Schedules aren’t stagnated and the townspeople can be found doing random things like training with swords in the rain or having dinner in a restaurant. My point to all of this is that, until the characters in Stardew, this game feels lived it. There is even a kid that was adopted and raised by a bear in a bath towel named Abu. You have teachers, wanderers, and fisherman. You have people running shops, restaurants, apartments, and the merchants guild. Then there are the townspeople in the middle that are content with their lives. The Civil Corps protects people from monsters while also mapping out the tunnel and caves for future use. The Research Center is trying to take the technology of the old world and incorporate it into their new way of life. Within the world, you have The Church of Light that is trying to keep technology from coming back by destroying anything that calls back to the old world. The land of Portia is a magical place built on the backs of what looks like an ancient advanced society. So, when I heard that My Time At Portia was tapping into the same vein I just had to check it out.
It was a farm simulator where ignoring the farm was a viable strategy, and I loved it. I could still make money and buy the things I wanted without someone telling me I had to play a certain way. If all I wanted to do was turn on the game and fish, I could do that. There were people, but I could ignore them too. Sure, there were missions, but I could choose to freely ignore them. Here, in one game, was everything I wanted. So, when the part RPG/part life sim game Stardew Valley came out it shook me to my very core. I never understood why a game that’s whole deal is you doing whatever you want still felt so restrictive. That means that a portion of your gameplay is doing something you don’t even want to do in real life in order to get to the part of the game that makes you happy. For instance in The Sims, unless you cheat, you will have to work a job in order to not fail out the game outright.
My biggest problem with games like that was that I was being forced to play them the way they wanted me to. Games like The Sims, Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing tended to hold my fancy for a little while before I eventually ended up going back to the RPG and shooter staples of my game collection. I have never been much of a fan of the life simulator genre.
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