Japanese Rural Life Adventure

At first I thought wow what a fun relaxing game. Then the nightmare began. Nightmare is a strong word. Let's say frustration. I'm not one for keeping pets in games. I love planting crops instead. However, you are forced to keep multiple animals. The bad part of this is that they don't just have cat food or dog food or bird feed. No, their tastes change. You are happily feeding them berries, and then bam! They want fish. Not just any fish, it's a list of maybe 4 different fish to choose from. But you can't find any of those fish. You keep capturing everything but those choices. Then you make sure you have several of those things, but it doesn't matter because their tastes changes again. Then the animal wants sliced cucumber for example, but you haven't grown cucumber lately. So you plant some. That means the animal is going hungry each day while you wait for the crop to grow. When you don't feed the animal, it's losing trust in you. That's anxiety inducing, so there goes your relaxation. With the animals randomly wanting sliced veggies, you don't know if it's okay to sell your veggies. I love selling what I grow, but now I'm paranoid I won't have something the animal wants to eat. Then to sell anything, you have to have two different items. If you don't have one, you can't sell the other. For example, if you don't have enough cucumbers and carrots, you can't sell either one. Selling anything is like that, numbered combinations of items, from flowers, to wood, to veggies, to bugs, to fish. Nothing sold by itself or in singles. Why is this so complicated? To help the village, one of the tasks is to gain the trust of 27 cats. Yes, 27! You have to go around looking for signs of a cat and then from day to day try to gain its trust. You give it cooked fish and have to come back the next day. Nope, it didn't like that fish. You have to figure out what to give the cat since it's so finicky. Do I need to do this 27 times? Will the cat change what it wants half way through the building trust process? Forget that! Don't get me started on the awful experience trying to take pictures with the camera. I was confused about how to do this for a while. The indicator bobbed about erratically while there was a circle at the bottom of the screen. It took me forever to figure out that circle was how I snap the photo. Good luck taking a photo without scaring off the animal. Normally, I love crafting in a game, but omg it takes fifty thousand steps to build something and you constantly run out of materials while doing it. Materials you have to get from gathering and/or buying, and while you're doing it, the day turns to night, so what should have been a simple hour build takes you several days because you run out of materials constantly and some other game mechanic thrown into the mix just to make your life difficult. In the middle of washing a car for someone it turned winter and I couldn't do anymore until the season changed. That's how nutty this game is. That task should have been five minutes. This is not the cozy relaxing game I thought it was.

Asthetic wise, the game has a great vibe on how living in a rural area with a small community should be very lonely feel and pretty much self establish doing. Only small problem is it drag the game too damn long, making money is like too damn hard, you think Grave Yard Keeper make you work hard, this game make you extra hard and give you back too constrict on gameplay, onlything you could do constantly is fishing, but they gate keeping you to make money by selling to a seller that come you your place on the after noon but only buy a specific bundle, some of the fish is no where to be seen I pass the point of fixiing some house in near your farm and when you done that place for doing nothing @@, or something when you donate item, but i give up @@ There is many special ocation mark on the calendar for you but that is it, not much to say what to do. all you could a finding in this rural place at your own pace which is tooo slow even for those patient enough @@ Cooking have a minigame which is not bad but getting repetitivie after a while if youi want to get like 10 of that cooking item, i basicly waste 1/5 of time playing to cooking fish on the grill =]]]] Pro: Give you the feeling of how hard living as a farmer in Japan, A lot of cat for you to make friend with? Some what a mystery? Snake everywhere after a certain point in game Cons: Too hard, i spend 18 hours and just quit, you bettet spend that time on other game Stardew Season of story, your progress better in anyother game, i quit when the fcking Mayor asking be 50k of money omg i make like arond near that money and spending on the town fixing and upgrade life but i wont wast 10 or more hours to just farm for that money, it feel like Joja money right on way, you not get that much say from town people let alone thank from some random people appear as tourist to the town @@? Those cat need food and toy to try, and those thing cost money it back to be around money again Farming fishing making porcerlain the worst is cooking, and look at the achivement there is a lot of achivent require you cooking alot of item, that is a lot of demand which i feel doesnt worth it You could reach the top pretty soon in this game, the forest have some secret inside but not much else so sad they could make this game better but they refuse, kill me if i have to spend 100 hours to finish this game The UI kinda funny but still not that bad but you need to keeep your mouse in range to click if not you cant do anything

