Where is the fun of farm management games, perhaps many people question where the fun is, those things that can be done in reality, why do you have to run to the game to do it, but in reality there are many people who have no experience in farming at all, and even live in the wild, and even a piece of cultivated land can not be found, let alone farming.
Stardew Cereal Language is a ranch management game, you must play the role of abandoning urban life to live in the countryside, start a self-sufficient life, and experience the challenges and fun of different lives in it.
I inherited my grandfather's farm
Developed by Eric Barone, the stardew grain language describes the protagonist who leaves the office life in the city by chance and returns to the farm that his grandfather used to run in pelican town. Now that it has been abandoned for a long time, no one has been tidying up for a long time, and the natural weeds are simple and dilapidated, so the protagonist begins to tidy up and carry out various agricultural and miscellaneous work in order to live here.
Frankly speaking, the first time I saw the Stardew Grain Language, my inner feeling was that there was still this kind of picture quality game in what era, which was not the standard of twenty years ago, but once I really played it, I found out that it was really fragrant, and the experience of the game was really good, and any aspect was very solid. Although it does not give you a given direction, you must make different decisions at any time, which will affect the later life and actions, but on the whole you can also spend your life very leisurely, just do a little thing every day, and earn enough money for life.
But you can also work hard every day, from cutting trees to mining and fishing, etc., all day long from waking up to going to bed, but this has a design is physical strength, you need to consume physical strength to do these actions, as long as the stamina bar completely disappears will faint, this setting is much longer than hunger. Sometimes it's too realistic or not at all realistic, and the fun of playing is greatly reduced, and a farm management class must be balanced here, such as getting up at six o'clock every day, you have to go home at twelve o'clock, and if it is more than one o'clock, you will fall asleep.
At the beginning you have to choose the initial farm, from the water flow to the cliffs everywhere, or the terrain of the whole forest, each place has its own advantages and disadvantages, you choose a farm from which to start, you have to be able to use the advantages of your farm, you will have a good start. For example, your farm is a river, fishing as the main means of making money, relying on fishing to develop other industries, such as agriculture or mining, although many items are randomly obtained, but there are still many props to spend money, and resources such as stone and wood are also necessary for construction.
The farmland is really a mess, it is full of stones and weeds and wood, you have to slowly clear it out to find a way to use the space, clean up at the same time you can also get the first resources, resources can be used to make a variety of props, is the most important task at the beginning. But there are also some wood and stones, if you do not upgrade the tools in your hand can not be cut off and exploded, the acquisition of props and different actions, you have to spend time slowly, in short, everything has to take time to get, no one can help you, at most help you upgrade the tools to build a new house.
Started farming
The game is divided into several aspects according to proficiency, farming, mining, foraging, fishing, fighting, farming includes planting fields, digging the ground and watering the land, carrying out actions related to farming will increase the proficiency of farming, reaching a certain level you can choose the point you want to upgrade, for example, mining can choose to double the precious metal, or double the ordinary ore. The point of disagreement will determine which activity you have more advantages to carry, such as you prefer to grow vegetables, and herding is an auxiliary, so the focus is on the top of growing vegetables, and there will also be activities brought about by skill upgrades.
Your vegetables and fruits can be processed into canned or alcoholic beverages, which naturally bring far more value than direct sales, but this kind of processing also requires other resources, such as wood, rubber, stone, coal, and so on, some of which can be taken directly, and some of which are processed or obtained additionally. You have to find a way to get these resources, these will consume your time and money, in the early stage of almost can not make ends meet, but also to obtain resources is not easy to do things, so often you to sleep at the time of sleep but not willing to sleep state.
And the reason why you start to idle in the later period is the result of your efforts in the previous year or two, there are four seasons in a year, and each season has suitable activities, such as very annoying watering at the beginning, you have to go to the pit to work hard to mine, after obtaining the limited metal, dissolve the metal ore into ingots to make an automatic waterer. In this way, you get up every morning, your vegetables and fruits do not need you to water, save the physical strength, naturally you can do other things, you will start to have money, the early stage is almost a poor busy person, but the poor busy process may be the most interesting part of it.
In the pit you have to fight in addition to mining, after defeating the monsters in the pit, you can sometimes get the stairs of the next map, the pit of Stardew Valley is where you have to knock on the stones, and defeat the monsters, choose one of these two conditions to see the stairs down. Every five floors is a record point, you can choose the floor the next time you come in, if you don't reach the fifth floor, you have to start again, but sometimes you knock on the stones for half a day without seeing the stairs, you can only leave silently, otherwise you will be deducted when you faint and fall asleep, and when the bus opens, there will be an upgraded version of the mine pit to explore.
The activity center is also a key point of Stardew Valley, at the beginning the mayor said that in the past, the town's activity center was full of activities here, and it was quite lively, but I don't know when it began to become less and finally old and broken, after triggering the conditions, the mayor will take you in, and then open the activity center for you to enter. The protagonist meets elves-like creatures in it, and after the wizard's translator, they learn that these small creatures are called Joni Demons, they grow in nature, and they hope that the protagonist can pay tribute to some natural or processed products, so that they will help repair the things in the town.
