A Wonderful Chat

Wed, Jul 12, 2023 Year 2, Summer 2

Kev and Micah talk about Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Timings

00:00:00: Theme Tune
00:00:30: Intro
00:03:53: What Have We Benn Up To
00:17:15: News
00:49:05: Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
01:54:32: Outro

Links

Research Story Update
Kynseed Update
Ikonei Island Update
Fabledom Update
Everdream Valley Update

Spirit of the Island
Cloudscape
Turnip Boy
Monster Patch
Gogo Town

Prehistoric Kingdom
Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
On Steam
On Switch

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Transcript

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[00:30.000 –> 00:34.000] Hello, farmers? Yeah, I think we’re still farmers.
[00:34.000 –> 00:36.000] Oh, are we supposed to do it at the same time?
[00:36.000 –> 00:41.000] I don’t know. I’ve never been in secret OWL once, I don’t think.
[00:41.000 –> 00:46.000] Okay, go ahead. You go ahead and do it. Let’s run it back.
[00:46.000 –> 00:51.000] Do we? No, I like this. This is what I like. This is what I love to give OWL.
[00:51.000 –> 00:56.000] Hi, farmers. Hello, farmers. Go for it, Micah.
[00:56.000 –> 01:01.000] Hello, farmers. Welcome to The Harvest.
[01:01.000 –> 01:06.000] Micah. He is Micah, I’m Kevin. OWL’s not here,
[01:06.000 –> 01:11.000] for good reason.
[01:11.000 –> 01:16.000] OWL is having
[01:16.000 –> 01:21.000] a heart attack editing this. That’s where he is.
[01:21.000 –> 01:26.000] Sorry, OWL. I’m not.
[01:26.000 –> 01:31.000] Gotta earn that paycheck.
[01:31.000 –> 01:36.000] Welcome to The Harvest season. We talk about Cottagecore,
[01:36.000 –> 01:41.000] whatever. Who cares? All I care about is this game right now, right here.
[01:41.000 –> 01:46.000] It’s a wonderful life. Story of Seasons, A Wonderful Life,
[01:46.000 –> 01:51.000] the big remake, the biggest thing to happen to Cottagecore since, I don’t know,
[01:51.000 –> 01:56.000] Stardew Valley, probably. It’s a big one. Yeah, it does
[01:56.000 –> 02:01.000] seem to have quite the excitement around it, which
[02:01.000 –> 02:06.000] understandable, coming from the GameCube era, I think a lot of people really
[02:06.000 –> 02:11.000] loved it. I guess I just wasn’t aware
[02:11.000 –> 02:16.000] until they announced the remake, how many people were excited about it.
[02:16.000 –> 02:21.000] Yeah, I mean, like, well, we’ll get into it, right? But like you said,
[02:21.000 –> 02:26.000] GameCube era, right? And there wasn’t a lot of competition for this type of game,
[02:26.000 –> 02:31.000] so I think anyone who’s a fan of it probably had a start
[02:31.000 –> 02:36.000] somewhere along the lines of the early Harvest Moon games.
[02:36.000 –> 02:41.000] Yeah. Okay, before we get into that, though,
[02:41.000 –> 02:46.000] we’ll do all the other stuff we always do. There’s actually a good chunk of news,
[02:46.000 –> 02:51.000] I think. I think. There is.
[02:51.000 –> 02:56.000] We’ve got a list here. Yeah, we’ll talk about these news that don’t matter.
[02:56.000 –> 03:01.000] I’d say that. I don’t know. I’ll probably freak out over one of them. Oh, gogotown’s on there.
[03:01.000 –> 03:06.000] Never mind. Okay. Anyways, but before that, just a reminder, transcripts are available
[03:06.000 –> 03:11.000] along with the show notes, et cetera, et cetera, on the website.
[03:11.000 –> 03:16.000] Also, Al wants us to mention that this is the last episode.
[03:16.000 –> 03:21.000] I don’t know if he’s announced. I haven’t listened to the last episode or two, but we have a
[03:21.000 –> 03:26.000] very special month coming up ahead. We’re doing a fishing month
[03:26.000 –> 03:31.000] about fishing games and fishing things in video games.
[03:31.000 –> 03:36.000] So it will be exciting. Yeah, Al will be
[03:36.000 –> 03:41.000] on vacation, so we won’t be actively editing. We won’t be having
[03:41.000 –> 03:46.000] up-to-date news as we have per usual, but there’ll be a bunch of fun
[03:46.000 –> 03:51.000] fishing content. Big the Cat will be mentioned multiple times, I promise.
[03:51.000 –> 03:56.000] Okay, but Micah, what have you been up to?
[03:56.000 –> 04:01.000] I have been playing
[04:01.000 –> 04:06.000] quite a few games. It’s a little wild right now.
[04:06.000 –> 04:11.000] Oh. You know, I don’t have
[04:11.000 –> 04:16.000] the most time in the world to play games, as much time as I would like
[04:16.000 –> 04:21.000] to have. Nobody does. But the time that I do have
[04:21.000 –> 04:26.000] is being kept very full between
[04:26.000 –> 04:31.000] Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, I still haven’t beaten.
[04:31.000 –> 04:36.000] I’ve got 230-something hours in the game. Holy moly.
[04:36.000 –> 04:41.000] A lot of that is, not a lot of it, there is a good
[04:41.000 –> 04:46.000] few hours there that has been like, I left it on while I was
[04:46.000 –> 04:51.000] working. Sure, sure, sure. And it just ran the clock on
[04:51.000 –> 04:56.000] standing in the shrine or whatever.
[04:56.000 –> 05:01.000] 30 hours of gameplay, 200 hours of Korok torture.
[05:01.000 –> 05:06.000] But I’ve done a lot in that game and I’m trying my best
[05:06.000 –> 05:11.000] to, this is how I play games like that, it’s completionist but with
[05:11.000 –> 05:16.000] the caveat of completing everything before I finish it.
[05:16.000 –> 05:21.000] Which is hard to stop myself from doing but
[05:21.000 –> 05:26.000] that’s just how I do it, I don’t know. I think it’s because
[05:26.000 –> 05:31.000] I know that if I beat the game I’m going to put it down and the likelihood that I’m going to pick it up
[05:31.000 –> 05:36.000] anytime soon is much lower. That’s super fair. I don’t want to get as much as I can out of it before
[05:36.000 –> 05:41.000] I hit the credits. Which, I mean, I get that
[05:41.000 –> 05:46.000] and the games, you know, I don’t need to say but the only
[05:46.000 –> 05:51.000] bad part is that’s a big game, that’s a beefy game.
[05:51.000 –> 05:56.000] Three maps, three maps. It’s huge.
[05:56.000 –> 06:01.000] It’s very good but yeah, it’s a big game. I am pretty much
[06:01.000 –> 06:06.000] at the point now where I’m ready to start
[06:06.000 –> 06:11.000] the process of the endgame and finish up the story and stuff.
[06:11.000 –> 06:16.000] Also, Final Fantasy 16 is an incredible game.
[06:17.000 –> 06:22.000] I was very excited for that. I wanted to finish Zelda before that came out so that I could focus on that.
[06:22.000 –> 06:27.000] I didn’t, obviously. So I played the
[06:27.000 –> 06:32.000] two hour demo that carried over, it carries your
[06:32.000 –> 06:37.000] game progress over. I played the two hour demo for that
[06:37.000 –> 06:42.000] hooked immediately. I played another couple hours and then I forced
[06:42.000 –> 06:47.000] myself to stop so that I could try to finish Zelda and I’m not going back to it until Zelda is done.
[06:47.000 –> 06:52.000] Very good game, so far at least.
[06:52.000 –> 06:57.000] Very different as far as JRPGs go.
[06:57.000 –> 07:02.000] Yeah. But very good, I like it.
[07:02.000 –> 07:07.000] Okay. And then Story of Seasons.
[07:07.000 –> 07:12.000] Yeah, that’s a game, isn’t it?
[07:12.000 –> 07:17.000] It is. And also something special that
[07:17.000 –> 07:22.000] took a break to play a bit of that we
[07:22.000 –> 07:27.000] may or may not talk about in the greenhouse.
[07:27.000 –> 07:32.000] You listeners will have to stick out to hear about that.
[07:32.000 –> 07:37.000] Yeah, I know about that game. I’ve heard about it. Mystery.
[07:37.000 –> 07:42.000] Now we’ve got him hooked. Alright, now we can drag him through the mud.
[07:42.000 –> 07:47.000] Well, let’s see.
[07:47.000 –> 07:52.000] Gaming is too good this year. There’s too many good things this year.
[07:52.000 –> 07:57.000] Then you stop, but then you slow down. Give me a little room to breathe.
[07:58.000 –> 08:03.000] So, I’ve been traveling a bit here and there.
[08:03.000 –> 08:07.000] So I’ve been doing a lot of mobile stuff as usual.
[08:07.000 –> 08:12.000] Marvel Snap, Pokemon Masters.
[08:12.000 –> 08:17.000] But when I do get some Switch, I guess it must have been Switch time.
[08:17.000 –> 08:22.000] I have played, well I play Pokemon Unite
[08:22.000 –> 08:27.000] as much as I can because I love that game. Did you ever try Unite, Micah?
[08:27.000 –> 08:32.000] I did, and I have some friends that play it very regularly and are
[08:32.000 –> 08:37.000] very good at it. And I see
[08:37.000 –> 08:42.000] how miserable it makes them. That’s correct.
[08:42.000 –> 08:47.000] And decide not to partake in it. I’m already not a big
[08:47.000 –> 08:52.000] boba person. You are a smart man.
[08:52.000 –> 08:57.000] As I do with most things Pokemon, I’ve forewent that to play
[08:57.000 –> 09:02.000] some Unite when it first came out. I played a good chunk of the first two
[09:02.000 –> 09:07.000] seasons, or maybe three seasons, two or three seasons, and then after that I was
[09:07.000 –> 09:12.000] kind of like, I can’t really keep up with this anymore. I got my cool
[09:13.000 –> 09:18.000] Venusaur skin, the Season Pass Venusaur skin, whenever that was. Maybe Season 3?
[09:18.000 –> 09:23.000] I don’t know. And then that was kind of it after that. Until they put
[09:23.000 –> 09:28.000] maybe Meganium or something in it, then probably not going to play much on it.
[09:28.000 –> 09:33.000] Famous last words because they’re going places.
[09:33.000 –> 09:38.000] I have my brother, so I play regularly because I play with him. So it’s obviously a lot more
[09:38.000 –> 09:43.000] fun when you have someone you can play on the regular.
[09:43.000 –> 09:48.000] Let’s see here. But anyways, I bring it up because
[09:48.000 –> 09:53.000] the last couple of months or whatever, they’ve been doing an
[09:53.000 –> 09:58.000] Eevee festival because they now are up to
[09:58.000 –> 10:03.000] five Eeveevolutions in the game, which means you can
[10:03.000 –> 10:08.000] now have a full team of Eevees. I did see that, yeah.
[10:08.000 –> 10:13.000] Who’s not included yet? They’ve got Sylveon, Umbreon, Espeon.
[10:13.000 –> 10:18.000] They have Gleafeon and Glaceon. Vaporeon? No.
[10:18.000 –> 10:23.000] They all start off as Eevee.
[10:23.000 –> 10:28.000] First one was Sylveon, then we got Glaceon, Espeon,
[10:28.000 –> 10:33.000] then over this asbestos, they added first
[10:33.000 –> 10:38.000] Umbreon and then Leafeon, and now they added the next
[10:38.000 –> 10:43.000] Eeveeon Inteleon.
[10:43.000 –> 10:48.000] My favorite Eeveelution.
[10:48.000 –> 10:53.000] The sniper one.
[10:53.000 –> 10:58.000] Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly,
[10:58.000 –> 11:03.000] to keep people hooked, they have not added the original three.
[11:03.000 –> 11:08.000] Maybe we do want Inteleon or Flareon.
[11:08.000 –> 11:13.000] Inteleon is kind of fun because he’s a sniper and he hides.
[11:13.000 –> 11:18.000] He’s like the secret agent design and he kind of plays like it, which is kind of cool.
[11:18.000 –> 11:23.000] The shenanigans over at Unite.
[11:23.000 –> 11:28.000] Other than that, I have been playing a lot of Story of Seasons because I enjoy this game.
[11:28.000 –> 11:33.000] Spoiler alert. I also
[11:33.000 –> 11:38.000] have played a demo of my own.
[11:38.000 –> 11:43.000] Pikmin 4. The Pikmin 4 demo.
[11:43.000 –> 11:48.000] Are you a Pikmin fan, Micah? Yes, I did also play the Pikmin 4 demo.
[11:48.000 –> 11:53.000] So I will say I was a little concerned about
[11:53.000 –> 11:58.000] Pikmin 4 because I read some early reviews and the whole Ochi, the little
[11:58.000 –> 12:03.000] doggy guy, I don’t know, they didn’t seem to be
[12:03.000 –> 12:08.000] focusing on the Pikmin stuff that I love.
[12:09.000 –> 12:14.000] I’m also biased though because I started with Pikmin 2 so I’m used to challenge.
[12:14.000 –> 12:19.000] But that said, the Pikmin 4 demo
[12:19.000 –> 12:24.000] has pretty much put those fears to rest
[12:24.000 –> 12:29.000] because it still plays like Pikmin. It’s a very, very pretty game I will say.
[12:29.000 –> 12:34.000] It is. I kind of agree that I wasn’t sure how the
[12:34.000 –> 12:39.000] gameplay was going to feel, if it would feel more
[12:39.000 –> 12:44.000] like classic Pikmin or if it would feel like a Pikmin game with Ochi.
[12:44.000 –> 12:49.000] But I found that it feels like it really speeds the
[12:49.000 –> 12:54.000] gameplay up a little bit more without losing the integrity of the
[12:54.000 –> 12:59.000] Pikmin gameplay. It lets you navigate those
[12:59.000 –> 13:04.000] maps a little bit better. Did you beat the demo?
[13:04.000 –> 13:09.000] I beat the demo. I did not do everything in the demo because I know some people who are min-maxing the
[13:09.000 –> 13:14.000] heck out of that demo because it’s like a limited demo where you hit a certain checkpoint
[13:14.000 –> 13:19.000] and then you can’t play anymore. But I just kind of played
[13:19.000 –> 13:24.000] naturally as I would without trying to min-max everything.
[13:25.000 –> 13:30.000] But yeah, it feels like Pikmin. There’s some things I wish
[13:30.000 –> 13:35.000] I really enjoyed the multiple captains that you could
[13:35.000 –> 13:40.000] control. It sounds like at some point Ochi might basically become that
[13:40.000 –> 13:45.000] because the upgrades get ridiculous on in my ear.
[13:45.000 –> 13:50.000] But I don’t know. We’ll see. Like I said, the main thing is it still feels like Pikmin.
[13:50.000 –> 13:55.000] I’m looking forward to it. Yeah, it’s kind of neat that
[13:55.000 –> 14:00.000] it’s got the like…
[14:00.000 –> 14:05.000] There are all of these other… They’re not all captains but like the
[14:05.000 –> 14:10.000] other… What is it? The rescue squad or whatever? All the different rescue squad
[14:10.000 –> 14:15.000] characters are interesting characters. They add something to it.
[14:15.000 –> 14:20.000] Yeah, it is. They unlock different features. You have your doctor and your
[14:20.000 –> 14:25.000] engineer and all the different stuff. So that is cool how they divided that up and kind of
[14:25.000 –> 14:30.000] tied it into the search and rescue thing. Yeah.
[14:30.000 –> 14:35.000] There is actually one complaint I will say about the demo. I feel like there’s a lot of text
[14:35.000 –> 14:40.000] which I’m not always opposed to but I don’t know. I’m just not used to in a Pikmin game
[14:40.000 –> 14:45.000] I guess. There’s a lot of text. There’s a lot of dialogue in that demo.
[14:45.000 –> 14:50.000] Yeah. It was also a very long demo. Like longer than I expected it to be.
[14:50.000 –> 14:55.000] Yeah. Yeah. I got a good maybe four hours out of it.
[14:55.000 –> 15:00.000] But I’m a fairly seasoned Pikmin veteran. Like I could jump in and hit the ground
[15:00.000 –> 15:05.000] running. I’m sure for anyone new, it’ll last you a good minute.
[15:06.000 –> 15:11.000] Yeah. Yeah. They give you. You have like a cut off where you
[15:11.000 –> 15:16.000] when you get to a certain point in the like doing enough like a certain
[15:16.000 –> 15:21.000] point in the story because it goes by days. Yeah. Well actually it’s
[15:21.000 –> 15:26.000] they tell you anything you can do in those days is like you can do whatever you want.
[15:26.000 –> 15:31.000] Yeah. It’s not even a certain number of days. They tell you you have to collect a certain number of
[15:31.000 –> 15:36.000] resources or whatever. Oh right. Yep. Yep. So you can if you just don’t collect the resource
[15:36.000 –> 15:41.000] you can keep playing ad nauseum. Just do whatever you want. Yeah.
[15:41.000 –> 15:46.000] So yeah. That’s that’s Pikmin 4. Looking forward to it. That game.
[15:46.000 –> 15:51.000] It’s I can’t believe it’s coming out.
[15:51.000 –> 15:56.000] You know how bad it is Michael. I heard something that hurt me bad the other day.
[15:57.000 –> 16:02.000] The entire Splatoon trilogy came out between Pikmin 3 and 4.
[16:04.000 –> 16:09.000] Wait like the like they they put it out on the
[16:09.000 –> 16:14.000] switch within that time or like they released in the same time it took
[16:14.000 –> 16:19.000] Pikmin 3 came out in 2013 Pikmin 4 comes
[16:19.000 –> 16:24.000] out this year and the entire Splatoon trilogy came out in between. There’s no
[16:24.000 –> 16:29.000] way Pikmin 3 came out in 2013. Live damage on air.
[16:30.000 –> 16:35.000] I see that was my reaction.
[16:38.000 –> 16:43.000] What do you mean. Straight to the heart. It was a decade.
[16:43.000 –> 16:48.000] Holy cow. OK. Oh pretty rough. Yeah.
[16:48.000 –> 16:53.000] That’s that comes out in a few weeks from like
[16:53.000 –> 16:58.000] two from day recording. Oh Pikmin. This is this is the
[16:58.000 –> 17:03.000] curse of being a Pikmin fan. But anyways
[17:05.000 –> 17:10.000] that that’s enough of what I’ve been up to. I’ve suffered enough. Thanks to you Pikmin.
[17:12.000 –> 17:17.000] Let’s see. So with that said let’s get into the news
[17:17.000 –> 17:22.000] let’s let’s see if we can take more damage from these news articles.
[17:22.000 –> 17:27.000] OK. First of all we have a research story
[17:27.000 –> 17:32.000] update. Alfie’s awesome automations. Let’s read
[17:32.000 –> 17:37.000] the blurb shall we. It’s version 0.3. I can’t keep track of all these early
[17:37.000 –> 17:42.000] access and whatnot. Oh it’s automation in the game.
[17:42.000 –> 17:47.000] Of course. All right Al. Al’s doing a happy dance I’m sure.
