Review: Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life – Slow, Old-Fashioned Yet Fulfilling Farming

A Wonderful Life, or A Terrible Remake?

What is the value of a remake? That’s something we found ourselves asking as we played Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, a remake of the 2003 Harvest Moon game on GameCube, and a surprising addition to Marvelous/XSEED’s catalogue of games. Should a remake of a game bring it up to today’s standards, with modern additions like improved UI, extra features, and generally just more content? Should it be faithful to the original, and simply ported over to new platforms as-is? Or should it be an attempt to recreate the feeling of playing that game for the first time as a child?

We’ve been cautiously looking forward to and dreading this remake for a while, because while we’re excited for the complete graphical overhaul, the new localisation, and the option to play as a male, female, or non-binary farmer, we also have a deep and sacred fondness for the original, and enough experience and wisdom from the past 20 years of gaming to know that it does not match up to our current standards of “fun”. Do we want it to be dramatically overhauled, or presented in its imperfect state? We didn’t know… until we played it.

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