Tenho no Michi inari is probably the most "realistic" farming game besides farm simulation games.
It's a game that combines the elements of combat and farming, where players can experience both idyllic life and exciting side-scrolling fights, and games like Tenho No Razaki inohime combine farm simulation with combat levels, and Japanese manufacturer Marvelous tried it in Rune Workshop: New Ranch Story as early as 2006.
In Rune Workshop, players can also farm while fighting monsters, planting crops that can be sold for money, or can be used to help them fight, or can be used as materials to upgrade weapons and equipment, and even some crops themselves can be used as weapons for combat.
The style of Tenho no Shōnō Inahime is somewhat different from that of Rune Workshop. Although both are farming monsters, the farming part of "Tenho no Michi indahina" is much more "extreme".
In traditional farming games such as Rune Workshop, the player plants crops by starting to clean up the weeds, plough the ground, then sow seeds, sprinkle water every day to fertilize regularly, and then wait for the crops to grow, but in Tenho No. Ichigo Inarihime, these operations are subdivided again.
In the game, the player's process of planting rice is roughly divided into three periods: the planting period, the cultivation period, and the harvest period, and the player needs to manually plant the seedlings during the planting period; the cultivation period is to water and pull the grass while fertilizing; in the harvest period, it is necessary to harvest the rice with a sickle, hang it on the rice rack for drying, and finally go through the rice shelling to obtain rice.
In these processes, the temperature of the paddy field, the water level, the spacing of the rice, the type of fertilizer in the tillering period, etc. will affect the quality of the final rice.
Crops a flower, all rely on fertilizer to be the home, because the game background is set for a long time, so the cultivation of the use of artificial fertilizer, and the use of their own fertilizer, what the character eats at night, the next day pulled out of the fertilizer quality is also different, and then indirectly invisible crop development. Eat well to pull well, pull well to eat well.
Japan seems to have a special paranoia about rice, like the "rice cooker" who specializes in making rice, this game of reducing rice cultivation to the extreme, but also quickly became popular in Japan, and due to the success of "Tenho no Michi Inahime" in Japan, the publisher Marvelous's stock once rose and fell.
Due to its incomparably realistic farming design, many Japanese players even go to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to check the relevant information about rice cultivation, and on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, many players do have corresponding answers to problems such as temperature and water volume.
The game is the ninth art, and art comes from life, from this point of view, the real crop planting experience as a game guide is still understandable, and because the Japanese website is generally simple and rough, the simple website layout of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is even more concise and comfortable than the layout of some game wikis, which may also be one of the reasons why some Japanese netizens recommend viewing agricultural websites instead of game wikis.
On Amazon, there are also players in the product review screen ridicule, he is a farmer in real life, since the release of the game, many friends around him can not find the game strategy can only ask him for help, as a game wiki. He himself was tired of it, and november was the harvest season, a day of rest of the year, but he did not expect to return to the field in another way, which made him feel that he had not been released from work, so please stop asking him.
And in the country "Tiansui No Mi Rice Ji" is also very popular, the following is a domestic player on Weibo posted a game guide, which details the data of rice planting in various periods, if you have not played this game, it will make people mistakenly think that this is the class notes of an agricultural student.
The traditional farming life is finely restored, and then the secondary processing is shown to the young people of the modern city, in addition to "Tiansui no Mi Rice Ji", China's plum Ziqi is also doing the same thing.
In 2019, Li Ziqi sent a video about planting rice, in this video, Li Ziqi showed in detail the process of throwing seedlings, planting seedlings, putting (replenishing) water, keeping water, finding water, threshing, etc., and this video, Li Ziqi participated in the whole process, it took two years to complete, and therefore some players jokingly called "Tiansui No Mi Rice Ji" is "Plum Ziqi Simulator".
Why did the game achieve such great success? All this is also due to the meticulous research and exploration done by game developers around the gameplay of "farming". Just like the name of the game, although "Tenho no Sasa Inahime" has combat elements, but the main game is still farm simulation, in order to force players to farm, the game designed a level system, the greater the level gap the more difficult the battle, want to upgrade the player still need to come back to obediently farm.
In order to truly restore the rice planting process, the developer of the game developer Edelweiss, Nal, actually planted rice on his balcony with a rice planting kit distributed for free by the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative.
In order to simulate how rice grows in the game, the developers borrowed many academic papers from the National Diet Library, Japan's largest government archive; in order to restore the old Japanese family and the historical farming tools used for workers' labor, the producers visited the public archives of the Agricultural University and the historical archives of rural areas; in order to study traditional Japanese houses, Nal also visited Shirakawa-go, Japan's famous old-fashioned house sightseeing village, as well as Kyoto.
Although the game is not large, but because the developers are too few, the game creators are only two, even with the assistance of some people, only 10 people have participated in the development, the entire game development cycle is as long as five and a half years, of which the rice planting part of the production team studied for three years.
From planting to threshing, although players can't really get started with rice planting, it is enough for us to understand how hard the birth of rice is.
The game experience of the same game on different platforms will be different, but I did not expect that this difference was reflected in the price, on the one hand, the game play discussion of Japanese and some Chinese players, on the other hand, the criticism and insults of the majority of Chinese PC players on the high price of the game.
The developer of this game, Edelweiss, is actually just a very small fan game studio, and the games they have developed before, such as "Blossom Fairy Fritia", "The Mist of the Sky", etc. are small-scale independent games, and although the volume and graphics of the previous games are much higher, they can still only be regarded as indie games, although this indie game has sold 3a games in the Steam country, second only to Switzerland.
Very outrageous, although the high pricing of Japanese factory games in China has long been commonplace for us, but such an outrageous thing as "Tenho No. Zoe Inahime" is still very rare, to know that the price of the PC digital version of 350 has exceeded the price of Taobao ns physical cartridges.
This matter has caused a lot of controversy among Chinese players, and the most played video about the game on the b station is the expensive price of the steam country game.
The game engine they use is from the Japanese fandom "souvenir circ." The game engine developed by the "Twilight Engine of the Gods", and this engine was developed by nyahhoiya alone, from the development cost and the volume of the game, under normal circumstances, the price of this independent game should be about 100 yuan, after all, the brazen se 'Bafang Traveler' dares to sell 400.
However, as seen above, the price of this game is very outrageous, the deluxe version exceeds the price of "Octagon Traveler" to reach 550, and the deluxe version only has more digital soundtracks and a digital version of the art collection than the regular version.
But a closer look at the game's publisher makes sense again. The publisher of this game, xseed, is the publisher of the previous "Kandagawa jetgirls", and the game is very "average" in terms of both picture quality and gameplay, the national price is as high as 395, and it is also particularly well received on steam, although there are few reviews.
As for why the pricing of xseed is so outrageous, some netizens said that it may be related to the resignation of XSEED president Shinichi Suzuki, because Ken Berry, Suzuki Shinichi's successor, has worked in Se for many years, so in the end, they all blame Se.
Then again, if you don't look at this game by the standard of 3A games, the quality of the game is still very good, and the praise rate on steam is as high as 90%, but considering its high price, it is difficult not to compare it with 3A games, when you play the game, you have been thinking back to spending more than three hundred pieces, and then comparing some European and American 3a masterpieces with less than three hundred, it is difficult not to affect the game experience.
The extranet "Tiansui No. Zoe Rice Ji" is on the hot search because of the real rice planting game, and the domestic "Tiansui No. Zo Rice Ji" is complained about by netizens because of the high price, and can only say that there is really your ah foot basin Nice.