Stardew Valley is an indie farming simulation RPG that was released on PC in February 2016 and then ported for everything but Nintendo…until today. As of October 5, 2017, you can now download it off the Nintendo Switch eShop, and for just $14.99. In Stardew Valley “Switch” (it’s the same game), you just inherited your grandpa’s huge yet messy farm plot in a place called – you guessed it – Stardew Valley, as well as his dirty, worn-out tools and some pocket change (thanks a lot, Gramps). So you leave your cushy office job to live the life of a farmer, but there’s way, way more than just tending to your farm and making bank; you find yourself mining and crafting, flirting with the locals to get married, even fighting monsters such as mummies and things called “Shadow Shamans.” It’s totally up to you and the possibilities are near endless.
This game is a great entry into the world of farming sims and Stardew Valley may just leave you wanting to till other fertile fields on your Nintendo consoles; here are a list of the top 5 not-to-be-missed series for beginning farmhands!
Harvest Moon
The original farming simulator by Natsume! Stardew Valley’s creators were actually inspired by the Harvest Moon series. It all started in 1997 with Harvest Moon for the SNES but the series took an unfortunate downward spiral after Magical Melody dropped for the GameCube in 2006. Have no fear though, I’m here to point you in the right direction when it comes to which Harvest Moon titles to give a shot:
- Harvest Moon 64 (1999, Nintendo 64)
- Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town (2003, Game Boy Advance, 2015, Wii U)
- Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (2003, GameCube)
- Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (2006, GameCube, 2009, Wii)
These games offer you a great combination of farming, customization and role-playing. And if you’re looking for an updated version, check out Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning on the Nintendo 3DS (2012). It’s pretty decent for a modern Harvest Moon. But whatever you do, do NOT bother with Harvest Moon: Light of Hope which came out this past summer (2017) for the Nintendo Switch. It’s dreadful.
Story of Seasons
The Story of Seasons series is the continuation of the Harvest Moon series under a different name due to getting acquired by Marvelous Inc. (formerly Natsume) and then localized by their American publishing brand XSEED Games. It’s a good thing the games are still being brought to the West, because both existing titles, Story of Seasons (2015) and Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns (2017), for the Nintendo 3DS are a joy to play. This series is basically a prettier-looking, smoother (though less traditional) Harvest Moon experience, which is similar to Stardew Valley, with the ultimate goal of working with your fellow farmers to make your town famous.
And if you like Story of Seasons, get hyped because XSEED Games announced they are big fans of the Nintendo Switch and will be developing their upcoming games for it.
Fantasy Life
Now, if you’ve taken a liking to the combat side of Stardew Valley more than the farming side, then do I have a game for you: Fantasy Life (2014) by Level-5 on the Nintendo 3DS. You choose from one of twelve “Lifes” (classes): Alchemist, Angler, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Cook, Hunter, Magician, Mercenary, Miner, Paladin, Tailor or Woodcutter, and then set out on a quest to either save the kingdom or just build a successful life for yourself, or both. The combat, crafting, exploring, customization, building, etc. are all simple and fun. Similarly to Stardew Valley, the choice is yours every step of the way and don’t worry, you can change your Life whenever (as long as you’re not in the middle of a quest!)
P.S. Fantasy Life Online, the sequel, is coming soon.
Rune Factory
Marvelous, Natsume and XSEED Games are behind the Rune Factory series, described by one of the producers as the “Harvest Moon where you wield a sword.” It all started with Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (yes, it’s actually called that) in 2007 on the Nintendo 3DS. You farm it up, craft it up and build up relationships with the other villagers as you do in Stardew Valley but the game mainly focuses on the action part – delving through dungeons and fighting anything that looks at you the wrong way. And instead of purchasing livestock you befriend monsters in dungeons. Cool, right?
If you’re intrigued, all the titles are good but Rune Factory 4 (2013) on the Nintendo 3DS is the newest and is a total banger. Unfortunately it is currently unknown whether the series will ever see additional development.
