Longtime fans of the dating and marriage mechanics from past Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games will be saddened by this loss, though it is an understandable absence. Unfortunately, due to Noby’s established position in his own continuity, you cannot grow up or date anyone in Natura. As you progress through Story of Seasons, you slowly gain access to more and more of these futuristic items, providing you benefits like fast travel. For example, in the source Manga, Doraemon has a number of crazy gadgets that he can use to help Noby and friends in any number of shenanigans.
#STORY OF DORAEMON CARTOON SERIES#
It’s all the expected fare of a farming sim in the vein of series predecessor Harvest Moon or the mega-hit Stardew Valley, but with some added touches of Doraemon flavor. Seasons pass, certain days are holidays with special events, and before you know it, Noby and his pals are spending years in this strange new land. Noby has finite stamina that goes down with every action he takes, and can only do so much before he needs to go to sleep for the day. With this set-up in place, the game gives you exactly what you might expect: Noby chops down trees, smashes rocks, tills soil, plants seeds, waters crops, crafts better equipment/ items with the materials he finds, raises livestock, sells his new farming goods, and gives gifts to townspeople to perform the video game definition of being a good friend and trustworthy person. You then spend your days working the land and connecting with the townspeople, getting involved in their personal lives and the overall mystery of the storm that brought Noby and his friends here. While all his friends find jobs in town, Noby ends up with a run-down farm to take care of.
Noby and friends try to find their way around their new surroundings and pass the time until they figure out a way back home.
#STORY OF DORAEMON CARTOON FULL#
You play as Noby, a precocious and kind-hearted boy who, along with a few friends and his companion Doraemon, a robot cat from the future (don’t dwell on it, because the game sure doesn’t), gets sucked through a portal and lands in the mysterious world of Natura, in a town full of mostly friendly, amenable people who have no idea how Noby and co. All the animal pals and sense of accomplishment, with none of the sore limbs, splinters, or snake bites.ĭoraemon Story of Seasons, the crossover between the long running manga series Doraemon and the Story of Seasons series (previously known as Harvest Moon), has finally come to the Playstation 4, bringing with it a cartoonish and whimsical perspective on this hallowed farming sim genre. Despite all this, the farming sim game has always been an enjoyable, idealized version of my own childhood. Some of my oldest memories are of chasing down cows that had escaped their pens, pulling corn in thick summer heat, and straining to hammer a rabbit hutch together on a Saturday morning while missing One Piece.