![]() ![]() Hanging around each settlement, sleeping in your own place each night, helps build each place up as familiar and homely. Even aside from the upgrade incentives, it just feels nice, you know?Įach town you go to gives you a space to stay the night – an old lighthouse, the old barn etc – to help add a sense of belonging across the entire grove. But you probably won’t really want to – you’ll likely rather just chill in the town, help out where you can, doing the odd jobs as needed. ![]() You can blast through it fairly quickly if you want to, albeit with things being a little harder thanks to a lack of upgrades on your gear. The game overall is much tighter as a result. You aren’t some outsider coming to solve the problems of a town and move on – this is your home, and you are a part of this community. Due to the emphasis on helping out each town, you don’t spend much time at all off in some form of wilderness stretching between settlements. The grove itself is laid out somewhat differently from a traditional Zelda style adventure, in ways both obvious and subtle. Checking out memories you’ve yet to unlock will give you hints about other ways you can explore the grove and its many activities. As you do different activities, you’ll unlock Memories in a photo album, any of which can be equipped in a limited amount of slots to give extra perks (get extra coins while fishing, plus 2 health, that sort of thing). To help guide you, there’s also a kind of in-built achievement system, but without the trophies. Time can also be fast forward by sitting on a bench for a few seconds and just soaking in the atmosphere. ![]() Day length can be doubled if you feel a little rushed, giving you plenty of time to get everything done if you want to wander. To make things more player-friendly, there’s also a little customizability here as well. It’s a super compelling loop, in that Stardew Valley -esque “just one more day” way. Time will cycle through morning, day, evening and night as you do so, shifting the way The Rot reacts to you as you encounter them. The sun will rise, you’ll go about your day’s work helping out where you can, collect an inventory’s worth of bits and bobs, then head back home for the night to rest. You gain a collection of tools that double as weapons as needed that can be upgraded, a handful of empty jars that can be filled with health replenishing dew, and a few other knick-knacks such as a seed pouch that give you more ways of interacting with the environment (usually to collect more and different resources). Resources replenish every day, and you can stock up to 15 of each in storage lockers about the place. While it’s true you will be taking on The Rot – slime-like creatures with a variety of different forms – when necessary, just as much of your time is spent collecting resources from around town, popping some in special bins for the townsfolk when requested, or using them to patch together any worn down bridges or fences and the like. The title suggests a combative role, but that isn’t always so. As a Guardian, it’s Concord’s responsibility to help the community out where they can. The noticeboard out the front will list a few posts, jobs that Concord can do to help out the community. Your cute little grape Concord wakes up, walks out the front door, and begins the day. To my pleasant surprise, the game doesn’t just stick to a tried and true formula, but adds its own twists and turns to expectations.Īfter a gentle tutorial walking you through the opening of the game, you’ll settle into a steady, familiar, rhythm. I wasn’t expecting all that much from the recently released Garden Story, other than a cute, comfortable “one of those”. Even such specific niches as Zelda -cross-talking-vegetables boast multiple games among their ranks. ![]() This makes it a tough crowd to stand out in. Games riffing on the classical Zelda formula are a dime a dozen these days, particularly on the Switch. ![]()
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