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  (Click the logo to go to the respective post) ---The Thread and the LPs--- My continuing series of Harvest Moon-ish Let's Plays brings me to a pair of indie farming darlings: ConcernedApe's Stardew Valley and Monomi Park's Slime Rancher. They're vastly different in execution but similar in premise: take up a farm/ranch in a new land, and work it until you're obscenely rich. Stardew Valley is directly inspired by the original SNES Harvest Moon and brings its classic top-down farming format into the modern age, while Slime Rancher is instead a relaxed FPS built around Luigi's Mansion-esque animal vacuum capture and fantasy guano. They're an odd but complementary pair, and I'm here to suck them utterly dry of content. Also included with Stardew Valley is a look at early access crafting/construction/community game My Time at Portia. ThornBrain fucked around with this message at 05:53 on May 16, 2019 |
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 ---The Game--- Take inspiration from what you love, then beat it at its own game. This was most likely ConcernedApe's mindset when he made Stardew Valley, a game heavily inspired by Bokujou Monogatari, particularly the original SNES Harvest Mooon, that easily stands beside if not above the best of its influences. The premise is identical to the early games: take over your late grandfather's farm, work it until you're rich, and work the townsfolk until you're rich with a spouse. But there's also a slew of new ideas, updates for the modern age (E.G.: wooing any gender, a Steam contract-mandated crafting menu), and more mature storylines for the characters (E.G.: alcoholism, depression, actual dysfunctional families). It's a solid core game that has worked hard since its release to elevate itself and the very idea of casual farming sims, and as of content update 1.2 (which the majority of this LP employs) it's one of indie gaming's most-replayable and satisfying success stories. ---The Story--- The Best clan has an illustrious farming dynasty reaching from the flawed paradise of Castanet Island to the capitalist wasteland of Not-Germany. Theories abound as to how these mysterious women began taking over entire villages through the sheer power of farming; some scholars believe the clan's origins lie at the end of the Rat Prince Pubert's reign over Selphia, but new studies show the origins may lie with a mysterious, unsolved alien encounter at the borders of Pelican Town in the Ferngill Republic. Shortly after a UFO sighting, locals reported a strange figure posing as the local late farmer's granddaughter, claiming his farm for her own, and drowning in money within a few short seasons. These reports were true. Except the UFO was a bus. This alien creature, designation 8357, has come to Earth to understand its people, its creatures, its plants, and its money. She's also come for them hot young singles. All of them. (The actual story: Grandpa died, left you something for when life sucked, working for Joja sucked, the thing he left you was a farm, so now you're a farmer. I like mine better.) ---The LP--- This is about as close to a 100% LP as reasonably possible. All collections, all items, all upgrades, every villager to 10 hearts, all achievements, etc. The core LP with 8357 was voted by viewers from the previous Harvest Moon-ish thread to use the Wilderness Farm and to eventually marry Sebastian. I will show off the different farms and some of the other people you can marry near the end of the LP, including a Joja Drone character made purely for helping out Joja Corp and doing other horrible things. Mods will be avoided until the latter end of the LP, when there's not much else going on and I feel like I could stand to speed a few things up. As stated, the LP uses Version 1.2, though I will also show off 1.3 and multiplayer. My co-commentators are YamiNoSenshi and IrishRodent. Yami is a fellow Bokujou Monogatari fan but has not played Stardew, while IR has played enough of Stardew for everyone in our Discord. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                           -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  (By Natália Santos)  (By MonsterMomma)  (By Xel Esparza)  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Something I've wanted to do as an addition to this thread since the beginning is take a look at a similar game that I've enjoyed for many months now, and which Skippy Granola recently picked up himself: My Time at Portia. It's a crafting/construction game in the vein of many such games on Steam right now, (Rust, ARK, Minecraft, etc), except the crafting isn't a hollow replacement du jour for an incomplete concept. Crafting is the point, and so the developers, Pathea Games, built the game around it and populated it with its own unique art direction, characters and worldbuilding. The result fits nicely between Minecraft, Animal Crossing, and a bit of Stardew Valley. Portia is still in early access, but the devs are constantly adding to it and improving the quality-of-life, and though yes, it can be pretty grindy, it's already a relaxing and engaging game that Skippy and I both recommend. If that doesn't convince you, then at least enjoy our adventures with grumpy, honey-voiced grandma Lurmph.     
