Congrats Natsume!

[Anutha_1]

This game is 1000% better than One World. A complete turnaround from that debacle. Good to see you finally decided to put some money into developing a quality Harvest Moon title. Not saying this is a perfect game by any means but it is a quality title regardless of what many here may be posting. Now please do not go cheap your next Harvest Moon title and erase all the good will you created with this one.

[Coffee Addict]

from what i seen from reviews it looks like they took one world and just improved on it no more mobile graphics and all that with a big very big open world with nothing in it and with the daily time limit makes it hard to explore

[Anutha_1]

It appears that those small statues will be fast travel points that we will be able to access at some point, I am assuming. Between them and a mount that we will eventually be able to acquire, why so many are making a big stink out of the map being so big and open when most haven’t even had a chance to explore barely any of it yet just goes to show that most want to complain about something due to it being a Natsume game, to begin with.

Map may be big and open currently but let’s hope with due time, it’s more populated than most may think. We’ll see. I hope we eventually can’t do everything we want in a given day (farm every field we may have planted, mine, fish, visit every village chatting with all NPC’s raising friendship points, etc. etc.) as we can with most other farming sims because we should have to make choices and commit to some days having to be committed to certain actions only. That’s probably just me though.

Either way, it’s a solid game so far compared to their most recent ventures.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

from what i seen from reviews it looks like they took one world and just improved on it no more mobile graphics and all that with a big very big open world with nothing in it and with the daily time limit makes it hard to explore

There is no daily time limit. If you get to bed before midnight you wake at 6 AM fully refreshed. Every couple of hours after midnight but before 4 AM means you wake up an hour later. Going to bed after 4, or not going to bed at all, gives you a sleeplessness debuff (roughly doubles the speed you lose stamina).

Originally posted by Anutha_1:

It appears that those small statues will be fast travel points that we will be able to access at some point, I am assuming.

Once you finish the tutorial.

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by Anutha_1:

most want to complain about something due to it being a Natsume game

i dont care who makes the game so long as its good (with the sole exception of activision/blizzard i refuse to buy or play their products anymore) the game seems to be an improvement however since i dont own the game all i can do is go off what others say and to me so far the game seems good but not 50$ good

Originally posted by archonsod:

There is no daily time limit.

so how does stamina work now? do you no longer pass out when its empty? if you stay up all night and run out of stamina can you water your crops come morning or do you gotta sleep first or what this seems confusing

[Anutha_1]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i dont care who makes the game so long as its good (with the sole exception of activision/blizzard i refuse to buy or play their products anymore) the game seems to be an improvement however since i dont own the game all i can do is go off what others say and to me so far the game seems good but not 50$ good

Sorry, I didn’t necessarily mean you by my response there. Just so many posting here on this Steam board, that seems to be the case is all.

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

so how does stamina work now? do you no longer pass out when its empty? if you stay up all night and run out of stamina can you water your crops come morning or do you gotta sleep first or what this seems confusing

You still pass out if you run out of stamina. They just meant you don’t necessarily have to sleep because the game doesn’t make you pass out if you stay up until a certain time is all by that. If you stay up all night, you’ll be faced with a sleeplessness penalty as your stamina will deplete at twice its normal rate and your character’s head will slump over and you’ll see Z’s rising from above their head until you next sleep in your bed which can only be done overnight. In theory, one could continuously not sleep if they had enough food to eat to make up for the stamina depletion penalty but why do so really.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

so how does stamina work now? do you no longer pass out when its empty? if you stay up all night and run out of stamina can you water your crops come morning or do you gotta sleep first or what this seems confusing

As Anutha_1 says, you still pass out if you run out of stamina. What happens is if you haven't slept by 6AM (or if you went to bed after 4AM) you get a penalty that causes your stamina to deplete twice as fast. You can still water your crops et al, but it'll deplete your stamina meter a lot faster than it otherwise would. Of course, once you go to bed it'll end the day, so if you are in that situation you probably want to water your crops and tend the animals before you go to bed.

It's not really a huge issue once you finish the tutorial and the fast travel statues become active. They're reasonably well placed so if you want to uncover the map it's fairly simple to just teleport to the furthest one you've activated after you finish your daily farm work and just continue exploration from there - you always have a fast travel point next to your farm you can jump back to once your stamina gets low, and of course once you get a mount it becomes trivial.

[Coffee Addict]

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

[MuscleBroStolas]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

I don't know. Do you want answers (you CAN buy seeds) or do you want to keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[VR]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

You can buy limited amounts of seeds after you make enough progress in each town, but not enough to run cash crops. Most of the exploration content is hunting down the sprites for seeds.

[MuscleBroStolas]

Originally posted by VR:

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

You can buy limited amounts of seeds after you make enough progress in each town, but not enough to run cash crops. Most of the exploration content is hunting down the sprites for seeds.

So I guess he did want answers.
Anyway, if he's trying to race through the game, he won't be having much fun.

[Anutha_1]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

The wisps that provide the seeds can be found everywhere and you run into them constantly when navigating the map.

Once you’ve unlocked the fast travel statues, you’ll still need to traverse the map to unlock each fast travel statue itself which will take some time.

It won’t be until you’ve unlocked all of them that one wouldn’t really need to move around manually on the map itself which would make obtaining them somewhat of a headache but instead of comparing this to how every other farming sim handles obtaining seeds, just accept how this rendition of Harvest Moon does it and go from there.

[VR]

Originally posted by Anutha_1:

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i've read that you cant buy seeds you can only get them from sprites located around the world which seems like a big chore, so where does all the big money making come from

The wisps that provide the seeds can be found everywhere and you run into them constantly when navigating the map.

Once you’ve unlocked the fast travel statues, you’ll still need to traverse the map to unlock each fast travel statue itself which will take some time.

It won’t be until you’ve unlocked all of them that one wouldn’t really need to move around manually on the map itself which would make obtaining them somewhat of a headache but instead of comparing this to how every other farming sim handles obtaining seeds, just accept how this rendition of Harvest Moon does it and go from there.

It looks like that ranking up vegetables lets you buy the seeds for them too, just not in large amounts (unless higher rankings gives more inventory?). If you need seeds in a pinch for a quest, it's not totally random at least.

[II Selphius II]

This newest title is definitely a great step in the right direction, and you won't find me complaining about having more cozy farming games to play!

[archonsod]

Originally posted by VR:

You can buy limited amounts of seeds after you make enough progress in each town, but not enough to run cash crops. Most of the exploration content is hunting down the sprites for seeds.

Mutations are where the money is at in crops. I suspect you could probably make a decent amount from buying the seeds if you've unlocked the permanent season field to get it's more valuable mutant variety (although even then, you might need seasonal fertiliser too).

[furfrou7071]

If I'm being honest, this Harvest Moon Winds of Anthos game is much better than the recent story of Seasons games. I want both franchises to do well, but for those complaining, both franchise do the paid DLC stuff, so they're both guilty of that. I'm just hoping for more marriages candidates, hair styles and outfits.