This is our Harvest Moon collection, we are big fans of the series in this house. Oliver here is holding the new Harvest Moon, released for the 3ds, and currently satiating my farm craving. These games are crazy addictive, disgustingly g-rated, and fuck Farmville, Harvest Moon is the ultimate when it comes to farm simulation.
The very first thing I noticed that was different about this new version was the unintended racism. There is a single latina mother who needs the town's charity to survive, along with a middle eastern slave and master combo that moves into the village. There's a grizzled texan that talks a lot about shooting things, along with a fat german who loves to bake. Echo village is colorful and full of stereotypes. Awesome.
Like every other Harvest Moon, A New Beginning has a brutal long tutorial, and a super slow first season, but after that, it's crazy pants. You're rebuilding and revitalizing the town in this one along with your farm, so you can't waste a single minute of your day. Collect those bees, chop that wood, massage that cow, it all matters. Most of my money was made early on by catching bugs, but now that Im harvesting wheat and building a newspaper office, my money is reliant on crops. It's all planning, because in late fall and winter, crops dont grow, and I better have a shit-fuck of livestock ready to make me milk, eggs, wool and high grade urine.
Yes, watering your plants is tedious. Yes, cooking a mushroom soup everyday to increase your stupid cooking rank sucks, but there is always a goal, a carrot on a stick, that you are constantly advancing towards. This Harvest Moon has incorporated all of the things that make this series great, an efficient crop system, an easy to use town editor, hidden music that unlocks secret areas, upgradable tools, and a more polished dating sim. This may be the best handheld Harvest Moon that Natsume has ever made.
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