As a commemorative work for the 25th anniversary of the "Pastoral Tales Series", "Pastoral Tales: Olive Town and the Land of Hope" (hereinafter referred to as "Olive Town") bears the heavy responsibilities of the series in both inheritance and innovation. This makes the game need to take care of old players and attract new players to achieve balance. As far as the performance of Olive Town is concerned, such balance does not seem to be very good.
The overall process of this work can be described in four words: simple and rough. Although the main game is "slow life", it can be seen from Olive Town that many details have been simplified in order to attract more players who want to play fast games. With the progress of the game and the upgrading of characters, players' tools become more convenient. With the modernization of farmland, the rhythm of the farm will become faster and faster.
As an "old artist" in farm management games, many classic settings in the series are actually being imitated or saluted by other management games. For example, the impact of weather system on crops, NPC's different preferences and friendliness strategies, etc. Although these systems are retained in this work, the elements are simplified. As long as the land is planted and watered, there will be harvest. Even in the stormy weather, there will be drought and flood to ensure the harvest; The communication with NPC seems to lack a bit of "human touch". As long as you chat and give gifts every day, you can improve your popularity. It's OK to pedal several boats in the early stage; Getting married and having babies is also "simplified". You don't need to "practice by yourself". God will send you babies directly to make you "happy to be a father"!
Of course, various operations of "simplifying complexity" are not all slot points, but more to let players feel the friendliness of this work. At the beginning, there are two rows of spaces on the backpack to place resources, and tools can be stored in the tool bag; The building has no waiting for construction events; You can get good rewards after easily improving your liking with NPC; Every day when the liver is exhausted, there will be no penalty. In fact, these settings have greatly increased the speed and sense of achievement of players in the game. As long as they work hard, they will be rewarded. Because this work has the largest development map in the series of works, various farm experiences and tasks with various styles also give players more freedom in playing strategies, and players need to arrange their physical strength and time reasonably every day.
The adjustment of the content of this work can only be summarized by different opinions, but the optimization problem really needs to be strengthened. The problem of frame dropping and sticking in the late development of "The Tale of Daxiong's Ranch" has not been well solved in this work, and the loading duration of switching between walking on the map and in the room will also reduce the game experience of players.
If you are new to the 'Pasture Tale Series' or don't have much time to play liver games, Olive Town and the Land of Hope may be a good choice. But if you are an old player of the series or a fan of farm management games, you can wait for the subsequent DLC of the game and the optimization of the game system to consider starting.
advantage:
Pasture works with the largest reclamation area
Various simple and convenient farming methods
Selection of Development Route of Superelevation Degree of Freedom
Disadvantages:
The classic vertical drawing has been canceled
Read time and frame drop to be optimized
Funny marriage and divorce system
Slightly rigid plot development
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