[17:47.000 –> 17:52.000] You can automate your farms and a lot of let’s see
[17:52.000 –> 17:57.000] gives a new progression goal for players to automate and optimize their farms. It is an important part of base
[17:57.000 –> 18:02.000] management and contributes to the overall quality of life by reducing repetition of tedious
[18:02.000 –> 18:07.000] work. Alfie’s shot Alfie
[18:07.000 –> 18:12.000] I guess is the automation guy. He’s got a steampunk top hat and monocle. His shop
[18:12.000 –> 18:17.000] exterior was already added in the game but with a placeholder to prevent entry as it did not make it for the initial release.
[18:17.000 –> 18:22.000] Now all existing buildings in the games can be entered.
[18:22.000 –> 18:27.000] So yeah there’s a lot of oh wow there’s even auto
[18:27.000 –> 18:32.000] fishing and bug catching. Oh that’s interesting.
[18:32.000 –> 18:37.000] Auto collectors and yeah. That’s interesting.
[18:37.000 –> 18:42.000] And lamps and sprinklers all that good stuff.
[18:42.000 –> 18:47.000] I’ll tell you I love a good sprinkler in my farming game. Really?
[18:47.000 –> 18:52.000] I do. Why do you feel like? Because the amount of time that it takes
[18:52.000 –> 18:57.000] to watercraft and stamina you know for most games
[18:57.000 –> 19:02.000] typically the amount of time and stamina it takes to watercraft.
[19:02.000 –> 19:07.000] Is there a game you’re thinking of maybe in particular?
[19:07.000 –> 19:12.000] Maybe one we’ll talk about later.
[19:12.000 –> 19:17.000] Next we have Kynseed.
[19:17.000 –> 19:22.000] Let’s see. This is the big build update. Oh I should have
[19:22.000 –> 19:27.000] mentioned Alfie’s update is out now. The animation update.
[19:27.000 –> 19:32.000] Let’s see. Kynseed. I don’t remember what this game is.
[19:32.000 –> 19:37.000] They’re doing the big build update. You can do customization.
[19:37.000 –> 19:42.000] You can personalize both the interior and exterior of their farms.
[19:42.000 –> 19:47.000] Over 500 items. Everyone loves customization. That’s cool.
[19:47.000 –> 19:52.000] Looks like a hedge maze. And you can expand your farm.
[19:52.000 –> 19:57.000] There will be some stuff. Other features they’ll announce in the future.
[19:57.000 –> 20:02.000] As this update is not out yet but looks like the focus of this update is customization.
[20:02.000 –> 20:07.000] Which is fun because I think a lot of farming games don’t actually have that.
[20:07.000 –> 20:12.000] You can’t customize your farm per se.
[20:12.000 –> 20:17.000] Other than the crops you plant and stuff.
[20:17.000 –> 20:22.000] Like layout, decor and stuff like that.
[20:22.000 –> 20:27.000] The hedge maze thing is really neat. I do like the idea of being able to build your own hedge mazes.
[20:27.000 –> 20:32.000] Or different themed farms.
[20:32.000 –> 20:37.000] Or a magical farm.
[20:38.000 –> 20:43.000] On your own magical garden island.
[20:43.000 –> 20:48.000] I also say at the end of this update.
[20:48.000 –> 20:53.000] But wait. There’s more. In a short while we’ll be announcing another extraordinary feature called Totems.
[20:53.000 –> 20:58.000] Until next time.
[20:58.000 –> 21:03.000] I don’t know what that means. I don’t know what totems typically are in farming games.
[21:04.000 –> 21:09.000] Other than the warping totems in starting.
[21:09.000 –> 21:14.000] Maybe that’s what it is. Being able to warp around from spot to spot.
[21:14.000 –> 21:19.000] Roots of Pacha has totems. It’s the Stone Age stardew.
[21:19.000 –> 21:24.000] But they’re like the more typical or traditional sense of totems.
[21:24.000 –> 21:29.000] Like animal spirits and things like that.
[21:30.000 –> 21:35.000] So I don’t know who knows. Stay tuned and we’ll learn about totems.
[21:38.000 –> 21:43.000] Next up. Ikone Island. There is a story update.
[21:43.000 –> 21:48.000] That is out now. With 30% off on early access.
[21:48.000 –> 21:53.000] At least at the time of recording I think.
[21:53.000 –> 21:58.000] This was posted on July 6th. I’ll have to check when it is.
[21:58.000 –> 22:03.000] When that lasts.
[22:03.000 –> 22:08.000] It looks like it ends July 13th.
[22:08.000 –> 22:13.000] Might be cutting it real close.
[22:13.000 –> 22:18.000] So it might be too late.
[22:18.000 –> 22:23.000] But regardless you don’t have to wait too long because this will be the last early access update.
[22:24.000 –> 22:29.000] This is the story update.
[22:29.000 –> 22:34.000] Which means the full story has been added in.
[22:34.000 –> 22:39.000] Oh! There’s now voice acting.
[22:39.000 –> 22:44.000] That’s a big one.
[22:44.000 –> 22:49.000] I feel like that’s a big deal for farm games.
[22:50.000 –> 22:55.000] Or like sim games. There’s not a lot of voice acting involved.
[22:55.000 –> 23:00.000] Yeah it’s nice to see that they’ve been getting enough budget or recognition.
[23:00.000 –> 23:05.000] Whatever you want to call it to include voice acting.
[23:05.000 –> 23:10.000] I think that’s a big step up for the genre.
[23:10.000 –> 23:15.000] So let’s see. Every character has their own side quests, storylines or whatever now.
[23:16.000 –> 23:21.000] There is the bloom box. Oh you can play your own music. That’s really nice.
[23:21.000 –> 23:26.000] Well you need to craft it. You craft the little music player and collect discs.
[23:26.000 –> 23:31.000] Kind of like Minecraft.
[23:31.000 –> 23:36.000] But I do enjoy playing your own choice of music out of a catalog or whatever.
[23:36.000 –> 23:41.000] Let’s see.
[23:41.000 –> 23:46.000] The cloud cycle traps players in an endless night until they sleep.
[23:46.000 –> 23:51.000] As you might recall mutated plants roam when the island is shrouded.
[23:51.000 –> 23:56.000] Interesting. I didn’t recall that.
[23:56.000 –> 24:01.000] That’s an interesting way to handle it.
[24:01.000 –> 24:06.000] There’s a day night cycle but once it hits night time it’s just permanent until you decide to sleep.
[24:06.000 –> 24:11.000] Yep or you can just skip it straight up.
[24:11.000 –> 24:16.000] That’s an interesting way of going about it for sure.
[24:16.000 –> 24:21.000] Auto pickup. That’s nice. You don’t have to actually pick up resources.
[24:21.000 –> 24:26.000] They just float over to you.
[24:26.000 –> 24:31.000] And some visual upgrades.
[24:32.000 –> 24:37.000] Shadows are a lot more pronounced in some areas.
[24:37.000 –> 24:42.000] Oh wow. They’re doing voice acting for English and Norwegian audio.
[24:42.000 –> 24:47.000] With many more text languages being added.
[24:47.000 –> 24:52.000] That’s cool.
[24:52.000 –> 24:57.000] There’s an unlockable island that has been added.
[24:58.000 –> 25:03.000] This is a very extensive update list.
[25:03.000 –> 25:08.000] We added a couple things in.
[25:08.000 –> 25:13.000] This is a lot of content.
[25:13.000 –> 25:18.000] These are just the bullet points. There’s full patch notes after that.
[25:18.000 –> 25:23.000] And it just goes. There’s tons of stuff.
[25:23.000 –> 25:28.000] So there you go. If you’ve been playing Ikone Island or have thought about it.
[25:28.000 –> 25:33.000] It looks like now is the time to get in.
[25:33.000 –> 25:38.000] This sounds like the final early access update.
[25:38.000 –> 25:43.000] They’re ready to go.
[25:43.000 –> 25:48.000] Okay. Speaking of ready to go.
[25:48.000 –> 25:53.000] This is also an early access I believe and working on ready to go.
[25:53.000 –> 25:58.000] They are adding a gallon tree and bartering update.
[25:58.000 –> 26:03.000] Let’s see what that does. Oh, on July 13th.
[26:03.000 –> 26:08.000] That’s the same day the other sale ends.
[26:08.000 –> 26:13.000] Don’t feel bad about missing the other sale.
[26:14.000 –> 26:19.000] There is a promotion for Fabledom 2 that does also end on July 13th.
[26:19.000 –> 26:24.000] Not the full game. Sorry.
[26:24.000 –> 26:29.000] The update launches on the 13th.
[26:29.000 –> 26:34.000] There is at least that.
[26:34.000 –> 26:39.000] I’ve kept my eye on it because it thinks the art style is kind of cute.
[26:39.000 –> 26:44.000] Village builder. Not a city builder because it’s like Renaissance medieval style.
[26:44.000 –> 26:49.000] So you’re building up this little village.
[26:49.000 –> 26:54.000] And let’s see. The update just based off the trailer includes new buildings and a mission system it looks like.
[26:54.000 –> 26:59.000] So yeah, that looks like the biggest one.
[26:59.000 –> 27:04.000] Unlike Ikone Island, this does not have a massive patch list.
[27:04.000 –> 27:09.000] But it will be out in just a few days so we can see in person.
[27:09.000 –> 27:14.000] So yeah, good on you Fabledom.
[27:14.000 –> 27:19.000] Looks very good.
[27:19.000 –> 27:24.000] That already happened. Isn’t it 4th of July?
[27:24.000 –> 27:29.000] It took a little while to get to the point that we are at now.
[27:29.000 –> 27:34.000] Yeah, alright.
[27:34.000 –> 27:39.000] I apologize to Everdream Valley for missing my busy schedule.
[27:39.000 –> 27:44.000] Missing the 4th of July announcement.
[27:44.000 –> 27:49.000] Look, Pikmin took a decade.
[27:49.000 –> 27:54.000] It’s okay if you’re a week late Everdream Bell.
[27:55.000 –> 28:00.000] Okay, they have, well, 4th of July, USA, USA.
[28:00.000 –> 28:05.000] All those red, white, and blue decors and things.
[28:05.000 –> 28:10.000] You don’t see that being added to any games.
[28:10.000 –> 28:15.000] 4th of July Americana.
[28:15.000 –> 28:20.000] Yeah, it’s an interesting choice to
[28:20.000 –> 28:25.000] flat out reference a country in
[28:25.000 –> 28:30.000] a cottagecore, farm sim, life sim game.
[28:30.000 –> 28:35.000] Not even Animal Crossing did end.
[28:35.000 –> 28:40.000] They do a handful of ones.
[28:40.000 –> 28:45.000] I mean they have those items that are like, here’s an item from the US.
[28:45.000 –> 28:50.000] South Korea or whatever, but not a whole event for it.
[28:50.000 –> 28:55.000] This is a big deal.
[28:55.000 –> 29:00.000] There’s confetti everywhere. Some of this decor is loud and obnoxious, but in a really fun way.
[29:00.000 –> 29:05.000] The kind I want to see.
[29:05.000 –> 29:10.000] They’re celebrating the 4th of July more than I have.
[29:10.000 –> 29:15.000] Since Pikmin 3 came out.
[29:15.000 –> 29:20.000] So good for you for celebrating for all of us Everdream Valley.
[29:20.000 –> 29:25.000] Alright, next up, Spirit of the Island.
[29:25.000 –> 29:30.000] It is coming to mobile with a new DLC soon.
[29:30.000 –> 29:35.000] Let’s see here.
[29:36.000 –> 29:41.000] Oh, they’re working on cross platform releases between PC and consoles.
[29:41.000 –> 29:46.000] But yeah, they have a mobile version now, which is always a big jump.
[29:46.000 –> 29:51.000] So good for them.
[29:51.000 –> 29:56.000] I hope that’s a means they’ve been doing well.
[29:56.000 –> 30:01.000] Oh, it’ll be on, Xbox Demo Fest is happening
[30:01.000 –> 30:06.000] at some point July 6th. If you have an Xbox, you can try this already.
[30:06.000 –> 30:11.000] Let’s see here.
[30:11.000 –> 30:16.000] They’re coming with a DLC called Adventureland.
[30:16.000 –> 30:21.000] Oh, you can build your own amusement park.
[30:21.000 –> 30:26.000] I’m down for it. I’m a big fan.
[30:26.000 –> 30:31.000] Okay, now the anti-update. We’re getting delays now.
[30:31.000 –> 30:36.000] Let’s see, Cloudscape, a Kickstarter game.
[30:36.000 –> 30:41.000] They are now going to come out next year.
[30:41.000 –> 30:46.000] They have a big list of updates. Oh, they added cows. Good for you game.
[30:46.000 –> 30:51.000] That’s a good check mark.
[30:51.000 –> 30:56.000] They also plan to have early beta tests towards the end of 2023.
[30:56.000 –> 31:01.000] So people who backed for early access.
[31:01.000 –> 31:06.000] People who backed at tiers that give early access to the beta will still get that.
[31:06.000 –> 31:11.000] But by the end of the year.
[31:11.000 –> 31:16.000] But the full game, it sounds like they’re looking more towards 2024.
[31:16.000 –> 31:21.000] You know, that’s the story of Game Dev.
[31:21.000 –> 31:26.000] That’s Kickstarter for them for taking the delay if they gotta.
[31:26.000 –> 31:31.000] I’m sure nobody is excited about delaying anything.
[31:31.000 –> 31:36.000] But if it means that it’s going to make a better product in the end, then good for them.
[31:36.000 –> 31:41.000] All right. Well, there you go.
[31:41.000 –> 31:46.000] There’s a cave. They added a cave.
[31:46.000 –> 31:51.000] I’m just excited for the cows. I’m always excited for cows and games.
[31:51.000 –> 31:56.000] It looks like Whimnim Island Cave and Flora.
[31:56.000 –> 32:01.000] This is a very colorful game.
[32:01.000 –> 32:06.000] It feels structure wise. I don’t know how to describe that.
[32:06.000 –> 32:11.000] Level wise, it feels like 16-bit era Zelda games.
[32:11.000 –> 32:19.000] Yep, that’s what I’m thinking. Original Link’s Awakening or Oracle of whatever.
[32:19.000 –> 32:26.000] And they’ve added cutscenes and a dock. There’s a lighting system overhaul.
[32:26.000 –> 32:31.000] Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff.
[32:32.000 –> 32:37.000] Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff. It is a good amount of work.
[32:37.000 –> 32:42.000] Oh, those cows. Oh, cows can have colors.
[32:42.000 –> 32:47.000] They’re cute. There’s a blue cow.
[32:47.000 –> 32:55.000] Yeah, there’s a big update on Kickstarter, so you can click on the link to read through all of that.
[32:55.000 –> 33:00.000] But yeah, so that is Cloudscape.
[33:00.000 –> 33:06.000] And next up, my favorite news of this episode.
[33:06.000 –> 33:14.000] It’s the tweet that starts with Turnip Boy in Smash, question mark, question mark.
[33:14.000 –> 33:18.000] Not really, but Turnip Boy Rob’s Bank is coming to Switch.
[33:18.000 –> 33:20.000] Imagine though?
[33:20.000 –> 33:26.000] It’s, I mean, it’s possible now.
[33:26.000 –> 33:33.000] You know, Turnip Boy committed tax evasion and now Turnip Boy has got to rob a bank.
[33:33.000 –> 33:37.000] That’s just the natural progression.
[33:37.000 –> 33:42.000] Turnip Boy breaks and enters into Sakura’s office.
[33:42.000 –> 33:45.000] Yeah.
[33:45.000 –> 33:47.000] Are you familiar with Turnip Boy?
[33:47.000 –> 33:49.000] Turnip Boy, yeah.
[33:49.000 –> 33:55.000] I love what this team is doing because it’s just unhinged and I love it.
[33:55.000 –> 34:01.000] It’s the most chaotic neutral thing ever and I love it.
[34:01.000 –> 34:03.000] It’s great. Good on you, Turnip Boy.
[34:03.000 –> 34:11.000] My younger brother Calvin really loves Turnip Boy and boy, is he a lot like Turnip Boy.
[34:12.000 –> 34:15.000] Committing tax evasion? Robbing banks? Hold on, wait.
[34:15.000 –> 34:16.000] Mine as well.
[34:16.000 –> 34:17.000] What do you mean by that?
[34:17.000 –> 34:21.000] Mine as well.
[34:21.000 –> 34:27.000] But yeah, so Switch, I believe, yeah, the original was also on Switch.
[34:27.000 –> 34:29.000] So now this one’s coming.
[34:29.000 –> 34:30.000] So that’s, yeah, good for them.
[34:30.000 –> 34:33.000] Good for you, Snoozy Kazoo.
[34:33.000 –> 34:37.000] It looks just as unhinged as I would have expected it.
[34:37.000 –> 34:39.000] He has a gun now.
[34:40.000 –> 34:50.000] It’s just, it’s a like bullet hell type game and very Binding of Isaac-y.
[34:50.000 –> 34:58.000] But with that special Turnip Boy je ne sais quoi.
[35:01.000 –> 35:03.000] Which means something.
[35:03.000 –> 35:04.000] Yep.
[35:04.000 –> 35:05.000] For sure.
[35:05.000 –> 35:07.000] I mean, just, it’s Turnip Boy.
[35:07.000 –> 35:10.000] If you know Turnip Boy, you know what we’re talking about.
[35:10.000 –> 35:11.000] Yeah.
[35:11.000 –> 35:16.000] What you might not know we’re talking about next, because I don’t know what this is.
[35:16.000 –> 35:18.000] Let’s see, Monster Patch.
[35:18.000 –> 35:21.000] Oh, oh, wait, no, I do know what this is.
[35:21.000 –> 35:22.000] Okay, so the creator-
[35:22.000 –> 35:23.000] Sean Young.
[35:23.000 –> 35:24.000] Yep, yep, that’s Egglide.
[35:24.000 –> 35:26.000] Yep, Sean Young, creator of Littlewood.
[35:26.000 –> 35:27.000] Littlewood dev.
[35:27.000 –> 35:34.000] He’s been working on a monster catching game and he now calls it Monster Patch.
[35:36.000 –> 35:40.000] Monster Collector, auto-battler, roguelike.
[35:40.000 –> 35:41.000] What?
[35:41.000 –> 35:43.000] That’s a lot of words together.
[35:43.000 –> 35:44.000] I don’t-
[35:44.000 –> 35:45.000] It’s great.
[35:45.000 –> 35:46.000] Is it?
[35:46.000 –> 35:47.000] It’s great.
[35:47.000 –> 35:50.000] Just keep adding genres to each other.
[35:50.000 –> 35:52.000] I love it.
[35:52.000 –> 35:54.000] I don’t-
[35:54.000 –> 36:02.000] It’s got the Littlewood pixel, the like signature pixel art style, which I loved.
[36:02.000 –> 36:03.000] I love it.
[36:03.000 –> 36:08.000] Yeah, no, the monster designs are good.
[36:08.000 –> 36:16.000] There’s some big kind of like confused, like single brain cell looking frog thing that
[36:16.000 –> 36:19.000] I also am immediately in love with.
[36:19.000 –> 36:22.000] I like the bunny with the one eye.
