About This Game The Flower Shop is a dating and farming simulation game.Steve's life has just taken a downward turn. His grades from his first semester in college are dismal, his relationship with his girlfriend is rocky at best, and now his dad is shipping him off to some farm for the summer so that he can "build character."What's a poor, lazy, college kid to do?Take control of Steve as he spends a summer in Fairbook, working on the farm, making new friends, and maintaining old relationships.You can raise and sell your own crops, but you'll have to work hard to keep your land well watered and free of weeds and insects, or your crops will fail. Stop by the flower shop to buy more seeds, but choose wisely. Some plants take longer to mature, and some crops will get you a better return at the market.There are four girls who you can spend time with. Maintain a good relationship with them by spending time with them and learning about their hopes and dreams. You can impress them by improving your skills, but if you only focus on one thing, they won't be interested. Build a strong enough friendship, and it might even bloom into romance.You can plan your weeks and who you spend time with using the weekly scheduler. Customize each week, spend time with who you like, or ignore everyone and work all day. Don't forget to take a break once in a while, or your health will suffer.The game features nine different endings that change based on your decisions throughout the game. Will Steve finally learn to be responsible? A good farmer, even? Will he make up with his girlfriend, find a new romance, or end up alone?It's all in your hands.FEATURESMix between dating sim with farming sim gameplayRaise your crops and sell them at the marketPlan how you spend your time with the weekly schedulerRelationship system: each character has a relationship value that affects gameplayHigh replayability: normal and special ending for a total of 9 different endings! a09c17d780 Title: Flower Shop: Summer In FairbrookGenre: Casual, Indie, SimulationDeveloper:Winter WolvesPublisher:Winter WolvesRelease Date: 28 Jan, 2010 Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook Free Download [Password] I can't play this game because the protagonist, basically YOU, are such a terrible guy that it's not even enjoyable. A lot of girls play these games and quite frankly, a man like the main character is so unappealing that you can never get over his behaviors. The opening scene has him tell his aspiring doctor\/politician GF that he is hoping to 'just bum around', meanwhile, he keeps kissing her and holding her hand, not reading her emotions, it feels like... Then she seems to miraculously not care, until he starts eyeballing girls in short shorts and tight pants. Ok, fine, a normal male looks at those things even while he is hugging his GF --I suppose (?), but then he can't turn away from them even when his GF is trying to have a conversation with him. It's like he's Abu the monkey in Aladdin, taking the gem. Really, he is that basic? Gosh, it's intolerable. The game goes on like this, with you in his Loser conciousness. He is too lazy to work, just wants to look at girls, doesn't want to get out of bed, has a bad attitude. Has an annoying goofy attitude that gets on my nerves. None of the girls in the game seem to really notice this. They seem to just react like it's a just a miscommunication. No, girls, the protagonist is just not interesting. So why would you want to play a game with a protagnist that is just not fun or interesting?I might play it just because I paid for it and I know it's short, just to see how the farming goes. But I won't really enjoy the story or the romances. In fact, I'll probably resent the game even more than I already do.. Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook is a Visual Novel with an more or less properly integrated farming minigame (that actually does no\/barely impact to the game... sadly) To begin: IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE! You should buy it on sale or in bundle or on other sites, 15\u20ac is simply too much, the game itself is a solid novel.Story: You play Steve, college Boy who looks after cute girls - thats how his girlfriend Jill gets\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665off from him and brakes up. To all unfairness his Father sends him to his uncle to work as a Farmer for him as Steve lacks character and needs to be taught the hard way. There he meets the 2 girls Clara and Susana as well as the women Marian. He can get a love relationship with them, or phone his ex Jill and try to reunite with her.Each run takes about 45-60 minutes to complete if you rush (and with skip function after 1st run) the first one took ~80 minutes.Every day you start with the farming game, then you can choose what you want to do, either farm more (as said it does no impact to the game ... : ( ), go walking with Clara, visit the Flowershop to buy seeds and visit Susana, visit the Library to read books and visit Marian, phoning Jill or sleeping to cure fatigue.Pro:- Story, although not the best, you actually can enjoy and get to like the story once you played a bit of it.- Farm minigame (although kinda tirering after a while)- Many choices- Characters have a nice personality- Music- Background- Trading cards- AchievementsCon: (somehow steam doesnt accept the formation in the end... -.-)- Price... 