Kynseed | Review in 3 Minutes
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Elise Avery reviews Kynseed, developed by Pixelcount Studios.
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The scope certainly has me interested. I think this is the type of game to appeal to older audiences. Since it takes so long in game for a generation to pass, and a new character take over, coupled with the variety of ways to play the game, I see it as the type of game an adult would pick up and play in little sittings after work. You just play it at your pace and have this small second life of sorts without much stress. I'm certainly going to pick it up for that reason.
I love this game. I don’t mind how slow things seem to be because there’s a lot of stuff to do. I can run my shop all day or go into the woods and do a dungeon and that eats up most of my time.
personally this feels like everything i wish stardew valley was, story progression, more things to do other than fight monsters and farm, The Fae, etc. While i will always love SDV, this game genuinely seems like it has a lot more to do. The slow progression and aging allows you to spend a day or so focusing on one thing, without missing someones last days.
I got it when it released in early access and I've spent countless hours on it. I do agree that it can feel shallow, at least when I played it. But, its still adorable, fun and engaging. At least for the first 10 or more hours.
I bought it a few years ago knowing it was early access. It did slowly improve over time until Release where even more changes came out. It was missing some things but seems to have more things to do now. The good news is that the devs intend on gradually adding more content even post release, according to what one of them said on their Discord channel. Adding more flavour to NPCs based on their personality would be a huge step forward to make the world feel more alive.
So you possess your own descendants through dark magic? Or is it like The Phantom, where one lineage just decides to be the same guy through tradition, but you're a farmer instead of a pulp vigilante? The Pharmer...
the first one... you possess your kin thru faery magic and are essentially immortal thru doing so... but you can trade away years of your life for powerful items to help you out (like having your crops water themselves... or having a clock instead of trying to figure out what time it is thru dandelions... or being able to teleport using outhouses by flushing yourself... yes im serious)
the idea of the game is to grow your legacy and since you forcefully possess your descendants and inherit their stats as well as part of your old stats you want to have your kids raising the skills you want to inherit until you basically make the ultimate character... and essentially become a god (this is literally the story reason for growing your legacy)
@@arcanumelite4853 Sounds like a vampire baby boomer simulator.
@@arcanumelite4853 not really posses, you guide. Like a guardian angel
@@Xxsorafan no im pretty sure you just possess them... this is a dark game and the faery basically said this was like immortality in a way... its also why your relationships with all the npcs stays mostly the same when you transition to a new character... because your the same person
@@arcanumelite4853 maybe I read it wrong then I just remember the wording giving me that you (the twin) guide your descendants to continue your work but anyways doesn’t matter at the end of the day u as the play control the child of ur choosing lol
Glad some of the Lionhead Studios people weren't wasted, games a lot of fun.
This seems like the perfect game to have on the switch
This did sound pretty interesting, especially that generations take a lot of ingame time to progress.
Every time I tried to get into this kind of progression with other games it was more like...
"Hey, that's you and now you died of old age. This is you now. And dead."
you can speed it up if you wish... you can trade years of your life away for permanent bonuses like being able to teleport by flushing yourself down outhouses in their dr.who parody the turdis... or being able to change the weather ect... these cost you years of your life as currency... but you dont pay right away... instead he takes these years at the end of the current year so even if you traded away all of your life... you would still be able to survive for the next year..
the benefits you get from this are permanent and continue onto the next character (whether that be one of your kids or some random orphan if you dont have any) because you are essentially immortal thru bodysnatching your children thru faery magic
@@arcanumelite4853 Ah, there is the dark stuff mentioned in the video.
Praise Satan, I guess.
Personally, I felt very overwhelmed by its possibilities and world size. It was so depressing and i felt like a fish out of water when I suddenly aged up and had no idea what to do with my life.😮💨 and to make descendants seemed stressful cause everyone was lowkey unappealing.
im not sure if you're talking about the game or real life damn
I played off and on in early access. The more boons you get at the end of the year, the more life is taken away from your lifespan-- if you want the generations to progress quicker, you can do this. Also dying in combat takes years also, I believe.
The thing is, you would have to be reckless on purpose in order to lose enough years. I died like, a dozen times in dungeons and was only set to lose like, 5 years from the minimum age you start the game at.
None of the items being offered for years were any use to me, and so I would have had to purposefully throw away years for no reason rather than being incentivized to through the design.
If they incentivized spending years very quickly it'd be more fast paced, but I felt like I wasn't being pushed that way.
Always worth mentioning with this kind of thing that a game journalist who needs to complete the game on schedule to write a review so they can get on to the next 5 games they need to review that month won't necessarily have the same experience as someone who plays a game like this a little bit at a time on the train to work over the course of two years.
Id never heard of this game but it looks great!
seems like a mix of sdv, moonlighter, cooking mama. i will get this one day
not normally into games like this but I might actually try this one maybe
*Bonfire flashbacks*
If you know you know.
Bring back the fire! Flower petals fluttering in the wind doesn't do it for me.
I played it for all over an hour and a half back in early 2021. is it worth it to pick up again?
Yes there’s much more content now
I've seen so many games like this. Interested to know how much of an audience there is for this stuff
As in so many games with a touch of farming? Because not that many actually do the generations thing. In fact, when Kynseed was first being made you could count them on your fingers. I've seen some rogue lites take on the generation premise, but not too many life sims still.
I remember liking the earlier art style for this. I very much dislike the style they released it with.
Wait, they change it? Which part? I haven't play the game yet, but pretty sure the old build show more green vibrant vegetation, is it still there
It is the art style that has questioning if I want to get this game or not. It sounds interesting but I do not like the graphics from what I've seen.
So fantasy stardew valley?
No, there's not much in terms of customizing your farm that you can do. The farming is limited to a handful of squares. It's way more linear than SV in terms of story and what you can do I believe
Does it have co-op though?
No co-op.
@@Elisenaps Bummer, but thanks for answering.
This might be an unpopular opinion but this game is better than Stardew Valley for me.
No mod support unfortunately
what genaratiion have you made it to
Oh, I understand the name, suddenly. Family semen. Er... Well, procreation. I thought he said wife simulator at first, actually. Obtuse, confusing, slow and not quite finished. Perfect life simulator.
this game feel empty
Stardew is better
The sandbox aspect is what makes me wanna buy this game. I absolutely loathe games with endings. Also I see its steam deck compatible, so I will give it a try