Pioneers of Olive Town on PS4 benefits from a long list of updates

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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town was a work in progress when it was released in North America for Nintendo Switch in March of 2021. The Japanese release a month earlier was met with criticism as fans pointed fingers at long loading times, poor dialogue, and a wide assortment of bugs. Patches that were in the works for the Japanese version weren’t ready when the game hit our shores. The result: less than stellar reviews. It needed a lot of work, and to their credit, the developers saw to it to right the ship.

A year and some change later, Pioneers of Olive Town on Switch is the game it should have been at launch. Various updates and patches have fixed nearly everything players complained about. If you haven’t visited your farm in a minute, now is as good a time as any to download the latest update and see how much things have improved. Not only are the Switch and PC versions of the game better today, but all of those updates are present in the PlayStation 4 port launching this week.

If you want to know how much has changed with Olive Town since March of last year, Marvelous has a detailed list of all the patches it created for the game. A lot of it is squashing bugs, but the key improvements include rewritten dialogue, the ability to sidestep, post-game activities, new artwork for the different meals you can eat (though this does not apply to what anyone else in the game eats), the first-person Chat Camera feature, and the much-needed changes to the game’s signature makers.

Pioneers of Olive Town tries to take a modern approach to farming by mechanizing almost everything you do through the use of its makers. Any raw ingredients you find or grow on your farm can be thrown into a maker to become something more