This inevitably involves getting into fights, via Harvestella’s real-time battle system. The change of gears is bizarre, as all the low level farming stuff works exactly the same as in Stardew Valley et al., as you till the earth in neat little squares, plant seeds, water them, and then deposit them in a delivery box to be sold off in town.Įventually you learn to start cooking and as you start building enclosures for animals (yours is purely a dairy farm, mind) your range of options begin to widen, especially once you start travelling into town and making use of their shops, while unlocking time-saving abilities by completing various challenges.Īlthough you have to keep your eye on your stamina, and eat or rest as appropriate, you’re also encouraged to explore the world map, to collect rare resources and navigate the game’s wider plot. That is exactly what happens though, as the game segues into being a straight farming game with all the grace and subtlety of a motorway pile-up. Unless you already knew what kind of game this was, we don’t think anyone would guess that the first thing the mayor of the town suggests you do, after discussing the potential end of the world and the fact that your room-mate is a time traveller, is start tending a vegetable patch.
You subsequently find yourself in exactly the sort of fairy tale village that farming games are always set in, although everyone’s upset about Quietus and what they refer to as Omens – one of who crash lands in a spaceship/meteor just as you arrive and turns out to be a human girl from the future.Īll this happens within the first half hour and while there are plenty of cliches it’s not at all clear where it’s all going. Harvestella starts off like many a Japanese role-playing game, with your main character (who can be male, female, or non-binary) waking up with amnesia and no clue as to where they are, only for an angelic looking figure to tell them that they’re destined to save the world. Aliens: Dark Descent PS5 review – a modern day bug hunt
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