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Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
Released On: Jul 14, 2020
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8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
77
69% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
29% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
77
69% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
29% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Overall, the game very much feels like the very best of the original Harvest Moon title mixed with the newer mechanics and ideas that have been developed in the Story of Seasons franchise. It's a perfect mesh of old and new that feels well pitched for both veterans and newcomers to enjoy. If you're looking for a relaxing game to calm your mind at the end of the day, then Story Of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is here to fill that gap.
A relaxing game, a brilliant remake, and if you like farming games you’ll be happy as a pig in mud.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 77 User Ratings
8.1
81% Positive
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
9% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 77 User Ratings
8.1
81% Positive
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
9% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
When I finished up my play of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I didn't think there be a game out there that would fill the void New Horizons gave me, but thankfully I am wrong. Friends of Mineral Town may be a remake of an older GBA game, but with enough fixes to make gameplay to make it easier, and the access to **** marriage has enhanced this little GBA game to be just tops. Honestly it's shocking how good a game can be by simply adding Lesbians into it, and along with the simple yet addictive nature it is to make crops and build your farm from scratch really makes you feel like you accomplished something. There is still plenty of game to be made, but it's nice to know that I have a wonderful wife, a neat little town to visit, and a farm to build even further.
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Nintendo Switch
100% nostagial jaja pero en todo es mejor que cualquier HM o SoS, las cutscene y el control de lo mejor que tiene.
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Nintendo Switch
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town brings several aspects that players of the genre, and especially longtime fans of the franchise will appreciate as a remake, but could have improved the experience with more personalizations and more depth through never seen before content.
The videogame arrives on Nintendo Switch with a graphic face lift and improved menus but without too many new features. It perfectly maintains the essence of the original but with a clear focus on the GBA version.
Friends of Mineral Town is a great way to spend time having a quiet, virtual life as a farmer. It’s a slow-paced game, but it’s also ideal if you just want to sit back and relax and enjoy the country life.
Despite its age, simplicity, and lack of embellishments, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town proves the Bokujō Monogatari franchise has been on the money since the very beginning. Its content may feel a little sparse compared to its successors and competitors, but I can see myself returning to these lands long after the next harvest moon.
Like many other life simulators, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town will probably benefit from sunk cost fallacy (if you make it past the first 20 hours, why not another 20?), but if you want a farm sim to wholeheartedly commit to, seek your pleasure elsewhere.
At last a farming sim game that I can sink my teeth into. I was thoroughly disappointed with the last two SoS entries but this game makes up for all that. You start out as usual with a small section of the farm and it grows more and more addictive from there. New areas are unlocked after amassing the required funs and materials. There's so much variety, you won't get bored. You can pretty much develop the farm exactly how you want it. There's fencing, paths, decorations etc.
If i had to complain about something, I'd say there are some framerate and loading time issues. However these will be patched soon, or so I hear.
I love this game!
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Nintendo Switch
First let me get this out of the way, I'm not saying Friends of Mineral Town is a bad game. I found the game fun for the first in-game year of playing it, however the mid to late game left A LOT to be desired. If I played this game before playing **** Valley, I probably would've had a more enjoyable time. I hope that other games within this franchise, be that Olive Town or Rune Factory give me a bit more of a better experience than Mineral Town's remake.
Let's start with the positives and some of the stuff I think this game does better than **** Valley.
First, I think the after marriage content is a little better. Town's people tend to comment on your marriage outside of the relatives of the person you married.
Another positive is the fact you are a little more involved with your animals. While it never came up during my playthrough, I have seen and heard of the fact that your animals can get sick. This was an upside to me, it makes up keeping your animals more realistic than just getting the produce from them. I also like the idea of the pregnancy kits, so that way you can control pregnancy in your animals more easily. In **** you can only toggle if the animal can get pregnant or not.
One thing that felt absolutely useless in **** but not here was the hot spring, it was within a reasonable distance that actually using it is an option. In ****, the thing is so far away that it's basically useless.
I can't say much for the male events, but I did enjoy the heart events for the heroines a bit more than the ones in ****. I think the only **** one I like just as much is Haley's heart events.
As for any other positives? I can't really think of many. Just about everything felt a decade old and just felt a bit off.
What did I not like or think could be improved on?
