HARVESTELLA

So this is going to sound weird, I've never gone into a blind rage while attempting to play a what I thought was going to be a relaxing farming game. The game starts with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 20 min+ unskippable cutscene and I only say 20min+ because that's as long as I lasted before Alt+F4ing... IT COULD BE LONGER. I've never felt so disrespected by a game. The game essentially showed up to our date to the local botanical garden and ranted about their job for 20 mins and then spit in my mouth (a little spit play could be fine but don't start off with it.) The real issue is this game was gifted to me by a dear friend, my oldest friend, I consider this man my brother. I couldn't let it stand, this supermarket, poorly translated romance novel someone left by the gum at the checkout counter wasn't gonna steal from my best friend. So I did what any of us would do, I set out to refund a gift, not to my benefit but to liberate the hard earned dollars of a brother. I got though all the steam help sections for the refund AND now the last step is to explain to my friend that I'd rather have an awkward conversation than let this development team get $60 they DO NOT DESERVE. The game looks old, like Crystal Chronicles from mid-2000's old.... so it's even worse. It's like the year 2004 is trying to steal some of today's money. so yeah maybe just go play stardew valley again, or try ff14.

我太喜欢剧情了！我觉得脑洞很大，也很有趣。 每个人物也超级好看哈哈哈！ 种田游戏就不指望啥操作了，我发现没法闪避，就没事种种菜，推进推进剧情就好，还成功安利给了我朋友，我们都很喜欢！

Worth the full price. Game is Peak

What could have been an interesting game ruined by waaaay too many cut scenes and running around just to see even more cut scenes.

It takes components of a lot of different games, does them with less care, and wraps it up in a mediocre anime package. If you’re grasping for a JRPG/Farming hybrid, go for it. Just know it’s mid. All of it is mid.

Honestly, this game I do highly recommend if you need another farm sim or dungeon crawler-esk type of game, I finally 100% the game and It has left a huge impact on my heart. It does have flaws, but still. I honestly love the game!

TLDR: 4/10 Below average for a RPG-Farming game. Worse 'forced' combat I've ever seen in any video game. Garbage daily time limit/season system. Half baked game. No major bugs at least. I 100% this game so you know when I say this isn't it. It isn't. This game has a LOT of problems with it. More than the good. Why did I keep playing you might ask? Because I started to play this with the mindset that I'll 100% it and I damn well did. This is my first farming game... I'll give the genre a few more tries because I expect this one to just be a mistake despite it's positive rating... (I played the whole game with keyboard and mouse) I'm not going to go into every detail with what I think is wrong with the game. Just two very major points. The first being the seed system. You know? Those things you need to grow plants for a farm? Yeah, those. You need to buy them seasonally and there is a SET amount you can buy at a time regardless of how much money you have. There are four shops scattered all over the map. You'll notice that some of the shops have the same item but the price is higher... (only a few and not all seeds are like that). Lets say I wanted to buy carrots. You can get it from shop A and shop B but both shops are in different directions from each other. (all shops are like this) Shop A which is closer has it for a higher price than shop B that is further. Both only stock 99. This might not be that big of a deal for people just playing it for the story. But for people like me that are 100% the game... It's a huge annoyance. Once you have your farm maxed out (so you can have the maximum plot of land) 200 seeds will mean nothing. Especially if you're min-maxing a little. (just a little) You can ONLY get seeds from shops or killing enemies. (not really enemies since the drop rate is ♥♥♥♥ and the combat is ♥♥♥♥ so you wouldn't want to do that anyways) That is just a stupid system. Why can't I get some seeds back from harvesting? So you have to buy your seeds seasons in advance... but you can't do that all the time. Pumpkin seeds for example can ONLY be bought in fall. You'll especially have trouble filling your plot of land for winter if you don't buy your seeds in advance (which you can for winter seeds). The combat... There are a lot of classes? You'll only stick with the same three or four since a lot of them kinda suck. And yes I maxed every class. There is NO dodging in the game. Don't be mistaken if it tells you that you can. Because you can't. There is no tanking. You'll do the tanking. You have two companions that do ♥♥♥♥ damage compared to you. If you're not playing a range class you'll be waiting to attack the enemy/boss a lot unless you chug your healing juice and power through the damage. (If it's the type of attack that doesn't stun you that is...) Which leads me to talking about the healing system... Can you guess? It's garbage. You have to stop mid combat and chug the juice. Stop as in you'll have to use your arrow keys to find where the juice is on your ♥♥♥♥ hotbar. (there is no way to assign keys to the hotbar.) It's a HUGE disappointment with how combat focused this game is. You'll be farming 30-40% of the time while 70-60% of the rest doing combat. I did not expect that going into this game. The bosses? There are a lot of them... But nothing all that unique unless you're talking about the story bosses. Some of them were a pretty fight. Just "pretty". Again. There are a lot of other problems I have with the game beside those two major points. Like the FPS randomly dropping from (forced maxed 60) 60 to 50-45. I've played this game on two different systems. One based win10 and the other win11. Both had this problem. So it's not just me. The download. OR my computers. Computer specs on my profile.