Friday, December 7, 2007

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland

This is for PS2. Jeff and I just completed a year with the fishing storyline. Now, I was a big fan of Harvest Moon 64, played it obsessively and such. But this one not only limits your playing time but also your options. You just play for one year and try to get an ending (you can carry your stuff over to a new year but you have to meet everyone again and that's kind of annoying...). You can't get married, there's no chopping wood, the map is smaller... basically, it's not as good. Better graphics, sure, and some improvements like you can walk through your crops! Wow. I would like to play some of the non-themed newer ones for PS2 or whatever, that may just be improvements over the older ones. This one gets kind of boring near the end, whereas in the 64 version there was always something new to strive for! (Or, at least, after playing for 3 years game time there still was!). So anyway, still pretty addictive, but leaves something to be desired.

Grade: B-

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