TL;DR - This is a very well-implemented Stardew(/Harvest Moon, but I don't do consoles)-like. If you liked Stardew Valley, you will almost certainly like this. It has some pacing differences that give it a much longer "single playthrough" game time, which may be pleasant or may be annoying. It has some lore/storytelling differences that make it stand out from other imitators in the genre.
I just "finished" (defined as, filled most of the museum bundles and got married) my first game today, at 141 hours. (I also played pre-1.0, and that number is included in the count, so the real 1.0 time to more-or-less completion for me was more like 90 hours. That's. A lot more than I expected.)
I'm surprised at how much I *wasn't* annoyed at how long all the meta-progression takes in this game. In Stardew I was deeply, deeply annoyed that the only thing preventing me from satisfying all the main game objectives (prior to various later updates) in year 1 was the red cabbage. But in Mistria I was only getting a tiny bit impatient by the time I entered year 3.
But anyway, yeah, the meta-progression takes forEVER, largely because of the way the day is paced and how mine levels work. (Meta progression in Mistria is inextricably tied to Mines progression, and while I considered it a normal day in Stardew when I got 5 levels in the Mines and a good day when I got 10, in Mistria it's a good day if I even get 5. So more Mine days than not, I didn't even get a new elevator level.)
I love the character writing a lot. There were several genuine surprises for me in terms of character writing and all of them were positive. That said, as with every other title in this genre, I wish they'd let me do polyamory indefinitely; I knew I was going to have to choose and this game doesn't make it AS upsetting as some other titles do, it still wasn't *not* upsetting to get broken up with by mail by two of my partners after I got engaged to the other one.]
*Deeply* weirdly for me personally, I do not actually feel like the game is over now that I've bagged my chosen LI and also done... as many of the museum bundles as is reasonable. I actually want to keep playing to design my perfect aesthetic homestead. That is SO out of character for me, so it's probably a good thing.
Anyway, basically, there are a lot of things I view favorably from this game over what Stardew/Harvest Moon (? I don't do consoles, so I am only referencing HM as a known antecedent to STV) did, and some I'm less favorable or ambivalent about. But if you like the genre, this is a great example of it.
