The evil is defeated! So, what happens now?
What happens after “happily ever after”? It’s a question few fairy tales deign to answer. If real life is anything to go by, the bit after a happy ending involves a honeymoon suite and a sleepless night, and eventually babies, mortgages, and the mundane minutiae that comes with living a life together. But what about a happily ever after in a game, where the evil has been vanquished, and the world has been saved? Does it stay saved forever, or does some other evil pop up, like in a Marvel movie?
Littlewood tries to answer this question, and, as it turns out, life after defeating the evil is a sedate farming simulator. It’s a promising pitch that spices up a formula we’ve seen hundreds of times before in Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons and countless other games too numerous to list, but does it work, or does it just make us feel like we arrived too late to enjoy a bombastic adventure?
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