15\u20ac is definetly over the top, this might be worth 5\u20ac, maximum of 7\u20ac, so buy only on sale or on bundle sites- More or less unpolished characterdesign, still not as bad as in the Heileen series. (Susana actually looks buitiful)- Repeatable dialogues when you visit the girls without having an event triggered- Farming minigame has no impact to the plot, not even an achievement, you more or less can skip it all day [only impact it has: you get special ending if you have ~500$.. that is earned in the 1st 2 weeks alone, after u can skip it all day) - Often scenes without sound at all- Not 100% appropiate for small children (might be okay for 14+? All how the parents may see it themselves) as the Marian route has a wet shirt szene where you can see her bra. Overprotective adults should therefore not let their smaller kids play that route ^^. This is stated as con only for parents buying this for their smaller children. It is not that of an "extreme" scene.Hard for me to rate and not to misrate it...either 6\/10 or 7\/10 so ill stick with 6.5\/10 for nowI enjoyed it, but i would never pay 15 \u20ac for it, bought it in a bundle or on sale, i dont remember anymore its been a while hanging untouched in my steamlogg.. With art that looks like it belongs in a 'worst of deviantart' tumblr, and such stunning romance candidates as rabid anti-traditional medicine hippie princess, ex-girlfriend who sounds like a nagging mother, cranky girl who is only interested in you because you're from out of town, and hot older librarian, Summer in Fairbrook is totally worth it if Steam discounts it to under a dollar. Then you can date the one good candidate, if you can stomach the atrocious weekly scheduling and annoying protagonist, that is. On the bright side, the music is good.But, seriously. There's already a romance farming sim series: it's called Harvest Moon, and the love options and time control are far, far superior.. This is an interesting little game. Winter Wolves has done a lot of great games, and while this is not as high up as most (It seems to be rough enough that maybe it is one of their earlier products), it still is satisfying. So, you split time between farming vegetables and fruits (berries are fruits, so are tomatoes) and trying to build a relationship with some available women... or even the one who dumped you before you got shipped off to this town.Oh yeah, you were shipped off to Fairbrook because you are basically a good-for-nothing slacker and your overbearing dad wants you to shape up... so he sent you to the brother he doesn't like so much for a taste of rural life.Now you can end up alone, or with one of the girls. Supposedly there is a normal and a special ending for each girl, but I have only seen the normal ones... guess I'm too good with the crops... (apparently there is a cash limit you shouldn't go over... cumulatively).Still a fun little thing.. As I believe someone else said, I wish there was a thumb going sideways.. a more neutral response.The Bad:This game is a lot shorter than any other games of similar genres that I have played. Like, way way too short (especially for the 14.99 price tag)... it only took me 2 hours to play through it the first time, and that's with actually reading everything. It only lasts the Summer (which I think had been a period of 4 months). Most games of this type tend to be at least a year.. So I didn't feel that you had a lot of time to make the choices you need. You also only get to decide on one thing to do every day. In the morning you work in your little garden patch, and then in the afternoon you do the one thing you decided to do (Eg. Go to the library, or for a run). Far too often spending time with the girls is nothing more than a filler "It was a lot easier to run with Clara today than usual... and so another day is over". It's a little annoying to find out that you wasted your only choice that day by getting nothing but filler text.When you do have a "meaningful" interaction with someone, you only get to choose one response through the whole thing (more often than not) and everything else is pre-determined.. so I found that the character did\/said far too many things that I wouldn't have done, had I been given the option. More often than not\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665off people that you didn't intend to anger.I also, personally, found that choosing any of the women was quite limiting, as Steve makes it very clear that he still wants to be with his ex-girlfriend Jill... there by making chasing any of the other women just seem weird.... and when I did finally decide I like one of the other girls, I was able to get my relationship to the highest it could be... and we just ended up being friends.. not really sure what happened there.The good:The farming is decent, it doesn't make the game, but it doesn't break it either.The characters are decently interesting, if you ever actually get the time to talk to them in a capacity other than the flavour text added in the game, and the writing is fairly good.The music isn't bad, I had my volume down, so I didn't pay too much attention to it.The art is quite nice.All in all, I would give this game 50%.. it isn't good, but it isn't bad either... however, it's not worth 15 dollars.. so if you can get it on sale, then it's worth it, but you shouldn't buy it at full price.. I really just don't like this game.Characters and Arcs are just really generic and forgetable. I hate the main character. There was just no emotional investment compared to other visual novels. Most choices for relationships are two options and woe betide you if you guess the wrong one. There aren't many clues as to what's what. I understand VNs are meant for multiple playthroughs, but I see no point or drive to continue. Not to mention, there's little feedback in game on the stats available, it took me half a playthrough to realise what was going on with those.The art is nice and I haven't played much of the game so I'm probably missing alot - but what I have played is enough for me. It's so bland. I like the concept of the farming, but the dating\/farming aspects don't meld well together, and it's just left a bad taste in my mouth.There are better VN's out there for your money's worth, honestly.
- tiobeltwilticad
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