There's nothing to do...

User Rating: 5 | Bokujou Monogatari: Youkoso Kaze no Bazaar e DS
I've played a lot of Harvest Moon games and I have to say that this is one of the worst. And the most different. It strayed the farthest from the Harvest Moon ideas.

Pros:

The animals were super cute :)

The colours and graphics were vibrant and cute. I loved the blowing leaves and flower petals.

The Bazaar is really different and sort of tedious, but it holds the most excitement in the game. Finally after a week of doing nothing, you get the bazaar.

The windmills were pretty cool. Instead of having "makers" you get the windmills. You can make cheese and fertilizers, etc, with the windmills.


Cons:

The Bazaar is the ONLY time you can really make a good profit (other than selling items to the store guy for a fraction of its value). And it only occurs once a week. There's no shipping bin. :(

Time moves reaaaally slow. After about two or three hours into the day in game time, I'm bored. There's nothing to do. What I usually did to pass the time was jump into the water. Haha, 'cause you can do that now.

There's no pause! Time only pauses while you're talking to somebody. It doesn't stop inside the house, while you're looking through your rucksack, or while you're examining your bookshelf. The lack of a pause button sort of makes you nervous.

The bachelors and bachelorettes all look to be about 10 years old. And all the villagers have an annoying little sound effect whenever you talk to them. Some of them are tolerable, but others (like Daisy!) were just gross.

There isn't enough space in the rucksack or storage area. I kept having to throw stuff out :(

A pack of seeds only covers one square.

There's no mine!



Overall, props for the idea, but the game didn't impress. I really wanted to like it, but after playing as much as I thought I could stand, I went back to Harvest Moon Cute.