[36:22.000 –> 36:27.000] I like Cyclops, like the other one’s like scarred, closed, whatever.
[36:27.000 –> 36:28.000] Yeah.
[36:28.000 –> 36:29.000] I think it’s a bunny.
[36:29.000 –> 36:30.000] And the piercings.
[36:30.000 –> 36:31.000] Yeah.
[36:31.000 –> 36:32.000] The ear piercings.
[36:32.000 –> 36:38.000] There’s also something that kind of looks like, I’m sorry Sean Young, but it kind of
[36:38.000 –> 36:39.000] looks like Darumaka.
[36:39.000 –> 36:41.000] It’s really Darumaka at home.
[36:41.000 –> 36:45.000] But derpy Darumaka with the eyes in the house.
[36:45.000 –> 36:51.000] There’s also in this screenshot, there is shown an evolution tree.
[36:51.000 –> 36:58.000] So you can see like three monsters next to each other that very clearly evolved from
[36:58.000 –> 36:59.000] each other.
[36:59.000 –> 37:00.000] Yeah.
[37:00.000 –> 37:02.000] But it looks very neat.
[37:02.000 –> 37:06.000] Auto, monster collector, auto battler, roguelike.
[37:06.000 –> 37:12.000] With a wacky and dark story that is a commentary on the predatory practices of gaming corporations
[37:12.000 –> 37:14.000] on today’s youth.
[37:14.000 –> 37:15.000] I don’t like that.
[37:15.000 –> 37:21.000] I don’t, I don’t, you’re getting a little too close to home, especially for fans of
[37:21.000 –> 37:22.000] this genre.
[37:22.000 –> 37:25.000] Thank you Sean Young for your service.
[37:25.000 –> 37:26.000] Applause.
[37:27.000 –> 37:30.000] No, I’m sorry.
[37:33.000 –> 37:34.000] Okay.
[37:34.000 –> 37:35.000] I love it.
[37:35.000 –> 37:36.000] It’s great.
[37:36.000 –> 37:37.000] I’m sure it’ll be great.
[37:37.000 –> 37:40.000] But I’m very excited to see how that goes.
[37:40.000 –> 37:45.000] And just that I feel, I feel like it’s going to hit too close to home.
[37:45.000 –> 37:46.000] Oh, what am I saying?
[37:46.000 –> 37:52.000] Al’s the one who’s, Al’s one’s going to be right in the game basically.
[37:53.000 –> 37:54.000] Okay.
[37:54.000 –> 37:57.000] Um, go, go town.
[37:57.000 –> 38:00.000] Um, I believe I remember this one.
[38:00.000 –> 38:02.000] It’s a fairly chaotic.
[38:02.000 –> 38:06.000] Oh, very animal crossing esque looking game.
[38:06.000 –> 38:10.000] Um, the update is, or they’re adding a unicorn trike.
[38:10.000 –> 38:12.000] That’s, that’s the update.
[38:12.000 –> 38:13.000] That’s it.
[38:13.000 –> 38:14.000] Al likes it.
[38:14.000 –> 38:15.000] He says unicorn.
[38:15.000 –> 38:21.000] I have not heard about this yet, but I’m interested in it because it’s made by the people who
[38:21.000 –> 38:27.000] made yonder, uh, the cloud catcher Chronicles.
[38:27.000 –> 38:28.000] Oh really?
[38:28.000 –> 38:32.000] And um, grow ever tree, the song of the ever tree.
[38:32.000 –> 38:33.000] Oh, oh yeah.
[38:33.000 –> 38:34.000] That one I know.
[38:34.000 –> 38:36.000] Um, yeah, you should check out the trailer.
[38:36.000 –> 38:40.000] I played more of yonder than I played of grow ever tree, or grow song of the ever tree,
[38:40.000 –> 38:43.000] but I, I do like their style of game.
[38:43.000 –> 38:44.000] Yeah.
[38:44.000 –> 38:45.000] Quite a bit.
[38:45.000 –> 38:48.000] You should, uh, you should check out the trailer.
[38:48.000 –> 38:50.000] I remember being pretty fond of it.
[38:50.000 –> 38:53.000] It’s like a little, it looks very cool.
[38:53.000 –> 38:54.000] Yeah.
[38:54.000 –> 38:57.000] It looks like a little more chaotic or busy animal crossing, but in a good way.
[38:57.000 –> 39:00.000] Um, yeah, that’s how I remember seeing it.
[39:00.000 –> 39:04.000] Um, the art style is very clean too.
[39:04.000 –> 39:10.000] Like it feels like a very, I don’t know, almost claymation cinematic.
[39:10.000 –> 39:11.000] Yeah.
[39:11.000 –> 39:16.000] That kind of like toy legend of Zelda feel almost anyways.
[39:16.000 –> 39:19.000] Um, and, but I guess the big thing is you can ride around on things.
[39:19.000 –> 39:20.000] Like that’s what I’m thinking about here.
[39:20.000 –> 39:24.000] There will, I’m sure there’ll be other options other than a unicorn tricycle.
[39:24.000 –> 39:25.000] Yeah.
[39:25.000 –> 39:27.000] Um, so that’d be fun.
[39:27.000 –> 39:29.000] Tricycle is very, very cool.
[39:29.000 –> 39:30.000] Very exciting.
[39:30.000 –> 39:31.000] Yep.
[39:31.000 –> 39:35.000] Um, I, I, I will, I won’t lie though.
[39:35.000 –> 39:39.000] At first when I read the Al’s notes, I thought it was a unicorn on a tricycle.
[39:39.000 –> 39:45.000] Um, but, uh, but you know, don’t take what I can get, I guess.
[39:45.000 –> 39:48.000] Um, all right.
[39:48.000 –> 39:56.000] Um, Sun Haven, you can now get a, you can switch your, if you’ve got a switch copy,
[39:56.000 –> 39:58.000] you can switch it to a steam key.
[39:58.000 –> 40:00.000] Um, there’s information on Kickstarter.
[40:00.000 –> 40:04.000] I don’t know the details, but I assume the steam key is already available and the switch
[40:04.000 –> 40:06.000] version is not question mark.
[40:06.000 –> 40:10.000] But either way, if you change your mind to, um, uh, there you go, you can do it.
[40:10.000 –> 40:11.000] Sun Haven.
[40:11.000 –> 40:15.000] Um, wait, what is this next one?
[40:16.000 –> 40:19.000] Prehistoric kingdom?
[40:19.000 –> 40:21.000] Dinosaurs?
[40:21.000 –> 40:24.000] Oh, oh Spencer.
[40:24.000 –> 40:29.000] Take control of limitless power in prehistoric kingdom to build, manage and grow the ultimate
[40:29.000 –> 40:31.000] zoo for extinct animals.
[40:31.000 –> 40:33.000] It’s Jurassic park simulator.
[40:33.000 –> 40:40.000] I’m sure they probably don’t want people to call it Jurassic park simulator.
[40:40.000 –> 40:44.000] But I mean, but that’s what it looks like.
[40:44.000 –> 40:46.000] And that’s a Jurassic park simulator.
[40:46.000 –> 40:48.000] I calls them like I sees them.
[40:48.000 –> 40:53.000] That’s, I don’t know how much of this is CGI trailer and how much of this is gameplay,
[40:53.000 –> 40:54.000] but I like the concept.
[40:54.000 –> 40:57.000] It’s, it’s just Jurassic park simulator.
[40:57.000 –> 41:00.000] Um, yeah, that’s, and that’s like a positive.
[41:00.000 –> 41:01.000] Yeah, absolutely.
[41:01.000 –> 41:05.000] Like that’s a good, that’s a good, a good thing.
[41:05.000 –> 41:06.000] Absolutely.
[41:06.000 –> 41:07.000] At least my perspective.
[41:07.000 –> 41:08.000] Yep.
[41:08.000 –> 41:11.000] And they’re going for some high fidelity visuals.
[41:11.000 –> 41:15.000] Um, yeah, this is not a 2d pixel art game.
[41:15.000 –> 41:20.000] Um, I would maybe clarify that like, this looks like Jurassic park simulator without
[41:20.000 –> 41:25.000] the violence, without like the catastrophic, um, breach.
[41:25.000 –> 41:28.000] Well, now we just lost half the audience.
[41:28.000 –> 41:31.000] Who cares?
[41:31.000 –> 41:32.000] It’s a like peaceful drill.
[41:32.000 –> 41:36.000] Like if, if Jurassic park succeeded.
[41:36.000 –> 41:37.000] Yeah.
[41:37.000 –> 41:38.000] Okay.
[41:39.000 –> 41:45.000] Play the play that, uh, what, what happened in the 10 years before Jurassic world happened
[41:45.000 –> 41:46.000] in the movie?
[41:46.000 –> 41:49.000] Um, but yeah, no, I mean, dinosaur zoo.
[41:49.000 –> 41:50.000] What else?
[41:50.000 –> 41:51.000] It looks really cool though.
[41:51.000 –> 41:52.000] It does.
[41:52.000 –> 41:59.000] It looks like you build a, you can like build out the habitats for the dinosaurs as well
[41:59.000 –> 42:05.000] as the like portions of the park that people, cause they’re obviously not, you know, hanging
[42:05.000 –> 42:07.000] out with the dinosaurs.
[42:07.000 –> 42:08.000] You’re observing them.
[42:08.000 –> 42:13.000] So unless, unless, yeah.
[42:13.000 –> 42:22.000] So there’s like kiosks and uh, you know, give shops, food stands, things like that.
[42:22.000 –> 42:23.000] Walkways paths.
[42:23.000 –> 42:24.000] Yeah.
[42:24.000 –> 42:26.000] It’s like a theme park.
[42:26.000 –> 42:27.000] Yeah.
[42:27.000 –> 42:28.000] So yeah.
[42:28.000 –> 42:30.000] Simulator, but with, with dinosaurs.
[42:30.000 –> 42:33.000] And if that excites you, Spencer, I know you’re listening.
[42:33.000 –> 42:36.000] Um, it’s out on early access right now.
[42:36.000 –> 42:39.000] So go check it out if you like it.
[42:39.000 –> 42:46.000] And if again, by some miracle, this is out before July 13th, then it’s 25% off right
[42:46.000 –> 42:48.000] now as a recording.
[42:48.000 –> 42:50.000] Oh snap.
[42:50.000 –> 42:56.000] Our listeners have a lot to get right like into like 24 hours after this release.
[42:56.000 –> 43:02.000] You’re either gonna, if you’re listening to this, you either have very little time to
[43:02.000 –> 43:04.000] get some deals or you missed them.
[43:04.000 –> 43:05.000] It’s too late.
[43:05.000 –> 43:08.000] It’s one, it’s one or the other.
[43:08.000 –> 43:10.000] We don’t, there’s no in between.
[43:10.000 –> 43:12.000] There’s no in between.
[43:12.000 –> 43:17.000] Something that they will have time for is Hello Kitty Island Adventure though.
[43:17.000 –> 43:24.000] Um, do you remember Animal Crossing had those Sanrio crossover amiibo cards?
[43:24.000 –> 43:26.000] Yeah, I do.
[43:26.000 –> 43:27.000] Okay.
[43:27.000 –> 43:31.000] This Sanrio said, but what if we just did the whole thing though and made you Animal
[43:31.000 –> 43:36.000] Crossing with Hello Kitty and a whole lot of other stuff though.
[43:36.000 –> 43:42.000] Cause there’s swimming and roller coasters and ancient dungeons and minecarts and there’s
[43:42.000 –> 43:44.000] a lot going on.
[43:44.000 –> 43:46.000] Already obsessed with this.
[43:46.000 –> 43:47.000] There’s very cute.
[43:47.000 –> 43:48.000] I love Sanrio.
[43:48.000 –> 43:52.000] Gudetana is on the beach apparently.
[43:52.000 –> 44:00.000] The amount of like actual adventure that it looks like is being added to this is, is really
[44:00.000 –> 44:01.000] interesting.
[44:01.000 –> 44:10.000] There’s like minecart, uh, racing from like boulders, there’s like underwater swimming
[44:10.000 –> 44:15.000] to like pirate ship, like sunken pirate ships.
[44:15.000 –> 44:21.000] It’s Animal Crossing, but also with like an adventure aspect.
[44:21.000 –> 44:22.000] Yep.
[44:22.000 –> 44:23.000] But you can still decorate and stuff.
[44:23.000 –> 44:27.000] You create, you create your own little Sanrio character.
[44:27.000 –> 44:29.000] Um, that’s cute.
[44:29.000 –> 44:35.000] Um, there’s also, uh, it looks like all of the, all of these Sanrio characters, like
[44:35.000 –> 44:39.000] there’s Sanrio characters that I guess wouldn’t have expected to be in it too.
[44:39.000 –> 44:41.000] Like Aggretsuko is in there.
[44:41.000 –> 44:42.000] Wait, Aggretsuko’s in there?
[44:42.000 –> 44:45.000] They are, they’re in the minecart, aren’t they?
[44:45.000 –> 44:46.000] What’s that?
[44:46.000 –> 44:49.000] Yeah, Aggretsuko, they’re in there, right?
[44:49.000 –> 44:51.000] I could have added them.
[44:51.000 –> 44:52.000] Yeah.
[44:52.000 –> 44:53.000] Oh snap.
[44:53.000 –> 44:54.000] I just, I just caught that.
[44:54.000 –> 44:55.000] What you just said.
[44:55.000 –> 44:56.000] Oh snap.
[44:56.000 –> 44:57.000] That’s crazy.
[44:57.000 –> 44:58.000] Yeah.
[44:58.000 –> 44:59.000] Pretty nuts.
[44:59.000 –> 45:00.000] It looks good though.
[45:00.000 –> 45:01.000] Yeah.
[45:01.000 –> 45:05.000] Uh, it is, uh, Apple Arcade.
[45:05.000 –> 45:06.000] Oof.
[45:06.000 –> 45:07.000] Oof.
[45:07.000 –> 45:10.000] Which, not sure how that’s going to play.
[45:10.000 –> 45:20.000] Uh, it is, yeah, it’s iOS, iPadOS exclusive currently, maybe also on like Apple TV.
[45:20.000 –> 45:31.000] Uh, but, uh, Apple Arcade, if you don’t know, is iOS’s, um, or Apple’s like subscription
[45:31.000 –> 45:37.000] service for, it’s like a monthly subscription service for their games.
[45:37.000 –> 45:42.000] Uh, so, interesting.
[45:42.000 –> 45:49.400] Um, there have been games that have had like Apple Arcade exclusivity that have later been
[45:49.400 –> 45:56.000] released on other platforms, but there have also been games that have not, so, I guess
[45:56.000 –> 45:57.000] we’ll see.
[45:57.000 –> 45:58.000] Yeah, we’ll see.
[45:58.000 –> 45:59.000] That’s the big one, right?
[45:59.000 –> 46:00.000] We’ll see what happens.
[46:00.000 –> 46:09.480] Um, 28th of July for people who want to check that out on Apple Arcade.
[46:09.480 –> 46:10.480] So that’s the news.
[46:10.480 –> 46:11.480] Um.
[46:11.480 –> 46:12.480] We did it.
[46:12.480 –> 46:14.700] We made it through the news.
[46:14.700 –> 46:15.700] That was a lot of news.
[46:15.700 –> 46:22.740] Uh, I should, we should also say, uh, Al did put in the show notes for Hello Kitty Island
[46:22.740 –> 46:27.900] Adventure as one of the bullet points, Gudetama on the beach.
[46:27.900 –> 46:35.540] So I think we would be remiss to not point out that there is Gudetama on the beach in
[46:35.540 –> 46:37.340] Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
[46:37.340 –> 46:44.060] This game has like, just those three, Hello Kitty, Gudetama, and Aragatsuko, that’s like
[46:44.060 –> 46:46.940] three fandoms that they’ve already captured, right?
[46:46.940 –> 46:47.940] Yeah.
[46:47.940 –> 46:49.060] That’s, that’s impressive.
[46:49.060 –> 46:55.400] Also in the key art is, uh, Kuropi, which is my favorite Sanrio character, um, sweet
[46:55.400 –> 46:56.400] little frog-son.
[46:56.400 –> 46:58.820] So I’m very excited.
[46:58.820 –> 47:01.220] Gets left out of a lot of Sanrio stuff.
[47:01.220 –> 47:02.600] Well, there you go.
[47:02.600 –> 47:03.600] On the cover.
[47:03.600 –> 47:07.580] I’m very excited that, uh, he’s front and center on the, the key art.
[47:07.580 –> 47:08.980] There you go.
[47:09.500 –> 47:19.700] Uh, there’s, my favorite Sanrio character is Hello Kitty, the Gundam version.
[47:19.700 –> 47:26.420] I wonder if we’ll get some, uh, some Gundam crossover in Hello Kitty Adventure Island.
[47:26.420 –> 47:27.660] Is that Island Adventure?
[47:27.660 –> 47:29.020] Do you know about Hello Kitty Kiss?
[47:29.020 –> 47:36.980] Maybe they go to, uh, you know, maybe they go to White Base and then there’s an adventure
[47:36.980 –> 47:37.980] there.
[47:37.980 –> 47:42.100] They have the money for it.
[47:42.100 –> 47:44.060] Do you know about Hello Kitty Kiss?
[47:44.060 –> 47:45.060] Do I know what?
[47:45.060 –> 47:46.300] About Hello Kitty Kiss?
[47:46.300 –> 47:48.020] No, I don’t know.
[47:48.020 –> 47:49.020] What is that?
[47:49.020 –> 47:50.020] Okay.
[47:50.020 –> 47:52.420] This is Kiss as in the rock band Kiss.
[47:52.420 –> 47:59.040] Um, it was a canceled, uh, animated series that was going to be about the band Kiss,
[47:59.040 –> 48:02.260] but they’re Hello Kitty characters apparently.
[48:02.260 –> 48:16.500] I am seeing on, uh, Google images, um, crossover Hello Kitty Kiss designs and simultaneously
[48:16.500 –> 48:20.180] shocked and not surprised, right?
[48:20.180 –> 48:27.180] So I feel like makes sense for like how out of control some of the collabs at Hello Kitty
[48:27.180 –> 48:33.460] does are, but, um, also why Kiss?
[48:33.460 –> 48:38.780] This means though that Gene Simmons had to agree to this at some point, somewhere.
[48:38.780 –> 48:39.780] It’s true.
[48:39.780 –> 48:44.940] In fact, in this image that I’m looking at, it says Gene Simmons was producing Kiss and
[48:44.940 –> 48:48.780] Hello Kitty Mashups, so I don’t know.
[48:48.780 –> 48:50.780] Where’s that game?
[48:50.780 –> 48:53.180] Uh, okay.
[48:53.180 –> 48:55.180] We need it.
[48:55.180 –> 48:56.180] Okay.
[48:56.180 –> 48:58.820] Is that a game to cover still?
[48:58.820 –> 49:01.820] And unfortunately it’s not Hello Kitty Kiss.
[49:01.820 –> 49:02.820] Okay.
[49:02.820 –> 49:03.820] Okay.
[49:03.820 –> 49:09.060] All right, Micah, have you seen the movie Ratatouille?
[49:09.060 –> 49:12.380] Uh, I have.
