The art style, true to the series, is gorgeous, with some of the prettiest scenery yet seen in a Harvest Moon game. There are also the usual festival events, mining mini-games, eligible wife/husband characters to pursue, and animal breeding elements that we've come to expect in a Harvest Moon game. Once a week, the two towns will compete in a cooking contest, which you can either enter or spectate in, and the resulting judging of the contest will slowly repair the broken friendship between the two mayors. You can accept missions from both towns regardless of which one you live in, making the trek all the way across the mountain worthwhile. These help develop the characters' personalities quite nicely, and reward you with increased friendships, rare items and, in some cases, a new tool or story development. Each town has a bulletin board where the locals will post requests for help, usually in the form of fetch quests for particular items. You can also break up the daily routine of chores by foraging in the wilderness for plants, bugs, fish,and many other items to use or sell as you see fit. No matter which town you choose, the opposite town's farming commerce (livestock or vegetables) will gradually become available to you and tools will slowly increase the number of activities you can take part in. The opening storyline and missions differ slightly depending on which town you live in, but you get the option to swap locations at the start of each new season. You get the choice of which town to move into-Bluebell is an old English style village of cottages that specializes in raising animals, while Konohana is inspired by Japanese architecture, with curved tile roofing and paper lanterns, and focuses instead on growing vegetables. She tasks you with first rebuilding the broken friendship between the towns, then reopening the tunnel between them. Now, the only way to travel between the two towns is to hike over a mountain, and the Goddess feels guilty about her actions. It seems the two towns, which once were quite neighborly to one another, have fallen into a rivalry over a cooking dispute, and the Harvest Goddess has closed up the cave tunnel that connects the two. If you've played any previous games in the series you'll know what to expect here.Īt the beginning of the game, you meet the mayors of two villages on opposite sides of a mountain-Bluebell to the west and Konohana to the east. Sure, each game has added some new elements like unique animals, exotic locations and different quests set upon you by the ever-present Harvest Goddess, but the fundamental design has never strayed too far from its origins. Harvest Moon is a series that has remained virtually the same over the years.
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