Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns brings all the charm of the Bokujō Monogatari games, along with a whole new cast of characters animals, and a number of improvements. With a more colorful and stylized look than the previous game, a new part-time job system, and a revised, more strategic approach to tool upgrades, Trio of Towns is a welcoming, forgiving, and addicting game. One of the biggest Boku games yet, Trio of Towns is loaded with characters, features, and objects to unlock, and is a must-have for fans of life down on the farm.

It’s quirky and charming in the way that the best installments in the series are beloved for, and I’m still plucking away at my farm today. Plus… Mario costumes. Seriously, what more do you need?! Go give Trio of Towns a look, folks, it’s a winner.

All told, Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns is a relaxing yet surprisingly deep farm game. Though it takes some time to pick up speed right out of the gate, once the game establishes a rhythm it can be relatively hard to put down. An in-game day passes by so quick in real time, you'll find yourself going for just one more day, and this naturally makes the game a good fit for quick bursts of play on the go. When you take a look at all the content on offer — three distinct towns, dozens of unique NPCs, multiplayer options, and more than enough farming chores than can be handled in one day — you have a game that offers an incredible amount of bang for your buck. We would strongly recommend that you pick this up even if it only mildly interests you; the mechanics here are quite easy for newcomers to pick up, and the game does a great job of deepening things and leaving much of the path forward open to player choice. For the 20th anniversary of Harvest Moon, fans couldn't have asked for a better game, even if legal matters mean that it's not - officially - part of the celebrations.

Trio of Towns needed something more substantial than just "furmiliars" to make it worthy of being the series' 20th anniversary title. [Issue #27 – May/June 2017, p. 70]

While Trio of Towns has more structure — and more “stuff” in general — than I’m used to, it’s still the same farming simulator I know and love.

In the end Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns might not be perfect, but it’s still a wonderful game in many ways. There’s tonnes of stuff to do on your farm, what feels like a million side quests, and even adorable postmen to woo if that’s something you’re interested in *wink*. It’s a shame that it does get quite repetitive, there’s no huge overarching goal, and the tutorial made me want to punch Uncle Frank in the face, but all of the good surely outweighs these minor points. The game design is gorgeous, the dialogue and story are very well written, and overall the game is just really great fun.

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns will satisfy fans of the series and genre, delivering the life and farm simulation that they've been addicted to for years. It won't do much for those who haven't jumped on the bandwagon though, offering little new outside the titular towns.

As someone who has played most every title since Harvest Moon [not to be confused with the new title], this one is the best one yet. A plethora of characters, cultures, animals, and crops, not to mention all sorts of new recipes, this is the only game I've had on my 3DS since getting it Feb 28th.

Pros: - Three town with three different culture. So excited exploring them. - Good graphic design and the control is easy to use - Many good festivals - Bachelors and Bachelorettes with cute & good appearance and their stories are fascinated (hard to hate anyone) - Town linked rank system with some challenging tasks are interesting. Cons: - It's easy to make high star rank crops as we can harvest crops then make their seeds and grow them again till they're 5* (grow -> fertilizers -> harvest -> make seeds -> grow again with higher quality) - Easy to win the festivals though it's expert or legend theme -After the second year, i almost have nothing to explore more

Well, after completing the game recently I can say this game is great in many ways. However, I'd be a fool to dismiss it's faults. This game does have the three towns, which I did love that. Though it's kind of sad that people from other towns can't partake in other town events. That really makes your choice of your chosen partner all the more important. As far as gameplay goes it's pretty similar to Story of Seasons but the farming is a tad more complex. You have to worry about increasing different categories to get higher star crops, which, can be a pain. At least animal care didn't get that much more advanced. I do like the fact that there are mining spots early on it allows you to stockpile some money for the different seeds and fertilizer. Pro tip, Buy every type of seed you can in your first year multiple if you can. You'll thank me later. I did like the farm tasks that we got from our dad in the game but that made the game drag on for ages and the final batch of farm tips are the most tedious. But it does feel good when you can resolve that conflict between your character and their dad. I really don't like how hard it is to get things like Wool+ though. It fels like it takes forever, I still haven't gotten any Wool+ and at this point I have chosen my partner and finished all the farm tips. All that's left is to see the family events with your child in the game. And I guess that's locked behind the King Bed upgrade that requires Wool+ which is annoying. All in all though, solid game. Still better than any Story of Seasons game on Nintendo Switch.

I'll start by saying the music and visuals are very good and even though i played for an hour only, one of the songs has been stuck in my mind for months now. So they did a fantastic job on that! That being said, I wish I could like this one, but the game is as boring as it gets. It's like every harvest moon or farm game and if you don't get bored doing the same stuff every single day you'll like it. For me it just didn't work. Same goes for the story and characters, nothing really interested me in this game. The worrying part is this is probably the best game of the genre on the 3ds, that says a lot about the others.

I gave 2 because the game isn't rubbish but for me, after playing **** Valley, this felt like a step backwards and it felt very boring. For someone else, as a first farm game, maybe this would be good but it felt like a watered down version of everything I'd done before and not done as well. To be fair, I thought the intro video scenes were quite charming and looked great in 3D but it didn't continue in the game. The music was OK. Nothing great but definitely a good standard. Gameplay was just boring as it gets. I found the colouring was a bit harsh, a bit like everything had a scarlet haze. The whole setting felt very old fashioned and that definitely didn't float my boat. For me a game that wastes 4 hours of my time and requires me to drive to exchange it, doesn't really give me any reason to score above 0. I think that would be unfair for this game. It isn't a bad game, it is just way out classed in its genre and after 200 hours of ****, this just made me want to go back to ****. Game design teams really need to recognise the difference between child friendly and childish.