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 ---The Game--- Cute sells. Slime poop sells. Apparently. Combine the two, and you have Monomi Park's adorable indie darling Slime Rancher. While similar in core premise to Harvest Moon - take over a ranch and work it until you're filthy rich - Slime Rancher is instead a casual, relaxed FPS. Take care of slimes of many varied types and natures; suck up everything with your vacpack a'la Luigi's Mansion; explore a large, colorful world filled with secrets and treasures; and maybe learn a little something about yourself and the nature of love. ...Huh? ---The Story--- You are Beatrix LeBeau, an adventurous human who's bought a ranch on the distant planet(?) The Far, Far Range. She's traveled 1000 light years and spent a year in hypersleep, and as soon as she arrives, she's ready to hop to work. The world is inhabited almost entirely by slimes, and their post-food refuse, "plorts", sell for lots of Newbucks on the market. Strapped with a vacpack in desperate need of upgrades, Beatrix will scour the world for slimes and treasures of many kinds in the pursuit of her fortune. She's not entirely alone, as several colorful characters will send her letters and requests to help her out, and even Beatrix's ex, Casey, shares some sweet letters to bring her up to speed after Beatrix's year in hypersleep. The ranch's previous owner, Hobson, has also left many messages around the Range describing the world and his time there. And funnily enough, his ruminations on love and a past relationship seem to mirror Beatrix and Casey's story... Deep storytelling in a slime poop tycoon game? We're pleasantly surprised too. ---The LP--- This is a 100% LP collecting every slime, upgrade, achievement, treasure pod, Slimepedia entry, etc. Nothing goes untouched. The LP uses Version 1.1.2 through Part 10, and additional content updates are shown until the LP concludes on Version 1.4.0. My co-commentators are JigglyJacob and TorpidTypist. Torpo is familiar with the game while Jacob is new to it but an enthusiast of the cute. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  (By Natália Santos) - Slime Bikini Fashion  (By Ousire, Twitter) - Felt Rad Slime  (By Fish Noise) - Geop Slime 
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Check out this fantastic interpretation of 8357 from Natália Santos!
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Leal posted:However, they're fine with getting mead, unless it was changed in a patch. They appear to still enjoy getting honey crunk. Honked.
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Slime Rancher begins, joined by JigglyJacob and TorpidTypist! It's adorable and deceptively horrific!
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Making more headway into our first week, meeting more townsfolk, and a brief look at the bizarrely most difficult thing in the game. I finally beat Prairie King later in the LP.
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EponymousMrYar posted:Gold slime day three, ok, that's pretty lucky. A quote from Yami a bit later in the LP: "Is the thread title going to be 'I Got Pretty Lucky Here'?" Because I do. A lot. Nalesh posted:Also, the only thing I know about the npcs in this game is that Abigail literally eats gems Yep, her default 'like' message is "How did you know I was hungry?", and that includes most gems and quartz. The exception is Amethyst and Prismatic Shards, since they're loved gifts.
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Took all day before I could upload this due to router problems. Got it sorted though, so you all get to enjoy burns and radiation poisoning with us. Let's make nuke slimes!
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Chimera-gui posted:Is it possible to move the Phosphor Slimes into the cave? Presumably you'd have to do it at night to avoid accidentally killing them. You could, but there's no good sense in moving a slime once you've made a pen and solar shield for them. It's just extra time and money spent. The exception may be moving puddle slimes to a farm extension we haven't seen yet that has its own built-in pond, but it's a bit too out of the way to really be useful.
