Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Reviews
There’s a lot to love in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. It’s the perfect game to snuggle under a blanket with a hot tea, a welcome addition to the incoming fall and beyond.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a fun game that modernizes the original title and makes it more accessible not only to veterans but also to newcomers looking to explore the series. The bazaar and its general mechanics integrate well with the franchise's traditional formula, offering a truly enjoyable and highly addictive experience.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The remake of the DS game is not a bad game per se. Thanks to the satisfying progression system based on tasks assigned by the villagers, combined with the work on the farm, a successful loop is created. Unfortunately, I still get bored after a few hours because it lacks interesting characters and challenging gameplay in the form of dungeons.
Review in German | Read full review
STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar is back, dusting off its DS roots and setting up shop on Nintendo Switch 2. Zephyr Town has never looked better, and this remake comes with some welcome farming upgrades.
Other than a few gripes, Story of Seasons: The Grand Bazaar is a beautiful and chill experience. Something to relax to when you want to take an idyllic break from the hustle and bustle of life in general or hectic, combat-heavy games. Grand Bazaar is a well-crafted and charming story with gorgeous and colorful landscapes, ripe with vegetation swaying in the wind and populated with endearing folks more than happy to help or welcome you to their quaint, breezy town of Zephyr.
Whether you’re like me and are obsessed with making as much money as possible or you want to get to know the people around town, build relationships and even start a family, it’s a game that seems to let you play the way you want to and I think that should be commended.
STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar, readers, is another good entry in a quality franchise that, time after time, graces us with good opportunities to switch off our minds and fulfill our dream of being kings and queens of cattle.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a pleasant and relaxing farming simulator that mixes up the usual formula in an interesting way. The pacing is a bit wonky towards the beginning and can feel a bit repetitive, but playing at your own pace helps to make this a worthwhile game to kick back with.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a worthy addition to the Story of Seasons franchise, it has a really involving gameplay loop and plenty of things you can do, it has a fantastic soundtrack and a great level of care has gone into its voice acting which is not normally seen in farming sim games as a whole. The games performance and general graphic fidelity is outstanding on Switch considering the details that have gone into it, if you feel your original Switch needed a new lease of life then this is the game that will do it.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar works well as a farming simulator with more structure and events than many others, which works to its advantage. Certain elements are weak, including the dating and the performance (at least on Switch 2), but it has an excellent gameplay loop, which makes up for a lot.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is much more than just a simple remaster of the original on Nintendo DS. The amount of work that went into this is more than I could've ever asked for, and I will forever die on the hill that this game can actually stand as its own title, not just as a shadow of its DS counterpart.