Honeslty. Love him.
Why he do that 🤣
I am going to type up something official to post about what the doctor found in just a moment but in the mean time pls enjoy this Snapchat I sent to my buddies to show off Duncan’s super cool haircut
story of seasons a wonderful life is a slow but thoughtful game. if you like slow and thoughtful farming games that benefit from the use of spreadsheets to keep track of profits and crop hybrids, this is absolutely an amazing game for you. a great game for testing out a new notebook. profits are tight for a bit but when you figure things out, it is so amazingly rewarding, and that feeling sticks. there are so many different things to try.
you also get a camera so you can take fun pictures of your crops! I really enjoy it.
in a wonderful life, you have to get married. to any of the candidates. you can pick he/him, they/them, and she/her pronouns and marry anyone. and from there you will raise a child to adulthood, and your child's interests and personality will depend on how you raise them and interact with the other villagers.
you age. other characters age. visibly. you age together in a beautiful valley while getting to know everyone. and then eventually, your kid might even take over your farm.
it really is a wonderful life.
to emphasize: your kid grows up.
and your actions really do impact their life and future. no other story of seasons/harvest moon was ever as ambitious as a wonderful life when it comes to raising a family. instead of a family being the goal, your family is the beginning. if you ever wanted a farming game where your kid grows up, a wonderful life was one of the first ever when it was on gamecube and ps2, and now it is remastered and way better.
Dreamed that there was a mundane-setting TTRPG I’m going to call “Greg and Maureen” where the players are visiting a non-player character couple their characters are friends with. But the couple is going through a rough spot! The objective was to investigate their relationship and either to help their marriage or hasten their divorce. It’s always small town and you’re always staying at their house. Players could add a little flavor of how they knew Greg and Maureen and even choose some minor traits for them before the game.
I’d played the game with another group before, but I didn’t know there were multiple paths. There’s a note Greg writes confessing to something, but depending on the dice roll it’s a different note. The content of a major plot point depended on a 2d6 dice roll.
In the dream, I’d previously played a version where he confessed to cheating on Maureen with another woman, so I thought Maureen should see the note, but in the game we were playing, my friend Celia found the note, which actually said that Greg was dishonorably discharged from the army for a gay relationship (he’s bisexual) before he met Maureen, and that he had lied about having had an honorable discharge. So for a while I came off as an asshole because I kept saying that Maureen needed to know the contents of the note so that she could confront him about what he did to her, and my friend seemed to me to be unusually blasé about what I thought was an affair.
There were other possible notes. In other timelines he had never had an affair, never been in the army, never even loved her, etc. There was another possible note where you learned he’d lied to her that he was good at track in high school (imagine an impressive mile time, which my dream mind supplied as 6:40, though that won’t even get you into varsity level) when he was actually bad at track in high school (14 minute mile). This was a lie he’d told, like, once, and he and Maureen almost never talked about running or high school sports.
In every possible timeline, Greg was Utterly Wracked with guilt about his secret. Yes, even the high school track universe.
Also, if players had decided that Greg was white before the game, you could unlock a timeline where his secret was that his distant ancestors had been in league with THE Devil from Christianity between like 1830s and 1910s. (The devil was just their accountant. He was ashamed of them for non-devil reasons.) In this timeline, you could actually meet the devil.
You didn’t find a note in every timeline, so sometimes you had to work off other evidence. I had only ever played mainly investigating Greg, but you could also focus on investigating Maureen. I think the other players and I just suspected him of hiding something every time, due to our biases. Sorry Greg! Guess we weren’t real gregheads.
Who want to play Greg and Maureen with me
What’s Façade
I WAS RLLY HOPING I COULD GET THIS DONE FOR THE ACTUAL ANNIVERSARY BUT I RUSHED LAST YEARS SO BAD SO I DECIDED TO ACTUALLY TAKE MY TIME ON IT LOL……..i considered just redrawing my pride pieces from 2021 but i thought that was too boring!!!! i like how this turned out a lot more
HAPPY AWL RELEASE BTW!!! i just remembered to preorder it like the day before it came out so it’ll be a while before i play but i’m excited🫡