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Lordy, we've written so many words on the bad parts of Harvest Moon: One World and we haven't even gotten to the farming bit properly. Good luck trying to figure out which of these NPCs is the 'Friendly Man' who asked you for three eggs! Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) These aren't one-off characters: they are persistent, and even give you quests. The people that dwell in One World's various lands come in a few different flavours: dateable characters, of which there are ten people who are related to said dateable characters and a bunch of unnamed randoms, who bear titles like 'Awkward Man' and 'Excited Woman'. We passed out multiple times just from trying to get home at, like, 6pm.

For a recipe.Ī horse costs at least 15,000 gold – a sum that's hard to make in the first two seasons – and you'll regret every second you don't have it, because One World's world is made up of loooong, winding corridors of nothingness leading to vast expanses of empty land, and – get this – walking takes stamina.

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What's more, some of the recipes cost up to 75,000 gold – that's as much as it costs to upgrade your house. The animal produce – eggs, milk, and wool – is easy enough to get, but is of one quality, no matter how much your animals like you, so there's little reason to interact with the animals beyond squeezing them until dairy comes out. It's so hard to make decent money, because although selling crops will net you a little bit of profit, someone will undoubtedly need 8 of them for a quest, and you'll have to spend a week gathering all the seeds again. Not that it matters too much anyway, because the currency is wonky as hell.

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Hope you love walking! The shops are pretty bloody useless for most of the game, selling practically nothing beyond animal feed and saplings, because apparently they also forgot how to have a functioning economy alongside forgetting how to farm.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) You will not be able to buy these seeds at the shops until you've shipped lots of that one crop, so if you need multiples, it's time to go back to that exact spot again for several days. In One World, the Wisps are little blue glowy dots in the world that you press 'A' next to, and they respawn every single day in exactly the same place.Įach Wisp will give you a seed – the same seed each time – which can be planted only in certain locations, and certain seasons. These fetch quests will require that you find seeds, which is the game's main gimmick: you can no longer buy seeds in shops instead, you have to find Harvest Wisps around the world, who will give you a single bag of seeds.īack in games like Harvest Moon DS, finding the Harvest Sprites (as they were once called) was a matter of performing tasks and interacting with the world, unlocking each one by making progress in your tasks. Villagers will send you letters, saying 'get me 6 chickpeas' or 'bring me 18 daisies', and it's up to you to grow and/or find what they need in order to advance the plot.

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There are six areas in the game, each one themed around a season, climate, and vague flavour of a particular country (like Finland, Germany, Hawaii, and Egypt), and you'll have to complete the story in each one to free the Harvest Spirit that represents their people, and move one step closer to finding the Harvest Goddess. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) However, you are a special, magical being, and by virtue of being so special and magical, you discover turnips (arguably far worse than potatoes) and begin your journey to restoring the world's agriculture, and, eventually, the Harvest Goddess. The Harvest Goddess is missing, and everyone in the world has forgotten what vegetables are.

Harvest Moon: One World starts abruptly, spending very little time on story before kicking you into its sparse, flat world.

Surely it can't be that hard to make a good farming game? Or at least a decent one? One World falls so short of 'decent' that it's almost incredible how much they messed up a pretty simple formula. And yes, we're well aware of the Natsume/XSEED schism, and that Story of Seasons is the 'true' Harvest Moon game, but even still, how the mighty have fallen. Harvest Moon: One World, to summarise the next few hundred words of complaining, is a badly-paced, unattractive, hollow facsimile of a Harvest Moon game.

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