Great Harvest Moon with rather weak 3D effect

My last Harvest Moon was "Friends of Mineral Town" on the GBA. And since then has indeed done a lot!

Initially, you can opt for one of two villages you. The village of Blue Bell, which is more specialized in animal husbandry, or Konohana, which specializes in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits.

Your choice also has an impact on your farm, in Blue Bell you have initially significantly more space for animals and can soon bees to your yard keep. In contrast, Konohana you have loads of space to grow vegetables to, initially, however "only" accommodate 2 hens and 4 cows / sheep. The nice thing is that you can change your yard if necessary. For this you need at the end of the year to go to the town hall and notify the mayor.

What strikes me very positively of Field Crops. There is the possibility of so-called "ditches" build.
Here a number of seeds is then irrigated by a single casting. In addition, you show a "cursor"
or a kind of "crosshairs" the seeds sow on which field you processed next. Thus, here nothing is wasted if you times it misses the box properly.

Furthermore, there is a contract system. Each village has a bulletin board, in which you ask the villagers to help with an account number and can receive rewards for her. This is a nice change to "yard work" is, you are hereby also very common on the mountain / in the woods and learn so well that preferences of one or the other villagers did to him then to be able to possibly make time gifts.

An important part of the game is also cooking. In every season there are four pig-festival, where you are allowed to serve each a different dish. Cuts her off this well, brings the two villages together and feeling better after a period close it again friendship.

A point of me less like the slightly unrealistic stamina system. When I work all day and my stamina bar at the end of the day is completely empty, it is sufficient if I z. B. only 1 hour 10 minutes sleep (by going for. B. at 4:50 clock to bed) so that my stamina bar is completely filled again.
Logically it would be such. As if the bar would be filled per hour of sleep by 12.5%, thus you would need 8 hours of sleep so that the display is back to 100%.

The 3D effect is make white nice (especially the depth of rivers is well represented), but on the whole, rather a bit weak.

Conclusion: We can recommend all Harvest Moon fans of this game. Even players and players that Harvest Moon not yet know, but would like to take care of a farm and fields including animals and, furthermore, to discover many hidden things in the game world, will get their costs.