Harvest Moon One World (PS4) Fish Story of Seasons | Rest Stop 1
1Harvest Moon: One World is only nominally a Harvest Moon game, apparently. The series North America called "Harvest Moon" is now called "Story of Seasons". This game emphasizes tasks and exploration over farming, but as I show in this video, the progression is a frustrating mess of unclear objectives, randomly generated busywork, and only a few sprinkles of worthwhile upgrades. For every fun new toy the game rewards you, there are 5 or 6 terrible decisions you are forced to endure, just to make progress.
And the game's farming conceit is practically worthless, because all of the seeds are free. It is ridiculously easy to find seeds for extremely valuable items, so money is never an issue.
I originally played this game for 10 hours before patching it. This video featured the November 2021 patch (version 1.20), which triples the number of free seeds you pick up in the wild, and adds several helpful fast travel points that should have been in the release version.
Pass of this $60 game. Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is much less expensive and tedious. Stardew Valley is only $20 (before sales), and is much more engaging.
XBox One games played offline (installed from the disc; no Internet connection required):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6fa9TXHnIAoleBaTeiTRlA/search?query=xb1
NES Classic games played on original hardware and the NES Classic Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXMaPO0pCTwJwPalw-rOq8tc
SNES Classic games played on original hardware and the SNES Classic Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGf_v9CgybQ&list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXN2OBhDGU0rYkjd_VlFDA1E
My collection of videos from Sega Genesis and Megadrive games, from the Genesis Mini and other official collections:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXN8RUdo0HoYsJJ6V_9PRfLO
My videos from the TurboGrafx-16 Mini (also known as the PC Engine Mini):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXMYcqrL4sukUxba6ax1VgKh
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