For those who thought you had been executed with cozy farming sims, suppose once more – SunnySide takes every little thing folks thought they knew and cherished concerning the cozy farming style and flips it on its head. Gone are the times once you’re watering particular person vegetation with an outdated watering can. Welcome to 2024, the place folks can order their seeds on-line and textual content their buddies to fulfill up.
SunnySide is a contemporary twist on the farming simulation video games that gamers know and love. Combining extra in-depth mechanics of the Farming Simulators with the comfy classics like Stardew Valley lets builders RainyGames create a singular, standout sport. Between stellar story-telling, farming/ranching, battling, and relationship-building, SunnySide has earned a spot within the style for pushing issues farther than anybody else has. There are such a lot of little particulars throughout that elevate it.
Sadly, an abundance of bugs and efficiency points make it extremely troublesome to get into. The sport is held again from hovering because it ought to, but when you will get round them, there’s a very particular sport ready beneath.
Welcome to the SunnySide
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As a brand new resident in SunnySide, the participant buys an almost empty piece of land to begin a farm on. The one factor out there is a shed with just a few instruments, a water pump and hose, and a tent from the neighbor. The pleasant townspeople are prepared to assist the participant get arrange for achievement, educating them every little thing from cooking to woodworking to farming.
The little city feels alive – persons are always strolling all over the place, they’re altering garments with the seasons, they’ve their very own lives, and so they aren’t counting on the participant for something. The characters are distinctive sufficient to face out, each in design and persona. There’s each form of retailer {that a} small city would have, and as somebody who grew up in a small city, it seems like dwelling.
The little particulars of the folks and the city already set it aside. The way in which they work together with the participant additionally feels real, together with how the participant builds relationships with them. Getting near folks includes texting, assembly up anyplace round city, and spending time collectively. For every character, spending time collectively appears totally different; gamers can write poetry with Sebastion or fly drones with Hiro.
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These interactions really feel sensible, and attending to know the characters reveals that they’re written properly, too.
There are additionally occasions fairly persistently, comparable to pageant days or farmer’s markets the place the participant can work together with everybody as they arrive and go. Moreover, the farmer’s market is how gamers can promote something they get their arms on in a method that also feels fairly sensible. If somebody was attempting to make a residing off the land at this time, renting a sales space and promoting issues could be a stable begin.
As the sport continues, gamers could make offers with townspeople to supply various things for them. The pure development of constructing each informal and enterprise relationships is unmatched by different video games within the style.
Deep farming mechanics
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Ranging from the literal backside feels satisfying in a method that different cozy farming sims don’t level out. Whereas you might have a dilapidated home in different video games, at the very least it’s a home. And it’s straightforward sufficient to get just a few items of wooden to improve. In SunnySide, gamers are given a blueprint as a pity present, however they should supply every little thing from screws to glass to place it collectively.
The farming and ranching itself is harking back to Farming Simulator. There’s a number of deep planning and thought behind how and what you’ll plant. With the web’s array of seeds to select from and several types of plots and seeds, there’s loads of depth. Bringing this degree of depth to a comfy farming sport isn’t extraordinary, nevertheless it’s a pleasant contact that provides gamers an precise alternative in what they need to plant.
It’s all within the particulars
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SunnySide completely nailed the main points of the style. There’s a lot that gamers can delve into and discover in-depth, all whereas having complete customization of issues like their cellphone case, its background, and even the notification sound.
The story blends into the gameplay naturally, and it doesn’t really feel like every particular gameplay is compelled. As a substitute, gamers should sort out a number of various things to make it in SunnySide, which is the aim from the beginning anyway.
Every thing in SunnySide is cohesive and feels pure, and that’s due to the eye to small particulars in each side of the sport. Whether or not you’re praying on the native shrine to improve your talent tree, making buddies to additional the story, or creating essentially the most superb strawberry farm in existence, every little thing comes collectively naturally and superbly.
The unlucky actuality of bugs
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Sadly, bugs are all over the place within the sport. It’s straightforward to fall by the world when loading into areas or get caught someplace. This occurred at the very least as soon as each two hours of gameplay. Nonetheless, SunnySide has a number of mechanics in place for resetting issues. For instance, gamers can respawn the place they final slept at any given time. They will additionally summon their car if it will get caught irrespective of the place they’re.
These fail-safes are nice, nevertheless it’s onerous to disregard the truth that the problems are obvious and considerable. It additionally doesn’t account for visible bugs, like characters dealing with the improper method in a dialog or abruptly showing/disappearing.
A terrific sport with heaps to recover from
Regardless of the foremost bug issues, SunnySide is a sport that shines in its style. There’s nothing fairly prefer it, and the overwhelmingly well-done elements of it are value getting across the bugs for (particularly when it is really easy to get round them).
The fantastic character growth, seamless and pure storytelling and gameplay, and completely polished particulars are much better than the bugs would counsel. Future updates might make this sport shine even brighter. Nonetheless, even with the bugs, SunnySide is such a leap for the style that it’s value investing time into. It is a sport I will be returning to again and again for a while.
SunnySide was previewed on PC utilizing a replica supplied by the writer over the course of 20 hours of gameplay – all screenshots had been taken in the course of the technique of evaluate.