私はただ、田舎の村で静かに暮らしたかっただけなのに。

主人公が悪意ある村の住民に搾取され続けるだけのスローライフでした。 庭の庭園を作り上げたら裏山（を買う権利）をやろう　と言われたときは驚きました かなり金もとられたしドン引き おつかい要素以外もかなり淡白でいつ面白くなるんだろう？と思ったまま1年が終わってしまいました。　色々できることが増えて楽しい！って感じは全然なかったです。 何するにも金金で疲れてしまった

操作性が悪すぎる、何もないところで引っかかったり、そもそも移動上に障害物が多すぎて一々ストレスを感じる。 アイテムを売るにも基本はセットなのも酷い、田舎暮らしの不便さではない、只々不快を感じる。 衣装に着物がない、作務衣があったりどてらがあったりと、嬉しいポイントはあっただけに非常に残念、冬服のがあるのであれば、夏服に甚兵衛があっても良かったのでは？ ゲームのコンセプトとしては、これ以上ないほどに好ましかった故に、操作性やマップの動線、物の売り買いに対しての細やかな不満が積み重なった結果、これ以上このゲームを遊びたくないと感じてしまった。 料理のミニゲームは非常に面白いと感じましたが、魚を焼くのは５匹までというのは、現実のどこを参考にしたのでしょうか？日本以外の国では魚を焼くときに、５匹までという法律でもあるのでしょうか？ 料理にしても一つずつというのは納得がいきません、例えば４人家族だとして、米を炊く際に一合ずつ炊きますか？ おかずも一人前ずつ調理しますか？違いますよね？リアルさを追求するのであれば、調理にかかる時間や、ミニゲームの難易度などでバランスをとる方が良かったのではないでしょうか。 そういえば、資源の上限に対しても疑問が残ります。 何でもかんでも鞄に入れて持ち歩けるのであれば、上限の設定する必要はないと思います。 時間がたてば資源が復活するのに、上限のせいでこれ以上集められないと、やるせない気持ちになりますし、いくら何でも一律９９個は今時ではないと感じます。 リアルさを追求するのであれば、所持重量や鞄(インベントリ)を限定し、主人公の体力や品質のいい鞄の製作によって上限の解放の方が成長も感じれて良いのではないでしょうか？

いいところも確かにあるが、もう少しこうだったらなぁみたいなところも多いです 良いところ ・BGMの雰囲気がいい ・可愛いドット絵が楽しめる ・料理のミニゲームが楽しく、料理のドット絵が凝っている ・一部の消耗品が自宅の物置から無限に手に入る もうちょっとなところ ・何をしたらいいのかわかりにくい 　特に壊れた橋の修理と、廃屋での探索、住人のお願いで水を引くときの水門の位置が分かりにくかったです 　全然わからなかったので攻略サイトで調べました ・道が狭いからなのか、キャラの操作がしづらいなと思いました 　私の操作がうまくないのもあるかもしれませんがよく引っ掛かります ・住人のお願いが終わると住人が同じ文章しか話さなくなるのでもう少しレパートリーが欲しいです ・畑の面積が小さく、決まったところにしか畑を作れないので料理がたまにしかできない 　育つのに時間はかかるのはいいので、もう少し畑面積を増やせると嬉しいです ・飼っている動物たちの餌の用意が大変でコストが高い 　干し柿とか卵焼きを欲しがるので加工・調理が必要 ・話を進めると野良猫に餌や購入したおもちゃを与えて手名付ける必要があるが、前述のペットの餌と合わせて用意が大変 ・手名付ける必要がある猫の数が多すぎて達成感が薄い、前提となるお願いをクリアしてからでないと出現しない猫もいるので全員手名付けるのは気が遠くなる ・料理のコスパがあんまり良くないので体力が少なくなったら自分は焼き魚を食べて、作った料理は売ることになる 以上のことを踏まえると、2800円は少し高いのかなと思います せっかく雰囲気あるゲームですし、料理パートなどは特にこだわって作られたのが伝わってくるゲームですのでよりよくなることを願っております

