Happy Farm'n Friday! Earlier this year I made an attempt to grow Goji. The shrub isn't as easy to sprout as I thought it would be. Two of the plants survived after the multiple attempts at growing them. After growing large enough, the two went into larger pots and placed outside on the patio.

That's when those pesky tree rats got to them. Apparently, the leaves are rather interesting from the viewpoint of a squirrel, and the little rats plucked the leaves off of both plants. I don't know if the leaves were eaten or if the squirrels were simply being jerks and pulled them all off, but they left me with two potted sticks. Thaaaanks...

After being stripped naked by voracious tree rats, the plants were moved to a higher spot and started to recover a bit. One of them is still trying its best to grow, but this other one has happily sprouted new leaves and stems. Perhaps in a few years we'll have goji to harvest? We'll see how it goes!

SoS:FoMT New Promo Videos

This week Marvelous released two promo videos on Twitter showing the protagonists in the upcoming Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town taking care of crops an animals.

In the fall-themed crop video, the protagonists tills the soil, plants seeds, harvest some ripe carrots, and then ships the carrots. The carrots stack within the rucksack, which are then shipped as a stack. In the original GBA game players had to ship each crop individually. Though hiring the little Nature Sprites made things so much easier! The background music played in this video is a remake of the original fall-season theme song:

畑を耕し、種をまいて、水をあげて作物を育てよう。大きくなると収穫できます。収穫したら出荷してお金にかえよう。町の人にプレゼントもできるよ#牧場物語　#再会のミネラルタウン pic.twitter.com/Oh5mQX2mgE

— 『牧場物語』公式アカウント (@bokumono_PR) July 9, 2019

In the second video, the protagonist is caring for animals inside of her barn. She brushes her alpaca and sheep, milks her cow, and adds fodder to the feed bin. With the updated stacking functionality, adding fodder is much faster than in the original game. The background music played in this video is a remake of the summer-season theme song:

動物たちに毎日話しかけたり放牧したり、愛情たっぷりで育てましょう。愛情度があがると副産物のランクがあがっていきます。　https://t.co/f45LfjgEuc#牧場物語　#再会のミネラルタウン pic.twitter.com/M17RFRfrg3

— 『牧場物語』公式アカウント (@bokumono_PR) July 11, 2019

Stranded Sails Release Info

Originally announced last January, the tropical farming and exploration game, Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands, is now scheduled to be released on Playstation 4, XBox One, Nintendo Switch, and Steam/PC this October.

In this game you play as the daughter or son of an exploratory ship captain, when you and the crew become shipwrecked on an island within a mysterious archipelago. You take the lead to bring the crew back together, by growing crops for food, building housing for the crew to live in, solving puzzle, fighting baddies, and exploring the cursed islands for a way to return home.

You can learn more about this island farming adventure over on the Playstation Blog as well as on the official website for the game:

• Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands - Home

You can also sign up for the developer's Discord channel at the official website

Doraemon Week 4 Sales

Doraemon: Story of Seasons is still selling pretty well. Famitsu reports that the game sold another 5600 copies, putting its total sales at about 71,100. It's inching closer to 100k!

Until next time!

-Cher
(Hmmm... what to add to this year's Christmas light display...)

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