{"id":348720,"date":"2024-10-30T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operationrainfall.com\/?p=348720"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T03:01:06","slug":"review-orange-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operationrainfall.com\/2024\/10\/30\/review-orange-season\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Orange Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Title<\/th>\nOrange Season<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Developer<\/th>\nInnerfire Studios, Tropical Puppy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publisher<\/th>\nSoedesco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Date<\/th>\nOctober 24th, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Genre<\/th>\nFarming Sim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Platform<\/th>\nSwitch<\/strong>, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Age Rating<\/th>\nEveryone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Oh how innocent I was a few weeks ago. I haven\u2019t been following Orange Season<\/em> too closely honestly, but I do believe I was following the game\u2019s official account on social media for a while and when I\u2019d see the occasional screenshot, I was pretty intrigued. I thought this would be a fun, relaxing fall review I could enjoy spending a few weeks on. I won\u2019t waste any time keeping you in the dark. I don\u2019t have much good to say about Orange Season<\/em>. I spent all of five hours on it and was already regretting asking to review this one after only the first 20 minutes of playing it, due to the issues it has.<\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s discuss what kind of game Orange Season<\/em> is. Orange Season<\/em> is an indie farming game. Like other farming sims, your character moves to a new town to live the charming, rural farm life. You\u2019re dropped off at your farm, told to greet everyone in town and take care of your farm, of course. I went into this review assuming there would be some big goal like most farming games have: for example, making the town more popular and bringing in new tourists, or restoring a community center. Well from what little I was able to put up with playing Orange Season<\/em>, I never actually found out if there was some larger goal beyond making your farm a success. I started off cleaning up the area you get for planting crops and got stuck at least once in the middle of a rock.<\/p>\n

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After planting a few starting crops and cleaning up the area some, I spent my time hunting all over town looking for new characters to greet and introduce myself as the new farmer in town. This is where the biggest issue came into play and a large part of why I refused to spend anymore than five hours on Orange Season<\/em>. So when the map is actually working, it\u2019s not the most helpful. The main town area where most of the characters live and hangout regularly is quite large. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve played many farming sims with a town this large. Now you\u2019d expect that the map would help you locate characters around town; however, as you can see in the picture above, you\u2019re merely told who\u2019s in which section of town at any given time and I found no way to actually pull up a legitimate diagram of the town to locate these people. You only know which separate, large section they\u2019re in and seemingly if they\u2019re in a building or not. I saw some of the characters had a blue house symbol so I figured maybe that meant they were in their homes. Still, a majority of the houses were seemingly locked at all times as well. I imagine this could be a feature where you have to get to know the characters better to be allowed into their homes, but it was quite obnoxious and made tracking them down near impossible.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, not only was the map an extremely bare minimum of any use to me, but it constantly would glitch and become 100 percent useless. I could open the map and it\u2019d be fine, and two minutes later open it again and the map was completely blank. No section would be highlighted, I wouldn\u2019t see any faces of who was in the area and the cursor to move between the sections on the map was gone. Plus, the map glitching like this required a full game reset. By that I mean, I had to close out and re-open the game to fix it, only for it to glitch again less than five minutes into starting the game back up. This is a farming game where characters are constantly giving you requests to complete and you need to be able to reliably track them down. I found myself spending multiple game days simply trying to find them all at least once and greet everyone for the first quest. Then there were four characters who told me to come find them once I had and they would give me new quests, which again, I\u2019d have to track down various characters for later to complete.<\/p>\n