HARVESTELLA

The story is fine, it's cute, but I've lost my save data twice. While I have a back up to repopulate the folder I have to start a new game and play a stupid long tutorial that's boring and annoying and doesn't have a skip function! Who doesn't implement a skip function? I'm about to give up all together on this game.

just YES

Farming, Fighting, Story, Side Quests, Fishing, and more!!! I really enjoy this game. 68 hours in and I'm still not bored

I must say that the environment and the scenery of the game is beautiful!. My eyes can't get enough of it. Game-play isn't bad and the pacing is similar to harvest moon pacing so hard to get money sometimes but hey what is a game without a little challenge right?.

The RPG elements so far are awesome, the sound track is amazing, and I also do love the farming aspects too. It really is an awesome game!

Edit:The story is stupid and contrived, and the game bricked my save file because the pre rendered cutscene refuses to work in a no return situation, meaning my nearly 30 hours of progress are now wasted. Edit 2: I got the game to work out by not playing it on steam deck. I wish I could say the game was worth finishing, but as one of the few people here who's seen the games ending, it was not worth it. The game has bloodily ripped off chuncks of other stories that it thought were cool without understanding what about them worked. I swear the only reason you can't skip cutscenes is because they knew it was the only reason anyone would watch them. Story is not worth sticking around for, which is sad since it was trying to be rune factory with a huge story focus. But the story is a failure. This game is the bones of a better game that I really really really want. This game draws heavily on rune factory. This game is rune factory if Square enix gave a team of interns the hard drive for generic final fantasy assets and told them to make a ps3 rune factory game with a diet final fantasy 14 combat system. I got to give them props, they did deliver. I can't claim to love the game, but somehow I've gotten into it. At the ground level, it's a farming game. You plant seeds, water them, then collect what ever they grow into. Put what you wanna sell in a box, put what you wanna keep in storage, get some animals, rinse, repeat. The game does the basics and it does em fine enough. You want the harvest moon half of Rune factory, you got it. Done clean too. The other half of the gameplay is wandering into dungeons and hitting whatever you find there with a stick while it hits you with its face horn or whatever. I thought, given Square Enix's history, that the depth would be. Just like the farming, it's fine. If you've ever played the MMO final fantasy 14 then you know what you're getting into. You don't avoid hits unless there's an orange circle or line on the ground, and hope you got enough HP to tank the hits you will take. or better yet, get one of your tag alongs to tank em. When they do, the AI targeting on enemies is a lil hard to read sometimes. The story is extremely thin though, and it thinks it's smarter than it actually is. All they really did was shake the shoe box of the most generic JRPG story beats on top of the rest of the game then patched them together. it is as generic as it comes, and everything moves towards it's decided endpoint weather it makes sense or not. They're the most dressed down version of whatever character arc they're trying to fill in as. This game really needed a skip cutscene option, or a better story, Whichever comes first There are some stellar parts too though. Music is amazing stuff, just delightful to the ear everywhere you go. I'm especially fond of the Quietes music, it's very serene. The game is also extremely responsive and doesn't waste your time outside of cutscenes. It loads extremely quickly too. Even on my steam deck, I've never a black screen for more than a second. And it runs like butter. If there is ever a Harvestella 2, I hope they expand on what this game needs without burning what does work about it. It has real potential but doesn't really live up to it.

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