Turns out Natsume and Marvelous if I remember the names correctly, had different visions on where to take the series. I find they all kinda went downhill after that. I didn't end up playing the SNES, N64 or playstation games. I spent my entire summer vacation from school locked to it playing it on my game boy player on my gamecube when that came around. When I was a kid in the 90's my first game in this genre was harvest moon: friends of mineral town on game boy advance. You kinda have to have a specific taste in games to enjoy something like this anyway. Though some of the things they changed irk me a bit. Though for me it's a LOT of nostalgia I will admit. I loved both games and I've been waiting for this one for almost 2 decades and I'm satisfied with it.

This was always the game I loved most out of the old school harvest moons because of how chilled out it was. This game is much more focused around living your own life with your family and raising your child. Once you'd gone through it once there wasn't much reason to play a second run.

You'd tend to your farm, then wander around and talk to people who typically said the same 1 or 2 things every day and occasionally you'd see a cutscene event or two and there was a couple NPCs with minigames that got stale. The problem with THIS game in the original was that there wasn't a lot to do OUTSIDE your farm. The actual farming and ranching parts were a lot simpler, to the point of being boring if you ask me. However that game was MUCH more centred around your relationships with the town. Though being able to almost completely customise the entire layout of your farm is nice, You pretty much just end up slapping makers down near whatever resources you are after.

Even with the update that made them stack products it sucks. Play PoOT if you love gathering and putting stuff in 'maker' machines a lot.

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