When you actually take your newfound farm pimp skills out for a spin, you soon discover that the good was a lie.įarming Simulator 17 isn’t an easy ride, fair enough considering previous mentions of the whole simulator aspect of the game, but when it’s coupled with interactions that, at worst, deliver pre-packaged doses of pure narcolepsy, and at best, give you tasks as dry as a Ryvita in the Sahara, it makes for an experience that’s best described as painful tolerance made flesh. Make the game seem understandable (good) and more than a bit dull (bad). In isolation these tutorials do two things.
The game does helpfully provide tutorials on how to do some of the simpler things in your farm life like operating machinery, loading grain into a silo, figuratively, and literally, buttering up the animals and doing donuts in a tractor.