[49:12.380 –> 49:18.060] For people who have seen it and I guess spoiler question mark, if you haven’t watched it,
[49:18.060 –> 49:19.060] go watch it right now.
[49:19.060 –> 49:20.180] It’s a great movie.
[49:20.180 –> 49:24.620] There’s this pretty much, I would call it the climax or whatever.
[49:24.620 –> 49:27.900] There’s a scene when Ego, that’s the reviewer’s name, right?
[49:27.900 –> 49:28.900] Ego?
[49:28.900 –> 49:37.020] He takes a bite of the titular Ratatouille and he’s warped to his childhood, goading
[49:37.020 –> 49:42.780] home from falling down and his mom gives him his Ratatouille.
[49:42.780 –> 49:43.780] That played a Ratatouille.
[49:43.780 –> 49:49.780] Interesting choice of dish for like a child, but you know, I’m not gonna, I’m not here,
[49:49.780 –> 49:50.780] Josh.
[49:50.780 –> 49:51.780] Carry on.
[49:51.940 –> 49:52.940] Yeah, I guess so.
[49:52.940 –> 49:59.820] But the point I’m trying to make here is Story of Seasons, A Wonderful Life is that plate
[49:59.820 –> 50:02.740] of Ratatouille.
[50:02.740 –> 50:07.980] I just want to start off by saying that, that this is a remake of a game that came out in
[50:07.980 –> 50:12.620] like 2003 ish, almost two days, two decades ago.
[50:12.620 –> 50:13.620] I don’t know, something like that.
[50:13.620 –> 50:16.260] It was on the GameCube.
[50:16.260 –> 50:24.060] I had a lot of fondness, a lot of nostalgia, and boy did this game deliver.
[50:24.060 –> 50:29.140] What are your opening thoughts, your general thoughts on the game, Micah?
[50:29.140 –> 50:37.620] I am of the group of people that liked A Wonderful Life, but didn’t get into it as much as I
[50:37.620 –> 50:41.180] got into other Harvest Moon games at the time.
[50:41.180 –> 50:42.180] Okay.
[50:43.180 –> 50:49.500] Case in point, Friends of Mineral Town was like my top Harvest Moon of all time.
[50:49.500 –> 50:50.500] Okay.
[50:50.500 –> 50:52.260] That’s my favorite one.
[50:52.260 –> 51:02.500] And I think I was more into the, like I started with Harvest Moon 64 and Back to Nature and
[51:02.500 –> 51:09.980] all that stuff, I liked Hero of Leaf Valley, stuff like that.
[51:09.980 –> 51:19.060] But when it started to move to portable Harvest Moon experiences, that was when I started
[51:19.060 –> 51:20.680] to lean more towards that.
[51:20.680 –> 51:27.900] So I did play A Wonderful Life, but that was almost like, not the stopping point for console
[51:27.900 –> 51:34.860] Harvest Moon for me, because I still played Animal Parade, I still played Magical Melody,
[51:34.860 –> 51:39.900] when those came out on the Wii, I still played Harvest Moon games, I just didn’t get into
[51:39.900 –> 51:45.700] them quite as much as I did when I was playing portable ones.
[51:45.700 –> 51:54.420] Like when they put Hero of Leaf Valley on the PSP and stuff like that, that was more
[51:54.420 –> 52:02.960] being able to take it with me on the go and continue, do that, that season cycle on the
[52:02.960 –> 52:06.100] go kind of became my interest.
[52:06.100 –> 52:12.660] But I do have very distinct and like fond memories of A Wonderful Life.
[52:12.660 –> 52:18.820] Not quite as much as I think you and all of the other people that were super, super excited
[52:18.820 –> 52:24.500] that this was getting a remake, but still definitely there.
[52:24.500 –> 52:25.500] Yep.
[52:25.500 –> 52:26.500] Okay.
[52:26.500 –> 52:27.500] Okay.
[52:27.500 –> 52:28.500] That’s good.
[52:28.500 –> 52:29.500] That’s all right.
[52:29.500 –> 52:30.500] I appreciate that though.
[52:30.500 –> 52:34.340] Maybe a little more grounded than my very rose colored glasses here.
[52:34.740 –> 52:42.260] However, I will say, given that, given my existing stance on A Wonderful Life for the
[52:42.260 –> 52:53.020] GameCube, this has been a much more fulfilling experience for me of that game.
[52:53.020 –> 53:00.220] I can’t appreciate all of the differences between the versions and things like that,
[53:00.220 –> 53:07.060] but I have played more of this version than I ever played of the GameCube version at this
[53:07.060 –> 53:08.060] point.
[53:08.060 –> 53:09.060] So.
[53:09.060 –> 53:10.060] Okay.
[53:10.060 –> 53:11.620] That’s where I’m at.
[53:11.620 –> 53:12.620] All right.
[53:12.620 –> 53:15.820] Now, to be fair, I have these fond memories, but I didn’t make it that far, I don’t think.
[53:15.820 –> 53:20.140] I think I maybe made it to year three on my GameCube.
[53:20.140 –> 53:28.420] I made it to year two, I have hit A Wonderful Life Shippuden because there’s a time skip
[53:28.420 –> 53:29.420] between year one and two.
[53:29.620 –> 53:30.620] You hit the time skip?
[53:30.620 –> 53:31.620] Yeah.
[53:33.620 –> 53:34.860] Spoiler alert, there’s a time skip.
[53:34.860 –> 53:39.500] I don’t think it’s a spoiler for me, but it’s a pretty big part of the marketing.
[53:39.500 –> 53:40.500] Yeah.
[53:40.500 –> 53:41.500] The selling point is…
[53:41.500 –> 53:43.500] You get married and have babies and stuff.
[53:43.500 –> 53:47.260] And then eventually get old and die.
[53:47.260 –> 53:49.260] I’m anxious about finishing this game.
[53:49.260 –> 53:52.260] I don’t want to die.
[53:52.260 –> 53:53.260] Yeah.
[53:53.260 –> 53:56.780] But anyways, I digress.
[53:56.780 –> 53:57.780] So yeah, that’s where I am.
[53:57.780 –> 53:58.900] How far have you made it, Micah?
[53:59.900 –> 54:01.900] I have also hit year two.
[54:01.900 –> 54:02.900] Okay.
[54:02.900 –> 54:03.900] Today.
[54:03.900 –> 54:11.140] It was kind of a mad dash at the end, because I really wanted to get to year two before
[54:11.140 –> 54:17.720] we talked about it, because I do think that that’s when the game…
[54:17.720 –> 54:24.220] It’s a pretty significant change, so I think I would be doing a disservice by talking about
[54:24.220 –> 54:25.780] it before getting to that point.
[54:25.780 –> 54:26.780] Yep.
[54:26.780 –> 54:27.780] I appreciate that.
[54:27.780 –> 54:28.780] Thank you for your work.
[54:29.140 –> 54:37.820] It’s a little bit of a mad dash to get to year two, but it’s well worth it, because
[54:37.820 –> 54:40.860] it’s been such a great time playing the game.
[54:40.860 –> 54:43.460] Oh, okay.
[54:43.460 –> 54:44.740] So let’s back up.
[54:44.740 –> 54:57.620] Let’s get back up a bit, because as a remake, I think as a remake, it was really, really
[54:57.620 –> 54:59.780] well done.
[54:59.780 –> 55:01.440] There’s some choices.
[55:01.440 –> 55:06.360] I think I disagree, but those are personal preferences or philosophy, whatever you want
[55:06.360 –> 55:12.120] to call it, and some of the renaming of things and some details like that.
[55:12.120 –> 55:17.540] But in general, they captured the game perfectly, in my opinion.
[55:17.540 –> 55:19.860] But let’s talk about this game.
[55:19.860 –> 55:23.900] This is a farming farm game.
[55:24.260 –> 55:29.180] Actually, your dad in this one, I believe, is the one who inherits, wills you the farm.
[55:29.180 –> 55:35.380] Oh, fun fact, I hate credits, because I said, no, I don’t want the farm, and the game says,
[55:35.380 –> 55:37.980] okay, and you just leave and you hate credits.
[55:37.980 –> 55:40.820] I didn’t know that.
[55:40.820 –> 55:42.780] Is that the original too?
[55:42.780 –> 55:43.780] I don’t remember.
[55:43.780 –> 55:46.700] I wouldn’t be surprised.
[55:46.700 –> 55:49.840] It feels like it very much was in the original.
[55:49.840 –> 55:52.660] But yeah, I said it no, and I got credit.
[55:53.420 –> 55:55.500] Any percent speed run completed.
[55:55.500 –> 55:58.500] That’s fantastic.
[55:58.500 –> 56:00.780] I love that.
[56:00.780 –> 56:09.020] You are given your farm, and the blueprint for Stardew and all those games are right
[56:09.020 –> 56:10.020] here.
[56:10.020 –> 56:11.680] You have your fields where you plant crops.
[56:11.680 –> 56:13.820] You take care of animals.
[56:13.820 –> 56:15.380] You interact with villagers.
[56:15.380 –> 56:17.420] You get hitched.
[56:17.420 –> 56:22.180] Interestingly enough, this one is one of the few games that force you to get married at
[56:22.700 –> 56:24.700] the end of year one.
[56:24.700 –> 56:27.980] But yeah, you interact with villagers.
[56:27.980 –> 56:29.380] There’s the social system.
[56:29.380 –> 56:31.220] There’s some fishing.
[56:31.220 –> 56:34.060] There’s a proto-mining.
[56:34.060 –> 56:35.060] It’s like a dig sale.
[56:35.060 –> 56:36.780] We’ll talk about that in a minute.
[56:36.780 –> 56:43.340] But yeah, all the bread and butters of the farming genre are there.
[56:43.340 –> 56:49.940] But that said, I think it’s important to note, I think the scale or the scope of the game
[56:49.940 –> 56:55.020] is a lot smaller than the modern day versions of them.
[56:55.020 –> 57:01.140] The area itself is physically, I think, a lot smaller than, say, the Stardew map.
[57:01.140 –> 57:08.460] And the cast is, I don’t know, maybe 20 people.
[57:08.460 –> 57:19.800] But I think it works in its favor, because it doesn’t feel as hectic at times.
[57:19.800 –> 57:23.720] You can go through the pace a little slower.
[57:23.720 –> 57:28.880] You can get your farming done and still go through the dig site or fishing and still
[57:28.880 –> 57:33.120] talk to people.
[57:33.120 –> 57:36.420] I think there’s so much we can talk about.
[57:36.420 –> 57:38.340] Let’s talk about the farming for a second.
[57:38.340 –> 57:40.560] Let’s focus on that, because that’s the start of the show.
[57:40.560 –> 57:49.140] Yeah, I do feel like it’s like farming sim-lite almost, because for anybody that doesn’t know
[57:49.140 –> 57:52.980] and hasn’t played it, it still does the seasons.
[57:52.980 –> 57:55.780] But each season is only 10 days long.
[57:55.780 –> 57:56.780] Oh, good call.
[57:56.780 –> 57:58.360] Yeah, that’s very, very important.
[57:58.360 –> 58:03.220] Which is a pretty distinct difference from most farming games.
[58:03.220 –> 58:06.940] I feel like 30 days or whatever is typically how long.
[58:06.940 –> 58:07.940] Yeah, absolutely.
[58:07.940 –> 58:14.380] You know, like an average month length is how most farming sims go.
[58:14.380 –> 58:19.820] But this kind of chops it down to 10 days per season.
[58:19.820 –> 58:26.180] And I almost feel like that is way more…
[58:26.180 –> 58:33.220] You still spend a good amount of time in the game, but it almost makes it feel more manageable.
[58:33.220 –> 58:34.220] Yeah, totally.
[58:34.220 –> 58:35.500] It’s a playthrough.
[58:35.500 –> 58:36.500] I agree.
[58:36.500 –> 58:38.140] More manageable to get through the years.
[58:38.140 –> 58:47.100] And I’m sure that the intention of that design was so that you get to the progression of
[58:47.100 –> 58:59.500] the story of your life easier without having to go through 120 in-game days to get to the
[58:59.500 –> 59:01.780] next chapter.
[59:01.780 –> 59:12.100] That feels like a pretty big ask for how big those story chapters are or how big those
[59:12.100 –> 59:13.460] milestones are.
[59:13.460 –> 59:18.620] So having shorter gaps between them makes more sense.
[59:18.620 –> 59:22.320] It also kind of…
[59:22.320 –> 59:23.900] It’s all like…
[59:23.900 –> 59:29.660] You mentioned the cast only being about 20 people or something like that.
[59:29.660 –> 59:31.660] What also feels like…
[59:31.660 –> 59:36.340] My initial impression of it was, and I remember this when I played the GameCube one too, was
[59:36.340 –> 59:44.460] that it felt almost weirdly empty, small town-y kind of.
[59:44.460 –> 59:46.100] Not just small town.
[59:46.100 –> 59:50.100] They’re all kind of small town, village, whatever.
[59:50.100 –> 59:56.340] But this felt a little bit more empty, almost.
[59:56.900 –> 01:00:04.300] It also, again, makes it feel more manageable talking into and befriending, getting gifts
[01:00:04.300 –> 01:00:07.300] for all these people.
[01:00:07.300 –> 01:00:16.940] That’s not to say it’s small, but it’s size-wise or content-wise, it’s small.
[01:00:16.940 –> 01:00:22.020] But it just feels more, I don’t know, just more manageable.
[01:00:22.020 –> 01:00:31.540] It doesn’t feel like it’s as time-consuming or as daunting of a task as it feels for other
[01:00:31.540 –> 01:00:33.060] farming sims with relationships.
[01:00:33.060 –> 01:00:35.060] I totally agree.
[01:00:35.060 –> 01:00:36.060] Mechanics.
[01:00:36.060 –> 01:00:47.540] I might not articulate this super well, but it’s designed for this small kind of run-down
[01:00:47.540 –> 01:00:55.780] little corner, not run-down, but just very underdeveloped little village town place.
[01:00:55.780 –> 01:01:02.460] There isn’t even a general store, unlike most of them.
[01:01:02.460 –> 01:01:05.940] Stardew has so much stuff, for reference, because I think Stardew is going to be the
[01:01:05.940 –> 01:01:11.660] big reference point, since that was kind of a successor in many ways.
[01:01:11.660 –> 01:01:19.420] Stardew has so much stuff, and the time, the day wasn’t designed for that much stuff,
[01:01:19.420 –> 01:01:23.300] and there’s just so much you can do.
[01:01:23.300 –> 01:01:29.140] Well even if we even want to stay within the franchise, pioneers of Olive Town being the
[01:01:29.140 –> 01:01:39.460] most recent, unique iteration, obviously they’ve been doing collaborations with Dormon, and
[01:01:39.460 –> 01:01:48.340] they’ve been doing remakes, but the most recent, unique entry, or new entry being pioneers
[01:01:48.340 –> 01:01:57.420] of Olive Town, so many shops and people and stuff, there’s really not, like you said,
[01:01:57.420 –> 01:01:59.080] there’s not a lot of that.
[01:01:59.080 –> 01:02:07.500] Your general store is two days you buy your seeds from another farm, there’s a traveling
[01:02:07.500 –> 01:02:14.940] salesman named Van that shows up on the third and the eighth of every month, and you get
[01:02:14.940 –> 01:02:24.180] your tool upgrades through him, kind of when you hit certain milestones with him, I think,
[01:02:24.180 –> 01:02:33.700] and you order fodder and animals through your own farm.
[01:02:33.700 –> 01:02:45.340] It’s all kind of like a decentralized market, which is kind of an interesting approach.
[01:02:45.340 –> 01:02:47.980] Yeah it is.
[01:02:47.980 –> 01:02:51.000] But I like it.
[01:02:51.000 –> 01:02:57.660] It’s very easy to incorporate into your schedule, as you’re making your rounds around town or
[01:02:57.660 –> 01:02:59.660] whatever.
[01:02:59.660 –> 01:03:03.040] I like it a lot.
[01:03:03.040 –> 01:03:08.420] But since we’ve mentioned seeds, let’s talk about the farming for a second, because it’s
[01:03:08.420 –> 01:03:13.140] your standard to hold the ground, plant the seed, water, and you’re gross.
[01:03:13.140 –> 01:03:17.700] But the real differentiator, and I haven’t played, I don’t remember the last time playing
[01:03:17.700 –> 01:03:24.980] another story of seeds again, to be honest, I have pretty much a limited scope of them.
[01:03:24.980 –> 01:03:28.300] Hybrids are a big thing in this game.
[01:03:28.300 –> 01:03:33.540] I don’t know if you hit it yet, Micah, because it pops up in year two.
[01:03:33.540 –> 01:03:45.020] But this giant talking plant joins your farm, and you feed him crops and seeds, and he can
[01:03:45.020 –> 01:03:53.340] hybridize them into tomatoes or straw mellows or all sorts, basically every permutation
[01:03:53.340 –> 01:03:54.420] you can think of.
[01:03:54.420 –> 01:03:58.220] You can create some sort of hybrid crop.
[01:03:58.220 –> 01:04:04.060] And they’re very creatively named, just cut both of the words in half and then jam two
[01:04:04.060 –> 01:04:07.660] parts of it together.
[01:04:07.660 –> 01:04:12.320] Which again, that’s in year two, you can’t hit it in year one.
[01:04:12.320 –> 01:04:20.060] But that really opens up the farming to a lot more experimentation and adds death.
[01:04:20.060 –> 01:04:21.060] I don’t know.
[01:04:21.060 –> 01:04:22.060] Sorry, go ahead.
[01:04:22.060 –> 01:04:24.580] No, I was just gonna say, it adds death.
[01:04:24.580 –> 01:04:31.220] And you unlock an extra field, or you can during year two.
[01:04:31.220 –> 01:04:32.900] It times it nicely.
[01:04:32.900 –> 01:04:36.260] Year one’s almost like a tutorial year, and then year two, okay, you know what you’re
[01:04:36.260 –> 01:04:41.460] doing, so let’s throw these extra features that you can play around with.
[01:04:41.460 –> 01:04:45.580] Because none of it’s required, but it is fun to experiment with.
[01:04:46.580 –> 01:04:58.960] Yeah, I haven’t gotten to that point yet, but I read recommended tips, things that you
[01:04:58.960 –> 01:05:04.500] should do, and one of the things that they had mentioned was, because I was kind of looking
[01:05:04.500 –> 01:05:08.580] at like, okay, what things can I get?
[01:05:08.580 –> 01:05:12.700] There are a lot of things that they don’t really explicitly say in the game that are
[01:05:12.700 –> 01:05:22.500] just kind of like, you learn as you go, which made me feel like I should probably check
[01:05:22.500 –> 01:05:23.500] and see.
[01:05:23.500 –> 01:05:29.340] I’m not missing anything that is maybe really obvious to people who’ve played it before,
[01:05:29.340 –> 01:05:31.840] but I have no idea.
[01:05:31.840 –> 01:05:37.500] And one of the things that they had mentioned was, there are certain relationships that
[01:05:37.500 –> 01:05:47.540] you want to focus on in year one, like your, I can never remember the farmhand’s name.
[01:05:47.540 –> 01:05:48.540] Van?
[01:05:48.540 –> 01:05:49.540] Old guy.
