Grab your pitchfork and put in your sturdiest boots, readers – it’s as soon as once more time to reap the pastoral delights of small-town farm life. Story Of Seasons: Friends Of Mineral Town, Xseed Games’ same-subtitled remake of the 2003’s Harvest Moon launch, is now out on Steam. One to be careful for, if you happen to fancy Stardew Valley‘s mix of farming, fishing and romancin’ with extra of a cutesy chibi aptitude.
I may do with a soak in a scorching spring myself as soon as the day’s over, thoughts. These tiny farmers don’t know the way good they’ve it.
If you’ve performed, effectively, any of our favourite Stardew Valley-likes, you’ll know the drill. Coming into possession of your gramps’ previous farm, you’ll must sow your individual crops, steady up some delightfully chunky animals, all whereas attending to know the oldsters hanging round in Mineral Town. You’ll in all probability get to know one or two of them actual effectively, if you happen to catch my drift.
As the primary Story Of Seasons game to launch on PC alongside its console friends, FOMT has been given the 4K therapy and may correctly help mouse and keyboard controls. The 17-year-old handheld game’s additionally been given a smooth 3D look, with plump characters waddling over watercolour landscapes. It’s hardly the sharpest trying game round, certain, and the type isn’t fairly my bag. But it’s received a cutesy allure, and definitely appears to be like lots nicer than Harvest Moon’s quite naff PC debut, Light of Hope.
When she penned her listing of games like Stardew Valley, Katherine lamented that Light Of Hope simply “wasn’t as satisfying to play as Back to Nature or Friends Of Mineral Town.” She’ll be glad to know, then, that Story Of Seasons: Friends Of Mineral Town is out now on Steam for £43/€50/$50.
