I am a person who generally avoids side-scrolling games, usually for aesthetic reasons. However, this game I decided to give it a try because the visuals were interesting, decent animations for combat, and the game revolves around farming? Hmm, sure why not. I wasn't sure what I was getting into but almost 53 straight hours into playing this game, I was so engrossed that I even ignored some other games that I was playing just to keep playing this game.

-The 'Bad'-

I'm just going to get the bad stuff out of the way first because I feel like that's what everyone wants to know first. So what's the problem with this game? Some quality of life stuff that annoys me personally. For instance, whenever you go back home, you start up from the entrance and have to run all the way back up the mountain to get home. I get it, you enter a place so you start at the entrance yeah sure but you play as a goddess, let me just magically teleport up there or something.

Farming in this game is so realistic that I don't even know what to say. At least I learned a lot of knowledge about farming with rice! One thing I dislike immensely, probably due to my tiny smol brain, or it could be because the game has some minor issues with it, is when you're planting rice onto the field. The movement controls are fine but I wish you can strafe or something. It's hard to line up properly because the camera moves ever so slightly so even though you are moving 'downwards', the camera moving so slightly makes you veer off-course. Trying to adjust myself is battling the physics engine trying to get my character move to the proper position. It took me a very long time to get used to it.

For the length of time that I've played, the game crashed only once but thank you game for auto-saves so it was kind of moot point. And I've only been absorbed into the wall once but jumping made me pop out safely so that's alright I guess.

My last gripe is the story flow. There's a weird flow with the story here and there and without spoiling anything, an example would be like you start at point A. The story goes to point B and then C. Somewhere along they way, it feels like they would skip a point and go to the next one. It's the main story so it's not like I missed anything, the game's story seems to have cut out pieces of the story. This happens twice where it feels like the flow messed up.

-The Everything Else-

The game itself, I would so love to give it a 10/10 but the minor problems that I personally have just can't give it a 10/10 but it will definitely win the award 'A Truly Hidden Gem.' The story revolves a super spoiled girl learning and maturing into a true Harvest Goddess was an enjoyable journey and how the character interacts with others shows this. I have no complaints about the story aside from the weird breaking points I mentioned. Still I feel like the ending could have expanded a bit more.

The combat in this game is truly fantastic. It is the core part of the game aside from the farming aspect. I feel like I am in 95% control of my character when exploring and fighting demons. The other 5% is due to wonky controls. You can press a button to send out your character's raiment, or divine shawl if you will, to grapple enemies and surfaces but the directions that you can send it out are the 8 directions, up, down, left, right, and diagonal. You can't send it out to a specific direction, only the general direction and it took a while for me to get used to it. Dunno why you can't double jump either, I feel like it should be a possibility but oh well.

Combat feels very meaty. The sound effects and visuals when you hit and kill something are amazing. Also sending enemies flying where they can collide with other enemies and have those enemies collide with more enemies for mega damage feels really good. You are given with a huge pool of skills that you'll discover as you level up and progress in the game and they all have their uses. Some definitely feel more stronger than others. There are so many ways to kill your enemies, either by your normal attacks, strong attacks, skills, even the raiment grappling can throw enemies all over the place. Again dunno why double jumping isn't in this game as it would provide greater freedom but I digress.

Farming in this game is too darn realistic. First you sort the seeds out. Then you have to till the field. Manually. Row by row. Then you have to plant the seeds. One by one. Adjust the water level with water gates. Add in fertilizer but wait, did you properly add in all the materials you want into the poop to create the best fertilizer? Did you added that chunk of bear meat? Or that demonic pearl? And the chunk of obsidian that I got from the volcano? You did? Good. Now you have to pull weeds that grow every now and then, adjust the water levels accordingly, After you start cutting the rice, you need to hang them to dry. After that you need to thresh the rice and the hull the rice. All of this is done manually like holy balls did I learn a lot about rice farming. Thankfully there are skills that you learn as you do this that makes it a lot easier and faster. It was definitely an experience though.

I enjoyed this game immensely. They pay attention to details a lot like for instance when you enter your house, your character wears sandals but when you jump up to platform that is 'home', your character is then barefooted. Amazing small detail. I wish there were more clothing visual variety. It's just the same outfit in different colors and patterns.

Lastly... the English dub is actually pretty darn good. The game does allow you to change from English to Japanese voices but I decided to try the English after forgetting to change to Japanese and went through the introduction of the game. Pretty good.

