Helping towns get back on their feet will lead to the denizens helping Concord in its quest to stop the Rot and save the world. It's not just about the Guardian Grape in Garden Story. According to Rose City Games Community Developer Jenny Windom, that building of community is a big part the foundation for Garden Story. It felt like the start of actually rebuilding a broken town into a living community again with all the fruit and veggie citizens therein. There were companions and helpers from beginning the way who would lend aid to Concord if it just lent them the resources they needed, and it was more than just fetch quests. Banding together against calamityīy the end of my time with Garden Story at PAX South, I definitely felt that this quest fell on more shoulders than just that of my lush little grape. The demo ended in a dungeon with a similarly puzzle-based boss fight before I escaped the undefeatable creature, giving quite the cliffhanger to the session.
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The dungeons were very Zelda-like affairs full of various puzzles and Rot monsters in each room to be solved or dispatched before moving on. There were quite a few things I was doing for the village community, be it hacking enemies and resources into usable bits, fishing for baubles, putting together various items for building projects, or hunting down objectives in dungeons. In this way, Garden Story has a very Stardew Valley vibe to it. Garden Story features a variety of gameplay, including dungeon crawling, fishing, resource mining, and more. We moved into a ruined town and our first task was to make contact with the village vegetation, do a few chores to show them we were capable, and get started on some community requests to help the village back onto its feet, including helping with fresh water, gathering mineable, and defeating enemies. I had a frog and apple friend accompanying me through most of the session, lending advice where applicable and generally being involved in the matter. In the demo at PAX South 2020, the game didn’t even send me off on our my from the get-go, despite being the so-called Guardian Grape. Yes, it’s your grape at the core of the gameplay, but Garden Story is about restoring the villages to working order alongside their villagers.
To this end, you have to venture into different communities, gather resources, fight off Rot-created enemies, solve puzzle-filled dungeons, and help the townsfolk restore their villages to working order. You are a concord grape and newly appointed guardian tasked with trying to help get rid of the Rot. We should mention this is a world inhabited by sentient fruits and vegetables as its main denizens, with the addition of at least one sassy frog. It creates hostile creatures, poisons resources, and leads whole communities into disarray. Garden Story picks up in the midst of a world being eaten away by a force known as the Rot. I got to play the game at PAX South 2020 and chat with publisher Rose City Games about how this adventure of a concord grape to unite the vegetation of the land against a destructive evil came together. It’s kind of funny that nobody really asks, “why? Why do I have to do all of this by myself?” Nobody should go it alone on such a daunting task, and that’s kind of the heartwarming core of developer picogram’s Garden Story. Never mind all the able bodies present in the failing world around you. You are the hero, the world needs saving, and you have to do it by yourself. Adventure and questing games often seem to have a similar spiel to them.
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