Once you finally manage to kick your town link up a notch the people grow more friendly, more stores open, and more products are made available to buy. Each rank is raised over a period of in-game weeks in which you regularly must buy and sell products with the towns, complete jobs for various townspeople, and just generally socialize with everyone that you can. The overarching goal is ultimately to raise your Town Link Rank for each town, which acts as a metric of your relationship with each one. Stores have different hours and carry different products, the etiquette and general culture are unique to each town, and there are different festivals and events to attend. In case you didn't gather it from the game's title, there are three towns in which you will regularly be conducting business, and these all have important distinctions which make them unique. Gameplay is centered around two essential, intertwined mechanics that largely impact the development and progression of each other: Farming and Socializing. Either way, as the game opens up the hand holding fortunately lessens considerably, to the point that the opening slog becomes a distant memory. This problem is largely assuaged if you opt to create your save using the slightly more difficult "Veteran Mode", but even then it still pops up unnecessarily every now and then. The problem being, most of the stuff in this game is pretty self-explanatory, yet the tutorials treat it like rocket science. New elements, such as fishing or additional towns, are introduced at a glacial pace, and each new mechanic means another exhaustive tutorial that will explain it in excruciating detail. From that point on the game keeps you on an extremely tight leash that it ever so slowly begins to let off. There's about twenty minutes of raw exposition and dialogue before you're even allowed to control your character, and it's not until you've gone close to forty minutes in that you pick up a hoe for the first time. It's this early part of the game that stands as the biggest issue, and while it certainly isn't enough to devalue the excellence that follows, it is still quite an exercise in patience.
Though your Dad is quick to toss cold water on the idea - saying that you don't have what it takes to be self-sufficient in that way - a lengthy argument eventually resolves in you leaving your family behind and moving to the rural Westown where your uncle, Frank, will teach you in the ways of farming.
The story opens up with you having an epiphany and realizing that you, a grown adult still living under Mom and Dad's constantly moving roof, absolutely must pursue your lifelong dream of being a farmer. This new entry is just about everything one could want out of a sequel to its predecessor there's plenty of new content which builds upon the foundation that came before, and it does a good job of fixing what didn't quite work.
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So, although the Harvest Moon series continues to see new entries, the "true" series is only just now getting its next instalment with Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns. Starting in 2014, XSeed Games began localizing the latest games in the series under the name Story of Seasons, due to the fact that Natsume owns the IP rights to the Harvest Moon franchise.
In recent times the legal environment of the Harvest Moon series has become a bit muddled.
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