Offering you enough, without overwhelming you. That’s what I assume A Wonderful Life is striving to maintain here. That’s a shame, because the core gameplay loop of any farming sim, Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life included, is a cryptonite-like combination of compelling and calming. The game may have had new content added since the original’s release back in 2003, but the foundations are feeling incredibly dated two decades later. Though, in my experience, only the same three or four characters would wander past, and one of them was a very annoying child that wouldn’t buy anything because he didn’t have any money anyway. And you can set up a shop in the middle of town and sell items. There’s an archaeological dig site, which has a limited amount of items and dig spots you can excavate each day - though this does expand with each ‘Chapter’ of the game. That all sounds quite a lot, but before my first year in the game had come to a close, I soon realized that, actually, Forgotten Valley is very much stuck in the past of the farming sim genre.įishing can earn you some extra cash, but the number of different species seems limited. In terms of changes over the original, this ‘Story of Seasons’ version adds pronouns and customization options to the character creator, gives you different outfits to purchase and wear, adds more crops to those originally on offer, adds more romance options including same gender, and enhances the various events that take place throughout each year. You’ve inherited a rundown farm from your father and travel to the sleepy town of Forgotten Valley to give revitalizing it your best shot. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life aims to freshen up the 2003 original, but the premise remains the same. It was a heart-warming experience, encountering the cast of weird and wonderful characters all over again, but soon enough the cracks in this remake/ remaster started to show. The guitar-twanging soundtrack kicked in and transported me back to playing the original, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, on the GameCube over a decade ago now. Within minutes of booting up Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life on PS5
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