[01:05:49.540 –> 01:05:55.540] No, not Van, why am I saying Van, oh my gosh, I can’t remember his name either.
[01:05:55.540 –> 01:05:56.540] Matt.
[01:05:56.540 –> 01:05:57.540] It’s Matt.
[01:05:57.540 –> 01:05:58.540] It’s Matt.
[01:05:58.540 –> 01:05:59.540] It’s Matt.
[01:05:59.540 –> 01:06:00.540] It’s Matt.
[01:06:00.540 –> 01:06:01.540] Matt.
[01:06:01.540 –> 01:06:02.540] Matt.
[01:06:02.540 –> 01:06:03.540] Matt.
[01:06:03.540 –> 01:06:04.540] Matt.
[01:06:04.540 –> 01:06:05.540] He lives on your farm, he was there to be like, introduce you to everything.
[01:06:05.540 –> 01:06:06.540] Oh, wait, yours?
[01:06:06.580 –> 01:06:07.580] Yeah.
[01:06:07.580 –> 01:06:08.580] Takakura.
[01:06:08.580 –> 01:06:09.580] You’re a farmhand guy.
[01:06:09.580 –> 01:06:10.580] Takakura.
[01:06:10.580 –> 01:06:11.580] Takakura.
[01:06:11.580 –> 01:06:12.580] Yes.
[01:06:12.580 –> 01:06:13.580] Yeah.
[01:06:13.580 –> 01:06:14.580] He lives on your farm.
[01:06:14.580 –> 01:06:15.580] He’s your dad’s bud.
[01:06:15.580 –> 01:06:20.940] He, I did see that they said, you know, of the relationships, Takakura was one because
[01:06:20.940 –> 01:06:26.500] you can, the sooner you boost his relationship, then the sooner you get access.
[01:06:26.500 –> 01:06:32.580] The plant, I can’t remember the plant, what the plant’s name is either, but then also
[01:06:32.620 –> 01:06:40.740] Gary, who is the old man, walks around with his wife, Nina, because I guess after year
[01:06:40.740 –> 01:06:42.700] one, he stops accepting gifts.
[01:06:42.700 –> 01:06:43.700] He does.
[01:06:43.700 –> 01:06:49.340] So his relationship is a lot harder to, or his friendship is a lot harder to boost after
[01:06:49.340 –> 01:06:51.340] year one.
[01:06:51.340 –> 01:06:56.540] And then Daryl, who’s the scientist, because he gives you access to, he just gives you
[01:06:56.540 –> 01:06:57.540] a seed maker.
[01:06:57.540 –> 01:06:59.540] Yeah, he does.
[01:06:59.540 –> 01:07:00.540] Daryl.
[01:07:00.620 –> 01:07:03.740] So those were kind of the like three that it was like, hey, you should pay attention
[01:07:03.740 –> 01:07:05.420] to these relationships.
[01:07:05.420 –> 01:07:10.780] So there are like, like that, like if I hadn’t read that, I would have no idea that Gary
[01:07:10.780 –> 01:07:15.060] would stop accepting gifts after year one.
[01:07:15.060 –> 01:07:19.700] I would be very confused as to why and will like, maybe disappointed that I didn’t take
[01:07:19.700 –> 01:07:25.900] advantage of that before, you know, I’d lost the ability to.
[01:07:25.900 –> 01:07:26.900] Yeah.
[01:07:27.340 –> 01:07:30.940] I mean, I get what you’re saying.
[01:07:30.940 –> 01:07:38.940] Like, yes, there’s a lot of, not obscure, but like, things that don’t play out till
[01:07:38.940 –> 01:07:42.060] later, you won’t know about until later, because you have to invest in.
[01:07:42.060 –> 01:07:43.060] Yeah.
[01:07:43.060 –> 01:07:44.060] All right.
[01:07:44.060 –> 01:07:50.900] And there’s nothing in the game says like, hey, invest in this to get whatever.
[01:07:50.940 –> 01:07:58.260] I kind of, I have mixed feelings on it, because some of those are big advantages.
[01:07:58.260 –> 01:08:07.860] But it’s also not necessarily required and just like, because of the limited amount,
[01:08:07.860 –> 01:08:13.540] or the limited scope of the game, like giving people gifts is a big activity, at least it
[01:08:13.540 –> 01:08:14.780] was for me.
[01:08:14.780 –> 01:08:19.900] So it just, it kind of happens, in my opinion.
[01:08:19.900 –> 01:08:27.060] But I can get how that would frustrate people, because, and this is probably the nostalgia
[01:08:27.060 –> 01:08:34.100] bias too, but there’s an element of playground secrets to it, like, oh, did you know if you
[01:08:34.100 –> 01:08:38.820] talk to the scientist, he’ll give you a seed maker, yada yada.
[01:08:38.820 –> 01:08:39.820] Yeah.
[01:08:39.820 –> 01:08:45.580] And I love that too, like, don’t get me wrong, I do love that there are things that aren’t
[01:08:45.580 –> 01:08:48.060] like super obvious in the game.
[01:08:48.060 –> 01:08:55.220] It’s just, I’m just letting people know, I guess, that there are things that it doesn’t
[01:08:55.220 –> 01:08:58.260] explicitly tell you.
[01:08:58.260 –> 01:09:01.700] And they’re, like you said, they’re not super important things either.
[01:09:01.700 –> 01:09:05.300] Yeah, nothing critical, I don’t think.
[01:09:05.300 –> 01:09:09.100] There’s little things that I didn’t realize until later.
[01:09:09.100 –> 01:09:16.620] As an example, maybe it says it in the tutorial and I missed it, but I don’t think I saw that
[01:09:16.620 –> 01:09:23.740] it has it, but I could never really figure out when the quest board, which there is a
[01:09:23.740 –> 01:09:29.860] quest board in the game, there’s very limited amount of quests that you get, it’s not like…
[01:09:29.860 –> 01:09:31.300] That’s new to this game, it wasn’t in the original.
[01:09:31.300 –> 01:09:34.060] There’s quests happening all the time.
[01:09:34.060 –> 01:09:42.180] It’s again like quest board lite, where you get maybe four quests total within a month,
[01:09:42.180 –> 01:09:46.980] or within a season, sometimes maybe just two.
[01:09:46.980 –> 01:09:52.620] But I didn’t realize, I could never really tell without running up to the board and looking
[01:09:52.620 –> 01:09:55.440] when quests were available.
[01:09:55.440 –> 01:10:00.860] And then it kind of clicked at one point that I started kind of trying to look out for what
[01:10:00.860 –> 01:10:05.460] I would know, and then I noticed that when there are blue pages on the quest board, that’s
[01:10:05.460 –> 01:10:08.660] when quests are available, which I didn’t know.
[01:10:08.660 –> 01:10:13.820] Again, it’s such a minimal thing that it doesn’t totally matter, but it’s little quality
[01:10:13.820 –> 01:10:21.340] of life things that can be missable without really looking for them or paying attention
[01:10:21.340 –> 01:10:23.540] to them or things like that.
[01:10:23.540 –> 01:10:26.460] Yeah, that’s true.
[01:10:26.460 –> 01:10:30.180] Like I said, the quest board in particular, that’s new to the remake from what I recall.
[01:10:30.180 –> 01:10:33.080] I don’t remember that in the original.
[01:10:33.080 –> 01:10:37.820] And I believe it’s on the halfway points, the first and the fifth days of the month
[01:10:37.820 –> 01:10:42.500] when the new requests pop up.
[01:10:42.500 –> 01:10:46.860] That’s a good thing to point out.
[01:10:46.860 –> 01:10:54.320] One thing I guess along these lines, talking to people is important because sometimes characters
[01:10:54.320 –> 01:10:59.420] will drop stuff like this, they’ll teach you recipes, they’ll give you hints on stuff to
[01:10:59.420 –> 01:11:03.980] farm or things you can find or do.
[01:11:03.980 –> 01:11:08.380] There’s even a television inside your house that has a channel dedicated to farming tips,
[01:11:08.380 –> 01:11:13.900] which you should check out daily because they teach you stuff.
[01:11:13.900 –> 01:11:21.020] So yeah, there is a lot underneath the surface or stuff that’s not told to you explicitly,
[01:11:21.020 –> 01:11:30.260] but if you talk around and interact with the people, you’ll learn some stuff.
[01:11:30.260 –> 01:11:36.740] So let’s talk about the people for a minute on that note.
[01:11:36.740 –> 01:11:45.220] First of all, as a general note, the art style change from the original to this, the original
[01:11:45.220 –> 01:11:52.260] had like, almost I would say chibi looking characters, that sort of visual art style,
[01:11:52.260 –> 01:11:58.420] but here they’re more fully sized, proportional, whatever you want to call it.
[01:11:58.420 –> 01:12:04.300] I think they’re trying to get closer to the current story of season standard.
[01:12:04.300 –> 01:12:08.180] It’s kind of somewhere in between, I guess.
[01:12:08.180 –> 01:12:18.500] Still like big heads and smallish bodies, but not like full blown chibi.
[01:12:18.500 –> 01:12:25.500] The big one for me though, are the animals because all the animals are the cutesy story
[01:12:25.500 –> 01:12:27.320] of seasons that we know, except the cows.
[01:12:27.320 –> 01:12:29.120] The cows are just regular cows.
[01:12:29.120 –> 01:12:37.960] Yeah, it’s a really strange, I don’t know, you know, I feel like the story of seasons
[01:12:37.960 –> 01:12:43.040] cow is like an iconic cow.
[01:12:43.040 –> 01:12:49.920] And you can see it inside the barn and on the chalkboard, you can see the cow.
[01:12:49.920 –> 01:12:57.640] It’s in like, you know, if I remember correctly, it’s in some of the promotional stuff, because
[01:12:57.640 –> 01:13:01.640] there’s like little sketch drawings and stuff.
[01:13:01.640 –> 01:13:09.160] And it’s more like the original story of seasons cow in those.
[01:13:09.160 –> 01:13:16.040] So it’s a weird choice to make a more realistic looking cow in the actual game.
[01:13:16.040 –> 01:13:19.240] But you know.
[01:13:19.240 –> 01:13:21.080] But I digress.
[01:13:21.080 –> 01:13:24.300] But yeah, the people.
[01:13:24.300 –> 01:13:25.300] Still a cute cow.
[01:13:25.300 –> 01:13:26.300] Don’t get me wrong.
[01:13:26.300 –> 01:13:27.300] Oh yeah.
[01:13:27.300 –> 01:13:28.300] No, for sure.
[01:13:28.300 –> 01:13:29.300] For sure.
[01:13:29.300 –> 01:13:30.300] Always cute animals.
[01:13:30.300 –> 01:13:34.480] And you can snuggle them, which is like, that’s just, it’s great.
[01:13:34.480 –> 01:13:37.440] Dedicated snuggle button is great.
[01:13:37.440 –> 01:13:40.240] And you know, it actually benefits your animals.
[01:13:40.240 –> 01:13:43.120] I find it funny that you can snuggle them wherever.
[01:13:43.120 –> 01:13:49.000] So you know, if you’re like standing behind your cow, you’re gonna snuggle that cow butt.
[01:13:49.000 –> 01:13:55.040] But it’s still, I still enjoy it.
[01:13:55.040 –> 01:13:59.440] But yeah, aside from that, animals are pretty straightforward, I think.
[01:13:59.440 –> 01:14:06.380] You milk your cows, get eggs from your chickens, and so on and so forth.
[01:14:06.380 –> 01:14:08.360] But yeah, going back to the people.
[01:14:08.360 –> 01:14:11.480] So what are your thoughts on the cast, Micah?
[01:14:11.480 –> 01:14:18.480] Because there’s a varied amount of the 20-ish or so characters.
[01:14:18.960 –> 01:14:31.320] Uh, I guess if I had not really known, or like, become familiar with the Story of Seasons
[01:14:31.320 –> 01:14:38.320] art style now, or like the character design style, some of it would be a little bit jarring.
[01:14:38.320 –> 01:14:41.520] And it still is a little jarring.
[01:14:41.520 –> 01:14:48.080] But I can only imagine, at the time of the GameCube release, how jarring some of those
[01:14:48.080 –> 01:14:50.280] characters were.
[01:14:50.280 –> 01:14:55.080] Like Daryl, and from what I understand, Gustavo has changed significantly.
[01:14:55.080 –> 01:14:57.360] Oh my gosh, Gustavo.
[01:14:57.360 –> 01:15:03.080] So there are some characters that definitely underwent the yesification process.
[01:15:03.080 –> 01:15:06.100] Gustavo was one of them.
[01:15:06.100 –> 01:15:11.180] He had a big like almost witch hat and a beard, and now it’s just like a little sun hat and
[01:15:11.180 –> 01:15:16.720] no beard.
[01:15:16.720 –> 01:15:19.680] Gotta make the bachelors and bachelorettes sexy, I guess.
[01:15:19.680 –> 01:15:22.520] I guess so.
[01:15:22.520 –> 01:15:24.800] Daryl, oh Daryl, we keep mentioning him.
[01:15:24.800 –> 01:15:28.760] He’s like a mad scientist who lives in town.
[01:15:28.760 –> 01:15:29.760] He’s totally-
[01:15:29.760 –> 01:15:34.600] Still very like, is Daryl, was Daryl a significantly different looking character?
[01:15:34.600 –> 01:15:38.280] No, no, he looked just like that, I remember.
[01:15:38.280 –> 01:15:39.280] Okay.
[01:15:39.280 –> 01:15:42.120] Because kind of, kind of terrifying.
[01:15:42.120 –> 01:15:46.360] He’s got mad scientist hair, he’s got lightning bolt eyebrows.
[01:15:46.360 –> 01:15:47.360] His shoes are mismatched.
[01:15:47.360 –> 01:15:53.760] Yeah, and it’s not even really the hair, it’s more the like bloodshot eyes and how aggressive
[01:15:53.760 –> 01:15:54.760] he is.
[01:15:54.760 –> 01:15:56.320] He’s pretty creepy.
[01:15:56.320 –> 01:16:01.200] It’s the combination of like the creepy mad scientist vibe, the bloodshot eyes, and that
[01:16:01.200 –> 01:16:03.300] he’s just like straight up mean to you.
[01:16:03.300 –> 01:16:09.240] Like calls you an idiot and like calls you a fool and like yells at you when you go in
[01:16:09.240 –> 01:16:10.240] his house.
[01:16:10.240 –> 01:16:11.240] I know, it’s great.
[01:16:11.240 –> 01:16:12.240] It’s great.
[01:16:12.240 –> 01:16:13.240] I love Daryl.
[01:16:13.240 –> 01:16:14.680] Pretty intense.
[01:16:14.680 –> 01:16:20.080] He’s like Wile E. Coyote as a human.
[01:16:20.080 –> 01:16:21.920] And then the two, the twins.
[01:16:21.920 –> 01:16:23.580] Yeah, the twins.
[01:16:23.580 –> 01:16:27.200] Also very intense character design.
[01:16:27.200 –> 01:16:35.640] Just like wild looking old men in overalls, matching overalls, and same-
[01:16:35.640 –> 01:16:36.640] Everything.
[01:16:36.640 –> 01:16:40.280] I don’t know what, I don’t know what kind of bald you call that.
[01:16:40.280 –> 01:16:41.280] They got the-
[01:16:41.280 –> 01:16:42.280] Friar bald, maybe?
[01:16:42.280 –> 01:16:43.280] I don’t know.
[01:16:43.280 –> 01:16:49.080] They got, I guess so, they got the male pattern baldness, but big puffs around the edges.
[01:16:49.080 –> 01:16:50.080] Yeah.
[01:16:50.080 –> 01:16:55.280] I like the twins.
[01:16:55.280 –> 01:17:04.720] The American politician from the like 1700s, or the 1800s, like hair sideburn situation
[01:17:04.720 –> 01:17:05.720] going on.
[01:17:05.720 –> 01:17:06.720] Yeah, there you go.
[01:17:06.720 –> 01:17:08.440] Nailed it.
[01:17:08.440 –> 01:17:10.520] That Martin Van Buren do.
[01:17:10.520 –> 01:17:11.520] Yes.
[01:17:11.760 –> 01:17:14.760] The Martin Van Buren do.
[01:17:14.760 –> 01:17:24.480] Yeah, Charlie and Cole, their names were changed to, well, first of all, they’re pyro, gosh,
[01:17:24.480 –> 01:17:27.200] what’s the word?
[01:17:27.200 –> 01:17:28.200] They’re fireworks makers.
[01:17:28.200 –> 01:17:30.480] Gosh, I forgot the actual word.
[01:17:30.480 –> 01:17:31.480] Pyrotechnicians?
[01:17:31.480 –> 01:17:32.480] Is that it?
[01:17:32.480 –> 01:17:33.480] Okay, well, yeah, I don’t know.
[01:17:33.480 –> 01:17:34.480] I don’t know.
[01:17:34.480 –> 01:17:35.480] Pyrotechnics?
[01:17:35.480 –> 01:17:36.480] Yeah, pyrotechnics.
[01:17:36.480 –> 01:17:37.720] They were going to be pyrotechnics.
[01:17:37.720 –> 01:17:41.740] They’re fireworks makers and they look it because they’re all dirty and covered in ash
[01:17:41.740 –> 01:17:51.200] and soot and they probably blew off their hair.
[01:17:51.200 –> 01:17:53.000] They’re all like very unique characters.
[01:17:53.000 –> 01:18:00.640] And like I said, if I wasn’t as used to how kind of wild the character design has been
[01:18:00.640 –> 01:18:05.920] in some of the more recent story of season stuff, like pioneers of all town had some
[01:18:05.920 –> 01:18:09.760] wild character designs too.
[01:18:09.760 –> 01:18:17.920] Very unique, which I appreciate that they are utilizing a more unique art style to them,
[01:18:17.920 –> 01:18:20.760] character style to them.
[01:18:20.760 –> 01:18:26.880] Mostly for supporting characters, the player characters and the bachelors, other than Gustavo,
[01:18:26.880 –> 01:18:38.200] all kind of still look, you know, your anime average attractive anime character.
[01:18:38.200 –> 01:18:45.240] There’s no crazy, you know, proportions or anything between them, it’s just what you
[01:18:45.240 –> 01:18:46.240] would expect.
[01:18:46.240 –> 01:18:50.920] Okay, so there is one big exception though.
[01:18:50.920 –> 01:18:59.880] And this is the point of, this is the thorny subject, let’s say, you know Gordy the artist,
[01:18:59.880 –> 01:19:00.880] yes?
[01:19:00.880 –> 01:19:01.880] Yes.
[01:19:01.880 –> 01:19:02.880] Okay.
[01:19:02.880 –> 01:19:04.080] Do you know what he looked like originally?
[01:19:04.080 –> 01:19:05.080] I don’t.
[01:19:05.080 –> 01:19:07.640] I’ll take you, I’ll give you a second here.
[01:19:07.640 –> 01:19:08.880] Just do quick Google search.
[01:19:08.880 –> 01:19:14.000] What does Gordy look like originally from Wonderful Life?
[01:19:14.000 –> 01:19:15.400] I’m having trouble typing.
[01:19:15.400 –> 01:19:16.400] That’s okay.
[01:19:16.400 –> 01:19:20.960] The listener can type too, because this is important.