Terraria
Last but not least, Terraria. This 2D sandbox developed by Re-Logic came out of nowhere in 2011 on PC and made serious waves before hitting the Nintendo 3DS in 2015, then the Wii U in 2016. It’s like the lovechild of Minecraft and Metroid. You start off in a freshly generated world with basic tools and then go crazy. There’s caves with minerals to extract, materials to build an empire out of, vendors to attract and fill your empire with, different biomes to explore and awesome equipment and insane weapons to craft or find and then use to demolish loads of monsters (including bosses) coming your way. It takes the endless possibilities of Stardew Valley and kind of multiplies it by infinity for countless hours of fun.
And if you’re too busy with Stardew Valley Switch or the other great games in this list, there’s no harm in waiting it out because 505 Games (the publisher) announced in February 2017 that Terraria is coming to the Nintendo Switch real soon.
So, back to playing some more Stardew Valley Switch? Or, will you be taking a swing (with your sickle, because farming) at one of the great titles on this list?
Anyway here they are:
Parrockeet: rocket bird Pokemon
Fire/Flying
Rocket Launch: increases speed by one stage with every fire move used
Parrockeet are trigger happy Pokemon with volatile tempers. They usually are incredibly happy and tend to enjoy life ecstatically but can be dangerously enraged.
Pithadrake: Dragon Fruit Pokemon
Grass/Dragon
Tropicality: Immune to ice type moves
Pithadrake uses it’s several layers of skin to generate an ever-tropical environment around it to help it maintain optimum growth conditions
Swordory
Water/Fighting
Steelworker
Swordory upon evolving stop swimming in schools and instead prefer to hunt alone. They attack their prey with their sword like protrusion that is said to be as hard as steel.
I couldn’t make the first and second stages
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Swordory looks worried af haha
Haha yeah… it was difficult to paint over clay… so I kept messing up his eye and ended up giving him that abeyemination
i think the concepts are really cool, especially the dragon fruit one. Im a little confused about the water one. the type is water/fighting yet based on your creation of it, i dont see any fighting component to it at all. then you call it the steelworker and the “sword” is hard as steel so why not steel type?
The design was difficult to accomplish in clay, but it was actually supposed to look more menacing. I had also made a samurai hat for it which I was ultimately unable to fit. The samurai element would perhaps have made its fighting nature more clear. The sword fish in nature uses its projection to attack its prey, which could imply a fighting component. Steelworker is the ability I’ve given it, an existing ability that Dhelmise also posseses, so it can get stab on steel also, apart from water and fighting.
Got my Super Star Saga copy today! Oh the nostalgia.. immediately caught myself tapping my foot to the soundtrack :p the only thing bothering me is that they translated it completely to Dutch and I can’t seem to switch it to English. But other than that: yay!
have you played the minions game at all yet? im hearing bad reviews of it which turns me off buying it since i bought superstar saga on wiiu not that long ago. Love the game though. very close second to partners in time in my opinion with the other mario and luigi games not coming close
No not yet, but I doubt I will. The trailers didn’t get me excited for it.
See I missed a lot of stuff, but especially Vivillon
Anyone else collected all of them? Granted I think my event ones are hacked but tbh until they’re distributed again they’ll do
I have all Vivillon patterns somewhere, I think in Omega as I needed bank space.
Well at Homecoming Football game
This is my first school event like this since 3 days into 7th grade (now in 11th grade)
Well hopefully you can enjoy it.
I probably will its so crowed though
I probably couldn’t handle that, I’m only just about OK with a full cinema, and that’s because seats are separate and everyone is supposed to be quiet (some aren’t and I kill them). The noise and my lack of interest in sports would put me off going to such a thing, but I guess there it’s a pretty big social event?
Well I am done with interview day.
Congrats! Some guy in my class also had a job interview today but I’m pretty sure he’s not you.
Not me. It wan’t a job interview. It was a medical school interview. I was interviewed by 7 different people.
Oh, you were the one being interviewed. That sounds like something I would never want to do…
Well I have to do it at least one more time depending on my results.
