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[Retro]

visually looks great!

What will be different about this game compared to all the other farming simulators?

I really hope this has a strong focus on animal breeding, bartering, and interesting life simulation to keep things unique and interesting.

[Sexy Machine]

I've not played a ton of thos but this is a PS2 game being ported to steam. You should be able to look up stuff on the game.

[2d0x]

Originally posted by Diablo:

What will be different about this game compared to all the other farming simulators?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q8hB4w1Eng

[Retro]

cool! looks like it does some different things

[Disteerily]

Changes/Spoilers (I Guess?? It's from 2008): It's not a 1 for 1 exact port of the original PS2 version, it's more like a half-asxed overhaul. The new differences are the inclusion of Cows and Pigs, along with entirely new Sheep sprites (there were sheep in the original, though these new ones look exactly like the SC 2 for DS sheep sprites), and the Chicken and Duck hatchlings got an overhaul. (The original all the baby birds were yellow and got a random color assigned after they aged, while the mammals got a random color right at birth.) But all the other animals seem to be the exact same along with all the exact same color variations from the original PS2 version.

The cutscenes also seem to be the exact same lifted right out of it, but the 3 menus got a complete overhaul with the date and time bars, along with upping the inventory cap from its original 4 max, and a new trading area next to the dog kennels.

So if the pigs and cows look out of place in the promo material compared to the other animals, they are, they aren't in the original game.

Taper Your Expectations: It's definitely Not story driven in a way farm games are these days, there are no pick-your-path adventure choices (and No romance plots like the 2nd ds game has), the game is laid out in Acts and each act increases your farm area, you cannot actually leave your farm. The exits are trading menus and the hunting is a minigame to capture things that give you meat/fur/points to trade. The only thing to really do is collect all the items and unlock their diary entries, collect each color variation of animal, and complete the trading skill-tree and the hunting minigame.

The PS2 game is one of my comfort games from my childhood and Iv'e cataloged every color variation from the original series (since it doesn't tell you what you've gotten like this new one does), but it's a collectathon instead of a Farm Farm game so it's not really fair to compare this to Stardew or Harvest Moon, apples and oranges and all that.

[76561198068663825]

i dont think it will be the same with ps2 version , even in psp version they has way more crops and animals compared to ps2

[Disteerily]

I also just noticed the cats and fuzzy rabbits in the PSP version trying to play thru it for the first time, though half+ of the game is still directly lifted from the PS2 version, but these PSP controls are the bane of my existence

[CJStrawman]

Question, does anyone know how to get ahold of the game developer?

[Disteerily]

Originally posted by CJStrawman:

Question, does anyone know how to get ahold of the game developer?

Success Corporation afaik only has 1 studio and it's based in Tokyo with only 263 employees, so getting ahold of someone who would give you the time of day if you don't speak Japanese seems unlikely, here's their contact website page if you wanna try.
www(.)success-corp(.)co(.)jp/inquiry/
(Unrelated I also noticed they grift a bunch of NFT's on their website for up to 2,000$ USD, so that's not a great thing I learned today. My disappointment is immeasurable.)