Watering seeds, brushing Animals, gathering crops and selling goods, everything you expect from a Harvest Moon experience is here. This lends the game a more involving air, yet much of the adventure is typical Harvest Moon. Every new face, shop and ‘thing’ that appears feels like a triumph of your continued effort, and that feels good. This only serves to enhance the feeling that you’re sculpting and growing the village, and not simply moving into an established hovel. Past ‘Moons have included fixed upgrades and furnishings, but A New Beginning includes the ability to straight up move barns, fences, and planting soil, as well as create paths and fully customise your village. Talking about involving, A New Beginning lets you dabble in some remodelling as well. In Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning your efforts are essentially the fertiliser for the town’s growth, and experiencing the expansion of Echo Village around you is a fascinating and involving proposition. The way your town grows around you over time also makes you feel more involved, and less like you’re just integrating yourself into an existing community. A New Beginning is somewhat more lax, easing you into farm life with all the urgency of a dozy turtle. Past Harvest Moon games have often been fairly front loaded, putting a lot of hard work in their opening hours with all the cleaning, early growing, and social integrating, meaning that they’ve been daunting games to start regardless of the peaceful visuals. It’s a somewhat humdrum introduction and while this could be a negative point for some, I enjoyed the slow, near peaceful burn of the wick. After this time there’s enough in the way of animals and crops that your stamina becomes a concern, and new features will appear in the fields alongside additional faces turfing up in town. Not only does the game include a tediously long tutorial, but this sparse spread of residents also gives the opening period of the game a hugely pedestrian pace, and it’s not rare to be hopping into bed as early as 2am to speed things along to the next day.Īfter about seven to ten days (the game doesn’t run in real time, Animal Crossing fans, you advance time in Harvest Moon simply by taking a kip) the game feels more involved. This town is remarkably less developed than usual Harvest Moon hovels mind, with only three residents left when you arrive. You, a fresh faced youngster with a curious penchant for hardwork, inherit an old run down farm in the arse end of nowhere and then proceed to turn its fortunes around to the satisfaction and profit of the nearby town. The story starts very similarly to previous games. Ok ok ok, I also don’t mean to sound ridiculously sarcastic because there genuinely is a lot to respect in Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning, because this is a game that brings a lot of welcome adjustments to an ageing formula.
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