@kryplixx: @dya: I adored Stardew but personally don't agree with this at all. Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns was the contemporary release with Stardew and I ended up enjoying it a lot more. It's 100% down to preference because they're actually fairly different games, and Stardew definitely has way more Western sensibilities, but performance issues for this game aside I don't think there's any stark gap in quality between SoS and Stardew.
Let's just take a moment to recognize how Ben's ideas of what constitutes a "good" dad are deeply concerning and.. err... child services are on their way..
Extremely this!! He was definitely playing it up for fun toward the end but woooooof.
This review started off with an interesting framing premise that went absolutely nowhere. Thanks for your thoughts on the game but your first 5 paragraphs don't provide any context for the rest of the review at all, on top of seemingly contradicting yourself multiple times over within those paragraphs.
I guess we all pretty much know what these sorts of farming games are by this point but it was still very confusing to be hearing all this talk about the balance of the game before any discussion of what the game actually is.
Nobody on GB liking XC1 is the least surprising thing ever, more or less just let them like what they like. That being said, Jan apparently enjoying XC2 but then getting on the 'XC1 is bad' train is wild to me; the opening in the first one is so much stronger it's not even close.
Good stuff GB. Also as a person living in a tropical climate, 78 degrees is most certainly not hot air. It's pretty perfect air-con temperature really, and as Vinny rightly points out is a good balance for energy efficiency.
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