Welp, I've put about 11 hours into Doraemon Story of Seasons, and I love it. Still, I'm enjoying myself and will probably put a ton of time into RF4. I guess I got too used to savescumming in FoMT lol. I wish there was a reload button somewhere, so in case I die (which I've done carelessly twice already) I could just reload from my last save rather than take the penalty - as is I just shut the game down and reboot it to reload my save, which is annoying. Given how many mechanics and systems this game has, though, there will probably be a reason to eventually. The farming is weird - I've found some farm plots outside the one next to my bedroom, but have no idea why you'd want to use it - it'd take forever to get there every day to water it and such. The combat is fine, but it can be hard to tell when an enemy will hit you or not. I have a chemistry set, but that seems to be for medicines and the like.
I'm not quite sure how to cook yet, despite having scheduled a cooking festival as the 'prince' (which feels like I'm the town mayor or something like in Animal Crossing). It seems every little action you can do can level up. I've never really played a Rune Factory game before - there's a lot going on here. I also picked up Rune Factory 4 Special, because even though I'm done with FoMT, I wanted more farming lol. Great game, enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I might pick it up later to do that, but I'd probably start a new game first. The only thing left to do as far as I'm aware is save up 10 million to buy the villa, but that sounds dull, if I'm honest. Ended up marrying Karen, and she's pregnant now, but I don't really have anything else to look forward to right now, as I just hit year 7, have won every festival at least once, have all the power berries, and 2.5 million gold. So at about 115 hours according to my Switch, I think I'm done with Friends of Mineral Town. Maybe I'll play Rune Factory 4 one of these days, too.
Easily worth the $35 I paid for it, and it's gotten me interested in Olive Town. I've gotten over 90 hours out of this game and had a good time, but I think I'm going to play through year 6, hopefully win the last power berry from the pet frisbee competition, and by then hopefully be married and have had a kid (probably with Karen, I guess) and call it done. All of which I'd do if I didn't have to rely on RNG to get those X products, but that broke me.
Plus the same for coffee, strawberry, and fruit cows. And that's after years of doing the same for rabbits and sheep as well, all of whom have to be funneled one per year through the Fluffy Festival to get the ability to make the platinum and X products. Plus my alpaca that just won the Fluffy Festival went from large wool to platinum wool, so I'd have to carefully time and breed an alpaca over, win the Fluffy Festival again, and hope it produces a gold wool rather than go right to platinum. I won't be going for the Harvest Goddess for marriage, because the X items broke me - you have a 1 in 255 chance of them appearing from platinum producing animals, of which I have like five animals that do so, and I've gotten ONE Milk X in five years. Apparently he can come back anytime after year 2 if you walk to the north part of town from your farm at 6 PM or later on the 29th of any month (besides winter, iirc?). He can come back in the remake - I just got him in the Fall of my 5th year.
I still prefer Stardew Valley for many reasons, but the Friends of Mineral Town remake is very, very good.Īnd Olive Town looks pretty good, too - I'm glad they're taking lessons from Stardew Valley, it can only make the mainline games better imo. Having an absolute blast, have put about 70 hours into the game. I've decided I'm going to try to marry the Harvest Goddess, which according to the FAQs I've looked up, I should be able to do - I've been breeding animals and still have a while to go as I only have six heart sheep and angora rabbits, and I don't even have a fruit calf yet.Ĭurrently working on finding and uncursing the cursed tools - I have about half of them. progressed since my last post lol.Ĭurrently in winter of year 4, got a new horse and have won several races with it, gotten to floor 255 of both mines and have the warp stone, maxed out the hearts for all the girls except Popuri and all the men except Cliff and Brandon (I hope Cliff comes back, but I haven't seen him so I might be boned there).