I am a person who generally avoids side-scrolling games, usually for aesthetic reasons. However, this game I decided to give it a try because the visuals were interesting, decent animations for combat, and the game revolves around farming? Hmm, sure why not. I wasn't sure what I was getting into but almost 53 straight hours into playing this game, I was so engrossed that I even ignored some other games that I was playing just to keep playing this game. -The 'Bad'- I'm just going to get the bad stuff out of the way first because I feel like that's what everyone wants to know first. So what's the problem with this game? Some quality of life stuff that annoys me personally. For instance, whenever you go back home, you start up from the entrance and have to run all the way back up the mountain to get home. I get it, you enter a place so you start at the entrance yeah sure but you play as a goddess, let me just magically teleport up there or something. Farming in this game is so realistic that I don't even know what to say. At least I learned a lot of knowledge about farming with rice! One thing I dislike immensely, probably due to my tiny smol brain, or it could be because the game has some minor issues with it, is when you're planting rice onto the field. The movement controls are fine but I wish you can strafe or something. It's hard to line up properly because the camera moves ever so slightly so even though you are moving 'downwards', the camera moving so slightly makes you veer off-course. Trying to adjust myself is battling the physics engine trying to get my character move to the proper position. It took me a very long time to get used to it. For the length of time that I've played, the game crashed only once but thank you game for auto-saves so it was kind of moot point. And I've only been absorbed into the wall once but jumping made me pop out safely so that's alright I guess. My last gripe is the story flow. There's a weird flow with the story here and there and without spoiling anything, an example would be like you start at point A. The story goes to point B and then C. Somewhere along they way, it feels like they would skip a point and go to the next one. It's the main story so it's not like I missed anything, the game's story seems to have cut out pieces of the story. This happens twice where it feels like the flow messed up. -The Everything Else- The game itself, I would so love to give it a 10/10 but the minor problems that I personally have just can't give it a 10/10 but it will definitely win the award 'A Truly Hidden Gem.' The story revolves a super spoiled girl learning and maturing into a true Harvest Goddess was an enjoyable journey and how the character interacts with others shows this. I have no complaints about the story aside from the weird breaking points I mentioned. Still I feel like the ending could have expanded a bit more. The combat in this game is truly fantastic. It is the core part of the game aside from the farming aspect. I feel like I am in 95% control of my character when exploring and fighting demons. The other 5% is due to wonky controls. You can press a button to send out your character's raiment, or divine shawl if you will, to grapple enemies and surfaces but the directions that you can send it out are the 8 directions, up, down, left, right, and diagonal. You can't send it out to a specific direction, only the general direction and it took a while for me to get used to it. Dunno why you can't double jump either, I feel like it should be a possibility but oh well. Combat feels very meaty. The sound effects and visuals when you hit and kill something are amazing. Also sending enemies flying where they can collide with other enemies and have those enemies collide with more enemies for mega damage feels really good. You are given with a huge pool of skills that you'll discover as you level up and progress in the game and they all have their uses. Some definitely feel more stronger than others. There are so many ways to kill your enemies, either by your normal attacks, strong attacks, skills, even the raiment grappling can throw enemies all over the place. Again dunno why double jumping isn't in this game as it would provide greater freedom but I digress. Farming in this game is too darn realistic. First you sort the seeds out. Then you have to till the field. Manually. Row by row. Then you have to plant the seeds. One by one. Adjust the water level with water gates. Add in fertilizer but wait, did you properly add in all the materials you want into the poop to create the best fertilizer? Did you added that chunk of bear meat? Or that demonic pearl? And the chunk of obsidian that I got from the volcano? You did? Good. Now you have to pull weeds that grow every now and then, adjust the water levels accordingly, After you start cutting the rice, you need to hang them to dry. After that you need to thresh the rice and the hull the rice. All of this is done manually like holy balls did I learn a lot about rice farming. Thankfully there are skills that you learn as you do this that makes it a lot easier and faster. It was definitely an experience though. I enjoyed this game immensely. They pay attention to details a lot like for instance when you enter your house, your character wears sandals but when you jump up to platform that is 'home', your character is then barefooted. Amazing small detail. I wish there were more clothing visual variety. It's just the same outfit in different colors and patterns. Lastly... the English dub is actually pretty darn good. The game does allow you to change from English to Japanese voices but I decided to try the English after forgetting to change to Japanese and went through the introduction of the game. Pretty good.