@Eduardo: Yeah, playing it some more, it does feel similar. But I still say it's closer to Harvest Moon; The energy-drain is harsher, the farm-size is more generous (like, ridiculously so), and the combat is a lot simpler (unlike Rune Factory, where the combat is a selling point)
Watched people play it a bit... Yeah, it seems like a step down from Harvest Moon in terms of being hurried, but it's still very Harvest-Moon-like. You don't have half the day to go adventuring like in Rune Factory.
@Frost: I figure eventually I'll move around faster. There are those totems around town that are apparently fast-travel points, and I've heard rumors of horses. And the game is tuned around it taking a certain amount of in-game time to move around. That said, you do have auto-run enabled, right?
Ok, so it's good if you come from Harvest Moon... But what if you think Rune Factory 3 is the best Harvest Moon pre 3DS? (No idea post, I don't have a 3DS)
Harvest Moon's tortuously slow and 'busy' if you've played RF3
It really is dangerously addictive. I'm counting myself lucky that I've been able to keep my Stardew time to times when I'm streaming, but even then I got in a couple hours of stream that I wouldn't normally have yesterday...
@Jo Pereira
Just go to the mines and take a basket with you, time doesn't pass on the mines and you can do stuff like fish forever or mine until you run out of food/stamina.
@T: Harvest Moon had a time limit to do your stuff before the game ends. The risk of failure made you want to min-max heavily and if you won you could not enjoy your success because it was game over anyway.
Not my kind of game. IMO this is only slightly better than farmville. You just don't have to waste money on microtransactions, but the whole idea seems pointless to me.
Superhot on the other hand looks awesome.