First, the late game content. This game lacks any real system of unlocking things as you progress. You basically only get upgrades to your tools and that's it. Other unlockables in the game are tied to upgrading buildings, and not really all that interesting to do. I went my entire game without upgrading the hoe or the fishing rod. I probably would've went the whole game without upgrading anything but my watering can if wood and stone wasn't a requirement in massive quantities for upgrading the house.
My second biggest concern was just how repetitive and monotonous the soundtrack is. It's just the same five songs. 1 per season and 1 for the town. I got so sick of hearing the soundtrack repeat itself. The best soundtrack in the game is the town track, that's the only one I actually enjoyed.
I did some research on my own and found that mineral town's remake actually took some stuff out of the original game. Personally, some of these things should've been in the game and tied to maybe another difficulty. I absolutely think your animals dying if not being properly cared for and the love interests being able to marry other people. Personally, I think that would've been an amazing addition to a difficulty modifier for a difficulty harder than the current hardest difficulty.
I also felt like the community just wasn't as involved with each other with just how many NPCs are missing from the festivals. The whole town is hyped for this one event but only 5 to 6 people show up. Really?
Now for the stuff which I see a lot of debate around. I see no difference in the amount of stuff to do in a day compared to **** valley outside of the gameplay loop they present. For me, both games let me set my own pace and I don't feel pressured to play them any faster.
Overall, my biggest gripe with the game is that it feels like an exact copy of a much older game. It feels like it doesn't do much more than a graphical and engine update to an old game. It adds characters for sure, but it doesn't add onto the gameplay loop and doesn't update the old features to a more modern standard. Since this seems to be the case, I'll rate both harvest moon: Friends of Mineral town and Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral town.
TLDR:
- Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town: 8.5/10
For it's time the game would have been great to play, the characters seem interesting, and the stories told shares light on everyone while providing a gun experience for everyone.
- Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral: 6.5/10
The remake feels like it just wanted to do the bare minimum and just redo the original. While the new things added were good story wise, the gameplay suffers as being boring and monotonous after the first year. Maybe if this was my first game in this genre, I would've liked it more, but it wasn't.
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Nintendo Switch
The biggest problem with Friends of Mineral Town is honestly? Its just not that good, it's a significant grindfest with annoying quirks and the only reason for the remasters is to play on the nostalgia factor of the original Harvest Moon fans, and yes, I played every single Harvest Moon game since the original and they just haven't aged well at all, especially compared to all the other Farming/Life sims on the market which do everything better.
As others have stated, Xseed has childproofed many aspects and removed any rivals, whilst they added a few QOL improvements, it is still quite basic for 2020+ unfortunately the earlier SoS games including this are really strictly for fans of the original Harvest Moon series, newer players will find much better farming and life sim games elsewhere.
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Nintendo Switch
Unfortunately, I am relatively disappointed with this remake. The graphics are nice, the gameplay itself still works well and the characters are nicely designed, but unfortunately there is virtually no conflict between the characters anymore. And therein lies my problem with the game and the series in general. The whole community seems smoothed out, there's just something missing. There are no rivals like in the original, which means that the lives of the same-aged residents are basically static. I loved the original, but it unfortunately lost the very things that made it special for me. For example, even after several ingame years, there were still various events between the other couples, problems that needed to be solved. Not necessarily by oneself, but between the characters, that gave the relationships and inhabitants the appearance of existence. I notice the same problem with other titles in the series. The games don't captivate me the way they used to, because other than the tighter circumstances around your character, there's no development, much less conflict, and generally too little change. It feels more like a dollhouse instead of a simulation of life in a community, where everything ends up back where it was. It's really a shame that these principles have become entrenched over time in the series.
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Nintendo Switch
•Gráficamente es basura
•Los menús no son nada intuitivos
•No cuenta con un radar para los NPC
•Muchos de los SFX son espantosos y molestos.
Para ser un Remake está bastante mediocre.
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Nintendo Switch
Summary Originally released for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2003, STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town is a complete remake that will let series fans revisit the charming world of Mineral Town, while also introducing it to a new generation of farmers. In this peaceful setting, players will grow crops, take care of animals, and build re...
Rated E +10
for Everyone +10
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
- PC
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date: Jul 14, 2020
Developer:
- Marvelous Inc.
Publisher: XSEED Games
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