The men of Bluebell and Konohana....where's Dirk?!
I feel like before I start rambling about this game, I should give my readers a background on my experiences with Harvest Moon. Why would I talk about something so…uninteresting? Because this is a topic I actually have experience with! And having a lot of knowledge about the subject at hand really makes me feel good about myself…just a little.
It all started when I was a small child…I kid you not. I watched my cousin play this mysterious game on his nintendo 64, and of course being the jerk that he was, he did not let me play. The game in question was harvest moon. Angered by his stupid selfishness, I watched silently as he tried romancing the girls…he sucked at it. Its because of this moment in time that I started buying Harvest Moon games, mainly to prove that I could be better at something than him. I’ve bought every single harvest moon since Friends of Mineral Town, and let me just say, I played the shit out of most of those games; the exception being Harvest Moon DS…did anyone like that one?
Now to the subject at hand!
Tale of Two Towns has the premise of literally every single other Harvest Moon game, except I think more awesome. You are a farmer moving to a new town to start a farm, gasp…what a spoiler. But this is where things become interesting! As your riding your horse with attached cart (squeal) to the town, you get into a freak accident and lose control! You’re thrown off of your horse and knocked unconscious! (So badass) When you wake up, you find two mayors staring at you, one from the town Bluebell whose focus is raising animals, and the other from the town of Konohana whose focus is on grown vegetables. You obviously have a choice as to wear you can
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live, I just find it hilarious that you can’t remember which town you were originally supposed to move to.
There are some nice changes in this game, something that makes me quite convinced that Marvelous entertainment actually wants to make its fans happy. I’ll now list some!
– A cart! Movable storage! Yay!
-Alpaca (If you aren’t excited about that…get out.)
-A decent line up of potential love interests (DAMN YOU DIRK)
Now I’m not going to lie to you. I originally wasn’t going to buy this harvest moon game till waaaaaay later,as the Gamestops I keep frequenting made it seem like it was for the 3DS only, and I wasn’t going to spend $160+ just so I could play. And to be fair…I mainly wanted the alpaca.
I mean look at it….how could I not want that?
So I bought the game….and you know what? I haven’t had this much fun on a Harvest Moon game since Friends of Mineral Town (sorry Grand Bazaar…I do still love you).
Great game! I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Harvest Moon, or has been thinking about giving the series a try.
Now onto something silly.
Why I love/hate Dirk
I am a Grand Bazaar fangirl, for it has my most favorite bachelor of all, IVAN. I literally was waiting over a year to play the game just for him. In Grand Bazaar to marry, you must have all of your future spouse’s family high enough before you can take the plunge…meaning I had to raise Dirk’s heart level as I want to marry his brother. I don’t know why, but I’ve always disliked Dirk, I think its because he’s the one that looked the most like a child compared to all the other bachelors. So you can only imagine my excitement to see him in the newest entry in the series…as a special spouse.
But gasp! Dirk got a growth spurt~! And he looks like less formal Ivan.
Damn you Marvelous…you got me.
…why’d you have to make him like tea and bugs? *sigh*
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