Wow! Okay I finally got a chance to play. I'm on spring 25th... I've been going pretty slow to look at things as thoroughly as possible. I make sure to play through everyday until about 21:00 I've also got a LOT of new info I'm writing down in my little notebook, so I'll be updating when I get some spare time... I really want to play more now though :>
I'll just write a bit about my play time experience--
Things I like:
-Graphics -- Oh mah gawd this game is REALLY pretty. When I first walked around I was transfixed by the area I was in. The whole map is really, really picturesque and the town is super cute. I think this might replace Sugar valley as my fav harvest moon town :> The characters sprites look really good too and the portraits are very adorable
-New Gameplay -- The Bazaar is REALLY fun. I really look forward to it every week. The controls work really smoothly with the game and jumping around like a maniac is tons of fun lalaexdee.gif The bug catching system is so addictive and cool... unfortunately I haven't got my fishing rod yet, so I can't tell anything about fishing... but I can't wait for that... I like the way you can just pick up and toss the chicken around too hehe it's fun.
-Characters - I thought I would be really bored by the characters, but I'm actually really starting to like a few. Anemone is SO FREAKING CUTE OMG It was really hard to pick to be a boy or girl.... I really wanted to marry Anemone... but the guy's voice is complete barf. But luckily I found that Royd is also a very interesting character. Though I DO wish there were more lines in the game, I think these characters have infinitely more personality than the cardboard cut-outs in IoH
-Cooking is cool and they FINALLY added a counter to let you choose how many of something you want to make
-The windmill system is neat... but so far I'm only able to make fertilizer because I can't find a lot of the ingredients on the list. I'm really glad they just give you most of the recipes to star off with.
There's a lot more stuff, I'm probably just not remembering it right now :9
Things I don't like:
- MUSIC -- Welp.... The music in this game is really not the great. The theme song is literally "I Saw Three Ships" (yes, the christmas song...) and most of the music is just plain copied or remixed from IoH. That is a HUGE disappointed. I haven't heard of the the season themes besides spring, but I sure hope they're amazing... because reusing music is pretty bad... Especially music from the game in the series which had... like.. the worst music? I don't know...
- Voice acting -- This is not to say I think all the voice acting in the game is bad, but certain characters voice's are very annoying... like Mucho and Felix. I like Royd's voice, but something about the "HHHHMPH" he gives you all the time sounds like he's got a hacking cough. Also the main character boy's voice is the only reason I didn't play as him. And then there's AGI.... I was actually interested in marrying Agi at first.... and the I heard his voice. He sounds like a GIRL. Like a complete and utter GIRL. I expected him to have a mid-ranged, relaxed male tone. But he little sounds like a woman. He immediately sank to the bottom of the list. Oh well, at least Dirka has company now in the "No way I'm marrying you" zone lalaexdee.gif
-I want a way to upgrade my rucksack... really bad.... :<
-Where are all the ingredient type items? Like oil and curry powder... Also the cafe should sell more than two items a day
-The days run a little too long for my taste. I like the 'ten-minute' counter system better.
-The way day goes to night.... there's barely any sunset! It just like suddenly turns into night in matter of minutes. They could have made that smoother...
Overall this game is really fun. I'm enjoying it a lot so far... I'd say it's the best in the line of handhelds of Harvest Moon... I've never played SSAF, but if it's anything like IOH, I'd say this game blows those two completely out of the water. This game is what IoH should of been, I'd say... I think the fresh new style and the interesting gameplay will strike the player's well. If anyone has got any questions, I'll be happy to answer them for you!
Welp, off to play more!
