{"id":1684,"date":"2025-08-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:43:33","slug":"review-story-of-seasons-grand-bazaar-nintendo-switch-2-edition-the-series-best-remake-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/review-story-of-seasons-grand-bazaar-nintendo-switch-2-edition-the-series-best-remake-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Story Of Seasons: Grand Bazaar &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition &#8211; The Series&#039; Best Remake Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This bazaar adventure is a real diamond.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the lines between remaster and remake can be blurred. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_remastered\">Metroid Prime Remastered<\/a> seems much more like a full remake, and a few games called remakes don\u2019t quite live up to expectations. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/story-of-seasons-grand-bazaar-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar<\/a> &#8211; based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/harvest_moon_ds_grand_bazaar\">Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar<\/a> &#8211; even the term remake doesn\u2019t quite seem to do it justice. This feels more like a fresh new entry in the <strong>Story of Seasons<\/strong> franchise that picks up the best elements of the DS title to deliver a spectacular farming sim that gleefully digs its own path.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Bazaar casts you as a fledgling farmer in Zephyr Town, a gorgeous little place with a friendly cast of characters waiting to become your friends, or if you play your cards right, your spouse. While you may be familiar with the regular farming mechanics in this series, Grand Bazaar\u2019s titular mechanic &#8211; the bazaar &#8211; adds an engaging twist to proceedings that kept me up for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/story-of-seasons-grand-bazaar-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bazaar adventure is a real diamond. Sometimes the lines between remaster and remake can be blurred. Metroid Prime Remastered seems much more like a full remake, and a few games called remakes don\u2019t quite live up to expectations. For Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar &#8211; based on Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar &#8211; even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}