[01:19:20.960 –> 01:19:21.960] Oh!
[01:19:21.960 –> 01:19:22.960] Yeah.
[01:19:22.960 –> 01:19:23.960] Okay.
[01:19:23.960 –> 01:19:24.960] Yeah.
[01:19:24.960 –> 01:19:35.960] So, um, okay, Gordy’s a good talking point because that’s absolutely not what I was expecting.
[01:19:35.960 –> 01:19:36.960] Right?
[01:19:36.960 –> 01:19:44.320] So I like, I think this is a good talking point for a lot of the updates or translation
[01:19:44.320 –> 01:19:51.920] changes they made, because for people who didn’t look at the image, in the original
[01:19:51.920 –> 01:20:01.200] Gordy was a huge hokey-eaten muscular guy with a most spiky mohawk and a bandana around
[01:20:01.200 –> 01:20:04.600] his neck.
[01:20:04.600 –> 01:20:06.600] Very tough looking guy.
[01:20:06.600 –> 01:20:08.200] Tingled jaw.
[01:20:08.200 –> 01:20:09.200] Yeah.
[01:20:09.200 –> 01:20:11.320] Angry looking brow.
[01:20:11.320 –> 01:20:13.020] Yep.
[01:20:13.020 –> 01:20:23.220] And in this remake, he now looks like a jock with pretty boy eyes and blonde hair, no mohawk
[01:20:23.220 –> 01:20:27.660] anymore, and regular proportioned.
[01:20:27.660 –> 01:20:28.660] And so…
[01:20:28.660 –> 01:20:31.020] Just a buff, sexy jock, you know?
[01:20:31.020 –> 01:20:32.020] Yeah.
[01:20:32.020 –> 01:20:34.220] Bandana around his head.
[01:20:34.220 –> 01:20:35.220] Right?
[01:20:35.220 –> 01:20:36.220] And so there’s…
[01:20:36.220 –> 01:20:37.740] He keeps the sweat out while he’s sculpting.
[01:20:37.740 –> 01:20:39.060] I don’t know.
[01:20:39.060 –> 01:20:40.060] Yeah.
[01:20:40.060 –> 01:20:41.060] So that’s…
[01:20:41.100 –> 01:20:46.580] Like, okay, so the thing is, some things needed updating, right?
[01:20:46.580 –> 01:20:52.340] Like there was definitely some stereotypes back then that I definitely needed updating
[01:20:52.340 –> 01:20:54.540] from that original design, right?
[01:20:54.540 –> 01:20:55.540] But…
[01:20:55.540 –> 01:20:56.540] 100%.
[01:20:56.540 –> 01:20:57.540] There was…
[01:20:57.540 –> 01:21:01.820] Like, Gordy’s original design, I absolutely needed updating.
[01:21:01.820 –> 01:21:02.980] Yep.
[01:21:03.420 –> 01:21:12.820] I still think they lost some things that they didn’t need to necessarily.
[01:21:12.820 –> 01:21:15.860] I think they could have made them a little bigger, not just tall, you know?
[01:21:15.860 –> 01:21:17.340] A little buffer.
[01:21:17.340 –> 01:21:20.860] They have, you know, they have different body types.
[01:21:20.860 –> 01:21:27.340] I mean, Van, the traveling salesman, looks like an egg.
[01:21:27.340 –> 01:21:29.620] And also his favorite item is eggs.
[01:21:29.620 –> 01:21:30.620] So…
[01:21:30.620 –> 01:21:31.620] There you go.
[01:21:32.260 –> 01:21:38.580] But yeah, so they have, you know, they have some more goofier, cartoony looking, as you
[01:21:38.580 –> 01:21:39.580] said, designs, right?
[01:21:39.580 –> 01:21:42.220] Like the twins and Daryl.
[01:21:42.220 –> 01:21:45.900] It stinks that they kind of didn’t lean into it, but they, like you said, it’s probably
[01:21:45.900 –> 01:21:52.420] because he’s now a bachelor candidate and that they probably did that.
[01:21:52.420 –> 01:21:53.420] But I don’t know.
[01:21:53.420 –> 01:21:56.220] Like, there’s still some stuff like…
[01:21:56.220 –> 01:21:58.740] The bandana around his neck, I think that could have been kept.
[01:21:58.900 –> 01:22:01.820] I think that would have made a big difference.
[01:22:01.820 –> 01:22:02.820] The hair could have been different.
[01:22:02.820 –> 01:22:07.540] And again, a lot of this is personal stuff, but my point being is that there are some
[01:22:07.540 –> 01:22:12.500] translation stuff or updates that they made that I don’t necessarily agree with.
[01:22:12.500 –> 01:22:16.200] They actually went into big detail about it on their blog.
[01:22:16.200 –> 01:22:22.820] They’re trying to stick closer to the original, like, Japanese version of it.
[01:22:22.820 –> 01:22:29.500] But I think there’s some stuff from the remake that are so fondly etched in people’s memories,
[01:22:29.500 –> 01:22:33.780] like Molly, one of the female bachelorettes.
[01:22:33.780 –> 01:22:36.280] She was originally called Muffy.
[01:22:36.280 –> 01:22:42.700] And that was just a, not arbitrary, but again, they were trying to match the original Japanese
[01:22:42.700 –> 01:22:45.320] names closer.
[01:22:45.320 –> 01:22:49.680] So just little details like that, like, eh, I think maybe they could have stuck to the
[01:22:49.680 –> 01:22:51.420] original English translation.
[01:22:52.140 –> 01:22:58.100] But that’s, I guess, just a personal preference philosophy thing.
[01:22:58.100 –> 01:23:05.160] But yeah, it’s really interesting to look at Gordy, his design changes.
[01:23:05.160 –> 01:23:11.620] And I think that speaks a lot to the remake in general, like how much effort they put
[01:23:11.620 –> 01:23:12.620] into it.
[01:23:12.620 –> 01:23:13.620] Mm-hmm.
[01:23:14.620 –> 01:23:24.380] Yeah, and I think it depends too on the art team and the original artists or whoever,
[01:23:24.380 –> 01:23:29.100] if they decide that they have a different vision now than they did then.
[01:23:29.100 –> 01:23:30.620] Yeah, I guess so.
[01:23:30.620 –> 01:23:41.380] That’s kind of their call, but I do agree that, like I said, I don’t think that maybe
[01:23:41.820 –> 01:23:52.260] some of the super extreme directions is something that we could necessarily hope for, for the
[01:23:52.260 –> 01:23:57.300] bachelors and bachelorettes, but I do kind of wish, I agree that I wish that there were
[01:23:57.300 –> 01:24:07.100] a little bit more variation as far as body type or, you know, kind of general personality.
[01:24:07.100 –> 01:24:12.820] I mean, there are different personalities, but it’s kind of your standard personalities
[01:24:12.820 –> 01:24:13.900] that you would expect.
[01:24:13.900 –> 01:24:21.580] There’s nothing wild that you could get out of it, but all of the really wild characters
[01:24:21.580 –> 01:24:32.740] are not marriage candidates, which, but there’s still, that’s where I think maybe the compromise
[01:24:32.740 –> 01:24:43.220] was is that they kept some of the NPCs, like really extreme like character designs, and
[01:24:43.220 –> 01:24:48.220] the ones that they turned into bachelors and bachelorettes kind of, you know, softened
[01:24:48.220 –> 01:24:50.460] them up or whatever.
[01:24:50.460 –> 01:24:55.860] And in cases like Gordy’s, you know, fixed some, uh…
[01:24:55.860 –> 01:24:56.860] Issues?
[01:24:56.860 –> 01:24:57.860] Issues?
[01:24:57.860 –> 01:24:58.860] Yep.
[01:24:58.860 –> 01:24:59.860] Uh…
[01:24:59.860 –> 01:25:00.860] Okay.
[01:25:00.860 –> 01:25:07.540] Speaking, speaking of issues, there’s two more characters I think we should talk about.
[01:25:07.540 –> 01:25:08.540] Okay.
[01:25:08.540 –> 01:25:14.020] Pui, the little bearded guy.
[01:25:14.020 –> 01:25:16.460] Do you know what he looked like in the original?
[01:25:16.460 –> 01:25:19.300] I don’t.
[01:25:19.300 –> 01:25:26.380] I don’t know enough about Pui, but I get that the idea that like maybe, I don’t know.
[01:25:26.380 –> 01:25:35.700] So in this one, Pui is a kind of like harvest sprite, sort of, maybe, I don’t know.
[01:25:35.700 –> 01:25:42.420] I can’t, I can’t really say for sure, but I’m now looking at what Pui looked like previously.
[01:25:42.420 –> 01:25:44.260] Yep.
[01:25:44.260 –> 01:25:45.940] Uh…
[01:25:45.940 –> 01:25:51.300] So Pui, uh, now he looks like he has, kind of just looks like a caveman.
[01:25:51.300 –> 01:25:52.300] Yeah.
[01:25:52.300 –> 01:25:53.300] He was a beggar guy.
[01:25:53.300 –> 01:25:55.900] His little butterflies around his head.
[01:25:55.940 –> 01:25:57.940] They used to be just flies.
[01:25:57.940 –> 01:25:58.940] Yeah.
[01:25:58.940 –> 01:25:59.940] Uh…
[01:25:59.940 –> 01:26:00.940] Yep.
[01:26:00.940 –> 01:26:01.940] Yep.
[01:26:01.940 –> 01:26:09.940] It’s an interesting one, I suggest for people to look that one up.
[01:26:09.940 –> 01:26:13.180] That one’s…
[01:26:13.180 –> 01:26:14.180] I get it.
[01:26:14.180 –> 01:26:17.860] Like, I can see why they wanted to steer from that, but…
[01:26:17.860 –> 01:26:18.860] Yeah.
[01:26:18.860 –> 01:26:19.860] Yeah.
[01:26:19.860 –> 01:26:20.860] Alright.
[01:26:20.860 –> 01:26:21.860] That one I’m not so bugged by.
[01:26:22.100 –> 01:26:27.540] And I think a big part of it is the new version, I think, is still really interesting, right?
[01:26:27.540 –> 01:26:35.660] Because he’s like a ford man with like forest pants and a flower hat with butterflies.
[01:26:35.660 –> 01:26:39.180] So they’re with something different, but it’s still interesting.
[01:26:39.180 –> 01:26:40.980] Yeah.
[01:26:40.980 –> 01:26:50.020] And uh, but the other one, the other one that’s a really big save is Lumine, the bachelorette
[01:26:50.060 –> 01:26:52.860] that lives in the big mansion house.
[01:26:52.860 –> 01:26:53.860] The rich girl.
[01:26:53.860 –> 01:26:54.860] Yep.
[01:26:54.860 –> 01:26:57.780] Do you know what she looked like in the original?
[01:26:57.780 –> 01:26:59.780] Uh…
[01:26:59.780 –> 01:27:05.260] Her design was actually pretty similar, it’s just, she was just a child in the original.
[01:27:05.260 –> 01:27:06.260] Yeah.
[01:27:06.260 –> 01:27:08.540] Um, looks quite young.
[01:27:08.540 –> 01:27:09.540] I don’t…
[01:27:09.540 –> 01:27:10.540] Was she actually…
[01:27:10.540 –> 01:27:13.980] So this is when you were saying that they’re not like GB characters.
[01:27:13.980 –> 01:27:23.900] My feeling about that was that like, I appreciate that because it doesn’t, it feels weird, especially
[01:27:23.900 –> 01:27:27.300] now as an adult, maybe not as a kid.
[01:27:27.300 –> 01:27:31.740] It didn’t feel as weird and I probably wouldn’t have thought about it at all, but as an adult
[01:27:31.740 –> 01:27:38.100] now playing these games, it does feel weird that even though my character looks like a
[01:27:38.100 –> 01:27:43.460] child, I am trying to like, uh, court a child.
[01:27:43.460 –> 01:27:54.500] Like that feels strange, so, uh, not identifying them, like making them more like grown adults
[01:27:54.500 –> 01:27:58.900] makes it, or not like grown adults, but making them more, you know, look more grown makes
[01:27:58.900 –> 01:28:01.300] it feel more appropriate I guess.
[01:28:01.300 –> 01:28:05.660] Here’s the thing with Lumine, in the original, she was just a child.
[01:28:05.660 –> 01:28:08.340] She was not a candidate.
[01:28:08.340 –> 01:28:09.400] That’s horrifying.
[01:28:09.400 –> 01:28:14.580] And then in the later updated version, they made her romanceable in a weird way.
[01:28:14.580 –> 01:28:16.900] It’s it’s pretty bad.
[01:28:16.900 –> 01:28:17.900] Okay.
[01:28:17.900 –> 01:28:18.900] Yikes.
[01:28:18.900 –> 01:28:24.220] I, I guess I don’t, yeah, like I don’t know how old your character is supposed to be.
[01:28:24.220 –> 01:28:30.420] I don’t know, but, um, but it does, um, that does feel weird.
[01:28:30.420 –> 01:28:31.420] Yep.
[01:28:31.420 –> 01:28:33.060] Um, but I digress.
[01:28:33.060 –> 01:28:39.500] That’s that’s just for the history for the listeners, so you can get some flavor.
[01:28:39.500 –> 01:28:44.460] Uh, yeah, some much needed updates to some things, I think.
[01:28:44.460 –> 01:28:45.460] Yep.
[01:28:45.460 –> 01:28:47.000] Some, um, okay.
[01:28:47.000 –> 01:28:50.540] But while we’re on the topic of bachelor’s match, let’s, let’s, let’s run down the list
[01:28:50.540 –> 01:28:51.540] real quick.
[01:28:51.540 –> 01:28:52.540] Cause there’s not many of them.
[01:28:52.540 –> 01:28:55.240] There’s Cecilia, the farm girl.
[01:28:55.240 –> 01:28:56.460] She lives on a nearby farm.
[01:28:56.460 –> 01:28:58.760] She’s sweet and down to earth.
[01:28:58.760 –> 01:29:00.180] There’s Molly.
[01:29:00.180 –> 01:29:07.440] She’s works at the cafe, not no longer a bar now a cafe.
[01:29:07.440 –> 01:29:11.200] She’s the blonde, just ex city girl.
[01:29:11.200 –> 01:29:12.600] Um, yep.
[01:29:12.600 –> 01:29:18.880] There is Nami who I think got an excellent upgrade in this one still, um, still similar
[01:29:18.880 –> 01:29:22.040] design, but like now she has her jacket around her waist instead of wearing it.
[01:29:22.040 –> 01:29:24.120] Um, she’s a wanderer.
[01:29:24.120 –> 01:29:29.920] She’s kind of tough, well not necessarily tough, but just, I don’t know how to describe
[01:29:29.920 –> 01:29:37.600] her like, yeah, she’s, you know, kind of more standoffish, a little more reserved, I guess.
[01:29:37.600 –> 01:29:38.600] Right.
[01:29:38.600 –> 01:29:42.980] Um, a little more reserved and a little bit more, um, like, I don’t know if aggressive
[01:29:42.980 –> 01:29:49.080] is the word, but yeah, she’s, uh, she did, yeah, she’s, she’s doesn’t beat around the
[01:29:49.080 –> 01:29:51.280] bush as much as other people or whatever.
[01:29:51.280 –> 01:29:53.880] Um, there’s pretty blunt, straightforward.
[01:29:53.880 –> 01:29:54.880] Yep.
[01:29:54.880 –> 01:30:02.880] Uh, she is, let’s see, there are, there’s Lumine as we mentioned, who is now, uh, I
[01:30:02.880 –> 01:30:08.960] think young adult, like early twenties, like late teens, maybe because after the time skip,
[01:30:08.960 –> 01:30:10.960] she does look even older considerably.
[01:30:10.960 –> 01:30:15.000] Um, but, uh, she’s a rich orphan girl.
[01:30:15.000 –> 01:30:20.320] Um, she’s prim and proper because that’s her aunt raised her.
[01:30:21.280 –> 01:30:28.040] There is Gordy, the artist we mentioned, um, very stoic, uh, which was a fun thing about
[01:30:28.040 –> 01:30:33.320] his original design, like, you know, this big bodybuilder guy, but he was still very
[01:30:33.320 –> 01:30:35.360] sensitive and stoic.
[01:30:35.360 –> 01:30:40.080] Um, but, uh, anyways, I digress, at least they kept that personality, which was nice.
[01:30:40.080 –> 01:30:47.360] Um, there’s Matt, uh, who lives on the farm with, uh, Cecilia, she, she’s basically the
[01:30:47.360 –> 01:30:49.320] male equivalent, but he’s a sourpuss.
[01:30:49.320 –> 01:30:52.040] Um, he’s a frowny boy.
[01:30:52.040 –> 01:30:59.680] Uh, there is Gustavo, the musician who has been yesified and, uh, I feel like I’m missing
[01:30:59.680 –> 01:31:00.680] one.
[01:31:00.680 –> 01:31:01.680] Who am I missing?
[01:31:01.680 –> 01:31:02.680] Oh, Wally.
[01:31:02.680 –> 01:31:07.040] He’s like a easygoing guy.
[01:31:07.040 –> 01:31:09.960] Kind of looks, he’s got a, that’s kind of his whole thing.
[01:31:09.960 –> 01:31:12.000] Just chill and easygoing.
[01:31:12.640 –> 01:31:18.320] Um, yeah, I think those are all the candidates, which is a big upgrade from just three in
[01:31:18.320 –> 01:31:19.800] the original.
[01:31:19.800 –> 01:31:25.520] Um, so with that said, who’d you pick Micah?
[01:31:25.520 –> 01:31:27.080] Uh, I picked Molly.
[01:31:27.080 –> 01:31:33.560] I originally was, cause I kind of like to, you know, I’m putting myself in this position
[01:31:33.560 –> 01:31:41.600] of like, I’m living out this fantasy of like moving out to the middle of nowhere and living
[01:31:41.600 –> 01:31:46.320] on a farm and you know, that’s, those are my responsibilities.
[01:31:46.320 –> 01:31:47.560] It’s farm life.
[01:31:47.560 –> 01:31:48.560] It’s not city life.
[01:31:48.560 –> 01:31:59.360] It’s not, you know, uh, and so I originally wanted to, uh, try to marry Flora because
[01:31:59.360 –> 01:32:05.680] I felt that Flora more closely resembled my real life partner, Becky.
[01:32:05.680 –> 01:32:07.920] I’ve wanted to marry Flora since the original too.
[01:32:07.920 –> 01:32:17.120] In like personality and, uh, like interests and, um, then I, when I found out that you
[01:32:17.120 –> 01:32:21.720] couldn’t romance Flora, which I’m still angry about it 20 years later.
[01:32:21.720 –> 01:32:22.720] What’s that?
[01:32:22.720 –> 01:32:25.120] I’m still angry about it 20 years later.
