{"id":958459,"date":"2023-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinfinite.net\/?p=958459"},"modified":"2023-06-20T05:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:48:01","slug":"story-of-seasons-a-wonderful-life-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinfinite.net\/reviews\/story-of-seasons-a-wonderful-life-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Review – Forgotten Valley’s Stuck in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life on PS5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Within minutes of booting up Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia. The guitar-twanging soundtrack kicked in and transported me back to playing the original, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, on the GameCube over a decade ago now. It was a heart-warming experience, encountering the cast of weird and wonderful characters all over again, but soon enough the cracks in this remake\/ remaster started to show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life aims to freshen up the 2003 original, but the premise remains the same. You’ve inherited a rundown farm from your father and travel to the sleepy town of Forgotten Valley to give revitalizing it your best shot. In terms of changes over the original, this ‘Story of Seasons’ version adds pronouns and customization options to the character creator, gives you different outfits to purchase and wear, adds more crops to those originally on offer, adds more romance options including same gender, and enhances the various events that take place throughout each year. That all sounds quite a lot, but before my first year in the game had come to a close, I soon realized that, actually, Forgotten Valley is very much stuck in the past of the farming sim genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n