Mining is a test of stamina and occasional mole-battling, and though there aren't skips to help you to get to lower levels immediately, it'll eventually take you the best part of a day to get to the bottom of the third mine. deformed (there's no way a cow with that big of a face could survive), and it's easy to unlock new ones, since they appear wild on your farm every season (in the first year, at least) and you can tame them to add them to your collection. The animals are extremely cute, if a little.
Mining, farming, fishing, and animal care will take up most of your time while you wait, though, and all of them are as satisfying as you'd hope for, in a game that's about those things. What's more, you can only cook one meal at a time – even if you want to just make multiples of the same thing, you can't – and the Seed Maker, which is the only way to turn high-quality crops into higher-quality seeds, is slow, and can only process one crop at a time. There are still a few bottlenecks, like the fact that cooking takes half an hour, even if you're just making Hot Milk. It's almost a full-time job to handle it all. For some reason, those Makers take one item at a time, and so, to make any progress, you'll need roughly a hundred of them chugging along. It'll take players a long time to warm up to the idea that everything is handled with Makers – the game's version of processing units, which turn raw materials into usable and saleable items, like wool into yarn, ore into ingots, and wood into lumber. Does Pioneers of Olive Town return triumphant, or does Stardew continue to reign supreme?Īs we said in our preview, Pioneers of Olive Town is disappointing in the first season.
It's not very interesting, so to summarise: Story of Seasons is the original, and Harvest Moon (as it is now) is a cheap pretender to the throne.īut in the past few years, even though the rival Harvest Moon games have decreased rapidly in quality, the Story of Seasons series has floundered all the same – and Stardew Valley came to take its crown. Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town might not bear the Harvest Moon title that would identify it as a continuation of the beloved series, but that's all down to copyright, Japanese-to-English translation, and a schism between XSEED and Natsume.
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