[01:32:25.120 –> 01:32:36.040] Uh, then I, I started romancing Molly and that was when I, I did sort of feel like,
[01:32:36.040 –> 01:32:44.040] you know, she’s got more depth to her personality too, that like feels also feels pretty similar
[01:32:44.040 –> 01:32:54.600] and also she’s blonde, like Becky’s blonde, but when you start unlocking the, you know,
[01:32:54.600 –> 01:33:01.160] they have the standard milestone points in relationship where you get cut scenes and
[01:33:01.160 –> 01:33:09.240] you view certain things like, um, Molly’s story being that she was a city girl and she
[01:33:09.240 –> 01:33:15.040] left and she, you know, moved to this small town to work in a small town and she goes
[01:33:15.040 –> 01:33:20.920] back and visits with her city friends and it doesn’t feel the same and she feels like,
[01:33:20.920 –> 01:33:24.440] you know, she doesn’t belong there anymore and she like, she belongs in a small town
[01:33:24.440 –> 01:33:31.860] and uh, you know, out in nature in the middle of nowhere kind of, uh, and that I feel like
[01:33:31.860 –> 01:33:39.880] is very much Becky’s mentality about, you know, wanting to live more in nature and not
[01:33:39.880 –> 01:33:44.160] as much in, uh, you know, busy city life.
[01:33:44.160 –> 01:33:47.640] So pretty accurate.
[01:33:47.640 –> 01:33:48.640] Who did you pick?
[01:33:48.640 –> 01:33:55.520] So, because we talked about Flora not being an available, I know, and I’m still upset
[01:33:55.520 –> 01:33:56.520] about it.
[01:33:56.520 –> 01:34:06.740] Um, but, uh, I did waste, um, so I looked at the original three, um, uh, Cecilia, uh,
[01:34:06.740 –> 01:34:13.560] Molly and, uh, Nami, um, because I felt like they were really polished, which I guess,
[01:34:13.560 –> 01:34:17.040] you know, it’s considered they were, they’re original candidates make sense.
[01:34:17.440 –> 01:34:21.600] Um, so I was waffling between the three.
[01:34:21.600 –> 01:34:29.600] Um, but, uh, at the end of the day, I went back to the OG Cecilia, the one in my original
[01:34:29.600 –> 01:34:30.600] pick.
[01:34:30.600 –> 01:34:34.280] So I, I couldn’t, I couldn’t do her dirty.
[01:34:34.280 –> 01:34:36.880] I just, I had to stand by her.
[01:34:36.880 –> 01:34:42.520] I will say it was, they do make it a little bit tough to not pick Cecilia because they
[01:34:42.520 –> 01:34:50.160] do, there are more, um, it felt like more, not like forced interactions with Cecilia,
[01:34:50.160 –> 01:34:58.200] but there, I felt like I hit milestones with Cecilia faster than I was anybody else.
[01:34:58.200 –> 01:35:02.200] She’s the only one that you, or how should I put it?
[01:35:02.200 –> 01:35:03.200] She’s at the siege.
[01:35:03.200 –> 01:35:05.720] She, you can buy seeds from her, right?
[01:35:05.720 –> 01:35:06.720] Like, yes.
[01:35:06.720 –> 01:35:07.720] Right.
[01:35:07.720 –> 01:35:11.360] That’s, that’s the key differentiator, like, even if you don’t talk to her, she’ll be hanging
[01:35:11.360 –> 01:35:13.880] around the farm when you go buy seeds.
[01:35:13.880 –> 01:35:19.080] So yeah, no, that’s a, that’s a big, uh, that’s a big part of it for sure.
[01:35:19.080 –> 01:35:24.640] But um, yeah, but yeah, no, she was the, uh, probably in any game ever, the furthest like
[01:35:24.640 –> 01:35:26.440] romance option I’ve ever picked.
[01:35:26.440 –> 01:35:28.880] So I had to go back there.
[01:35:28.880 –> 01:35:31.400] Um, that makes sense.
[01:35:31.400 –> 01:35:32.400] Yeah.
[01:35:32.400 –> 01:35:36.120] But, uh, but yeah, but yeah, I will say it was a lot tougher because I think they really
[01:35:36.120 –> 01:35:39.640] did polish the other candidates a lot more.
[01:35:39.640 –> 01:35:40.640] And that’s great to see.
[01:35:40.640 –> 01:35:45.760] Um, I remember Molly was a bit like ditzier in the original it felt like, but now she’s
[01:35:45.760 –> 01:35:56.320] got that whole story, like you said, um, and Nami, I think she was even a little more aggressive
[01:35:56.320 –> 01:36:01.980] or meaner, I guess for lack of a better way of putting in the original, but they softened
[01:36:01.980 –> 01:36:07.500] her up a bit and they made her seem more like a, like, not smarty pants, but like she
[01:36:07.500 –> 01:36:09.220] has a good head on her shoulder, right?
[01:36:09.220 –> 01:36:13.660] Like she’s a, she’s a deep thinker and you can really see that in this one and, and I
[01:36:13.660 –> 01:36:14.660] appreciate it.
[01:36:14.660 –> 01:36:19.580] Um, and also, like I said, she has a great new design, um, her messy hair and the jacket
[01:36:19.580 –> 01:36:20.580] around the waist.
[01:36:20.580 –> 01:36:21.580] Good calls.
[01:36:21.580 –> 01:36:22.580] Good calls.
[01:36:22.580 –> 01:36:23.580] Yeah.
[01:36:23.580 –> 01:36:33.740] I feel like, um, thinking about it now that the, the like male candidates do feel more,
[01:36:33.740 –> 01:36:41.980] with the exception of Rock, the male candidates feel more, um, like adult or like more grown
[01:36:41.980 –> 01:36:47.700] than the, uh, female candidates do, which is interesting.
[01:36:47.700 –> 01:36:57.500] I don’t know, I’m sure there’s some, um, like critique there that I don’t have the like
[01:36:57.500 –> 01:37:04.360] capacity for, but, uh, and I’m sure that there’s some kind of like weird connotation that can
[01:37:04.360 –> 01:37:09.900] be derived from that, but, uh, about, you know, the people who designed it.
[01:37:09.900 –> 01:37:13.740] Well, I mean, I can, I can tell you where that comes from.
[01:37:13.740 –> 01:37:23.660] It’s uh, the, okay, so the original game, uh, had three, uh, Molly, Cecilia and Nami,
[01:37:23.660 –> 01:37:24.660] right?
[01:37:24.660 –> 01:37:30.360] So the other characters were still present, Gustavo, Gordie, Rock, Matt, they were all
[01:37:30.360 –> 01:37:35.580] still present, um, but they were just regular NPCs.
[01:37:35.580 –> 01:37:41.340] So they had, uh, like we talked about, their, their personality.
[01:37:41.340 –> 01:37:46.180] Because there wasn’t, uh, because there wasn’t same-sex marriage.
[01:37:46.180 –> 01:37:47.180] Yep.
[01:37:47.180 –> 01:37:51.120] And, but no, hold it, hold it, hold it, but it gets better because…
[01:37:51.120 –> 01:37:54.020] The ability to have a, you know, non-male protagonist.
[01:37:54.020 –> 01:37:55.020] Yeah, but it gets better.
[01:37:55.020 –> 01:37:56.240] Do you know why?
[01:37:56.240 –> 01:38:01.100] Because they released a version called Another Wonderful Life, which was the girl version.
[01:38:01.100 –> 01:38:02.980] I do know that.
[01:38:02.980 –> 01:38:03.980] Yep.
[01:38:03.980 –> 01:38:04.980] Oh yeah.
[01:38:04.980 –> 01:38:09.380] I mean, it wasn’t, there’s just, there was, uh, Harvest Moon has a history of that.
[01:38:09.380 –> 01:38:12.860] I mean, there was like Friends of Mineral Town and then more Friends of Mineral Town,
[01:38:12.860 –> 01:38:15.700] which gave you the ability to play as a girl.
[01:38:15.700 –> 01:38:20.900] And then there was, uh, Harvest Moon Girl, like straight up just Harvest Moon Girl.
[01:38:20.900 –> 01:38:22.860] I forgot about that one.
[01:38:22.860 –> 01:38:30.540] But, you know, it’s, that’s, they, they’ve got a history of that, uh, which is, you know,
[01:38:30.540 –> 01:38:31.540] not great.
[01:38:31.540 –> 01:38:39.340] The, uh, actual ver- the actual name was, uh, Harvest Moon for Girl, just the like Japanese
[01:38:39.340 –> 01:38:42.380] translation of that game.
[01:38:42.380 –> 01:38:50.340] Uh, that makes a lot more sense now that you say that, um, and it does make sense that
[01:38:50.340 –> 01:38:54.980] like, I guess I didn’t really, I knew that there was a Wonderful Life and Another Wonderful
[01:38:54.980 –> 01:38:59.220] Life and I knew that it was like a gender difference.
[01:38:59.220 –> 01:39:05.820] Um, for the protagonist, I just kind of, I forgot that that existed because I’m like
[01:39:05.820 –> 01:39:13.440] focused on this, but also I do still think that they could have made like a little bit
[01:39:13.440 –> 01:39:22.420] more of a, um, I don’t know, like a, not to say that like Cecilia or, uh, Molly or Nami
[01:39:22.420 –> 01:39:27.500] don’t, you know, groan, they just feel more like your character’s age.
[01:39:27.500 –> 01:39:28.500] Yeah.
[01:39:29.020 –> 01:39:30.020] Well, they’re-
[01:39:30.020 –> 01:39:39.460] The three male candidates do, like, like Matt and, uh, Gordy and Gustavo all feel much older
[01:39:39.460 –> 01:39:40.940] than your character is.
[01:39:40.940 –> 01:39:43.700] It’s, uh, it’s their storylines.
[01:39:43.700 –> 01:39:44.700] It’s their storylines.
[01:39:44.700 –> 01:39:45.700] What’s that?
[01:39:45.700 –> 01:39:46.700] I think it’s their storylines.
[01:39:46.700 –> 01:39:55.300] Like, uh, cause Nami, Cecilia, and, uh, Molly are all kind of at a young adult, like still
[01:39:55.300 –> 01:40:01.140] figuring out where their life is kind of headed, point, while the other characters
[01:40:01.140 –> 01:40:02.780] are just kind of doing their thing.
[01:40:02.780 –> 01:40:05.340] Gustavo just plays his music.
[01:40:05.340 –> 01:40:11.780] Gordy does his art, Matt is a Sarepus who is tired of the farm or whatever.
[01:40:11.780 –> 01:40:14.300] Um, so I think that’s, uh,
[01:40:14.300 –> 01:40:20.580] Yeah, it just, you know, it’s, it just seems interesting that there’s like not a, you know,
[01:40:20.580 –> 01:40:22.540] more of a balance in that regard, I guess.
[01:40:22.540 –> 01:40:33.260] And I would guess probably there is some level of, uh, you know, it’s like baked into the,
[01:40:33.260 –> 01:40:42.700] the designers, you know, that that’s kind of like the, uh, gender differences.
[01:40:42.700 –> 01:40:43.700] Yeah.
[01:40:43.700 –> 01:40:47.380] Um, I, it, it kinda, you know, it feels like that.
[01:40:47.380 –> 01:40:51.420] I don’t think it’s, you know, like a huge like point of contention or anything.
[01:40:51.420 –> 01:40:56.580] It’s just an interesting thing to, to note that, like, I, that I didn’t really think
[01:40:56.580 –> 01:40:57.580] about much.
[01:40:57.580 –> 01:41:05.300] Cause I do, like, there are male candidates that I, I do think are like, you know, good
[01:41:05.300 –> 01:41:10.540] designs and like attractive characters, like they’re all for the most part, aside from
[01:41:10.540 –> 01:41:17.580] Rock, which I feel weird about, cause he feels so much like a child, like more so than like
[01:41:17.620 –> 01:41:22.780] the other, even the, like, you know, female candidates do for whatever reason, he just
[01:41:22.780 –> 01:41:33.500] has like his character design just feels very like young, but Matt and Gordy and, uh, Gustavo,
[01:41:33.500 –> 01:41:39.500] I’ve definitely felt like less weird, you know, having like an attraction towards those
[01:41:39.500 –> 01:41:44.180] characters because they felt more mature.
[01:41:44.180 –> 01:41:45.860] I don’t know if that’s the best way to put it.
[01:41:46.340 –> 01:41:49.220] I get you, I get you, I totally get you.
[01:41:49.220 –> 01:41:55.780] But that’s, you know, like me as the player kind of like metagaming in that way where
[01:41:55.780 –> 01:42:05.820] the less adult feel like, like full grown adult feeling, um, female candidates match
[01:42:05.820 –> 01:42:11.540] more of the age that I feel like my player character is, which is like a, I don’t know,
[01:42:11.540 –> 01:42:12.540] it’s a weird thing.
[01:42:12.580 –> 01:42:19.980] Definitely a weird thing to navigate for, like the age of your character in games that
[01:42:19.980 –> 01:42:24.780] have like relationships and dating and things like that.
[01:42:24.780 –> 01:42:30.140] I mean, you know, I mean, if there’s any game to think about that’s this one, because age
[01:42:30.140 –> 01:42:31.140] is a thing.
[01:42:31.140 –> 01:42:33.260] Your character will age as you play the game.
[01:42:33.260 –> 01:42:34.260] Yes.
[01:42:34.260 –> 01:42:35.260] Right.
[01:42:35.260 –> 01:42:41.580] Um, and on that note, I just, uh, I guess let’s talk about the time skip a little since
[01:42:41.620 –> 01:42:42.620] you did hit it.
[01:42:42.620 –> 01:42:45.060] Um, I mean, first of all, you have a kid, right?
[01:42:45.060 –> 01:42:46.060] Like that.
[01:42:46.060 –> 01:42:49.180] And that’s, and, and again, this is one of the few games that forces you to get married
[01:42:49.180 –> 01:42:54.060] because if you don’t pick someone, the game will automatically hook you up with whoever’s
[01:42:54.060 –> 01:42:58.260] like your best, your highest affection or whatever.
[01:42:58.260 –> 01:43:04.220] Um, yeah, I actually did not know that until I was looking at the, those tips.
[01:43:04.220 –> 01:43:08.180] Cause I was already deep into the, I think by the time I started looking at tips, I was
[01:43:08.180 –> 01:43:09.580] already engaged.
[01:43:09.580 –> 01:43:10.580] Huh.
[01:43:10.580 –> 01:43:11.580] Okay.
[01:43:11.580 –> 01:43:17.420] To Molly, I hit engagement at like, I like early fall.
[01:43:17.420 –> 01:43:18.540] Like it was very quick.
[01:43:18.540 –> 01:43:19.540] Oh yeah.
[01:43:19.540 –> 01:43:20.540] You can do it real easy with Molly.
[01:43:20.540 –> 01:43:21.540] What’s that?
[01:43:21.540 –> 01:43:23.340] You can do it real easy with Molly.
[01:43:23.340 –> 01:43:25.980] She’s got to give her flowers so you can.
[01:43:25.980 –> 01:43:26.980] Yeah.
[01:43:26.980 –> 01:43:33.220] It’s once you, like, once you know the things and like Daryl too, I hit really early, um,
[01:43:33.220 –> 01:43:37.820] just giving him the, the like coins from the, from the mine.
[01:43:37.820 –> 01:43:43.540] It seems like they’re pretty generous, at least with most characters, uh, with the like
[01:43:43.540 –> 01:43:44.860] friendship levels.
[01:43:44.860 –> 01:43:46.580] Yeah, they are.
[01:43:46.580 –> 01:43:48.200] As long as you like keep up with it.
[01:43:48.200 –> 01:43:57.340] But it’s, again, it’s like every, uh, NPC, every character in the cast has multiple things
[01:43:57.340 –> 01:43:58.860] that they like.
[01:43:58.860 –> 01:44:02.640] So you can give them one of those like categories every day.
[01:44:02.640 –> 01:44:07.380] So like you can give them up to like three gifts or something, which is kind of, yeah,
[01:44:07.940 –> 01:44:15.220] um, but yeah, yeah, um, uh, one of the, going back to the time skip thing, one of the interesting
[01:44:15.220 –> 01:44:23.060] things is as you’re aging, so is the rest of the town, like, uh, spoilers.
[01:44:23.060 –> 01:44:28.900] As you mentioned, uh, Gary, um, you can’t give him gifts anymore in year two and that’s
[01:44:28.900 –> 01:44:35.580] because he’s depressed because his wife actually passes away between years one and two.
[01:44:35.580 –> 01:44:42.660] Um, uh, there’s a new family that moves in, there’s a new home that’s built, um, and,
[01:44:42.660 –> 01:44:48.100] and little touches like that, which are fun to see, you know, seeing it makes the town
[01:44:48.100 –> 01:44:53.580] feel more alive and again, gives you a little more depth as you navigate new relationships
[01:44:53.580 –> 01:44:58.220] or how relationships change as people age and things happen.
[01:44:58.220 –> 01:45:02.580] Um, so I do think that’s, uh, that’s nice.
[01:45:02.580 –> 01:45:06.980] It fits well with the, well, you know, how they designed it, like life changes.
[01:45:06.980 –> 01:45:10.620] And so you got to update how you approach it.
[01:45:10.620 –> 01:45:12.900] Um, yep.
[01:45:12.900 –> 01:45:14.940] So that’s, uh, that’s good.
[01:45:14.940 –> 01:45:19.380] Um, were there any other characters you wanted to talk about?
[01:45:19.380 –> 01:45:32.540] Um, uh, like character specifically, not particularly, um, uh, well, or maybe I should, I mean, there
[01:45:32.540 –> 01:45:43.020] is the like story of seasons, harvest moon, like, uh, uh, harvest goddess slash, uh, harvest
[01:45:43.020 –> 01:45:44.020] sprites.
[01:45:44.020 –> 01:45:45.020] Yeah.
[01:45:45.020 –> 01:45:49.100] They don’t do much in this situation, but it’s, it’s more limited to, it’s not like
[01:45:49.100 –> 01:45:50.820] there’s a ton of harvest sprites.
[01:45:50.820 –> 01:45:58.140] It’s limited to these like three main harvest sprites that are kind of the, like, uh, you
[01:45:58.140 –> 01:46:02.380] know, they’re like a little trio.
[01:46:02.380 –> 01:46:03.380] And they’re fun.
[01:46:03.380 –> 01:46:04.380] They’re fun characters.
[01:46:04.380 –> 01:46:05.380] I like their designs and stuff.
[01:46:05.380 –> 01:46:06.380] They give you recipes.
[01:46:06.380 –> 01:46:10.020] I remember them very distinctly from the GameCube one too.
[01:46:10.020 –> 01:46:12.620] They didn’t have that big a role in the GameCube one either.
[01:46:12.620 –> 01:46:16.500] Um, surprisingly, this is one where they put the whole harvest goddess thing kind of in
[01:46:16.500 –> 01:46:17.820] the background.
[01:46:17.820 –> 01:46:22.900] Um, but they also keep track of like an achievement system now, which is kind of nice.
[01:46:22.900 –> 01:46:28.260] Um, but, uh, well, there’s one more character I want to talk about, but I think I’ll save
[01:46:28.260 –> 01:46:29.380] it for just a minute.
[01:46:29.380 –> 01:46:31.060] Is there anything else you want to add about the game?
[01:46:31.060 –> 01:46:34.700] Cause I think we’ve done a pretty good job talking about it.
