Oriental Valley is a simulation game, with modern new rural construction and Chinese characteristics.You coincidentally come to a modern village, build a modern new home, experience modern rural life, understand modern agriculture, meet friends, and live a happy life.
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I tried this game as part of NextFest and I thought that it was a bit janky and needed some more time in the oven. Lot of glitches, things felt unfinished, the simplistic NPCs were funny but clearly they were just placeholders, right? A little clean up and they could have a solid game on their hands.
Wrong. This game launched only a few months later and I feel the only thing they changed was the typesetting.
[1] The translations in this game are bad and I don't mean "I don't like their word choice", I mean straight up doesn't make sense bad. Asked a student who gave a random guess at what would convey something levels of bad. Or perhaps the Chinese version is also filled with nonsense phrases.
[2] AI was used to create the Steam page image but is reportedly not used in the game itself.
Starting off, the premise is sorta fun - the protagonist is on the bus somewhere when the mayor of a small town throws tacks on the road to stop the bus and force her to stay the night (honestly, so many of these new farming sims have horror story concepts). She gets a free house and some farmland to look after and that's you into the farming game.
Most the NPCs are the 3D equivalent of stickmen. As I mentioned, it was a funny gag. I liked the introduction of Simp (one of these stickmen) and I thought the joke really landed there. Then I went out into the wider world and there were Loads of Simp-alikes. This kinda killed the joke for me. I think it would have been better if Simp was the only NPC like that. This just feels lazy and ruins the vibe of the valley.
Most characters in the valley aren't interesting except for the doctor that kept coughing on me (wear your mask already, doc.) There's no romance system in this game, which is typically a deal breaker for me in farming sims. I'm shallow, what can I say.
Many of the other models are off of asset shops and their style can wildly clash with the rest of the game. You can really tell where the crew put their efforts because it's the stuff they put on the Steam page and nothing else.
The game feels clunky to play in general and there's no point trying it when there's so many other farming games on the market. I didn't even get to the creature collector segment sadly, which I feel would have been one of the better aspects of this, but the game just couldn't hold its own that long.
Wrong. This game launched only a few months later and I feel the only thing they changed was the typesetting.
[1] The translations in this game are bad and I don't mean "I don't like their word choice", I mean straight up doesn't make sense bad. Asked a student who gave a random guess at what would convey something levels of bad. Or perhaps the Chinese version is also filled with nonsense phrases.
[2] AI was used to create the Steam page image but is reportedly not used in the game itself.
Starting off, the premise is sorta fun - the protagonist is on the bus somewhere when the mayor of a small town throws tacks on the road to stop the bus and force her to stay the night (honestly, so many of these new farming sims have horror story concepts). She gets a free house and some farmland to look after and that's you into the farming game.
Most the NPCs are the 3D equivalent of stickmen. As I mentioned, it was a funny gag. I liked the introduction of Simp (one of these stickmen) and I thought the joke really landed there. Then I went out into the wider world and there were Loads of Simp-alikes. This kinda killed the joke for me. I think it would have been better if Simp was the only NPC like that. This just feels lazy and ruins the vibe of the valley.
Most characters in the valley aren't interesting except for the doctor that kept coughing on me (wear your mask already, doc.) There's no romance system in this game, which is typically a deal breaker for me in farming sims. I'm shallow, what can I say.
Many of the other models are off of asset shops and their style can wildly clash with the rest of the game. You can really tell where the crew put their efforts because it's the stuff they put on the Steam page and nothing else.
The game feels clunky to play in general and there's no point trying it when there's so many other farming games on the market. I didn't even get to the creature collector segment sadly, which I feel would have been one of the better aspects of this, but the game just couldn't hold its own that long.