Coral Island vs. Stardew Valley
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Coral Island is a new farming simulator game that recently came out, and EVERYONE is saying is it just like Stardew Valley. So, heres my video comparing the two. What's the same, what's different, platforms, cost to play, and even more.
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Tbh I love coral island way more than I did stardew valley, I like how in coral island it feels so lively seeing people going about their days
I’m really quite enjoying the game a lot too! I can’t stop playing!
I like the side by side comparison, but we also shouldn't forget that SV did not invent the farmin sim genre. Both games heavily rely on especially the Harvest Moon series, so it is easy to tie the relations between the two games and even the three to see many similarities. Ofc the evil corporate story line seems quite redundant, but I feel like the point both games make is different. While SV wanted to have Joja as the general antagonist, CI focuses heavily on environmental issues so the Pufferfish Corporate is the natural enemy with drilling oil. Other events and a lot of character commentary focus on environmental issues or nature and I think that also gives the evil corporate in CI a different feel and a different sense. Cleaning the ocean, rescuing the merfolk and so on also ties back to damaged beaches, shores and coral sites in real life that suffer from oil drillings and waste in the ocean. I feel like the CI devs, who are Indonesia-based, seem to have quite some touching points with that as well, so I can imagine the environmental aspect was super important for them to highlight!
Overall I think CI had the luxury of being a game developed by a big team while SV was developed by only one guy. Also, the farming sim genre has evolved so much over the years, the quality of life improvements CI has seems a lot like the result from a lot of fans complaining about certain aspects of popular farming sims like Story of Seasons or Stardew Valley.
The devs worked really close with their backers and implemented a lot of cool mechanics from the feedback that makes CI feel a lot smoother gameplay-wise.
At the end both games are absolutely wonderful and charming in their own way. Personally I have a big attachment to CI as I was one of the backers and I so happy to see the project realized and improved from what it felt like in the beginning. It's very charming and definetily filled to the brim with cool content and great characters!
Thank you for the review!
P.S.: Switch release for CI will come soon in 2024!
Interesting! I’ve never heard of Harvest Moon because I’m not really a gamer but may have to check it out. And there are merfolk! I can’t wait to see them. I’m glad that they have been working well with their backers too. 💛
@@456Huangshu Harvest Moon is great, I played it a lot as a kid. For beginners I'd recommend Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town for Switch! (It may be called Story of Seasons but that's just because of a name change, the game is in fact still the same but remade). Since it's like the grandfather of all farming sims it is harder than SV or CI and doesn't have as many quality of life improvements, but I still enjoy it a lot!
The ocean clanup is their entire sale point. Yes, both rely on harvest moon idea and at first SV felt like HM ripoff, but it went to be unique. CI right now feels like a cheap SV copy, up to the characters being copied, color schemes, personalities. I do hope it becomes better with time, but as is, there is almost nothing unique there + lazy graphics.
Love to see a game that's not Pixel art. It was fun for a little bit but we gotta move on imo
The side-by-side comparison is incredible lol
One thing I want to share when ti comes to Stardew and Coral Island comparison is accessibility. In Coral Island, you can reduce the time by 50%, there is dyslexic font type, can increase font size, also have enemies in the mines not attack you unless you attack them I believe, and probably a few other options. In Stardew, I don't really see much accessibility options which is something people might consider when deciding on which game to purchase.
That’s really awesome! I didn’t know all that!
Coral Island seems really cool though honestly I don't love that type of 3d stylized graphics. Will still probably try it out though
I got used to it after awhile!
Thanks! This sold me on getting Coral Island!
It feels like I should like coral island more than stardew. By all accounts, it’s more expansive. But I think what’s different is the sound of just everyday gameplay. Stardew music and the sounds of walking, using tools, petting animals, taking to villagers, etc is just so damn satisfying. Am I the only one that thinks this?
i do love the stardew music a lot! Coral Island music has been really lovely too however
Best of both worlds: play CI with SD soundtrack 😎
Love both games but the music in stardew is on a different level and brings everything to life IMO
I do LOVE the SDV soundtrack and will just play it on Spotify sometimes hahahaha
Interesting comparisons. Always meant to check out Stardew. Might have to check out this too!
I watched this whole video and realized it wasn’t for switch at the end 😭
RIP. I think soon it will be coming to switch! Their aim from what I see is early 2024
Love Stardew Valley, and I love Coral Island even more. I've been waiting for the game since the Kickstarter AND I have the game on Steam since it's first alpha release on version 0.5
All I can say is this: Coral Island is on Version 1.0 but it's not Finished. We still can't go to the Savanahs, and there are characters that have full sprites made for them but they only appear once for now. There are also characters that are not romanceable even if it feels they have plans for that.
Marriage is still not fully implemented and you can run out of dialogs with your married partner AND the game will break the immersion by literally saying your recently new husband/wife has NOTHING MORE to say to you, it's hillarious.
The game has some deep troubling issues with FPS drops and bad optimisarion with the AUTOMATION of sprinklers. In this game, instead of magic creatures slowly grabbing the things for you, you can craft an item that will auto collect everything. The thing is: The thing deesn't slowly collect everything during the day, it literally makes the entire farm doa PLOP and absorbs all of the crops. This literally makes my game go for 60 FPS to 12 for seconds.
