Nurse Fin's Welcome to the Wind Bazaar, Observations and first impressions Options

[Nurse Fin]

I don't have the game just yet (grr, gotta wait 'til Christmas...), but other people do. As of today it is available in all game stores across Japan.

Here are some things I have noticed through the wiki:

- Crop system is similar to IoH and SSaF (darn...)
- Most actions are done with the B button now. The A button is strictly for jumping. The "menu" will only display your rucksack; there are no earnings/relationship/status charts on hand (all charts are accessible through the bookshelf).
- For other controls, pressing the L button(?) will toggle walking/running, and the R button will open up a tool selection window.
- Schmidt and Kagetsu are marriage candidates. It is unknown whether there are two more, but it seems unlikely.
- Most of the townspeople are already available, with the exceptions of Schmidt, Kagetsu, and 4 other mystery villagers. The methods to unlock them are currently unknown.
- The save system is like the old HM games. When you start a new game, you pick the slot you want to use (2 total). You can only save when you go to sleep. You cannot make duplicate/backup files (my guess is that it was implemented because of the Wi-Fi...).
- Everything is in real-time. Time doesn't stop indoors (not even in your house), or when you open menus. So far there's no way to pause the game (except closing the DS), so I guess it's something to watch out for.

-Jumping into the water will drop your stamina, but sometimes you can find items in there. Like money, medals, stones...

Obviously I'll have a lot more info once I can try this game for myself. But that's what I've gathered this evening. ^^'


Rival Couples so far:
Juris & Freiya
Agi & Anemone
Lloyd & Shelfer
Dirka & Enju

This post has been edited by Nurse Fin: Dec 19 2008, 01:15 AM

[Nurse Fin]

I finally got the bazaar to 75%. I would recommend saving all the bronze/silver/gold coins you get; never sell them because there's a lottery with rare items that uses them (for a single try, it's 5 bronze coins or 3 silver coins or 1 gold coin). I've also switched my main money maker from grass seeds to jewelry (pink brooch sold for 128,000G...). You can buy rarer gemstones, Wonderfuls, and Suns for your basement from Hucho's shop.


As for FoodAssassin's questions:

1. Yes

2. It has to be Year 2.

[therealssjlink]

I finally got the bazaar to 75%. I would recommend saving all the bronze/silver/gold coins you get; never sell them because there's a lottery with rare items that uses them (for a single try, it's 5 bronze coins or 3 silver coins or 1 gold coin). I've also switched my main money maker from grass seeds to jewelry (pink brooch sold for 128,000G...). You can buy rarer gemstones, Wonderfuls, and Suns for your basement from Hucho's shop.

See, the thing is for your Bazaar to "level up", you have to have a high popularity ranking. I just found out (through the wiki) that you CAN outright refuse some people and that it turns out to be the CORRECT answer. The reason why I wasn't leveling up was because some old dude would always go to my most expensive item and ask for me to give it to him and I would always say (can't you pay for it?) when you actually have to outright refuse it.

I'll try this on my next go.

Yeah, I knew about the rare lottery from the wiki, but I always figured I wouldn't get to it anyways until I hit winter again so I haven't bothered to save my coins.

So do you have 100% on your house and storage yet?