#So it's disappointing to me when newer farming sims just seem like they yoinked SDV wholesale and slapped new graphics on it | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

lunod · 2 months

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I'd been avoiding Coral Island because using western agricultural methods on a small island and developing said island is very 😐 and also it really seemed (and does seem) to be essentially SDV Expanded with a fresh coat of paint. However I started playing and I am dying bisexually.

My main gripe with SDV (and SDV Expanded) romances is basically that a lot of the romance is fueled by you "fixing" them in some way and they don't really have like...depth? They have some interests sure but they're never actually Doing the thing they want to be doing and their aspirations just STOP completely after marriage. I might just be Adult for that but people who haven't found their way are just Not attractive to me so I never really felt compelled by any of them. This one though they all have lives and seem a lot more fleshed out, like they could stand WITH me and not just BY me you know? Time will tell if this will go in the "fixing" them direction but 👀

#Farming sims will all of course have some level of similarity it just bugs me how many farming sims are just SDV rips #Especially because SDV was inspired by Harvest Moon (which I liked as a kid) and it managed to be its own thing while still inspired by smth #So it's disappointing to me when newer farming sims just seem like they yoinked SDV wholesale and slapped new graphics on it #Like yes within a genre there will be shit that is similar but what are you doing that's DIFFERENT #And farming sims in general do have colonialism issues wrt agricultural methods and capitalist tendencies but #It feels Extra :/ when the setting is a tropical island like damn we're gonna on purpose destroy this delicate and very limited ecosystem #user.dat

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