Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town announced!

[Ossiran]

That is indeed a new trailer, at least on the English side.

 

[Lady Timpani]

A new JP trailer and some gameplay footage! I've had my reservations about the graphics, but I think it looks better when someone's actually playing it. Idk if it's just the camera angle they've been using in the promotional footage up until now or what.

 

[Ossiran]

Japanese version is out already. Heads-up for those trying to avoid spoilers, or those who want to know as much as possible about the game.

 

[Burumun]

Ignore this, I messed up. ^^;

 

[Burumun]

Fogu's roundup is making me wonder if getting the game is worth it now, or if I should just pick up my 3oT file again. It sounds like both farming and friendship aren't that great in this one.

Some EU streamers are getting English copies next week, though, for anyone interested in checking it out.

 

[Lady Timpani]

Fogu's roundup is making me wonder if getting the game is worth it now, or if I should just pick up my 3oT file again. It sounds like both farming and friendship aren't that great in this one.

Some EU streamers are getting English copies next week, though, for anyone interested in checking it out.

Reddit has also been having this discussion for the past few days. I had already decided I'd wait for the JP release and then preorder if it seemed good, but this officially turned me off preordering.

I'm hoping we'll be able to get a better feel for things once there's a Western release. There seem to be some pretty cool things going on-- some of the candidates have baby pictures!-- but there are other things that make me pretty hesitant to buy it right away.

 

[Ossiran]

I'm still interested in the game, but I admit there being so few holidays and not a lot to do post-marriage is quite disappointing. Here's hoping they add some (hopefully free) DLC updates to it.

 

[Ossiran]

There was a Japanese developer update post made. There's a patch coming to Japanese version in mid-March (which should hopefully be available for western players at launch). The patch will fix several bugs and address things like frame rate for large farms and load times, as well as adjust the game balance.

They confirmed there will be additional features added to the game down the road. They're also taking feedback into consideration regarding things like portraits and features that are not as immersive.

 

[Sharksheep]

If they are planning on adding more features in the future, I might just wait on this one and get it a few months or a year after the NA release. I haven't played a Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game since Island of Happiness and Rune Factory 5 is also coming out and I like the fighting aspect in Rune Factory more.

I've been spoiled by Stardew Valley and its mods so it's hard for me to want to pay $40+ for another clone of the same farm sim.

 

[Burumun]

I'm also starting to think waiting on this one might be better. If they release physical copies of the game here, they'll probably go down to €30 almost instantly, anyway, lol.

 

[Holla]

To people on the fence there is no shame in waiting on this one. I’ve personally bought all these games day one since A New Beginning but I won’t be getting this one at launch.

The number of problems I’ve heard it has will cause me disappointment and make me want my money back. If they add in a bunch of improvements via post launch updates then I may get the game later on, but as it stands right now it’s an easy pass for me.

The main producer for the series was also not a part of the development on this so that could partially explain why this entry is lacking. He did work on Rune Factory 5 though so I’m hoping that it will turn out much better than SOS is looking like.

TLDR: If you are unsure about this game don’t be afraid to wait and see if they improve it with future updates. I’d save your money for now if I were you.

 

[mogyay]

im seriously considering cancelling my pre order after reading a lot of reviews and comments on this esp as ive been playing a lot of stardew lately so this is just gonna seem to bad in comparison imo, i wish they had a UK release date for rune factory 5 bc i was just buying this to tide me over until that tbh aaaaaa

 

[Peach_Jam]

I may wait as well / : I didn't expect for there to be so many issues, and am a little sad. Though, they did issue an apology and promise to improve many things in a mid March patch, so perhaps I'll check back around then and see if it actually fixed anything important.

 

[Lady Timpani]

To people on the fence there is no shame in waiting on this one. I’ve personally bought all these games day one since A New Beginning but I won’t be getting this one at launch.

The number of problems I’ve heard it has will cause me disappointment and make me want my money back. If they add in a bunch of improvements via post launch updates then I may get the game later on, but as it stands right now it’s an easy pass for me.

The main producer for the series was also not a part of the development on this so that could partially explain why this entry is lacking. He did work on Rune Factory 5 though so I’m hoping that it will turn out much better than SOS is looking like.

TLDR: If you are unsure about this game don’t be afraid to wait and see if they improve it with future updates. I’d save your money for now if I were you.

I was going back and forth on preordering since none of the trailers and info ever really grabbed me. I was thinking maybe the JP release would sell me on it, but it's just made me decide to pick it up at a later date. I got Animal Parade for Christmas a year ago and never made much headway, so now might be the time, and there's also the new Stardew update.

 

[Holla]

I was going back and forth on preordering since none of the trailers and info ever really grabbed me. I was thinking maybe the JP release would sell me on it, but it's just made me decide to pick it up at a later date. I got Animal Parade for Christmas a year ago and never made much headway, so now might be the time, and there's also the new Stardew update.

Animal Parade is probably my favourite it’s definitely worth a play. It’s aged fairly well aside from quite a bit of loading times and janky camera but I loved everything else about it so I was easily able to look past those couple faults. I haven’t checked out the Stardew Valley update yet either. I probably should. At least there’s options of other things to play while we wait on seeing what they improve with the new game.

 

[Lady Timpani]

Animal Parade is probably my favourite it’s definitely worth a play. It’s aged fairly well aside from quite a bit of loading times and janky camera but I loved everything else about it so I was easily able to look past those couple faults. I haven’t checked out the Stardew Valley update yet either. I probably should. At least there’s options of other things to play while we wait on seeing what they improve with the new game.

Yeah I've heard about the map being kind of difficult to traverse because it's so big and the loading times, but I've also heard a lot of other good things about it! Incidentally those are two pretty common complaints I've heard about this new entry, so hopefully there are some substantial positives that offset that.

 

[CafeBrewster]

Yeah I've heard about the map being kind of difficult to traverse because it's so big and the loading times, but I've also heard a lot of other good things about it! Incidentally those are two pretty common complaints I've heard about this new entry, so hopefully there are some substantial positives that offset that.

Ah yes I ADORE Animal Parade, it’s my favourite game of the series. You get used to the loading times eventually, and I don’t even mind not having character portraits because the models are just so cute!!

 

[Lady Timpani]

Ah yes I ADORE Animal Parade, it’s my favourite game of the series. You get used to the loading times eventually, and I don’t even mind not having character portraits because the models are just so cute!!

Have you ever played Tree of Tranquility? That was my fave console HM growing up but so many people say AP is better, so I'm looking forward to playing it!

 

[CafeBrewster]

I tried but for some reason I couldn’t get into it! The time was a huge problem for me, how fast it moved. I couldn’t get anything done!

 

[Elias_]

I haven't played the last few Story of Seasons games, but this one looks really promising. The customisation part reminds me a lot of A New Beginning, which I really liked.