My Time At Sandrock might actually be within range of passing up Stardew Valley as my favourite harvest moon genre game, it's such an ABSURDLY confident sequel to Portia and the degree to which it brings new ideas to the genre is kind of absurd when you look at how aggressively most other farming games are just harvest moon with a few other ideas tacked on. God damn
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huh, this is an encouraging enough thing that I think you just broke my skepticism filter on the game. Portia was ambitious and didn't entirely live up to it, imo (Magical Melody vibes, like, what's there was lovely, but...) and then a bunch of other recent genre entries had basically soured me on everything BUT Stardew.
suppose i'll have to give it a shot. :D
To be clear it shares a lot of DNA with portia but it's like a way more coherent and polished vision of that type of gameplay, in addition to having a bunch of setting-specific twists
Is it that good ?
I wonder, how much building do you get to do ? I think what would sell me on this kind of game would be the city builder potential, or a really big farm at least.
Maybe I should just replay Dragon Quest builders or Minecraft and stop pretending that I really care about the farming aspects that much ...
It's not a citybuilder at all, it's absolutely along the lines of harvest moon and portia (your main income is fulfilling requests, there's a lot of crafting of commodities and ruin diving, relationships with townspeople have a big focus, etc)
How does it run? I always get nervous with 3D games. Any lag/glitches?
I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this since I work in 3d professionally and thus have a very high end computer. But I haven't had any issues and I don't get the sense it's especially demanding spec-wise.
Ooo I wondered about that one. Guess it's worth a look then, ah? On the list it goes.
My partner is also waiting haha. It can be so hard to know what youre about to get with an Early Access version. Cool to hear its so far along o: