New Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Screenshots Show Off Town And Cows

They could have used the classic cow look of HM. You know, these huge fluffy blobs

As from my memories on PS2 version, the town in Forget Me Not Valley was really empty.
Hopefully there will be some additional places and their function.

@ComfyAko
The cow design in old version of A Wonderful Life was exactly same as this new remake, the normal looking cow.

@Anti-Matter Oh, it seems I didn't remember it as vividly as I thought. But I still think The Blob version is cuter

Hot take: I think this remake actually looks good. I didn't play the original on GameCube but compared to this. I like this better. I know people are mad about the character design change, "I am fine with it. But probably going to pick this up around the release date and love it

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika this is remake of an old game. This is just how the cows looked in it. It would be kinda odd to change the cows.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika while I do agree, the bubble cow is cuter, she has Friends of Mineral Town all for herself. It's time to share the limelight.

And hey, at least they're not using the ugly toupee cows. The AWL cows are still pretty cute if you ask me.

I don't know if it will change in this remake, but in the original versions on the GameCube and PlayStation 2, S-Grade milk from a Star Cow sold the highest out of all the milks.

But converting it into butter or cheese made the price go down, as it just made regular butter and cheese. So it was better to sell the milk as-is.

It would be nice if the remake allows you to sell new varieties of butter and cheese for even higher prices using S-Grade Star Cow Milk than if you sold the milk as-is.

But personally, the one thing I want the most out of this remake is a sprinkler system, like in Pioneers of Olive Town. I'd literally spend all day watering my crops, unless it rained.

That would leave me with no time in the day to interact with the townsfolk, so relationships are not being built. Having a sprinkler system to automate the process would free up time for me to interact with the townsfolk.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika some of the charm was definitely ironed out with the remake. Perhaps the low res helped the original though?

So pretty pretty pretty

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika
It's all subjective. I've tried a number of times to get into Stardew but it just doesn't do it for me. Partly due to the art style. I give the creator a lot of credit, though.

I preferred the grittier look of the original but know I'll be getting this one as it was my late daughter's favourite.

I'm with the rest of the commenters here riding the Macrocephalic Cow Bandwagon. Normally proportioned cows? Eww.

I’m happy. HUGE improvement over the SNES inspired cop out we got a few years back

I am really loving the new art style but it still feels like AWL. Just counting dow the days at this point.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika

It's the characters in Stardew that I really do not care for at all. Half the drive for me in these Harvest Moon games is to do things for the characters. So if I don't care about the characters, half my motivation is gone.

I can't tell you specifically what's wrong with them though. I just find get bored very easily with that game. Doesn't help that I hate the fishing though.

Bubble cow or no, I can't wait for this!

Looks good but I agree the cow should retain the original chunky aesthetic. I’ve only played the remake of Friends of Mineral Town so I’m not sure how the cows looked in the original Wonderful Life game but the art style seems off a bit with the more realistic animals. The realistic animals would look good if the game was on more powerful hardware and if the rest of the game looked super realistic… but neither is the case. It looks fine but not as good or fun as it should.

its an unwritten rule that story of seasons, rune factory and harvest moon must have ugly graphics. it's very important to their creators

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika agreed. The GOAT. And I started playing the OG on the game boy!

@inactive as mentioned before, the remake is using the same cow design as the original AWL. It IS retaining the original aesthetic.

Turtle gonna turt X^P

The visuals look kind of nice, but kind of like a 3DS game. Idk the resolution looks a lil low fi to me.