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@johnedwin honestly, I did factor that in while reviewing it. I love this game so much, and I didn't want to be blinded by nostalgia.

But no. In the end, I'm a critic who's played a lot of games. I have given out two 10/10 scores in my career, including this one here, and I stand by both of them. Reviews are subjective, at the end of the day, because humans are not robots, and I hope that I've explained my opinion here. It's up to readers to decide for themselves if they trust me! (and to check against other reviews if they aren't sure!)

@Friendly I mean... there's not much in the way of extra content BUT you can play it big on the TV AND Shu Takumi said they'd consider a sequel if it sold well so I say YES

@ComfyAko the kid is MAGIC. That's how the game handles it! The Harvest Sprites dump a kid with suspiciously similar genes on your doorstep.

@Burning_Spear it was, admittedly, quite hard to set my nostalgia aside for this one, but I hope I did alright. It is quite a dull game, but I honestly liked it more for that, because it made it feel so different to farming games of today!

@Korsica_Is_Best_Girl Please don't be rude. Myself, and many other members of the LGBTQ+ community, use "queer" as a term to refer to ourselves for many reasons, not least of which because it is a helpful catch-all for a number of different things, or an entry point for people who aren't sure where they fit in yet. Reclaiming words is a powerful practice that has existed for a long time. We're certainly not doing it for Cool Points!

@ComfyAko I mean, it's not GREAT queer representation, because being queer in a tiny rural Japanese village would probably not be quite as easy as the game makes it seem! But they haven't really rewritten anything, so it also makes sense that it's not really mentioned or highlighted.

Still, NB character choices in a farming game feels like a good step in the right direction, at last!

As for the child... yeah you HAVE to have one (because that's the story) but it's kinda sweet to see a lil kid with two mums being loved and taken care of in a game like this, even if you yourself wouldn't have had a kid!

@ShinEon I have a guide going up closer to the game's launch that answers a lot of these questions, but I see you've already had some replies! A lot of the weirder design choices are smoothed over, so it's easier (but still not EASY) to make money, especially at the start. Prices have gone up accordingly, though!

@Nintendencies they seem very similar to the OG. That sort of high-pitched BLOORMP from the menus is still there, and the weird sigh that your character does when using the bathroom, too 😊

@CharlieGirl right back atcha

@CharlieGirl I'm putting some exciting things into the content cannon over here, and I got distracted by the front page!

SOME OF US HAVE OTHER GAMES TO REVIEW, OLLIE

@Bizzyb haha, I'm sorry you had to find out this way! I've been gone since February!

Hey @JimNorman guess who got really into Fortnite since leaving NL (it's me)

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI

@Mrkittyhead @Kiwi_Unlimited it's just a one-off, I'm afraid... except I'll be writing more one-offs in future, too!

Okay but what did Queen Victoria like to eat? That was such a tease!

Getting to play Superstar Saga with my stupid new surround sound system is the BEST THING. I love the future

famtasy life

never heard of it

@CharlieGirl Charlie I have to be honest, I meant this to be my final article but I have a couple more things scheduled that are still good (but less perfectly fitting!) soooo be ready for that 😅 We can say this is my final article though, since it was the last thing I wrote

@ComfyAko the Celeste team include some of my close friends, many of whom are gay, bi, and/or trans. The lead designer is trans too 😊

@rjejr @d0nkeyk0ng_jR @ComfyAko Not to spoil the surprise, but there are a few more articles on the way. I scheduled a bunch of stuff over the last week or two, so it'll be like I'm writing from the graaaaaaaaave

@Toshiro_Baloney I'm not dead, so I'm not gone-gone, but I am no longer an NL staffer 😢 but I'm still hanging around! I might even join the live chat for the Direct later...

Thank you everyone 😊 I'll miss you all too!! And I'll keep an eye on NL, don't you worry...

it's like Nintendo was waiting for me to leave 🥲

@presenttense Check out this guide!

https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/disney-dreamlight-valley-whats-the-difference-between-standard-deluxe-and-ultimate-edition

@ReneeMerrick yeah, so did I. Turns out that was just an announcement for the announcement

@MH4 ah, they largely run themselves these days. But I did a lot of work setting them up

@MH4 I have about ten bots out there, all of which I'm very fond of (and took a lot of work!)

It'll be sad to see them go.

@SpaceyCiel MMM is one of the bright points of my Monday!

@Rinc You might want to check out pages 2 and 3 😉

@Joeynator3000 The developers have cited Ghibli as one of their main influences, and the key art is not a reflection of the game's actual graphics.

@Fuecoco IT'S FINE I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

you are right though 😅

@MarioBrickLayer Yeah! It's a really engaging little base-building-ish game, but it runs out of steam really quickly, so unless you like replaying the same thing with not a lot of new content, expect to get about 10h out of it total

@Purgatorium I asked him this and he said "well you are a weird little gremlin"

I am not a young Pokémon player — my first game was Pokémon Gold — and I did not know this

@Browny same, she looks like she's melting

@Munchlax those aren't the names of the animals they're based on though

@Andee I haven't played much of it, because precision platformers just aren't my thing — even the ones that are about wanting to encourage people to play precision platformers despite being bad at them!

@Coalescence Quinn's pronouns are they/them, and nowhere in the article did it say that they hate their followers.

@JugOfVoodoo oops, good catch!

@nhSnork I reviewed Hometown Story and Little Dragons Cafe so I'm also one of the few people that played both! They were just so... empty

@tektite_captain wow, really? I didn't come across that in my research but that's even MORE complicated if true!!

@Hero-of-WiiU Ocarina is on the "must watch" list, SM64 isn't on the schedule at all!

I think it's all virtual this year, no live crowd.

@Makrus64 I can't speak for all of them, but they often do, yes!

Folks, if you're reading a throwaway line about the existence of gay Pokémon fans and running to the comments to tell me that gay gamers in love are too niche of an audience, I promise that it is not that deep.

Also like 80% of Pokémon fans that I know fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella so let's agree to disagree

@mr_somewhere I played it on Steam Deck so I think I'm qualified to say that it plays alright with a similar control scheme. It would be easier on PC, though!

@FantasiaWHT if you have the option, it's more of a mouse and keyboard game since a lot of it is UI!

@JimNorman U FORGOT FANTASY LIFE THE BEST GAME EVER

This review pretty much nails how I've been feeling! I'm nervous to play the game in case I bump into a game-breaking bug and lose all my progress.

But ohhh my god, the CHARACTER DESIGN ALONE is worth a 10/10. It's all so gorgeous. I met a giant dragon with huge, bulbous eyes, a mouse with gigantic glasses, and Aka himself is so bouncy and wide and I love him so muuuuch!!

But yeah, the bugs and lack of tutorial really bring it down

@ZZalapski I loooooove duck. It's a little bit hard to get hold of where I am, and I would need a dry run to make sure I get it right — it requires very different techniques since it's such a dark and fatty meat!

I would like to do goose some day too, since that's traditional in the UK, but surprisingly, Canada doesn't eat much goose. You'd think they'd be all about the geese!

@fromjtov that was a really cool spot, thank you

@Kirbyo not sure what went wrong there, but it's fixed now! <3