[Update: Thu 26th Jan, 2023 21:00 GMT]
Now that the Japanese model of the remake of A Fantastic Life is out, we lastly have our reply to the query “what’s up the hill?”
Drum roll…
It is nothing. Worse than nothing, even: it simply skips 6 hours of time. That is it.
YouTuber Josh’s Gaming Backyard has been taking part in the sport in Japanese and translating it for viewers, and it looks as if it is only a option to skip to the top of a piece day. That does not imply it will perpetually be a useless finish — perhaps there might be DLC up there some day — however for now, the reply to a 20-year previous thriller is as a lot of a disappointment because the ending to Misplaced.
[Original: Thu 19th Jan, 2023 20:00 GMT]
For these of us who did not have a hyperlink cable or a Sport Boy Advance, the GameCube period generally felt such as you had been getting locked out of content material that each one the richer children on the playground would boast about. There was the Tingle Tuner in Wind Waker, new content material and secrets and techniques in video games from Harry Potter to Crash Bandicoot, and a complete new city in Harvest Moon: A Fantastic Life.
Again on the GameCube, A Fantastic Life had a path close to the farm that went up a hill, nevertheless it did not go wherever. Attempting to go up the trail would result in a cutscene the place the Harvest Sprites would halt you, saying that you possibly can discover out “what is going on on” by linking up with Buddies of Mineral City on the Sport Boy Advance, which required the hyperlink cable, a GBA, and a duplicate of the sport.
Combining a duplicate of Harvest Moon: Buddies of Mineral City with A Fantastic Life would open up Mineral City to the folks dwelling in Overlook-Me-Not Valley. Admittedly, the participant nonetheless could not go there themselves — the Harvest Sprites would nonetheless cease you, and apparently all you’d get out of the cut price was some further music and some new recipes introduced again from the NPCs who had been allowed to depart. A bit underwhelming, to make certain… however for individuals who did not have the chance to search out that out for themselves, it felt like being stopped by a bouncer outdoors a membership the place cool stuff might need been occurring.
In keeping with a fan translation of an official Story of Seasons: A Fantastic Life stream, which confirmed off an hour of playtime in Japanese, that city could be accessible eventually — or, on the very least, that path really has a use. Josh’s Gaming Backyard has the news (beginning at 6:46):
Within the stream, Daiki Yamashita heads to the trail, solely to get the dialogue that it’s going to take six hours to get there, implying that it takes a lot of the day to journey to this city — however that it’s doable. Sadly, Yamashita doesn’t take the choice to go to the city, so we nonetheless do not have all of the solutions.
What do you hope is on the finish of that path? Did you handle to hyperlink up Buddies of Mineral City to A Fantastic Life, or had been you omitted within the chilly like us? Inform us within the feedback under.
