Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley for the Nintendo 3DS

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley was made by the company Natsume for the Nintendo 3DS. Released on Nov. 4th, 2014, this is the new addition to the Harvest Moon series. This is the 3rd Harvest Moon 3DS game (2nd if you only count Only for 3DS games. Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns was for both DS & 3DS) Natsume made for Nintendo.

FUN: This game is a great addition to the famous Harvest Moon series. With the whole land left to your creative genius, you can make the land any way you want it. The game kind of makes you think a bit of Minecraft in the way of land forming. They also brought back the lift and move Buildings like in their previous game Harvest Moon: A New Beginning. However, this time you need the help of a guy by the name of Doc and his devices Insta-Buildings and ARCHITECT (Yes... In the game, the name is in all caps). The whole raising crops and animals has become a bit easier thanks to the story part of the game and money making is very easy due to all the Mine throughout the land. On top of all that, the marriage and kid aging is fantastic. FUN - 2.

REPLAY: This is a Harvest Moon game... The only replay value it has if you want to play both Genders or you accidentally deleted you file. Unless you do either one, this game is endless. REPLAY - 0.5.

 STORY: The story goes as followed. You find yourself in a heavy snowstorm, climbing a mountain path. Upon reaching the top, you hear a voice saying go inside the house in front of you. Of course you do & you go to sleep. While asleep, you dream of the Harvest Goddess. In this dream, she's asking for your help to save this land. When you wake up, you find 3 Tools; a Watering Can, a Hoe, & a Shovel. After grabbing the tools, you step outside to hear a voice calling for help. You go to the spot where the voice was and shovel to find one of many Harvest Sprites. He then tells you that the Harvest Goddess became weak and thus this land lost the other 3 seasons to an endless Winter and they need your help in bring back those seasons and the Harvest Goddess. STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This Harvest Moon game surprisingly has quite a bit of Originally in the game. Sure, as I said before, the creating land part feels like Minecraft, however... they never did something like this in any Harvest Moon game. Usually, you can only rearrange Items and, last game, Buildings. This time, the whole land is in your hands. Shape it to however you want it. On top of that, there are new crops to grow and well as new fodder and food to make thanks to recipes. There's even recipes for buildings! There is quite a wide range of interesting people you meet in the game, from an inventor named Doc (who makes me think of Doc Brown from 'Back to the Future'), a Blacksmith who talks in 3rd Person (who became my Father-In-Law due to marriage in the game), a rich girl, and a very young girl looking for her mom and her only clue is a pendent with her picture in it. On top of that, there are only 3 Bachelors & Bachelorettes in the game. For your kids growing stage, you are given Formula Milk to feed you kid and you will need to buy the recipes to make it as well. If you don't feed your kid at least once during the day, you will be woken up in the middle of the night by the kid's crying and your energy level will go down for the next day. On top of that, you will wake up at 8am instead of your normal 6am. During your kid's growing stage, your kid will get the Sleeping Sickness and it's your job to find a cure! Another new thing is the requests. Requests can be story based or just something that appears when you raise friendship levels with people (it also help raise them too). The Sleeping Sickness that your kid gets is actually an added bonus story request (mainly due to Natsume knowing you will be getting married and raising a kid). Lastly, you can ask the Harvest Sprites you awaken to help you with chores such as helping your flowers grow and growing special Sprite Trees (which is needed to get Mysterious Lumber to build your Giant House in order to get married and have a kid). DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2.

DIFFICULTY: None. Nana. Zilch. This is a Harvest Moon game. Even the story and the requests are easy. I finished the story before the 1st year was over and for certain requests you can use a Save & Reload Cheat that refreshes what appears in the mines and what type of wool, eggs, and milk you can get (due to the items have to be the same Quality in order for it to work. Only annoying part). Raising crops and animals are quite easy as well. DIFFICULTY - 0.5.

TOTAL - 7.

There you have it! Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley in a nut shell! Hope you gamers enjoy this review! Until next time, this has been the Nintendo Rater! See ya!

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