Harvest Moon: One World Standard – Nintendo Switch [Digital Code]

♥️
♥️

A good Harvest Moon game.
This version has some glitches, and not all the content is there. I’m hopefully they will update it like Animal Crossing does.If you like Harvest Moon games, this one is fun to play.

Do not waste your money—it’s horrible.
As a long time fan of the series, I was excited to order Harvest Moon Once World for my switch. Upon playing the game I’m so disappointed. It feels unfinished and lacks the charm and whimsy of earlier editions. Some frustrations—seeds are gathered one at a time (usually one per day) from little harvest sprites all over the map. It can easily take 30% of your game day to gather 3-5 grass seeds to grow food for your animals. You cannot buy grass seeds, and buying food is more expensive than the animals produce in most cases. Animals take random times to grow and produce. My incubated eggs took an entire season to grow into an adult and produce eggs. You are limited to 3 mammals and 5 chickens until you can upgrade your barn—which takes a long while. If you want to swap out an animal you can’t sell it—you “release it into the wild” so all your work and care has no value.Eventually you can expand to a triple barn, but you can never really fill it as there’s no way to grow enough grass to make animal feed for 30 animals as you can only find 3-5 seeds per day.The characters are flat and lack personalities. Most don’t even have names, so you get random quests from “cheerful man” for items but you have no idea where he is or when he will be there as they appear and disappear at set hours you don’t know.Mining is not as profitable as in other versions—gold ore costs 80 gold to turn into gold, which is worth 100 gold—but it took you more than 20 gold worth of time, energy, and food to mine ore.The game is super glitchy—I’ve had it crash after most major events so now I save every day. Once you revive the harvest goddess, the game is an endless loop of repetitive requests with no clear objectives. From online readings I see I can marry a villager but since none have personalities it’s kinda meh.The only fun part of this game has been enjoying my children watch while I played and listening to them crack jokes about how bad it it is.The game is slow to load, the formerly cute harvest sprites are flat, the graphics are overly childish, it feels like a middle school programming project. I’m really frustrated that it was released in this state and will never preorder another Harvest Moon game. If I ever play this series again it will only be after reading reviews that assure me it’s not a complete waste of time and money.