This is my first time to post an entry to my blog, so I decide to speak
English even i’m not really fluent on it. On this special time I’ll describe,
give you some info, and advice you how to play Harvest Moon. So, Leggo check it out
BD
Harvest Moon (牧場物語 Bokujō Monogatari, lit. "The Farm
Story") is a farm simulation role-playing video
game series created by Yasuhiro Wada and produced by Victor
Interactive Software (acquired by Marvelous Entertainment in
2003). English translation and distribution of the game is done
by Natsume for North America and Rising Star Games for
Europe. The object of the game is to maintain a farm over a period of time,
tending the crops and livestock through the seasons, while befriending the
nearby townsfolk and, in some games, getting married. The first game was Harvest
Moon, released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in
1996.
The player's character
has primarily been male, but some games offer the option to play as a female
character. A common storyline in the series is where the player inherits a
relative's or an old friend's farm, and is introduced to the various aspects of
farming such as growing crops, raising livestock, making friends, and
ultimately finding a spouse. Each game provides objects to collect or goals to
complete, whether it is befriending villagers, collecting musical notes,
finding sprites, making rainbows, or ringing bells.
Money is obtained by
growing crops, raising livestock, fishing, mining, and foraging. The player has
a limited amount of time in each game day and a limited amount of energy, and
must balance their time and strength while working.
Source: Wikipedia
advice:
Your dog, horse, cows, chicken, and sheep all have heart markers. You can
see how many hearts each animal has by going into your Assets screen. The more
hearts it has, the better chance it has in placing during an animal festival.
When it comes to the poultry and livestock, more hearts means better quality
items (and more profit earned).
Each heart listed underneath the name of your animal is based on the number
of friendship points you currently have with that animal. One heart means the
animal has between 1 and 100 points, two hearts means the animal has between
101 and 200 FP, and so on. The maximum number of friendship points you can have
is 1000 per animal.
Increasing affection points and decreasing stress can be done by brushing
and talking with your animals each day, as well as leaving them outside on
sunny weather days. If you do happen to leave your animals outside on Rainy,
Drizzly, or Snowy days, then they will lose affection and gain stress for every
hour they are left outside.
Collect your crops in your fridge. When you’re low on money (I doubt
it) pull sweet potatoes and pineapples out of your fridge and go
shipping crazy.
If you’re smart, you’ll realize it’s a lot easier to spot weeds and
pull them out. Look, this plan will help your field keep minimum weeds
on it.(lower pic)
See how clear my field looks? The big bottle-looking thing is the pen to
put my chickens in. Timid is watering my crops. This took a lot of
collecting of branches from my field, the forest, and also from my field
when a storm hit. I’m done. Here’s how I did it:
Every morning that I get up, I take care of my animals (and if the
harvest sprites are working for me [only 2 are in my interest: Aqua, who
is skilled in watering, animal caring and harvesting, and Timid, who is
very good at animal caring.] I jump straight into the forest.) I
collect the first wild grape bunch I come to, then the three branches. I
go down to Kappa’s pond and grab the other wild grapes, then the branch
and head up, towards Mother’s Hill. I put the last branch in my bag. I
then have 5 branches and 2 wild grapes. I go back to Applefield (my
farm) and fling the branches with the other 20 something in the shelves.
When that count reaches 80, I take them out (not all) and arrange them
on my field. And viola!
Always buy more seeds than you need to. That way, when the season comes
again, you wouldn’t have to panic about not going to the supermarket if
the new season starts on a Tuesday.
If you can, avoid telling the harvest sprites to work for a week, or even 3 days. OK, here’s how I do my schedule:
First, I tell Aqua to water my crops for one day. Then I go home and do
the stuff I’m supposed to do (animals, crops, those sort of things.) The
next day, when the time hits around 9, I put a curry powder in my bag
and set off to the church.
I give Carter the powder, then go to Timid and ask him to water my crops
for one day. It’s only hectic if I have crops to harvest. I might end
up going around 2:00! Then I go the next day and ask Aqua again. Oh, and
every day that they come, give them honey if you don’t have any grass.
They love it just the same. I found out that Timid’s birthday is on the
16th of summer, since every day there’re there I give ‘em honey. I was
so surprised! I made a note of it right away.
While playing the animal husbandry game, you must remain calm. If you
master the non-panic state, you should be able to see that if you let
out 3 chickens and just keep 3, the game will be easier, and you will
most likely get only 3 angry marks. There is no downfall to this method.
At the most, you’ll give over 50 bushels of feed. This is, by far, the
hardest game of the mini games.
Also! Make sure that the fence is 2 layers thick. Possibly more. You
don’t want your horse jumping over. Leave your dog on the outside of the
fence, that is, if you have your cows and sheep inside the fence. He
will chase off any wild dogs that come by barking at it. I once
experienced it.(top pic)
I was up nearly all night taping the thing. (Game time, I mean.)
Wild dogs:
You can chase the dog out by yourself, if you like. Have your hammer,
axe or perhaps your sickle equipped. Then go nuts! Hit the animal
directly, or near to it. In any case it should get scared and run off. A
word of advice: Chase it! Make sure it leaves. I once read that you can
catch the wild dog. Chase it into a rectangle/ square of field things
and block off the entrance. Use possibly weeds for the box and branches
for the gate ;) However, there were reports of it being gone in the
morning. (oh great now I sound like a news person)
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