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Pros: Distinction/identity. To me, the biggest pro of this game is how Natsume finally managed to give harvest moon it’s own “vibe.”. Between the art style and how they managed to change up how the game is played, it’s really set itself up as it’s own game instead of just a story of seasons knock off.
- An interesting twist on farming sims, but a bland, soulless world kills all potential.
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By Rebekah Valentine
Updated: Nov 3, 2022 8:47 pm
Posted: Mar 12, 2021 8:33 pm
Somewhere in Harvest Moon: One World there's a really interesting seed of an idea for a new take on farming sims, which would be much appreciated after 25 years of very similar games. And in the right hands, turning a farming simulator series into a plot-driven, exploration-focused adventure game sounds like a brilliant idea. And yet One World fails in just about every way to do anything interesting or innovative with this new idea other than layer it on top of a deeply mediocre farming sim.
Unlike its numerous Harvest Moon predecessors and competitors, One World does not have you inherit an old farm in a dying village and spend years rebuilding them, getting to know your neighbors, and generally settling down. Rather, you’re handed a portable farm (your scientist neighbor turns up on your doorstep and says “Look, I made you a portable farm” and that’s the end of the discussion) in the first 10 minutes and sent off on an adventure across its world, through five different towns with their own climates, hazards, and problems. You'll park your farm in one spot for a season, finish whatever local plot is in front of you, and then move on.
But the one world of One World is boring in every way. Everything looks bland, except for the named character models, which are exactly fine. Towns are dull and empty with just a couple identical houses each, the areas between them are mostly long and same-ish paths, and everything just looks flat and simple. There's no detail, no personality – just long stretches of empty space, maybe with a tree thrown in if you're lucky.
The bachelors and bachelorettes have a bit more going for them in the personality department, but are still largely pretty samey in the end. They all care about their respective towns, they need your help saving them, and they think the main character is neat. For the most part, they are distinguished almost entirely by their looks and what town they hang out in the most. Marrying one is inconsequential, seeming almost like an afterthought gated behind a lot of time spent in the extremely boring mines and, for some reason, finishing the main plot – you can't get married until then. You can have a kid eventually too, but your offspring take after your spouse’s side of the family in that they do nothing interesting whatsoever.
Marrying someone is inconsequential, seeming almost like an afterthought.Oh, and you can't be queer, despite Harvest Moon's competitors Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley having recognized what year it is already. The developers say this feature was missed due to COVID-19, and that it will be present in future games, but it's still massively frustrating when so many other games offer it. And since One World doesn't really signal to you who is and isn't dateable for quite a while, I spent a lot of time handing gifts to Kirsi for no reason.
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There's a lot of potential here for fun experimentation with where you put your farm and what you grow and when, but it's never realized. The problem with all this is that nothing is ever really explained. After 20+ hours into One World, with the Harvest Goddess resurrected and the main story finished, I'm still not entirely clear how they work. There's no real log that indicates exactly how to get which mutations even after you've already obtained them, and even if you plant the same crop in the same region at the same time, it doesn't always seem to mutate. I'm sure there's a trick here I'm missing, and while mutations are largely inconsequential (I've been able to find seeds for all the mutations I've made so far separately as well), it's really frustrating if you're trying to grow, say, an Asparagus from regular Asparagus seeds for a quest, but keep getting Purple Asparagus instead and have no idea why.
Harvest Moon: One World has a novel idea for an exploration-focused farming game, but then sets that idea in an empty, uninteresting world. Its characters are dull, its quests are often confusing or frustrating, and it lacks the personality of just about any other farming sim option out there, including most of its direct predecessors. At best, One...
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