
Square Enix's new farming RPG Harvestella arrives on the Nintendo Switch later this week. Like many other modern games nowadays, this game will also have a day one update.
The Japanese company has now detailed exactly what this update will include. As previously mentioned, it will incorporate the feedback players provided to the development team about the Switch demo. Here's the full rundown - including longer days, fishing that's "more fun", the ability to switch jobs faster, and much more.
Longer days - We’ve reduced time lapse speed on the world map and the field, so you have longer to farm, fish, chat, explore or anything else you want to do!
Fishing is more fun - The hit time for fishing has been reduced, making the activity more rewarding.
Switch jobs faster - The cooldown time for job changes has been reduced, meaning you can switch roles more frequently in combat. It makes it easier to pick the right Job for the… um… job.
The Mage job attacks more quickly - Some players found the Mage job’s strikes a little slow, so its normal attack speed has been increased.
More warning when you’re low on HP - A new warning effect has been added that lets you know when a character’s HP is low. This extra information should help keep your party on their feet in tougher battles!
Along with this, the full version of Harvestella will also include some additional improvements - including reduced loading times, modified UI during save and auto-save moments, and a number of bug fixes.
Will you be checking out this game when it arrives on Switch later this week? Comment below.
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[source square-enix-games.com]
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I notice alot of Square Enix games try to make it a habit to go out of their way to reach out to fans for feedback; whether it be surveys and them just paying attention online. Even games not made by them do the same like the devs behind Daimon x Machina.
Guess we have the Octopath team to thank.
That'd... probably fix about every problem I had with it during the demo. Though I was starting to come around on the loop of "do your chores ASAP and then try to progress the dungeon far enough to unlock shortcuts for next time" ... but I don't think it'll suffer too much from a little extra time to move around.
The game is not even out yet, why not just apply the incomplete update to the game right now so that it is complete?
@Serpenterror Assuming this game has a physical release, it's probably too late in production to go through every single cartridge to apply the update.
It's faster just to send the game carts out on time then apply the day 1 patch.
Dammit. I was trying to decide whether I would buy this or Xenoblade 2, and I just bought Xenoblade 2 because of how annoying the time management was in this. I don’t regret it, but I’m still sort of sad. Nice to know that I’ll be able to enjoy it eventually though!😄
@Shade_Koopa : They wouldn't be able to "apply the update" to the cartridges for the same reason you couldn't do the same to a disc, as the storage is ROM. Once the discs/cartridges have been manufactured, that's it. Nowadays, most publishers send out an unfinished version of the game to be manufactured on cartridge/disc while they work on last-minute improvements/adjustments in the meantime.
Subsequent pressings could potentially include the update(s) loaded into the cart, as is standard practice for Nintendo releases anyway, but third party publishers typically don't bother.
@Silly_G That's just because it costs a lot of money to produce a large batch of games. Most third parties only have one production run of a game, some do two.
Nintendo keeps producing their million-selling games, and yes then they also apply updates to the cartridges.
This is also why you see some third parties making empty game boxes with download codes for games that were initially on cartridge.
I don't know why some on the all powerful interwebz are comparing Harvestella to Animal Crossing, to me it makes no sense. Rune Factory may be closer, but I enjoyed the demo by not expecting it to be RF.
It's already down loaded to my Switch, mocking me til Friday. I loved the demo and had gotten a handle on the time element. These QoL tweaks will just make it better.
I actually lost interest in this game after playing the demo. I had been playing
Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana which is a beautiful enjoyable game so maybe I had to high expectations for Harvestella.
Hopefully it patches life into the game. The demo was like the most soulless take on the adventure farming genre. A character creation tool that isn't completely pointless would be nice too.
Insert "not bad" meme
SE really went out and fixed exactly what players complained about? It's become so rare in this day and age with big companies
'Make fishing more fun' - the universal request in almost every game ever made which involves fishing.
Nice to see they are actually reacting to demo feedback rather than just the usual day-one bug fixes.
Can't wait to play this game. It's not going to be a day one purchase just because I'm buying the new OLED, coming out the same day but hopefully when my dad comes down for my birthday, I can get this game then.
@Pokefanmum82
I play 99.9% docked but it should look stunning on your OLED!
Going day 1 but playing Doraemon currently because it came out first. :S
Because of the unfortunate timing it will be benched for a while despite it being one of my most hyped games this year.
@Serpenterror because the game comes out in two days.....?
Longer days is good but I would have preferred that time stops while exploring dungeons. I hated being told to go back home while dungeon crawling.
Most preorders would wait for the update on cart then ship out. They know this but didn't make the effort or allow to exchange back for on-cart full game then any future updates gamers can download those.
I'm going to buy Harvestella in the future after my backlog is cleared a bit more. Since Pokémon Violet and Scarlet are coming out this month, I decided to buy nothing until I finished Violet and at least five more games.
@Silly_G I know that. That what I was trying to tell that other guy. Day 1 patches are thing for all games these days. No way to get around that.
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