Warning!-Highly addictive, best HM since 10 years, your character grows in farming skills, superb storyline just on top!
Well the first day I got it, it was a little annoying seeing that never-ending loading times almost for everything, but really trust me if you like Harvest Moon, this thing goes to the least thing you check later on the game (its like loading times in MHF2 for PSP, if you know what I mean, yes it worth like in there)
Your farming skills goes to 5 levels, as you can charge for more watering plots, you can chop trees easily then without upgrades, but just as you use the tool, which seems to be for me surprisingly nice.
For storyline, I was surprised, from the beginning, you get along with some part of what happens in the island, this makes me to have somewhere to go, not just as farming to farm, having an objective is nice, it feels like you do everything for reasons, not just to earn 99,999 and well, then what?. That's nice for me.
For planting crops, I like the way that the soild need to fertilize it in order to grow high quality crops, lots of crops to watch on as well as either planting trees is funny, everyone's schedule throughout the island is nice, they don't disappear from nothing like previous HM titles, you can get friends both with bachelors and bachelorettes, plus to this, they thank you with gifts regarding if you can marry them or not.
Animals is an important part in this game, although time passes inside barns and coops, you can deal with it according to times, dating, confessions, rival events, they are all nice.
I almost forget, you can befriend wild animals (it reminds me a little like Rune Factory befriends) and you can get them like pets that daily or almost give you something, that's quite nice and new. Plus, the way you earn power berries is interesting, not just plain.
And although this, you can have up to 4 houses, that is nice because you can sleep in all of them too, you can decorate them separately as you wish, you can dress yourself as you like, you can track people to know always where they are, you can travel through islands, you can have both a girl or boy and new game+ them, what else you need?
You should give a try at this title, I may not be wrong, this game really is one of the best in a long time for Harvest Moon (and believe me, there are quite a lot) and for me that I've been playing them, although some annoying glitches that comes with the game and ''surprisingly'' just in US - thanks Natsume (Calvin, some names, weird %track%) this games deserves almost 10.
The good:
- Storyline, harvest, relationships, animals, dressing, time, travel, WII-remote motions if you like hehe, TRACKING, well almost everything.
The bad:
- Loading times but you get along with them and awful - thanks Natsume - glitches for marrying a bachelor and some little ones too; besides all this bad things, you can forget them and just enjoying everything else.
Overall: This game is the best in the Harvest Moon series, before this I thought Rune Factory was, but this game, fills all of my expectations, besides both are awesome and different in some ways, I can't compare them, get it, this games doesn't deserve a 6, trust me.