Also thanks for the congratulations, I am a bit winded after that so I am a bit slow on the uptake.
I just got Superstar Saga delivered, needless to say I’m HYPED!!! This is something I’ve always wanted and needed in my life. I have quite a lot of work this weekend but you better believe I’m making time for this.
Hatched my second shiny Charmander today, he’s built for Mega Charizard Y and needs Hyper Training in speed but has 0 Attack IV https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03b893069eaa5a097987174aa6719eb055000449bee08cd10681a28a0222c7ec.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49192e2efd2c6363fbb3b064054994b66737d4f2b1af762a5c263e51cd61a585.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b41a753a9b99dd114903048b9d3d00f3a1ebec8bf3ca74419e3b8829df88311d.jpg
Congratulations on your glowing baby boy! I’ll probably start breeding mine in Ultra Sun and Moon.
Thanks, yeah I hope breeding mechanics stay the same in USUM.
Thanks everyone for the tips and support. I will probably get a response within 3 or 6 weeks.
That seems like a long time, GL though 🙂
Finally found this baby Its timid too! The nature I was hoping for!! Huzzah! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/676e8a8a49aa7ae41e76f639402699cb68192b383bdbf02624f8d18acfa7cf3c.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f44881dd47c8121b438dbfa15933ec9cc8b8dc111c34093f6d93555ac7471a6.jpg
Oh nice one! How long did it take?
For about a week and half. I started during summer but then came back about a week ago.I’m happy
Well congratulations. I might look for Shiny Zekrom if I can soon.
?Nice! With everyone getting shiny pokemon I hope I get this Sudowoodo soon!
GL, hope it doesn’t take you too long. I got a shiny Bonsly by random encounter once, it’s Quirky I think.
Wow i forgot about that little guy lol. After I’m done with Sudowoodo im gonna see if i can get one as well. Bonsly and Sudowoodo have very nice shiny colors
The Heatran in heat ran in the heat after Heatran, whose heat ran out.
Sorry, I don’t know where that came from.
Oh yea that reminds me… Heatran can breed right? Maybe they’ll give a reason for that in the remakes? They could do a Manaphy/ Phione thing maybe?
Heatran can’t breed but they can be either male or female, which is kind of interesting.
Nice! Almost as cool as my shiny cresselia 😉
My shiny cresselia is cooler
That’s really cool!
Cute
Sometimes things just work out like that, seriously, congratz~
Glarghhhhh I tried the 40oz Soda Shake chug challenge
Those damn bastards putting ice in it!!!!! That’s how you can’t win!!!!!!!
IM HIGH ON SUGAHH
So, it’s been confirmed that Jiren is on the level of a God/Gods Of Destruction. It brings up of who Whis was talking about hen he said there existed a mortal who is stronger than a GoD tho. Also, who here’s excited for the Goku vs Jiren fight airing tomorrow night? I know I am
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7nu-641792915
for once i lucked out
and all these NU teams are looking the same, i’m seeing Vaniluxe, Xatu and Whimsicott (which is ungodly broken)
That’s what I keep saying about the stupid Weed!!!!
SERIOUSLY IF YOU DONT 1HKO IT SPAMS LEECH SUB PROTECT HOW CAN ANYONE NOT BE ABLE TO BEAT IT WITHOUT A GRASS TYPE OR INFILTRATOR
Have you tried any sound based moves? They pass subs.
Still that’s extremely situational
Bug Buzz is the only thing and even that one kill it
It’s my least favorite Fairy (It really should have just been Grass or Grass/Flying)
I think I may remember Superstar Saga a little bit too well…it feels like all of my movements are just memorized from my younger years. It’s awesome.
I had the exact same thoughts! I even have the attacks of the enemies memorised, I knew how to dodge them (almost) perfectly.
Well back from homecoming
I met three old friends from Catholic school trying to get in, sadly I couldn’t help… They really matured well
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It’s way too early to be back from Homecoming. You’re doing it wrong.
