Ushi No Tane Forum

I picked up this game in attempt to solidify my Harvest Moon collection. I started off as a Male in Bluebell, and for some reason I just couldn't get into it. I played a full year, and I found myself forcing myself to play. Granted, I haven't moved towns yet or unlocked any of the mine. I just found befriending people really hard and expanding my farm(s) was difficult too.

Have I given this game a fair chance for those who have gotten far into it? I was wooing Georgia but also was thinking of going for Oracle to challenge myself. I just want to get other players' opinions, and maybe some words of wisdom or tips to keep me motivated throughout the game!

What? There's nothing challenging with wooing oracle. You just need to fry a lot of mushrooms to befriend her, or buy some sponge cakes and steamed mushrooms, or catch some spotted pond frog.
This is NOT a challenging game. If you want challenge, don't go here.

In my opinion, I say you've given the game fair chance (I'm year
If you don't have patience now, I don't think you'll have patience later, since the game will always, always need patience. I don't think the patience is even rewarding, except how money flows so easily to your account after you get a seedmaker.

To keep you motivated, I say you can try fulfilling requests you've never fulfilled before, and make some in-game goals. Sometimes when you do requests, the requester says something about themselves or their families, it's one of the three main things that motivated. (others: my wife, Oracle! and dating. I date just about everybody)

My favorite is Laney's requests.

Yeah, this game was my least favorite mechanics-wise of all the the HM games I've played so far. I felt the freshness system and mega limited storage really took most of the fun out of the game, along with the mega slow farm upgrades. That and requests got ridiculous later on X_x' And the cooking festivals were so random (I even tested it by pulling out the old AR and hacking the best 5* dishes of each category--you'd still loose the cooking festivals over half the time, if only because of crappy teammates despite them being at max friendship ._.')

I didn't find befriending people to be difficult, though. In fact, I found it a little too easy ^.^" The biggest deal breaker of the game was the fact that you could only save at the end of a day, though =/ It'd take me on average 40 minutes to play a day, and that's a long time to go without saving!

All that said... the characters in ToTT are actually my favorites out of any HM games, despite not being the most personable, I like their basic outlines. So occasionally I'll still pick it up every now and then.

I'd say a year really is fair enough. If you didn't enjoy it after that, chances are you won't start to anytime soon X_x' It's lame, but I actually enjoyed the game more with an AR code on the get rid of the freshness system, and extend the days on requests. Basically reduced difficulty XD You just can't get around that lack of saving, though.

I think one way to enjoy the game more would actually be... don't put so much effort into every day? Oddly enough. I'm a perfectionist in that I seem to have to use every second the game gives me to race around and be productive as possible, but I think it would have been more fun to just take it slower and end days sooner. That way farm upgrades would have come sooner at the very least. At least, in topics I've seen before, people who tended to make it to year 3+ tended to only take 10-20 minutes a day...

I for one enjoy the game very much. I bought it at my local GameStop on June 21st, and I've barely put it down since then. I'm currently in Winter of my seventh year.

I ordered it and now I kinda just want to sell it back...I haven't been able to garner my own interest in it.

When this game first came out, it was one of my favorites. However ANB has beat that.
I find the request and farm upgrades get more and more ridicolus, and I just don't want to them. I think the most challenging is getting both the farms upgraded, since that takes for flipping-ever! I still like this game, and I like a challenge.I just feel it can get tedious.

If you don't like it, no one can force you to like it. I'd say a year is good, because I don't think if in a year you like it, I don't think you will. Not everyone likes the same HM games.

I really enjoyed the game, but there's lots of things about it that annoyed me. I didn't like having the cooking festival every week, I think once a season would be enough (and you could do one catergory per season). I also disliked the fact that you seemed to get « Puppy Doodoo » teams all the time, and the requests and upgrades just got silly after a while. It bugged me that there was only one upgrade request per season too.

Thanks for all of your input! I'm glad some people see some of the arguable flaws I see in the game (I definitely agree saving until the end of the day is painful and the weekly cooking festivals are annoying). However, Angelic, I really appreciated your idea of taking things slow. I am way too much of a perfectionist as well and maybe taking this game slow will make me enjoy it more.

I tried using my second save file to live in Bluebell, but that was after I spent so much time in Konohana on my first save file. I didn't last long on my Bluebell file, and soon went right back to my Konohana file.