I'd give this a 3/5. I like: - slow paced but engaging Japanese homesteading, with details like growing a bonsai and making a windchime - learning about Japanese cooking and customs - your own pet cat and local cats around the village - pixel art style - relaxing music - fishing in fun and easy - plenty of time to get stuff done during the game day (almost too much time sometimes) - loved unlocking the village revitalization tasks, which gave me a lot to do and a good cash flow - good stamina system and "getting stronger" by just playing the game giving you more max stamina - daily gifts in the mail - making pottery I don't like: - ground clutter resulting in getting stuck a lot, it's annoying - despite the guide, a lot feels unclear and I often have to tab out to google questions - as another reviewer said, feeding animals is not straightforward at all - wish I could sell items individually instead of in bundles with other items, sometimes limits my cash flow and I don't get why it's like this - not very many character customization options - firewood splitting station is too close to the well, always have to toggle between the action bubbles when I want to fill my bucket or watering can and end up accidentally getting into the firewood minigame too often

I love this game, I played it forhours on my phone when I had my free three months of apple arcade. I am so happy it is finally on steam, I may also have tograb a copy for my switch as it is perfect for switch. You play as a newcomer to a rural Japanese town that needs a breath of new young life. Clean up a school, build a museum, tidy and repave the roads, befriend the neighbourhood cats; everything brings new life to the area. This game is not life stardew valley, each animal you have and faring plot is pre-placed. You are following a story the devs have layed out for you. It's not a sandbox game. If you buy a tree sapling you have to plant itexactly where that specific tree is supposed to go. Personally - I love that. It allows the game to explore progression in smaller ways. You made a meal that the sweet lady down the road liked. She will give you turnips next season. With those turnips you can make a meal she will like even more. Now you two are friends. This is a slow burn game, take as long as you need to complete the goals before you. Take each day as it's own. Enjoy the ride. Live here for a bit.

田舎暮らし？ほのぼの？いえいえお使いゲーになるのは仕方ないけど老人達の口利きしないと生きていけない田舎暮らしとかドット絵のゲームにしてはやたら夢がないというかリアルだなぁと思いました　雰囲気は悪くない ただフルプライスの価値があるかっていうと…閉口しちゃいますね　それならStardew Valleyの方が良いかな やれること多いし

田舎の理不尽を体験できるゲームです。 スローライフどころか、道路工事や地主の家の庭造りや寺の草むしりなどをやらされます。しかも自腹で！ 100円稼ぐのが大変なのに、村のために数万円の出費が必要になります。理不尽な・・ 一方、自宅は明かりもなく夜は真っ暗で、主人公は寝袋しか持ってこないので、布団すら自分で作る必要があります。理不尽な・・ グラフィックもパソコンのモニターで見るとかなり荒く、色もベタッと塗った感じで全然綺麗じゃないです。 参考動画にある夏祭りのイベントを見たくて我慢してプレイしましたが、夏祭りの準備という事前イベントで、紐が一本足りなかった為、1年後再度準備してください！と言われ心が折れました。理不尽な・・ また、料理できるのに、塩すら自分で作らないと行けないので、大量調理ができず、数少ない完成品もペットがエサとして欲しがるので、主人公は食事はひたすら焼き魚しか食べれません。しかも、ペットは毎日違うエサを欲しがる為、食材が無く用意出来ない場合があります。当然エサ無しになります。開発者は動物虐待者かと疑ってしまいます。 田舎の生活を再現しておらず、リアルな生活では無く、ただただ理不尽に耐えるゲームです。塩すら自分で作る必要があるってどんな田舎だ・・ ユーチューブでプレイ動画が殆ど無いのも納得の、プレイ中ずっとストレスを感じれるゲームです。