Simply fantastic. You took the original, which was great in it's own right, and expanded on it. The crop management system was easy to get into and didn't feel like a burden. The poem creator was optional which allows people to be creative but not forced to be. I felt like the story had it all: drama; humour; sadness; mystery. Great batch of characters both returning and new ones. By the end it felt like I lived a life. Not being able to import saves from the original; lack of things to spend money on (I bought it all and still had tens of thousands left); and a few scenes where my character was wearing "rain gear" but on screen still just had a t-shirt on are my only complaints.
Hello, I have just started playing and I want to thank you for maybe two strange things that, to me, make a Visual novel a LOT more playable. That is a text box and the the ability to be able to change the text size! I really do not know why some developers turn the off? Because of my aging years, my eyes, sadly are failing (hence the bold text!,) too and there are so many Visual Novels that I cannot play very well because they have no text box and they use white small white text on a light backgrounds with also no ability to make the text larger or add a textbox! I have never understood it. I have played around with Ren'Py myself and I know these features are on by default, so they have to actually program in extra code just to turn these off! So, I was really pleased to see that you kept both those features in your novel! Thank you for that! OK I am going to continue on my new novel Journey!
OK, Update and I am sorry I cannot get into it. I find the farming page where you have to chose the correct plans very difficult to understand. I don't even eat fruit or vegetables yet alone know how to plant hem and what to plant. It's a shame, because apart from that its very good. And it has taught me that I am SO GLAD I never had kids! There is a nice lot of options and the characters are quite fun, and if you could skip the farming page I would continue playing it, but, no, sorry. That farming page kills it for me.
Hey, thank you for your feedback! I am glad the accessibility settings work for you (you can also press 'v' to turn on self-voicing if you want a computer to read things to you).
I can see how the farming part would be difficult for you. If you'd like to continue playing, there's not really a way to lose the game by having a bad farm (but it's not very satisfying!). There is an Auto farming feature that turns on after you've beaten the game once... would it help if I added an option to turn it on from the preference screen?
Hello. Thanks for the reply. Personally, I would like an auto farm feature, but, only to the bear minimum of getting through the game. I mean, if you are going to do the highest options available, I think it would kill the re-playability of the game. Also, having the Auto Farm option, would also give me hints on how the fruit and vegetables could be placed, but, always in my mind knowing that the options could be changed for a better outcome if you did it yourself. Apart from that an excellent Visual Novel! I am definitely going to play the first one after, which sounds a bit backwards I guess!😁
OK, the new 1.3 version includes better text-to-speech for many parts of the game, including descriptions of cutscenes and reading who is talking before each line. It also has the 'p' key as a shortcut to automatically place crops on the farming screen. I hope this helps!
I will have to take a look at Our Personal Space and see what accessibility improvements I can add there, too!