Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is a farming simulation game for the Nintendo 3DS video game console. As the new farmer in town, it is your job to use your farm and its resources to revitalize a once-popular town. You can grow crops and raise animals, as well as interact with villagers and possibly get married.
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After 4 years of pushing myself to finish this cause my autistic brain can't deal with lefting a game unfinished I'm officialy giving up. This isn't that bad, I still put 60ish hours into it which I wouldn't do if it was insufferable but man the transition with trio of town was BRUTAL.
Main reason I love HM/Sos games is for their overall vibe : running around in cozy lil your town with your cozy ost meeting your quirky villagers while stressing out with the clock is best feeling <3
Idk if this is because of the town amenagement mechanic (which didn't add anything for me) but this one lacks of charm. The graphics are real bad and the art direction is so cheap I feel like I'm playing the sims 1 but worst. Ost is still solid and villagers are still quirky though.
Also, what the hell was the garden tour (???), I feel like most of the new features just sucks.
But what made me mad and reason I dropped this, is the game stupidly blocking you (oh you have to ship 30 yams but it won't unlock until Fall year 2 so good luck spending 3 seasons with little to no objectives !) I still don't know what they were thinking.
(Okay I also gave up because I was mad that I was already dating Allen when Soseki aka the hottest bachelor of the game decided to show up but that's for another story...)
Expect for those complains it's your usual HM drugs, you'll be busy running around all day but still be unable to finish your never ending tasks.
But there's one of the biggest highlight of the franchise in this game imo : dancing in the festival while the intro theme of the original HM DS play made me cry and feel so alive. For that moment alone I knew the game was worth it :')
Main reason I love HM/Sos games is for their overall vibe : running around in cozy lil your town with your cozy ost meeting your quirky villagers while stressing out with the clock is best feeling <3
Idk if this is because of the town amenagement mechanic (which didn't add anything for me) but this one lacks of charm. The graphics are real bad and the art direction is so cheap I feel like I'm playing the sims 1 but worst. Ost is still solid and villagers are still quirky though.
Also, what the hell was the garden tour (???), I feel like most of the new features just sucks.
But what made me mad and reason I dropped this, is the game stupidly blocking you (oh you have to ship 30 yams but it won't unlock until Fall year 2 so good luck spending 3 seasons with little to no objectives !) I still don't know what they were thinking.
(Okay I also gave up because I was mad that I was already dating Allen when Soseki aka the hottest bachelor of the game decided to show up but that's for another story...)
Expect for those complains it's your usual HM drugs, you'll be busy running around all day but still be unable to finish your never ending tasks.
But there's one of the biggest highlight of the franchise in this game imo : dancing in the festival while the intro theme of the original HM DS play made me cry and feel so alive. For that moment alone I knew the game was worth it :')
I was kinda excited to play this but in the end i didn't really see the appeal. The gameplay is very monotonous, the pacing is very slow, the game looks really ugly, and i cant really think of anything too great to say about it.
i loved a lot of the characters and the town, and i think the intent behind the story and how it was meant to progress was well-done. it has that charm that all the 3ds-era bokumono games have. and i married neil, the funniest bachelor in this game.
yet, i feel like so much of my gameplay was spent waiting very long periods of time (sometimes full seasons!!) for things to occur so i could unlock new content and missions to progress the game's story. i would never replay this one and its definitely not my favorite in the series, but i'm glad i got to experience it despite its glaring flaws in pacing and gameplay.
yet, i feel like so much of my gameplay was spent waiting very long periods of time (sometimes full seasons!!) for things to occur so i could unlock new content and missions to progress the game's story. i would never replay this one and its definitely not my favorite in the series, but i'm glad i got to experience it despite its glaring flaws in pacing and gameplay.
ehhhhhh
The English localization is dreadful, but it was well worth hundreds of hours for non-gender-locked clothes + hairstyles and Soseki, the hottest HM/SoS marriage candidate to date. To Me.
strategically befriending and marrying the blacksmith works bc she's cute af