Reviews from

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Mi primer vicio real. Lo de tener mascotas es muy bueno. La esposa es muy funcional, y me gusta mucho como crecen los hijos para ayudarte y basicamente ser tu en el futuro. Mas las opciones de rancho están geniales. La pesca también es de las mejores que hay en el género, y la historia con los espiritus está bien.

I think it's one of the Harvest Moon games that really captures what people wanted from the series (pre-Stardew)
There's a fun story that you need to unlock everything
The characters are interesting and the marriage candidates are mostly delightful
The festivals are fun and feel more diverse than others in the series
My main gripe is my husband, the Wizard, only talks about the plot and I'd love to have any other dialogue with him
And you can only have 3 types of animals in your barn due to the memory limitations. It's a shame because the game has many cool types of animal but you feel tied to specific ones to meet the needs of every day farming
You can play through the story very fast if you wish
We had the main story completed in Autumn of year 1 with minimal preparation and mostly stalled by waiting on the right weather conditions cause weather is decided a whole year at a time.
But, it's easy to draw it out if you forget to set aside specific things for events.
Marriage was achievable and I enjoyed the interactions we got from the candidates (even if Chase did call me out on dating everyone) and this game has rival marriages though those are pretty hit of miss among fans
Personally I'd like this to come back in a queer way
The mining is fun, though fairly standard. It's involved just enough but it's really hard to get the material you need as the ore is hard to find and then there's only a random chance of it successfully becoming ingots. This has prevented me upgrading my tools consistently.
The fishing is fairly basic but the king fish add a fun challenge with having to land in the exact right spot and hope you get it. You can also catch all the king fish multiple times so they're really good to work towards.
Money is very hard won in this game overall. Fish don't pay a lot. If you plant crops consistently, the soil will get worse and your crops will decline in quality. Mining is based on chance. Animals are probably the most consistent but sheering the sheep makes you lose friendship
It poses an interesting challenge for a cosy game as it's really making you diversify your activities.
I also think it's interesting how the game is so centred around death. Multiple characters reference people who have died, there's the graveyard you can visit, etc.
I think it's interesting how death is such a present part of the world without AWL's strategy of "by the way, YOU will die" that can make you worry about wasting any in game day when the Very Fast March of Death is approaching.
I'd love to see a remake of Animal Parade - though I'd like if we could incorporate the acceptance of queer people especially when...
Well, the Japanese version called Julius a slur. They took it out in the translation but YEAH.
If you've got a wii and want to experience harvest moon, this is definitely the game I'd recommend for beginners. It's not too obtuse. It's not glitchy. It's not overwhelming. It's cosy with just enough difficulty.