Wow, this having a rating higher than Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma is wild. It's not even in the same league. It's a good game. I've sat with my girlfriend playing this and it is probably the best SoS game I've sat with her playing. Certainly better optimization, than Mineral and Olive Town. Olive Town seemed to be better gameplay though. It looks great, music is a bit hit and miss with some songs being a bit annoying. The game just seems to hold itself back unnecessarily. Like the fully upgraded bag is just not even close to big enough. My GF is constantly having to go back to the house to make space. An option to craft, or buy extra storage, not only for storage but so different item types can be stored separately in different boxes is severely missing. As is a dedicated fridge. Farming is restrictive due to field restrictions. Farm redesigning is non existent. It does have a great gameplay loop but this really feels like an old game in new packaging. There are just so many times when I'm saying why don't you do that and she replies you can't do it in this game. They should have completely modernised this game and they didn't and it shows in the lack of many staple gameplay elements from games in the genre. I wouldn't say it's a lazy remake in the fact it is a good recreation but it is lazy in the fact it needed a lot of quality of life improvements that they just haven't added. Still, for what it is, it's really good but **** Valley, Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma, Harvestella and Coral Island all absolutely destroy this game. I'd say Rune Factory 5 is better too if you can deal with RF5's bad optimisation. A real missed opportunity because with just a little more development this game could have been a 10. The total lack of farm options is a real set back though. I'm not going to do a playthrough myself when my GF is done cos 3 small fields and basement for crops, lack of storage and no farm design is a big no for me. I don't see the point in some mechanics like uprooting and storing trees, when they don't give you sufficient storage to go storing trees for 3/4 year. If you can overlook the flaws, you'll be hooked. It's too mid for me to entertain with zero design elements. I've played too many great farming games to play this at this stage. Still enjoying helping my GF out with it. To have no dungeons, little storage, limited fields and no farm design is too many things missing.

One of the best entry in the SOS series. Progression was challenging in a good way. The addition of walking random NPCs really makes the village alive. My one issue is that the love interests, especially the women, does not feel unique compared to one another. They are all the "nice" type and seems like the same person with different fonts.

I was so excited for this game, I bought it day 1 and now I'm a little disappointed. To me this game is a little bit boring, the mayor talking too much, the characters aren't intresting... on the other hand farming is so good and the whole game ui, graphics are really nice. I bought this game and two weeks later Harvest Moon Winds of Anthos and the new HM game is more fun to play to me. I'll back to Grand Bazaar later, because it's not a bad game.