![]() The NPCs getting in my way is just one of many small issues I found that continued to annoy me throughout my journey. There are shops, but the people who run two of them mostly hung outside my house or in my barn, getting in the way of me and my animals, which includes the new adorable Poitou donkey. ![]() There’s no life to it, nor the people, who just repeat themselves for season after season. While it’s nice to have a town - which The Lost Valley did not - it feels it’s there just for the sake of having a town. Speaking of the town and its residents, I wouldn’t say they’re anything more than basic. ![]() It would have been a little easier to bear had the townies not kept telling me I needed a hammer. Considering I had unlocked access to my first mine at around the 5-hour mark, I was annoyed I couldn’t do anything with it until I reached the part of the story where I earned the hammer. Even when I was able to do that, I couldn’t break up stone pieces because the hammer wouldn’t be available for about 12 hours into the game. I was able to quickly revive a few trees, giving me more space, but terraforming wasn’t available for a few hours. Your space is limited by how many Skytrees you’ve revived, so at the beginning you have just a small strip of land to work with. I just wish Skytree Village gave me more freedom in the first couple of dozen hours. ![]() I was growing and harvesting crops within the first thirty minutes as the nearby town began to fill with residents. Farming is a breeze with contextual inputs and the game really does throw you right into action, which is one thing it does better than the slow introductions found in the recent Story of Season titles. I enjoyed being able to shape the land to exactly what I wanted. Since losing the BokujÅ Monogatari license, Natsume has attempted to capture the magic of Minecraft and merge it with the tried and true farming formula. After that, I was free to proceed how I wanted, but those first two dozen or so hours weren’t exactly pleasurable. I was able to watch the credits roll the first day of my first winter. That power stems from the faith of the people, just like Tinkerbell in stage productions of Peter Pan, so it’s up to you to grow crops, entice strangers to move to town, and revive the seven titular trees.īeating the main story doesn’t take too long, around 24 hours for me. After picking to play as a boy or girl, you’re tasked with reviving the land by helping the Harvest Goddess reach her full power. The setup for Harvest Moon: Skytree Village should feel familiar by now. Skytree Village looks to correct course, but after spending dozens of hours with it, I can see Natsume still has a long way to go. Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley didn’t exactly help as it tossed out basically everything that made the franchise memorable. Once the big fish in a very small pond, I’ve found it difficult to get excited about a new entry. You have Stardew Valley, which may be the best farm sim ever created, Story of Seasons continues to impress, Rune Factory is outstanding, and there’s Farming Simulator 17 for the heartland purists out there. It’s weird to think how competitive the farm sim genre has become.
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