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That said, this game is the perfect chill game. I am not a min-maxer at all so I would really rather not do this. There are some resources that only flourish when they’re in color and the thought of having to constantly move things around or get the quests done as quickly as possible is not my idea of fun. I think it’s a creative mechanic, but it stresses me out. Then, the next day, if they have another quest for you, the color is gone again. It’s interesting because you can help them with a questline one day and the area around them blooms into color. It’s the spirits you help along the way and I’m assuming the bigger story of what happens when you help them all make peace with their deaths and move on.

It’s the cute-faced bonfire called Flamey who guides you when you need it. I know that sounds weird, but it’s a compliment, I swear. It’s relaxing chill music that can make me drift off to sleep when I’m fishing off the pier. It’s hand-drawn graphics that are just a delight to see. It’s a resource management sim, but it’s more than that. I am very protective of Stella and it irritated me to hear Lily put her down.Ĭozy Grove. I think it’s meant to show the enormous pain Lily is feeling, but, again, I don’t know her from Rose. I think it’s because we have no history with Lily so when she comes in and puts Stella down, it feels bullying. I get that the devs were trying to show a sister/sister relationship that was both loving as well as somewhat contentious, but it just felt off to me. In addition, Lily is…I hate to say it…a bit of a brat. There was nothing bad about it, mind you (except having to go to several different shrines), but it just didn’t add much to the game experience for me. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve moved on from the game, but I didn’t really get much from this update. Gwen will stay with me forever and I loved almost everything about this game.

I platted the game and cried several times while playing it. This was one of my two co-GOTY last year. Once I was reminded of the Dash, I was able to get to the shrine with fairly little effort.

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I had to look it up because I could not remember how to do it. There’s a bunch of platforming that is very fiddly and requires a combo of different moves. The one that almost made me quit the game the first time around because of how difficult it is to access–and this is at the very end of the game. I get why they did that, but I internally rolled my eyes as I set off. So I had to waste a whole day waiting for nighttime in order to access the new content.Īfter a few memories at this shrine, I had to go to another shrine to get more memories. I haven’t played this game in several months and had forgotten the mechanics to a certain extent. The thing is, you can only do it at night and I just missed getting to the first shrine on the first night. Lily wants to take a walk down memory lane and in order to do so, you have to go to the different shrines across the world. You can tell it’s Lily and their mother visiting Stella while Stella is in the hospital dying and Mom is asleep.

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I did know that Stella was dying because she’s the last person you take to the Everdoor, but I didn’t know the details about her death.Īnyway, the update is Lily’s spirit talking to you about family history and spells out the above paragraph in photos and memories. None of this comes through in the game and while there are hints now and again, I didn’t know about this until a newsletter from Thunder Lotus after I finished the game. The whole game is an allegory for what’s happening in her life. Stella is a nurse who takes care of end-of-life patients and then gets cancer herself. *SPOILER FOR MAJOR SPIRITFARER PLOT POINT* It was Stella’s (main character) sister, Lily, showing up to flesh out Stella’s character and backstory. I put that in quotes because it was not gameplay, exactly. Speaking of which, Spiritfarer by Thunder Lotus Games had an update with some new ‘gameplay’. It’s Animal Crossing with a sprinkling of Spiritfarer and it’s been the perfect antidote to the plat. I mentioned it in my last post (the one about the plat) and it’s called Cozy Grove by Spry Fox. Since I finished the DS II ( SotFS) plat, I’ve been mainlining a game that, well, isn’t meant to be mainlined. Looking peak Peaky Blinders while socially distancing.

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