Dropped Harvestella. Just wasn’t feeling it any more (late game spoilers)

Somehow I had a feeling from day one that I wouldn’t finish Harvestella, but I thought it would be the combat that would do me in. It turned out to be the story instead, once they did their big reveal of the mystery behind the world we were on. Late story spoiler: turns out mankind […]

Harvestella: An ordinary JRPG with a not-very-robust farming minigame tacked on

Yo! I’m back to report on my progress with Harvestella. One of the reasons why I write several posts on a single game instead of waiting to finish it first is that my opinions and attitudes towards a game can changed drastically as I keep playing, and I want this blog to reflect that. The […]

Harvestella is a fantastic game except for the combat

You ever start a game and realize almost immediately what you’ll eventually quit over? It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I can tell right away what is going to be a pain point down the road, whether it’s a character, a plot point, or in Harvestella‘s case, a game mechanic. To put it plainly, the […]

Happy New Year 2026!

Happy new year, everyone! If I’m not much mistaken, this humble little blog will be 17 years old in May 2026, and this is also the 14th edition of my New Year’s greeting (the first was a whole lifetime ago in 2012). No idea how much longer I’ll be doing this, but then again I […]

Aight, let’s talk about CounterSide a little bit

I’ve ditched Xenoblade Chronicles 3 in favor of CounterSide and the occasional Genshin Impact, and just the other day I got Picross S8. Best series ever, Nintendo numbah wan! Sometime this weekend I should find the time to play the Harvestella demo. I need to check it out to inform my decision of whether to […]