Ehh I had no reason to go to the dance part after the game and Pre-Party
I went to homecoming 3 times, and honestly i didn’t enjoy myself any of the 3 times.
Why’s that?
Too much loud noise, awkward walking around and unreciprocated attraction. Prom and ball were ten times worse. (Actually prom was okay.)
Anyone here?
No …I am not here.
Anyone there?
NEAR
FAR
WHEREVER YOU ARE
I’m not here
Yo why she lying on top of Guzma? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc66fedac8f0a0b0d895ece11fb397058424972140691bdc82b54d907ed05399.png
They’re probably both beaten up and that’s just the way the thing left them
Or…
I think Guzma is carrying her
Umm, can these cars please appear in USUM? ever since the first trailer happened I was exciting for them and so far it looks like USUM won’t even have those. Makes me think that they were scrapped 🙁
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I was really hoping to see those mobile pokecenter ambulance ones.
Those are Pokémon Switch models ;).
They better be (ง •̀_•́)ง
But these based on Alola
The next episodes is just about Silvally damit when Litten should evolve??…….I know this is might be bugs u but Iike Type:Null voice in the anime. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1507374365533.png
I hope he’ll evolve really soon.
We just gotta trudge through the whole Aether/Nebby story
obviously Nebby is going to open up a ton of mixed episodes featuring the AF and that means Gladion and Silvally too because from the first episode Type: Null acted restless when it sensed Ultra Presence
Wait those patterns on the wall looks like Megapolise one.
ARGH I AM HAVING SUCH A HORRIBLE LOSING STREAK EVERSINCE I LOST BARBARACLE
I LOST TO THE SAME ICE TEAM TWICE IN A ROW WHERE SCRAFTY SHOULDVE BEATEN IT HANDS DOWN
My freakin Ninetales died just before the Poni trial ffs nuzlockes yanno..
Two codes Marshy codes got, ye boi livedex completion time (-USUM and forms)
Congrats, I bet is super satisfying to have it finally completed :0
I don’t even know why I’m watching Digimon Fusion on Netflix, they only have the dub too which sucks.I was gonna say it started off good, but not so much to me. I guess it has it’s moments tho?
What the hell? Did they really get rid of the older seasons? I looked up Digimon in the search, and I’m only seeing Digimon Fusion besides some other anime and even Power Rangers. I remember they had both the original Adventure and the dub for it.
GOD DAMN WHY WHY MUST STONE EDGE MISS I SURVIVE TWO PSYCHICS FROM LATIAS AND NEEDED STONE EDGE TO HIT TWICE BUT NOOOO
Yo wth this thing is legal right? Transferred from R/B/Y. Swear WT is unreal sometimes lmao https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/305a7be1ec31ee1ae0f3235f015c5f29c2ce06cfccad5e0fead1d37f16d9e804.jpg
Maybe, probably cloned if it is. I doubt anyone would work that hard on something just to WT it. I’m never lucky with WT.
I heard that you can find Pokémon with specific values in RBY and transfer them to GSC to see that they are actually shiny. So…possibly?
But G/S arent compatible with Bank yet, so how did this person got it to gen 7?
Well this is just a theory (a game theory), but maybe they just skipped the transfer to Gen 2 and went straight to Gen 7 because of its individual stats or whatever causes it to be shiny. I need to do more research about this though.
You can indeed, though I don’t know the parameters for obtaining such a ‘mon. There may be a glitch or other exploit using RBY code that lets you do it too but idk.
Here’s an example of what I was talking about. Maybe this method can work for any Pokémon, but maybe not.
https://youtu.be/CLnqev0GpsY
IVs determined whether a Pokémon was shiny in GSC, so Pokémon with a certain IV spread become shiny when transfered to GSC, maybe it’s the same for the transfer to Gen 7?
Yeah I highly doubt it
Today’s the Nintendo World Championships! I have lots of work to do but I guess I’ll just have to make time to watch. Maybe they’ll have an announcement during the live stream?