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star_ocean_fanContinuing on with the agricultural aspect of Star Ocean. Today, I'm looking at the second planet visited in The Last Hope, Lemuris.
Lemuris isn't the potential tropical paradise that Aeos could become under the right cultivation conditions. It's colder. it does have its own civilization level, and harvesting points. The foodstuffs found in harvesting are different than what can be found on Aeos - no blueberries, blackberries, or fresh sage, but rather vegetables (which look like the vegetables we know on Earth), common egg (again, like that which can be found on Earth), nectar, bigberries (a better version of blueberries), gambleberries, lemon, thornberries, and white rice in the Thalia region (near Triom). In the Van Elm region, players can harvest bigberries, bizarre fruit, blackberries, caterpillar fungus, ebony, gambleberries, ginseng, fresh sage, lacquer, lemon, nectar, protection seeds, ripe berries, tasty mushroom, tasty mushroom?, and wooden sticks. We still see no farms anywhere on Lemuris, but we learn from Lymle a little later on (providing you trigger the private action) that the civilization on Lemuris is a combination of farming/gathering.
I believe that there is some kind of farming taking place on Lemuris. The player can buy vegetables, vinegar, fresh cream, and pie crusts in Triom. The same food items can be found in Woodley as well as rich cheese, olive oil, raw animal meat, and Special Warishita Sauce. It baffles me as to why we don't see the livestock and the farms on Lemuris. Yes, it's a very snowy environment yet the inhabitants have somehow managed to find a way to not only grow crops and tame animals, but survive that way.
For Lemuris, it's tough to say what kind of agriculture they could really have. Since the temperature of Lemuris is designed to be cold . . . like the weather of Alaska or Michigan or Canada, any number of cold weather foods could grow there and any number of animals could survive there. Again, because Lemuris is an "alien" planet, it's interesting to think about what they could be growing that's similar to what we grow on our planet. As I mentioned in the first entry on agriculture, I don't believe what grows on Earth is going to appear in its exact carnation on other, habitable planets. I truly feel that we wouldn't see blueberries, strawberries, or any other kind of berry on Lemuris, not unless it adapted specifically for the cooler temperatures. Maybe there's some kind of snow fruit that would be specific to Lemuris, much like coffee would be specific to Earth and a specific region at that.
As a writer, it's important, to me, that some imagination be put into the worlds we find in universes like Star Ocean. Creating animals and foods that might hint to the player as to what something might taste like is vital. To have everything be similar with little to no imaginative effort makes for a dull story.
Of course, it's hard to hint at what something might taste like in a video game. The only sensory sensation we have is the visuals. But even then, some imagination could be put into what the blueberries and blackberries might look like.
Lemuris isn't the potential tropical paradise that Aeos could become under the right cultivation conditions. It's colder. it does have its own civilization level, and harvesting points. The foodstuffs found in harvesting are different than what can be found on Aeos - no blueberries, blackberries, or fresh sage, but rather vegetables (which look like the vegetables we know on Earth), common egg (again, like that which can be found on Earth), nectar, bigberries (a better version of blueberries), gambleberries, lemon, thornberries, and white rice in the Thalia region (near Triom). In the Van Elm region, players can harvest bigberries, bizarre fruit, blackberries, caterpillar fungus, ebony, gambleberries, ginseng, fresh sage, lacquer, lemon, nectar, protection seeds, ripe berries, tasty mushroom, tasty mushroom?, and wooden sticks. We still see no farms anywhere on Lemuris, but we learn from Lymle a little later on (providing you trigger the private action) that the civilization on Lemuris is a combination of farming/gathering.
I believe that there is some kind of farming taking place on Lemuris. The player can buy vegetables, vinegar, fresh cream, and pie crusts in Triom. The same food items can be found in Woodley as well as rich cheese, olive oil, raw animal meat, and Special Warishita Sauce. It baffles me as to why we don't see the livestock and the farms on Lemuris. Yes, it's a very snowy environment yet the inhabitants have somehow managed to find a way to not only grow crops and tame animals, but survive that way.
For Lemuris, it's tough to say what kind of agriculture they could really have. Since the temperature of Lemuris is designed to be cold . . . like the weather of Alaska or Michigan or Canada, any number of cold weather foods could grow there and any number of animals could survive there. Again, because Lemuris is an "alien" planet, it's interesting to think about what they could be growing that's similar to what we grow on our planet. As I mentioned in the first entry on agriculture, I don't believe what grows on Earth is going to appear in its exact carnation on other, habitable planets. I truly feel that we wouldn't see blueberries, strawberries, or any other kind of berry on Lemuris, not unless it adapted specifically for the cooler temperatures. Maybe there's some kind of snow fruit that would be specific to Lemuris, much like coffee would be specific to Earth and a specific region at that.
As a writer, it's important, to me, that some imagination be put into the worlds we find in universes like Star Ocean. Creating animals and foods that might hint to the player as to what something might taste like is vital. To have everything be similar with little to no imaginative effort makes for a dull story.
Of course, it's hard to hint at what something might taste like in a video game. The only sensory sensation we have is the visuals. But even then, some imagination could be put into what the blueberries and blackberries might look like.