Now here's the thing: The kickstarter for Coral island wanted around 80K for the whole game which I always felt it was too low of a budget. 3D is easier to work than 2D, but even a small team of 10 people working still need a full salary to survive and 70K wouldn't be nearly enough to give these people a year or two worth of a salary. That's one of the biggest traps any new Developer falls on, thinking they can make miracle with little money. However, Coral Island actually made 1.6 Million.
That's not more than enough for an indie studio to complete the game, it's enough for them to even add more than what they promised.
And so far, it's promising. Just the mainland of the game is huge, and underwater is also very huge, and the caves are very interesting too. If you go there tho remember to mine the cracks on the ground.
The game has way more acessibility, and considering the amount of money they made, I think it's fair to say they did the bare minimum.
There are a LOT this game borrowed and copied from Stardew Valley, but overall the core mechanics are way better in Stardew Valley than they are in Coral Island, and I could spend hours here saying about them but you will feel them as you play. However, what Coral Island does right, it literally spoils you in a way you won't be able to go back to Stardew Valley without mods.
So yeah, it's an awesome game. Both are. But Coral Island is far from finished, so remember that. In a year we will probably have the rest of the game done, just like Stardew Valley kept adding things and fixing bugs with time. Let's hope they do the game work as Concerned Ape did with Stardew, because this game needs to be way more than a Copy of Stardew Valley, and so far, it has a LOT of potential.
I DO WISH the storyline was different though. But hey, maybe they'll flesh out the story more.
Great video thanks I'm wondering how in-depth the skill tree is if you can Max everything out or if you're limited to a certain amount of points
I’m not sure, I’m still fairly new to the game, but the skill points seem to work similarly to stardew
@@theanimeathlete I'm not far enough into it either but it seems like you might be able to Max it out
The max level on skills is 10 at the moment and every two skill upgrades (if I remember well) unlock a new craftable item that helps you be more efficient.
@@kumorimori9674 since there's six unlockable skills in each tree and it seems like you get a point every two levels as well I'm guessing you can only unlock five out of the six skills thanks for the help
Keep making content 🫂 ur contents are real nice ❣️
Thank you!
great comparison review i hated the stamina bar thing in stardew if there was an option to turn that off i would go back to it. I liked sun haven much more because of that even though sun haven is more different in allot of other ways.
You forgot to say about the art style... It's the same that movie Tarzan 1999!!!
That's why It's so beautiful ☺️
Glen Keane and John Ripa were the head Disney animators for Tarzan, while Coral Island was produced by Stairway Games, with a team of different animators, artists, and producers :) www.stairwaygames.com/team
I love the art of the character portraits & think it would have been amazing had the entire town been rendered in that style. II have no idea how difficult that would have been, but there are other games that chose to do the entire game in a specific art style.
Coral looks good but the portrait artwork isn't doing it for me.
I’m sorry you don’t like the portraits! I quite enjoy them
Thats really interesting cause i really like the portraits but i don't like the art style other than that
Coral is based on south east asia country vibe. Im from there too it’s bit weird for me to see SEA with winter 😂 but nonetheless i love coral more than stardew even though i agree with most people being 1.0 release isnt finished. Luckyly in my steam region coral cost around 15$ and Stardew 8$. I dont mind pixel art but dateable guys in SD just not my cup of tea.
I'm from SE Asia and seeing the four seasons was a bit weird too! Haha. I was kinda hoping for a unique two season mechanics tbh. I'm guessing it's hard to make only two seasons interesting? 🤔
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Cool!
Its true, the game crashes constantly. If you play it on xbox you will see. If not for the crashes, which happen at least 3 times a game day, the game would be awesome
It has been updated and running smoothly
While I seriously don't like the lazy ass copy and paste of Coral, I will admit the differences make it appealing if only due to my fondness of Stardew. Thanks for this, I guess I will check it out.
The more I play the more differences I find too! While it is very similar I do still quite enjoy it :)
Cannot take this too serious, when the gameplay part is almost as long as the representations part...
Cry about it ❤️
@@theanimeathlete why should i? What do you mean?
Stardew valley is a superior game because it's a finished game when it's first released
There was just a major update to Stardew a month ago
stardew valley mods alone blows any similar type games.
You have a very pretty nose.
I think you’re the first person that’s ever said that to me, thank you 🥹
I’ve only ever had mean comments about it
@@theanimeathlete We should be friends.
No no no no, cheap stardew valley knockoff
While both games are incredibly similar, there are some differences to me
Ugh woke BS!
Aaawww are someone’s feelings a little fragile?
@@theanimeathlete Nope just sick of the woke religion being forced down peoples throat.
@@slickrick1042 religion???? Okay buddy 👍🏼
@@theanimeathlete It’s all based on faith and irrational devotion. How is it not a religion? Maybe cult is more suitable.
Stardew is better for many reasons, most of all is it being a finished, stable game that doesn't crash every 20 minutes. Coral island is literally a worse version of stardew that barely functions most of the time. Entire questlines are incomplete, tons of features missing, and I cannot stress enough.. CONSTANT crashes. There's no comparison between the two when it comes to whether or not they actually work. I'm enjoying my time with coral island when it actually works, but even then, it's just a 3d stardew clone in every way.
I’m sorry the game keeps crashing for you; I’m not sure why it does. I have never had issues with it crashing
@@theanimeathlete it's apparently an xbox issue. The game is not optimized for console at all, unfortunately.
It is fixed