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Stardew Valley A cat with a normal name? It was clearly named by someone else. This week unlocks the meat of the game and the LP: the community center and the mines. Yay for more killing!
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Slime Rancher Delicious and dangerous. We unlock some new locations to explore, including a lovely forest with well-hidden raccoon jerks.
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Stardew Valley 8357 completes her form assimilation and TheStrawhatNO brand recognition, while I'm coming for Highwang's title of "filthy lucker".
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Slime Rancher Today calls for expansions for the ranch, new ways to suck resources right from the ground, and some slight Jurassic Park-ing.
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Stardew Valley When fighting your enemies, use their friends' heads against them.
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Slime Rancher What could be inside all of these treasure pods? And what's on the other side of this ancient plort door? Stuff for me.
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Stardew Valley Nothing says Stardew Valley like an update with dancing, acid dreams, and alcoholic tragedy.
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Glazius posted:What are you spring-locked for, bundle-wise? Forage, crops... any fish? Just the forage and crops. Every Spring fish in the bundles can be caught in other seasons, and nothing else seems to be Spring-specific, at least that can't easily be filled by something else. ThornBrain fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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Slime Rancher This week, we choose a door.
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Stardew Valley The Summer heat is upon us, but luckily I can cool down in the snowy mines. And in all of the loving STORMS.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:I think I actually have gotten a fiddlehead fern on the forest farm. It's a pretty uncommon spawn, though, I might have found one or two the whole season vs. the handful in the Secret Woods I got later in the summer. Morels definitely spawn on the forest farm and they're normally only Secret Woods forage too. All I know is it's the only thing I never found playing two in-game years with a forest farm. Perhaps it was made possible with a later patch?
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Glazius posted:How expensive are those fermenting things to get going, anyway? It seems odd you've still only got one when you've got multiple forges and mayo things and recyclers. Not very expensive at all. I stock up on them pretty soon. The kegs cost oak resin though, so those take some time.
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Slime Rancher I've gotten pretty rich this LP. I clearly haven't gotten rich enough. Let's get golden.
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Stardew Valley The first steps towards romance, the first steps away from their parents.
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Slime Rancher Treasure is mine, the Retreat is mine, the regret is mine.
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Slime Rancher Last bit of achievement farming and atrocity-committing before the 1.2 update content next week.
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Stardew Valley Time to mush them shrooms and pump them kins. It's Fall!
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Slime Rancher Here's the last bit of Slime Rancher before the LP goes into hiatus. It will be back once a video's worth of new content has been added to the game. We got some drat good fun with the unlikeliest of people, and then a good example of modern games being able to improve themselves post-release.
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Stardew Valley Will my inadvertent procrastination pay off with a still-impressive grange display? Only the single judge can know. (Updating today instead of Monday due to a CPU failure, and I want my schedule clear ahead of time just in case it's not fixed on Sunday.)
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It's illegal for mayors to love. But not for chickens to be blue.
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Something I've wanted to do as an addition to this thread since the beginning is take a look at a similar game that I've enjoyed for many months now, and which Skippy Granola recently picked up himself: My Time at Portia. It's a crafting/construction game in the vein of many such games on Steam right now, (Rust, ARK, Minecraft, etc), except the crafting isn't a hollow replacement du jour for an incomplete concept. Crafting is the point, and so the developers, Pathea Games, built the game around it and populated it with its own unique art direction, characters and worldbuilding. The result fits nicely between Minecraft, Animal Crossing, and a bit of Stardew Valley. Portia is still in early access, but the devs are constantly adding to it and improving the quality-of-life, and though yes, it can be pretty grindy, it's already a relaxing and engaging game that Skippy and I both recommend. If that doesn't convince you, then at least enjoy our adventures with grumpy, honey-voiced grandma Lurmph.
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Nothing like a prick rival you can't befriend. Also no, Sam's not Tiana. She doesn't voice in this.
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Stardew Valley Fortune favors getting your rear end kicked by flying snakes.
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