models appear to be. And does it make sense when all the animals can glitch into each other, two or more bodies occupying the same space, but they still block my pathing???? All the actions are very clunky. In the mines, where stamina is so limited, it sucks so much when I miss the spot I want to dig because playing with a mouse and keyboard doesn't feel optimized (idk, I haven't tried playing with a gamepad). This may be a [b]me[/b] problem, bc I'm impatient and I like to play at a faster pace, who knows? The resources are scarce, a few sticks, logs and rocks here and there; this alone is not much of a problem bc Gott sells them at a cheap price. BUT the real problem lies in making money: nothing felt profitable enough to be rewarding because of the limitations on the seed and animal prices, stamina, cooking, mining, etc. To me, it sucks that to be able to make a good amount of money and progress, you need to save scum a lot in the mines and probably at the festivals. Well, save scumming to get the level 6 tools was worth it because they made farming infinitely easier and less time consuming! The game didn't teach anything. Who's sending me "Van's favorite" when I don't even know who or where's Van? How am I supposed to know that I need (not "can") give offerings to a named goddess by tossing items in a certain body of water?

Summary: I cannot recommend Story of Seasons, as it heavily lacks content, there are a lot of farming games out there which are way better than Story of Seasons. The lack of content shows in every aspect. Examples: - I wanted to craft storage boxes … and had to find out that there is no crafting system at all! Story of Seasons is the first farming game i encountered that does not have a crafting system … - Crops: in winter there are no suitable crops and there is also no green house, so you will not do any farming at all in winter season! - Foraging: there are no things to forage, the world and the beach are empty, no plants, no shells, no insects. As there is nothing to forage there is also no museum where you could donate stuff. - Fishing: there is no fishing mini game (which i appreciate), everytime i went fishing i only got 3 items: old boots, fishbones and small fish. Only the small fish had any value. To me this is a lazy concept, just one type of fish? So fishing is easy to do, but also boring at the same time. - Mining: there are lots of levels in the mine, but everytime you enter the mine you have to start from level 1. Yes, there is an escalator - but you have to present 100 gifts to a goddess (with only 1 gift per day), so you will need at least 100 days to get the escalator … not a fun concept to me … - Cooking: after you upgraded your house you can cook - theoretically. You need cooking utensils which you will only get after 10 days each, so till you have all utensils a whole season has passed - yeah … And you can also only cook dishes where you already know the recipe, no experimenting or looking up in the wiki. No recipe, no cooking. To get the recipes you have to do different stuff, i recommend reading the wiki. I will not continue playing Story of Seasons, it is too boring for me. Unfortunately i spent more than 2hrs in it so i cannot refund it anymore. I bought it in the spring sale for 10 Euros, this should be the standard price, considering the lack of content.

A wave of nostalgia when I played the game again but with this version >< I love it so much. Some keys don't work when I assign them tho to my liking but not really a problem. Another cozy game to play for hours and hours!

A love letter to the fans of the original Harvest Moons, different name, same love, I dislike that we do not start with the dog, but aside from that its just as fun as the old ones, but better with some quality of life changes.

Big fan of the original and its iterations. Some of the character re-designs I don't agree with, but that's a small nitpick in an otherwise great remake.

This is a great rendition of a GBA classic. It isn't quite as complex as later titles in the series, but that's probably a good thing for a game like this. If you're a fan of Stardew Valley, this is a great remake of the game that directly inspired it.

Wonderful remake of a harvest moon game which originally came out on gamecube. Loved this game as a kid

It's fun and chill, until your friend ask for a speedrun