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(And honestly, even that's not too difficult.)
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In these earlier Harvest Moons, there's an understanding that the interactions are simple enough that they don't necessarily need to be laid out in full detail-the real challenge lies in coming up with a game plan that allows you to do as many of these interactions as possible over the course of a day. Later games gate a ton of necessary functionality until tutorials have the chance to teach you about everything, step by excruciating step.
Loading it up today-and with some recent Harvest Moon experience under my belt-I was kind of shocked by how quickly Friends of Mineral Town cuts to the chase.Īfter about ten minutes of establishing just why you're running your own farm, FoMT cuts the leash and sets you free, with the implication that poking around in its modestly sized world is worthwhile without instruction.
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It features the same addictive loop of hard work and rewards that makes every entry in the series worth a shot, along with all of the farming and livestock options accumulated up to that point-but with a sense of freedom Harvest Moon has been lacking over the last decade. And that's because Friends of Mineral Town is simply the best possible expression of classic Harvest Moon. Today's Wii U Virtual Console release of the Game Boy Advance's Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town couldn't have come at a better time-just a handful of days after Natsume's announcement of a new, retro-style installment in the series. (Honestly, they really don't seem to mind.) These games follow the same basic structure as the first, but with plenty of user-friendly touches to cut down on tedium, and a staff of friendly serfs in the form of forest sprites, who can take care of the more repetitive tasks. With the series' foundation established, Wada and his team then built off of this framework with Harvest Moon 64, and then the PlayStation's Harvest Moon: Back to Nature.
Based on creator Yasuhiro Wada's GDC presentation from a few years back, it's evident that development mostly focused on getting things working, leaving not much time to figure out how they could work better-having to brush, feed, talk to, and milk eight cows every morning (should you decide to raise livestock) leans a little too close to the drudgery of actual chores. 1996 gave us the first Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo, which, in retrospect, feels like a prototype for what Natsume's farm sim would later become. Unless you played each successive sequel upon release, it might be hard to understand Harvest Moon's evolution, so allow me to spell it out for you.
And while this kind of experimentation led to some wildly different experiences, some of the less successful attempts had me pining for the first five years of Harvest Moon, when each installment thoughtfully built off of what came before it.
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Harvest Moon games followed a pretty predictable trajectory until sometime around the PS2 era, when its developers seemingly started from scratch every time planning began for a new sequel. Sure, conventional wisdom implies picking up the latest game is probably your best bet-after all, a series devoted to such a specific idea has probably only gotten better over time, right? Well, it's a little more complicated than that. THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS GO OUTSIDE THE HOUSE(IF YOUR INSIDE).GO TO YOUR BARN,YOU SHOULD SEE A COW OR SHEEP IN THERE(IF YOU HAVE ONE),DONT DO ANYTHING ON IT,JUST LEAVE IT AND DONT FEED THEM.THEN GO TO YOUR CHIKEN COOP(THERE SHOULD BE A CHICKEN IN THERE)PICK ALL YOUR CHICKENS OUTSIDE(MAKE SHURE YOU BUILT A FENCE FIRST)PUT THEM IN YOUR FENCE THEN BUY AS MANY AS YOU CAN.WHEN THE CHICKEN COOP IS FULL AGAIN,TAKE THEM TO YOUR OTHER CHICKENS OUTSIDE THE CHICKEN COOP AND INSISE THE FENCE YOU MADE(THE SEASON SHOULD BE A SPRING),STOP BUYING CHICKENS WHEN THE SPRING IS FINISH,INSTEAD MAKE THEM LIKE YOU BY PICKING THEM AND DROP THEM IN THE SAME PLACE.WHEN WINTER COMES SELL ALL YOUR CHICKEN AND DO THE TRICK AGAIN NEXT YEAR.With around 25 installments over the last two decades, it's hard for newcomers to know exactly where to start with Natsume's Harvest Moon series. THE NEXT SEASON IS FALL.WHEN FALL THERE ARE THREE APPLES NEAR THE BBE NEST,DONT DO ANYTHING ON IT
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