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 Website: http://www.storyofseasons.com/ Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town comes out on March 23, 2021  What is Story of Seasons? Story of Seasons is one of the longest running franchises in the Farming Sim genre. In the past 25 years it has put out 28 titles and uh used to be a household name in the west. It was localized from 1996-2012 in the west as Harvest Moon, when Marvelous decided to partner with XSeed to localize them instead of Natsume. Confusingly, Natsume got to keep the name for some reason and now produces its own 'Harvest Moon' games which mostly serves just to confuse the hell out of everyone. Regardless of weird name shenanigans, there's a pretty basic gameplay loop universal to all the games. You're a new farmer taking over a small farm and you spend your time tending to animals, growing crops and hanging out with your neighbors as you try to make your farm larger and more successful. They're very chill with few games having any sort of over-arching time limits.. In almost every game in the series you can also get married and have a child, and as of the most recent games they even are finally consistently putting gay options in! The games are also in general really adorable with fun character designs and a lot of NPC dialogue and events that let you feel like you're really living in a small town/abandoned island/Feuding Japanese and old West towns/magical harvest dimension (some of the games get really weird and experimental).  Sweet, What are the most recent games?  The most recent release was a remake of perennial favorite game Friends of Mineral Town on the Nintendo Switch. A meaty and fun update to the original in glorious 480p or whatever the Switch puts out. You play as 'INSERT NAME HERE', a young adult who inherits an old farm from an old man who you met for like a week a decade earlier. It doesn't waste much time getting down to brass tacks and giving you freedom to have your new farm succeed or fail while you run around making friends and getting an adorable dog. Upcoming Games  Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town is upcoming and the first all new entry in the series for Switch. Its a bit of a back to basics entry after the last few non-remake games went a bit heavy on gimmicks in their premises quote:Inspired by tales of their grandfather's pioneering days, the protagonist decides to pack their bags and leave the hustle and bustle of big city life for the frontier in Olive Town. It will also be the first game in the series to offer a season pass of DLC which will add a lot of new content with 5 planned waves of DLC quote:Part 1 – April 2021 Rune Factory One of the more notable spinoffs is Rune Factory, which takes traditional Harvest Moon stuff and ramps the anime up to 11 along with introducing action-RPG gameplay and dungeon diving elements with combat and monster taming. It also has just an insane amount of character work and dialogue, you can talk to just about every villager daily for like a year without them ever repeating themselves. After a long hiatus, a new entry in the series is hitting Switch later this year, release date TBD. I am insanely excited for it.  Other games you might like: Stardew Valley ( thread)  So yes, now please use this thread for any and all Farming Sim discussion and arguments about who the best villagers are.
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I'm going to be picking it up in a dew days just because it came out right when I was in the process of a cross country move and will be updating the OP with some more info
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happyalloy posted:Hello all! If I've never played a Harvest Moon or Rune Factory game before, which one of the games should I get for the Switch: Rune Factory 4, SoS: FOMT, or SoS:PoOT? Or should I just start a second farm on Stardew Valley? (I played my first game of SV back when 1.4 came out, so I haven't tried out the 1.5 additions yet). Any advice would be appreciated; I'm just so indecisive (and the somewhat mixed reviews on Olive Town aren't helping I'd recommend Rune Factory 4 out of those, its a fantastic game with an absolutely absurd amount of character writing and content.
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Rynoto posted:Considering it's your first RF just strap in and enjoy the ride. Do all the requests from the box you can per day and don't be afraid to cancel them if you can't complete them right away as they're your tutorials. Don't be fooled by the credits screens. CRAFT. CRAFT. CRAFT. When you run into the giant level 50 chicken early on you can absolutely cheese poo poo by throwing random things at it until you tame it which lets you run hilariously rampant over the early/mid game. And you can repeat this to bootstrap yourself into post game areas by repeatedly taming monsters way stronger than you.
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LeFishy posted:The RF5 release has got me wanting to play a new anime farming game but I’m torn. 5 is off the cards because it just doesn’t look nice to me so I’m deciding between RF4 and PoOT. RF4 blows PoOT out of the water imo. Tons more villager interaction and content on top of what I find are just better systems and you have the whole combat side of the game. You can also automate the hell out of your farming with an army of monsters which is cool as hell.
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The RF3 character is a kung fu Sheep that suplexes enemies and frankly every other RF MC before or since has never lived up to that.
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