Every time a condition is met, there are gifts, and after completing a large chapter, some of the dilapidated buildings in the town will be repaired, from bridges to minecarts, of course, not every one of these objects is so easy to obtain, some are limited to the season, some are limited to the location, and some are more limited to the degree of proficiency you want. As long as you do not pay attention to the products of the season, you may miss the gifts you contribute, and you often do not catch fish in a certain season in a certain place, plant vegetables and fruits in a certain season, and wait until next year to fish and cultivate.
Some people are efficient obsessive-compulsive, you must do difficult conditions in time, you want to mine all day long, until it is almost time to sleep before you go home from the mine. In addition, there is also an important in the game, but you have not achieved the conditions that will not affect the progress of the game, that is, making friends and getting married, you can not communicate with anyone, of course, in the end, you will become a marginal person, it is impossible to get married, you can also have more good relations, such as often chatting with NPCs to give him gifts, enhance the favorability to become friends.
The first year is basically a reclamation period, you don't have anything to produce, everything has to start from scratch, and your ability to farm and fish and physical strength are insufficient, stardew Valley's setting is that farming and fishing have proficiency, and you need to make certain props to reach you to make. In fact, when you slowly carry out a certain action, you will find that gradually escalate, there is no need to say that you want to practice and so on, and at the beginning, you really cut down a few trees and planted a few fields, and you will find that your physical strength will immediately bottom out.
My habit is to get up and determine what to do today, just look at what needs to be harvested, watered or weeded and the like on my farm, and then I will walk around when I am busy, maybe today first fishing for sea fish, tomorrow to catch river fish, or run to break wood halfway, or go to the mine pit. Every day you can find a lot of things to do, but you may not do anything, because after the automatic waterer, in addition to the initial hoeing and planting seeds, the automatic waterer behind the automatic waterer eliminates the watering action, of course, you also need to go to the pit to dig the ore needed for the waterer.
Although the picture is average, it is very delicate and can make you "liver" very happy
I play the SWITCH version, I have to say that the SWITCH version is very suitable for the tone of Stardew Valley, especially the handheld and TV mode can be switched freely, so that you can play even if there is no TV around, stardew Valley's dot matrix picture has a very low demand for the host, which can be more experienced on NS. However, Stardew Valley has a big problem, but there is a problem with the TV mode, generally speaking, many games can not run smoothly in the handheld mode, stardew Valley is the TV mode Font and object display become too small, sometimes you have to get close to see clearly.
Another point of confusion is that you still don't really understand the concept of time, it takes you almost an hour to walk from home to the library, but the distance is not very long, and the time passing during the movement is too fast, as if nothing is done, just go to the blacksmith to upgrade the tool for a few hours. However, from the middle of the period, it is relatively not a problem to borrow a minecart to move, or to ride a horse, plus your farm is moving towards automation, as long as you just start to make certain movements, you can stay still behind you, and time is enough.
The wonderful thing is that the graphics of Stardew Valley are poor and very primitive, but they can be played but easier to indulge than those games with exquisite graphics, why there are many types of ranch management games on NS, but stardew valley, the reason is that Stardew Valley really listens to the voice of players, so many elements are added. And there aren't too many over-the-top things that have to be bothered, simplifying the things that can upset players if they're just sketched, but they also don't really abandon the important farming experience and add the personal ingenuity of many authors.
The picture is not everything, but the good picture can indeed improve the fun of the game, and the game with bad picture is to be made up by other aspects, such as the picture quality of Stardew Valley is not the condition that the player will be picky at the first time, after all, you see the picture to choose, but smooth and playable, as well as the feedback that can be brought. For example, if you grow fruit, make fruit into jam, or brew fruit wine, it takes a lot of time to achieve several of these conditions, and finally complete the processed product, and the satisfaction you get makes you want to continue.
If you want to say the disadvantages, it is also a farm management game, playing for a long time will occur problems, although casually break dozens of hours, but when you have everything, you will start to get bored, obviously the goal at the beginning is to create a rich farm, but once the success of the creation, it will begin to dislike the success factors. This is really a very wonderful mood, at the beginning of the momentum, it took a lot of time to fight, but once the momentum passed, you will be bored, forget the previous mood, and put down.
This kind of game you can play easily, of course, you can also choose the liver, but the liver up, you may really have to leave the "liver" in the Stardew Valley. Of course, people with difficulty in choosing play this kind of game is quite painful, but the individual is not at all choosing a difficult patient, but intuitively choosing a patient, most of the time is subconsciously moving, and not thinking deeply. Act with the sixth sense, this is also the fun of playing the business game, there may be some people who play the business game to have how many resources, or how much to earn today, what to make money, in line with the return on investment and other obsessive-compulsive disorder.
summary
Stardew Valley and other ranch management games are not particularly outstanding, but in the details have been carefully adjusted, naturally will not lose to other games of the same type, so the feeling of Stardew Valley playing is somewhat conservative, but there are some small ideas in the conservative. These are all based on strong-based adjustments, with an almost player mentality to make, of course, this is similar to the concept of Ranch Story, or some of the dissatisfaction, but it must be said that the feeling of playing is really quite different.