![]() The bachelors and bachelorettes here bond with you in short, uninteresting cutscenes that try way too hard to ship you together. A Wonderful Life doesn’t put enough detail into relatable inner conflicts or complicated pasts for me to connect with. It’d be more exciting to nurture relationships if the characters had interesting backstories to invest in, but they just don’t. While I did enjoy my first full year, it didn’t intrigue me enough to want to make it all the way into old age. Each day takes about 25 minutes to play if you stay up until late evening, and since there are four seasons with 10 days each, it takes about 15 to 20 hours to finish a single year. That’s assuming you can stay invested for that long, though A Wonderful Life can last you 30 years of in-game time if you play until the end, so it appears to lean on the hope you will feel invested enough in raising your child to build your farm up over those years. The town, which will start to feel like its own character after a season or two, also changes in interesting ways as the years pass over six different “life chapters.” Townsfolk will age over time, new furniture and upgrades will become available, the dig site will expand, and other changes will slightly affect gameplay. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life launches in Summer 2023 for the Nintendo Switch.However, one of A Wonderful Life’s highlights is its aging system, which encourages newlyweds to start raising a child into a functioning adult with their own hopes and dreams. ![]() Perhaps Harvest Moon: Magical Melody will be confirmed in the next few years. After all, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town got its own remake in 2019 which performed well among Steam and Switch players alike. Users will now be able to identify as male, female, or nonbinary at the start of Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, which expands upon the idea of creative freedom in simulator games.įollowing the announcement that a classic Harvest Moon was receiving a remake, many fans are hopeful that in the future, others may be adapted for the Switch or future Nintendo consoles as well. For example, for a while now, XSEED has been working on making the games more LGBTQ+ friendly, and the newest option in the series is the first step towards that goal for the company. While the trailer debuted with nostalgic music and many classic features that have been seen before, there were still several new aspects and twists to be excited over. Hopefully, the 2023 version can avoid the pitfalls of the past, and will allow its players to have either, or both, a boy or girl. If they chose to play as a woman, they eventually would be able to marry one of three eligible bachelors, Rock, Gustava, or Martin. ![]() However, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition ushered in the possibility of giving birth to a daughter while also giving people a chance to play as a female protagonist, rather than just a male. ![]() Sadly, in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, the main character could only ever have one child who would always be male. If the developer chose to allow players to continue the game as the child of their previous protagonist, it could allow users to evolve their farms over various generations without having to restart the game from the bottom every time. While this idea by itself doesn't completely change the concept of the game, it could fix the replayability of Story of Seasons games. Several people among the new generation of Story of Seasons enthusiasts have also begun to express interest in the idea of family dynamics on top of growing crops, fishing, breeding animals, etc. The official description from Marvelous Games writes that "as the season's go by, you'll find your lifelong partner, raise a child together, and watch them grow up before your very eyes." For many fans, being able to grow older with their family and NPCs such as the bachelorettes and bachelors in the town was incredibly enticing in the early 2000s. Reminiscent of its name, the original was the first game where players were able to progress through a character's entire life, from childhood to old age. The passage of time in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life has long since been heralded as one of the best elements of the game that is confirmed to be carrying over into the Story of Season's remake. ![]() The town of Forgotten Valley, formerly called Forget-Me-Not Valley, is a peaceful one where players can work on their farm, fall in love, and even have children. ![]()
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