The gameplay is not fun. Everything is tedious trial and error with clunky controls and long wait times to get to where you're struggling. And the story is juvenile, feels like a really lame movie. I understand how this would have been really impressive in 1998, but that's all it has going for it. Impressive what it was able to pull off with Playstation 1 hardware, but thankfully it has been completely eclipsed by more modern games. Gave up after trying to beat the tank boss like five times to no avail. The game is so cinematic, but the gameplay is just frustration between the cinematics. It's so weird. Like, Snake is badass and you're just... not. At all.

It's nice to have a version of Harvest Moon with less going on in order to learn what to do and such, but once I upgraded my house, got four chickens, a cow, and all the tools, it's just doing the same thing over and over, and it's only halfway through the first year, and the internet tells me that it takes two years to gain your grandfather's approval and I really don't feel like playing four times this amount. Probably better to just watch a little gameplay on YouTube and then at least pick up the SNES one to get one that has at least a little more happening