[01:46:34.700 –> 01:46:44.940] Uh, yeah, I think it’s, I, I think it’s got a really good system for, um, keeping you
[01:46:44.940 –> 01:46:53.740] engaged throughout like multiple years rather than like I do again, I like that it’s like
[01:46:53.740 –> 01:46:58.940] farm sim light where, you know, it’s kind of like speed runs you through a year.
[01:46:59.140 –> 01:47:07.260] Um, not in a way that feels rushed, just that, you know, uh, it’s, it’s much more comfortable.
[01:47:07.260 –> 01:47:14.260] Um, it does take a little bit of getting used to because there’s that, you know, kind of
[01:47:14.260 –> 01:47:19.500] managing the crops that they, there aren’t a ton right away.
[01:47:19.500 –> 01:47:24.080] There’s not a ton of crops, but you do get access to all of the crops that you can use
[01:47:24.080 –> 01:47:27.140] in year one right away in spring.
[01:47:27.140 –> 01:47:33.860] So you can see when you go to get the seeds, it’ll say like this grows between, you know,
[01:47:33.860 –> 01:47:36.220] from spring to autumn or whatever.
[01:47:36.220 –> 01:47:41.740] Uh, and then there’s trees that give fruit and those flower in one season and then actually
[01:47:41.740 –> 01:47:44.820] produce fruit in the next season.
[01:47:44.820 –> 01:47:51.580] So you can kind of plan out, um, what it’s going to be, but, uh, it took a little bit
[01:47:51.580 –> 01:47:55.540] of like getting your bearings to understand, cause it doesn’t tell you flat out how many
[01:47:55.540 –> 01:47:57.020] days something takes to grow.
[01:47:57.020 –> 01:47:58.020] Yeah.
[01:47:58.020 –> 01:47:59.020] That’s, that’s one of the big ones.
[01:47:59.020 –> 01:48:04.660] It just tells you like quickly or, uh, kind of quickly or not quickly, you know, like
[01:48:04.660 –> 01:48:09.660] there’s like a really vague idea of how long it takes for the plants to grow or for the
[01:48:09.660 –> 01:48:10.900] crops to grow.
[01:48:10.900 –> 01:48:17.700] So you can think like, Oh, this grows quickly, so I’m going to plant it and then take care
[01:48:17.700 –> 01:48:18.700] of it.
[01:48:18.700 –> 01:48:25.000] And it will grow in like a couple of days since the season is only 10 days long when
[01:48:25.000 –> 01:48:33.160] really quickly can mean like day, day eight, you’re getting the crops like, uh, and they’ll
[01:48:33.160 –> 01:48:38.480] still, you know, grow into maybe that, maybe that crop will grow into the next season or
[01:48:38.480 –> 01:48:39.480] two.
[01:48:39.480 –> 01:48:44.880] Um, and typically for the ones that take longer time to grow, they go into those next seasons,
[01:48:44.880 –> 01:48:48.040] uh, like across multiple seasons.
[01:48:48.040 –> 01:48:49.040] So that’s fine.
[01:48:49.040 –> 01:48:50.920] It’s just, it’s not obvious right away.
[01:48:50.920 –> 01:48:55.600] So it takes year one is definitely that like trial run of seeing how things work.
[01:48:55.600 –> 01:48:59.940] Um, there were a couple of times where I had planted something thinking I had plenty of
[01:48:59.940 –> 01:49:05.480] time because of how it was presented and I did not have enough time.
[01:49:05.480 –> 01:49:13.640] Uh, and I was curious too, because you can, you can water your crops twice a day for most,
[01:49:13.640 –> 01:49:14.640] most crops.
[01:49:14.640 –> 01:49:21.360] Um, and I was curious if that speeds up the growth time.
[01:49:21.360 –> 01:49:27.160] And I, I Googled that and I was looking at, uh, a Reddit post about it and it was a more
[01:49:27.160 –> 01:49:28.160] recent one.
[01:49:28.160 –> 01:49:32.520] So it was people talking about the remake and not the original, which was kind of difficult
[01:49:32.520 –> 01:49:38.520] in its own way, Googling things and having to sort through like the original and the
[01:49:38.520 –> 01:49:39.520] remake.
[01:49:39.520 –> 01:49:46.000] Uh, but there was a Reddit post that was discussing it and somebody had kind of like tested it
[01:49:46.000 –> 01:49:54.240] and the amount of times that you water apparently doesn’t have any bearing on how, how fast
[01:49:54.240 –> 01:49:58.960] the crops grow or, uh, the quality of the crop or anything like that.
[01:49:58.960 –> 01:50:03.520] Like as long as you keep it alive, it will grow pretty much the same amount of time.
[01:50:03.520 –> 01:50:11.760] So if I had one gripe about the game, I guess it would be that, that there’s no, like, it’s
[01:50:11.760 –> 01:50:20.320] just so vague on what the timeframe is for crop growing and like the, um, the mechanics
[01:50:20.320 –> 01:50:26.640] for crop growing that you don’t, it’s kind of hard to like really in a casual playthrough
[01:50:26.640 –> 01:50:33.720] even just like figure out what you have to do to, to kind of like optimize things from
[01:50:33.720 –> 01:50:34.720] season to season.
[01:50:34.720 –> 01:50:35.720] Yeah, I totally agree.
[01:50:35.720 –> 01:50:41.860] But other than that, I think that, you know, it’s, it’s nice having those shorter seasons.
[01:50:41.860 –> 01:50:48.680] It’s nice having like the, uh, um, limited casts.
[01:50:48.680 –> 01:50:52.120] I really love how the story evolves over time.
[01:50:52.120 –> 01:50:56.480] I’m a big fan of the, of like time skip, uh, type stuff.
[01:50:56.480 –> 01:51:00.920] One of my favorite, um, Dragon Quest games, I’m a big Dragon Quest fan.
[01:51:00.920 –> 01:51:05.840] One of my favorite Dragon Quest games is Dragon Quest V and that, uh, utilizes time skips
[01:51:05.840 –> 01:51:07.840] in a very similar way.
[01:51:07.840 –> 01:51:12.120] So, um, I’m always excited to see stuff like that.
[01:51:12.120 –> 01:51:13.120] Yeah.
[01:51:13.120 –> 01:51:14.120] Yeah.
[01:51:14.120 –> 01:51:15.120] That’s cool.
[01:51:15.120 –> 01:51:18.400] It’s like, that was their mission statement to make this.
[01:51:18.400 –> 01:51:20.200] That’s why they even title it Wonderful Life, right?
[01:51:20.200 –> 01:51:25.600] It’s a game that goes over periods of life and I think they do that very well.
[01:51:25.600 –> 01:51:29.140] Um, yeah, so, um, yeah.
[01:51:29.140 –> 01:51:34.920] And it, in a unique way that like kind of forces you into it, like it forces you to
[01:51:34.920 –> 01:51:41.800] experience your full life rather than just, you can, it’s, you can get to it if you want
[01:51:41.800 –> 01:51:42.800] to.
[01:51:42.800 –> 01:51:43.800] Like it’s not a subplot.
[01:51:43.800 –> 01:51:46.320] It’s the main, the main quest, you know?
[01:51:46.320 –> 01:51:47.320] Yep.
[01:51:47.440 –> 01:51:51.120] You got to face that existentialism head on.
[01:51:51.120 –> 01:52:00.720] Um, uh, now, um, uh, there’s just two more things I want to say.
[01:52:00.720 –> 01:52:05.800] Um, the first, uh, I think it’s important to note, especially for Al, uh, there is no
[01:52:05.800 –> 01:52:09.900] automation, there is no sprinklers, there is no auto collector.
[01:52:09.900 –> 01:52:11.760] You have got to grind those chores out.
[01:52:11.760 –> 01:52:13.120] Sorry Al.
[01:52:13.120 –> 01:52:14.120] But it’s fine.
[01:52:14.120 –> 01:52:15.120] It’s not that bad.
[01:52:15.120 –> 01:52:17.880] It’s, or at least, yeah, it’s worse than other games.
[01:52:17.880 –> 01:52:21.560] Um, because like when you upgrade your can, you, you get through those fields pretty quickly
[01:52:21.560 –> 01:52:23.160] when you upgrade the can.
[01:52:23.160 –> 01:52:24.560] Um, right.
[01:52:24.560 –> 01:52:29.600] And it’s also like, you don’t have a, you have really limited space for where your crops
[01:52:29.600 –> 01:52:30.600] are.
[01:52:30.600 –> 01:52:33.720] It’s not like you can build out this massive farm that’s just crops.
[01:52:33.720 –> 01:52:39.800] You are literally like, you have the two fields that you can do.
[01:52:39.800 –> 01:52:43.480] Like there’s two that you start with two smaller ones that you start with and then the bigger
[01:52:43.480 –> 01:52:45.360] one that you unlock, like you said.
[01:52:45.360 –> 01:52:49.160] So that is like the extent of crops you can grow.
[01:52:49.160 –> 01:52:55.920] Like, it’s not like you’re building out these huge, uh, fields that you need automation
[01:52:55.920 –> 01:52:56.920] for.
[01:52:56.920 –> 01:52:57.920] Yep.
[01:52:57.920 –> 01:52:59.920] Um, yeah, no, so I, I, I’m fine with it.
[01:52:59.920 –> 01:53:04.680] Like I think it shows its age a little there, but I think it still works.
[01:53:04.680 –> 01:53:11.580] Um, uh, and uh, my last point, unless you have anything else to add Micah, um, we did
[01:53:11.580 –> 01:53:19.020] not discuss the, uh, the best part of the game, the, the, um, show stealing character,
[01:53:19.020 –> 01:53:27.300] the, uh, the true marriage candidate we all want, uh, Mookoo Mookoo, uh, it’s only appearing
[01:53:27.300 –> 01:53:31.220] on tragedy only appearing during winter.
[01:53:31.220 –> 01:53:37.940] Uh, if you head out to the forest, uh, you will find a large cryptid Yeti like creature
[01:53:37.940 –> 01:53:40.500] named Mookoo Mookoo.
[01:53:40.500 –> 01:53:43.980] Um, I don’t know why Mookoo Mookoo is there.
[01:53:43.980 –> 01:53:45.300] It’s never explained.
[01:53:45.300 –> 01:53:49.780] Everyone seems cool with Mookoo Mookoo, except for Daryl who wants to hunt him, uh, or her
[01:53:49.780 –> 01:53:51.780] it I don’t know.
[01:53:51.780 –> 01:53:58.140] Um, uh, and uh, Mookoo Mookoo is the best Mookoo Mookoo is the best that’s, that’s all
[01:53:58.140 –> 01:53:59.140] I need to say.
[01:53:59.140 –> 01:54:00.140] I love Mookoo Mookoo.
[01:54:00.140 –> 01:54:05.860] Very cute bow, uh, very cute, like mustache thing.
[01:54:05.860 –> 01:54:06.860] Yup.
[01:54:06.860 –> 01:54:07.860] Yup.
[01:54:07.900 –> 01:54:12.100] Apparently in Japan, there was a pre-order bonus that gives you a Mookoo Mookoo outfit
[01:54:12.100 –> 01:54:14.900] that we never got, which is kind of terrible.
[01:54:14.900 –> 01:54:17.840] Well, Oh, you know, fine.
[01:54:17.840 –> 01:54:19.340] If they can release a plush, I’ll be happy.
[01:54:19.340 –> 01:54:21.580] Give me a Mookoo Mookoo plush.
[01:54:21.580 –> 01:54:22.580] Yeah.
[01:54:22.580 –> 01:54:23.580] Darn it.
[01:54:23.580 –> 01:54:25.480] All right.
[01:54:25.480 –> 01:54:31.700] That was a wonderful chat about a wonderful game called a wonderful life.
[01:54:31.700 –> 01:54:33.420] It was very good.
[01:54:33.420 –> 01:54:36.140] Thank you very much Micah for joining me on that.
[01:54:36.140 –> 01:54:37.420] Yeah, of course.
[01:54:37.420 –> 01:54:38.740] Thank you for having me.
[01:54:38.740 –> 01:54:47.500] I’m always, uh, ready to talk about, I mean, I’m always ready to talk about any cozy game,
[01:54:47.500 –> 01:54:48.500] cottagecore game.
[01:54:48.500 –> 01:54:55.940] Cause I love all of them quite a bit, but, uh, harvest moon slash story of seasons was
[01:54:55.940 –> 01:55:01.460] my entry point for farm, farm Sims and life Sims and stuff.
[01:55:01.460 –> 01:55:05.520] I mean, not just you, it’s always nice to play them and talk.
[01:55:05.520 –> 01:55:08.920] It’s kind of like the groundbreaker trailblazer, right?
[01:55:08.920 –> 01:55:10.920] Like it’s doji.
[01:55:10.920 –> 01:55:16.600] Um, all right, Micah, where can people find you on the internet if you would like to be
[01:55:16.600 –> 01:55:17.600] found?
[01:55:17.600 –> 01:55:24.680] Uh, you, this is a loaded question these days.
[01:55:24.680 –> 01:55:31.000] I am still on Twitter, but I’m not using it nearly as much as I used to, uh, at Micah
[01:55:31.000 –> 01:55:32.000] the Brave.
[01:55:32.000 –> 01:55:33.720] I’m pretty much at Micah the Brave everywhere.
[01:55:33.720 –> 01:55:42.320] I am currently on, uh, I’m also on threads, which, you know, Twitter too slash Facebook
[01:55:42.320 –> 01:55:43.320] too, I guess.
[01:55:43.320 –> 01:55:44.320] I don’t know.
[01:55:44.320 –> 01:55:46.080] It’s Instagram’s Twitter.
[01:55:46.080 –> 01:55:51.520] Uh, and also on blue sky at Micah the Brave.
[01:55:51.520 –> 01:55:58.640] Um, blue sky is very quiet right now, which is like a nice, kind of a nice difference
[01:55:58.640 –> 01:56:03.600] from threads because threads is very intense right now.
[01:56:03.600 –> 01:56:10.600] A lot of signups, uh, blue sky seems, I, at least right now, because it’s mostly, you
[01:56:10.600 –> 01:56:14.520] know, art people that I know, it’s just a lot of people posting their art and sharing
[01:56:14.520 –> 01:56:15.520] their art, which is kind of neat.
[01:56:15.520 –> 01:56:17.160] Hey, that sounds nice.
[01:56:17.160 –> 01:56:24.920] Uh, I’m also on Instagram at Micah the Brave, I’m on Tumblr, you know, kind of all over
[01:56:24.920 –> 01:56:25.920] the place.
[01:56:25.920 –> 01:56:31.000] I don’t use all of it that often, but those are the places you can find me.
[01:56:31.000 –> 01:56:32.000] Okay.
[01:56:32.000 –> 01:56:34.520] Um, and do find him.
[01:56:34.520 –> 01:56:39.880] Micah, uh, in case you don’t, uh, might not remember, is an incredible artist.
[01:56:39.880 –> 01:56:45.240] He made the corn logo that, uh, the Harvest Season uses.
[01:56:45.240 –> 01:56:46.240] Aw, shucks.
[01:56:46.240 –> 01:56:48.760] Um, uh, his art makes me happy every time I see it.
[01:56:48.760 –> 01:56:50.360] Really anything he posts makes me happy.
[01:56:50.360 –> 01:56:52.160] He’s a wonderful and wonderful person.
[01:56:52.160 –> 01:56:53.160] Um.
[01:56:53.160 –> 01:56:54.160] Thanks.
[01:56:54.160 –> 01:56:55.160] You too.
[01:56:55.400 –> 01:56:56.400] You’re a good artist too.
[01:56:56.400 –> 01:56:57.400] Thank you.
[01:56:57.400 –> 01:56:58.400] I, I try.
[01:56:58.400 –> 01:57:01.920] Um, speaking of which, I’m going to shill my own stuff here.
[01:57:01.920 –> 01:57:06.880] Find me at Koopaprez on Twitter if you want to see me retweeting other funnier, smarter
[01:57:06.880 –> 01:57:14.560] people, or my art account at SpriterSquared where I make pixel art of different things.
[01:57:14.560 –> 01:57:23.280] Um, you can also find this podcast at THS Pod on Twitter and Mastodon, I think Al says,
[01:57:23.280 –> 01:57:25.000] and other places.
[01:57:25.000 –> 01:57:28.800] Oh yeah, Mastodon too.
[01:57:28.800 –> 01:57:33.520] Or just go to harvestseason.club for the website where you can find all the episodes, find
[01:57:33.520 –> 01:57:38.040] the show notes, the transcripts, the links, all that good stuff.
[01:57:38.040 –> 01:57:45.560] Um, or more importantly, go to, uh, the Patreon, whatever that is, and hold on, do we have
[01:57:45.560 –> 01:57:47.560] the link for that?
[01:57:47.560 –> 01:57:49.400] Uh, patreon.com.
[01:57:49.400 –> 01:57:53.200] patreon.com slash THS Pod, thank you.
[01:57:53.240 –> 01:57:59.400] Uh, where you can get access to our Slack where we talk about stuff, you can ask questions,
[01:57:59.400 –> 01:58:05.120] we can answer them in the show, or just roast Al for whatever reason, um, watch Al’s live
[01:58:05.120 –> 01:58:13.080] reactions as he listens to this episode, uh, and you can also gain access to our, uh, Patreon
[01:58:13.080 –> 01:58:20.360] exclusive premium, uh, show called The Green House where we talk about, uh, other stuff
[01:58:20.400 –> 01:58:28.040] that aren’t farming games, unless we talk about one that maybe is a farming game.
[01:58:28.040 –> 01:58:29.040] Unless.
[01:58:29.040 –> 01:58:33.440] Trust me, you’re going to want to listen to this Green House.
[01:58:33.440 –> 01:58:36.120] It’s, okay, I want to give the-
[01:58:36.120 –> 01:58:40.360] I don’t think anyone else is talking about the game that we’re talking about.
[01:58:40.360 –> 01:58:45.200] I want to be clear that the Green House I just recorded with Micah, um, I learned the
[01:58:45.200 –> 01:58:49.560] game’s existence about 15 minutes before when he texted me, hey, can we do a Green House
[01:58:49.560 –> 01:58:51.040] on this game?
[01:58:51.040 –> 01:58:54.240] Yeah, I’m amped about it.
[01:58:54.240 –> 01:59:01.720] Yup, I want to see it, uh, I want to talk about this game, um, so, uh, tune in and find
[01:59:01.720 –> 01:59:11.560] out what game it is, um, because even if we told you, you wouldn’t know what it is.
[01:59:11.560 –> 01:59:17.720] But thank you again, Micah, for all these lovely chats, and until next time, dear listeners,
[01:59:17.720 –> 01:59:19.720] have a good harvest.
[01:59:47.720 –> 01:59:52.800] Nailed it.
[01:59:52.800 –> 01:59:57.000] All right.
[01:59:57.000 –> 01:59:58.000] You know-
[01:59:58.000 –> 02:00:01.680] Better than I’ve ever done on the timing for the Have a Good Harvest.
[02:00:01.680 –> 02:00:02.680] Honestly, me too.
[02:00:02.680 –> 02:00:06.080] Al’s going to be upset.
[02:00:06.080 –> 02:00:08.960] Did you, did you notice Daryl’s shoes were mismatched?
[02:00:08.960 –> 02:00:10.440] I didn’t notice that until year two.