Harvestella is Sq. Enix’s chill life simulation sport about farming and crystals. It was introduced again in June, however a trunk of recent particulars was launched at this time together with a prolonged video demonstration in the midst of Nintendo’s Treehouse livestream at Gamescom. Watch it under, if solely to learn the pleasant vegetable names.
The video is break up into chapters, and the Harvestella showcase begins across the 49m 20s mark.
Harvestella’s world is stored steady by 4 large crystals, and its protagonist is an amnesiac discovered sleeping in a subject. Thus far, so trope-y, however the story will get a bit of extra attention-grabbing because of Omens. Omens are armored figures believed to be answerable for the Quietus, a season that retains getting longer throughout which the townspeople’s crops all die, and considered one of them crashes to earth inside a comet in the beginning of the sport.
A part of the sport is clearly about uncovering the mysteries of the Omen and saving the world of Harvestella, however the true, ahem, meat of it’s farming interspersed with fight, Stardew Valley-stlye. Fight is formed by a Jobs system, which defines the weapons and talents you need to use, and contains Fighter, Mage, Shadow Walker and Sky Lancer jobs. Over on the Harvestella website at this time, Sq. Enix additionally launched the Assault Savant job, which mixes “science and martial arts”, apparently.
Farming, in the meantime, appears to be like such as you’d anticipate: plant seeds, water seeds, wait, and harvest. I do like the plush illustrations of the completely different greens you possibly can develop, nevertheless, and the just-a-little-wrong names for the greens. Some are slight twists on the true factor, similar to “lantern pumpkins” and “rainbow beans”, however others are simply enjoyable to say, like “carrops” and “cucumbles.”
You’ll be able to, after all, additionally rear livestock with equally cute names, similar to cluffowls and woolums. You may discover these on show within the video or put up linked above.
Harvestella will launch on November 4th on Steam.
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