Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life / Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
Much of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and its remake Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is mundane. You build your farm, you water your crops, you feed your livestock. When you’re not doing agriculture shit, you’re getting married and raising a child. The moments that make it special are when it breaks from its monotony. Just like real life. But the most shocking thing about it is that, as a life sim, it actually simulates the end of life just as it’s spent several dozen hours showing you all the boring parts, too.
Yeah, your character dies at the end of A Wonderful Life, and it was traumatic for me as a kid. I’m chipping away at the remake now, and since I have a husband this time, I’m feeling even more emotionally invested in it than I did as a kid who was only allowed to have a wife in the original game. So I’m bracing myself for tears once more. — Kenneth Shepard
