


Garden Story is a charming and chill RPG that is perfect either for short burst of gaming or for you to spend a couple of hours at a time trying to complete as many Requests and help as many locations as possible. Fix a bridge, collect some glass shards, or drop the required resources in the storage boxes and you’re set! Just check the bulletin board to review each of the available Requests to get an idea of what needs to be done, and then go for it! Each Request will have a color to it, as well as let you know how challenging it can be to complete, and this will dictate how much it affects each of the three stats for the village. People always need help with this or that, and helping them will allow you the village to grow. And the last one is Luck, which will allow you to potentially get more, rarer resources!Īs you grow as Guardian, you’ll be taking on Requests from the villagers. Recharge will increase Concord’s recovery speed so that stamina is generated more quickly. Max Stamina will affect the maximum stamina points, which are used for pretty much everything you do. Hand Speed will affect Jar speed and the charge speed for tools. Run Speed, as expected, will affect how fast Concord can run. DMG Resist will make it possible to hold buffs for longer while also shedding debuffs at a faster pace. Health will affect Concord’s maximum health points. This is important because Memory Slots are used to equip the memories of past Guardians to increase your stats. Mind will affect the number of usable Memory Slots. Since your inventory space is finite, you should make good use of the storage boxes where you can drop everything you want so that you can go out and continue collecting more and more stuff for the village.Ĭoncord has several stats for you to keep in mind for this adventure. Swing it at a rock, and you’ll notice it deals no damage, which will clue you in to how you require a different type of tool for that particular job. You could use the Pick to slowly deal damage to a tree stump to get some twigs or branches. The Pick – and other tools you’ll obtain during your journey – can be used to procure some resources. You can’t just press the Y button over and over again since each time you take a swing, some of your stamina will be used! Once you press the Y button, you’ll swing the Pick to deal damage to your enemies. Plum will watch over this first battle just to make sure that the slimes don’t overwhelm you. In fact, on your way back to the Kindergarden, it will already be nighttime, and some small rot slimes will come out to play. It won’t be long before you get a Pick, a tool that is now also known as a weapon because of the whole rot situation. Once you collect the jar from the tool shed and fill it up at the well, you’ll use said jar on the vines by pressing the ZL button to water them so that they start to recover… but they refuse to grow! Once you’re done with that, you’ll gain access to a map -which you can check with the L button – that you can use to automatically add each location you visit. To access said inventory, just press the X button and browse each tab to check out which tools, jars, resources, and other items you’ve managed to get your hands on.Īll of the basics will be presented to you during the initial tutorial segment, where you’ll have to inspect some vines that are in desperate need of some dew. Any items you collect, such as the glass jar you get from the tool shed, can be equipped from your inventory. Concord can interact with items or characters with the A button. You’ll move your character with the left analog stick, rolling by pressing the ZR button or running by pressing and holding down the button. With the world in turmoil, it’s time for Concord, the youngest grape of Spring Hamlet, to give this whole Guardian thing a go. Unfortunately, things did not go as expected, and only two Guardians remained in the end. The community grew as one, with several being new to combat. Many tried to rise to the challenge of destroying the rot, with several Guardians giving it their all. Oozing rot now creeps out of it, trying to cover everything on its path. Unfortunately, those times have now ended, and the Grove is no more. In the beginning, there was the Grove, a huge tree overflowing with Mana. Garden Story from Picogram and Rose City Games is a charming and chill RPG in which you’ll have to save your community.
