Relaxing and emotional harvestella music

So much about this game is great honestly. Problem is the forum khias just listen to their favorite bandwagoner youtuber and take whatever opinion they have and don't actually play the games. That's why we can't have nice things, and the only stuff we're getting from square enix now is obnoxiously priced ports of old games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYn-4T8xr4

I made a topic about how this is a true hidden gem in the Steam Sale (it's only PC and Switch). I picked it up then and it actually made me want to play Stardew Valley more, which really isn't a bad thing. Even if I am playing Stardew Valley at this moment. I am definitely going back to Harvestella, I just strangely had a strange urge to give Stardew another try even if the combat, graphics, characters, quests (some of this is certainly in a debatable or preference of look state) are worse.

Harvestella has this really well designed quest system were a lot of them are multi layered and you'd do an earlier one and think it's just a one off, like "Oh I heard this house has ghosts" and then that won't be the end of it as you progress the game and will get built upon.

I was shocked to see the company who made Enderlillies made this game, that surely was a bigger game for them and more of a hit with the players of the two. I feel like Harvestella flopped and I don't think it is a sixty dollar game, it's certainly worth a play for 20 despite some awkward dialogue and I suppose just Switch graphics do not hinder it that much.

Kamil posted...

I made a topic about how this is a true hidden gem in the Steam Sale (it's only PC and Switch). I picked it up then and it actually made me want to play Stardew Valley more, which really isn't a bad thing. Even if I am playing Stardew Valley at this moment. I am definitely going back to Harvestella, I just strangely had a strange urge to give Stardew another try even if the combat, graphics, characters, quests (some of this is certainly in a debatable or preference of look state) are worse.

Harvestella has this really well designed quest system were a lot of them are multi layered and you'd do an earlier one and think it's just a one off, like "Oh I heard this house has ghosts" and then that won't be the end of it as you progress the game and will get built upon.

I was shocked to see the company who made Enderlillies made this game, that surely was a bigger game for them and more of a hit with the players of the two. I feel like Harvestella flopped and I don't think it is a sixty dollar game, it's certainly worth a play for 20 despite some awkward dialogue and I suppose just Switch graphics do not hinder it that much.

The story is really good too but you need to play further into it to get the whole story. It really gets quite esoteric and abstract right near the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z21tu5OJDs

Here's a song I really liked from the game. I also love the Night theme at the farm. The story does intrigue. I think my topic here archived here, strange because I still wanted to give it praise even if I am playing the indie farming game finally again.

SketchDog posted...

The story is really good too but you need to play further into it to get the whole story. It really gets quite esoteric and abstract right near the end.

I get it so far at least I think I do, but I hope it doesn't do a FFT sorta story at the end, but regardless of that, I feel it has been a nicely designed game. The farming is fun sure it's not very complex (has some nice QoLs though eh!) and the combat is rather basic. Also easy to overlevel (meh on that but it wasn't complex anyway) just farming for a couple days sent my levels above the regular enemies maybe that was intentional to get me to take more chances on the dangerous FOEs!

This game has exceptionally good sidequests. Not sure how I'd completely be a sourpuss on the game by the end. We should try and sell a couple copies ;P

Well the story gets more and more interesting as you go on. Right at the end the concepts get very abstract but I get what they were going for. But some of it is kind of hard to put into words even though you might understand what they are trying to say. It's not like FFT at all.

I didn't finish chapter three fwiw, I have another town left but I was doing the spring and summer towns at the same time. And it turned fall several days ago, I was trying to set up some crops and complete some minor quests before I got too far ahead. It's an excellent game I do think in its structure and story telling so far, though there are some stilted dialog choices. The running animation looks like someone just hit 3wd on the engine (I honestly don't like those speed up mechanics at least constantly makes the game look terrible).

SO here are some choices:

"It's terrible it happened, bad things are happening in town. Edited a bit because of lighter spoilers and sometimes your responses are: What's terrible? I don't understand? or I want to help!"

I still like this game so far quite a bit. I just don't want anyone thinking this game is amazing, but I feel like it got overlooked and dumped on too early. Buy this game and make Livewire make another Harvestella though I am sure Square Enix own the name and don't like it since it was a money pit.

First good topic I've seen from you

Not my alt. Which is weird for me to type, but I did close a topic about this game. This topic was made by a perpetual line stepper. (heh) to my knowledge. I remember I would just have 20 bells ringing because they were just silly board hunt posts. And now I have none so just. I don't want to dump much personal stuff here, it's just sometimes I'd notice when someone pops up my topic for not what I want and figure, I'd just close them on CE if I make it. This does fail on other boards where it just rots in my AMP now. So meh. This game inspired me to play Stardew Valley more which is odd but I like it and glad I am going to work through overtime for the price I paid.

I'm surprised so many people here like it. I usually eat these farming games up, and I'm almost always fine with budget RPGs, but this just wasn't it. The farming progression is insanely slow, the combat sucks, and the quests are the worst I've ever seen. The music is good, but as of where I left off, there aren't too many tracks.

Two people here like it. And I am not sure how real all this is. The game is slow for two chapters. The quests are overall great actually, just sometimes as I said the dialogue is odd. The combat well is simple and easy to over level because farming for a few days in a row in summer just rocketed up my levels. I wish the balance was better. It's basically just a button masher in its most fun moments unless it's a boss fight anyway. All's well that ends well.

All's well that ends well? Granted I was playing this again last night and for some reason I wasn't quite feeling it. I think it is a still decent game especially for a 20 spot. I just oddly wanted to play Stardew Valley again.

Kamil posted...

And I am not sure how real all this is.

If this is in reference to my post, I was being completely serious. I played for over 15 hours, taking care to do every side quest as they appeared.

Kamil posted...

Granted I was playing this again last night and for some reason I wasn't quite feeling it.

I slowly began to dislike it the more I played, and by the end, I was full of loathing. Every aspect of the game feels improperly balanced. You say it gets better, but to my way of thinking, a person probably sees the best of most games in the first chunk (maybe not the very beginning because some things take a while to get going) because if the budget is going to go, it'll go later.

So sez the words of somebody? I should have never closed my topic. That was really stupid. The topic sez it is about the music, that doesn't mean ya'll can't talk about the game too. It can get repetitive. There is so far one only goofy/silly song and the more reflective/down trodden songs can get used a bit too often. I do overall still like the music. The game is a solid 25 dollar effort sold as a 60 dollar Square Enix game that flopped on the Switch to my knowledge.

I will still say that the side quests are extremely well done. Also odd to think this company went on to make Enderlillies. I also am liking this winter zone area as I got farther and I unlocked the prestigious gunner class! Yes more button mashing :P Well it's more fun than holding a button to attack :P Plus you can change ammo.