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A Farming simulation for everyone!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 125 / 137
Date: August 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Harvest Moon title to be in a true 3D environment, and it could either make the game a lot cooler, or ruin the fun of it.In the past, Harvest Moon has been more of a farming simulation with a little bit of role playing added in. Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland is a deeper and more robust role-playing experience than any other Harvest Moon game. It might be best described as a 'Life Simulation'.

The object of Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland is to successfully save the village from being turned into a resort. Construction begins in a year, so you have to find a way to save your home land before that. Unlike previous Harvest Moon titles, their are nine unique ways in which to complete your task. Thus offering nine different endings to the game! Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland focuses more attention on relationships than that of making money. Befriending the people in town is the key to successfully completing your task. There are over 100 different heartwarming events, each one leading to the next. This is the first Harvest Moon title to be in a true 3-D environment. This game is much more realistic, yet it will not lose the cute animation aspect that all Harvest Moon titles are known for.

Story line(8/10):

You must save your village from being turned into a resort. With the Construction starting in a year, you have to find a way to save the Homeland before that!(That's why the game title is Harvest Moon:Save the Homeland) You must now go around making friends with people of the town and must restore the farm to being prosperous within a year. sound hard? well even if it does you can do it! It is still unknown if you can marry in the game though.

Features of the game:

their are 20 new characters each with their own unique personalities!You can now explore a 3-Dimensional environment rich in detail!Their are 9 unique endings to the game!Their can be more interaction with your animals, such as training your dog and racing your horse!Now enjoy hours of non-linear game play!You can collect and cook various recipes!The characters move in real-time!Earn various key items during part-time jobs!You now have new tools which include a hoe, a sickle, a watering can, a brush, a milker, a fishing rod and a flute.Your rucksack can now hold 24 crops.Your Stamina meter shows how much more work you can take. A red face means you are fully energized, yellow means your a little tired but okay, blue means you are exhausted and you need to take a rest.You can have a girlfriend in the game and marriage may be a possibility.

Your house and other buildings:

Your house: In your first room you have a bed, table, 2 windows, Bookshelf, TV, Trash Can, Mini-Cabinet, Bed, Cabinet and you have a door which will led you to the second room of your house. When you first enter the second room you will see on the top right hand corner your refrigerator where you can store crops. To your immediate left sink, pot, frying pan and microwave. And to the left of that is a table where you can eat. Their are also two doors which one leads to your Bedroom and i am not sure what the other leads to.

Outside your house: you have a fishpond, a semi-fenced in grass area for your cows and horse, Dog bowl for your dog, area for you to grow your crops,Chicken coop, and the Cow barn and if you head to the left when you exit your house you will go into a area where you have a bunch of passages of ways to go.

Chicken coop:It is the first building to your left.Inside it you can house 6 chickens at a time. A egg incubator and a water holder to refill your water can.you must feed your chickens every day.

Cow and Horse:you can house 5 cows and 1 horse at a time. You have a area for a pregnant cow and a thing for fodder.You do not need to feed you horse every day just brush it and ride it every day. Cows you must feed and brush every day.

You do not have to do anything for fish. but play with your dog every day.

Music(7/10):

Really depends on your music taste. It can be cheery at times and sad at times.

Graphics(10/10)

Excellent! Of all the past Harvest Moon games this game's graphics are clearly the best! But it hasn't lost it's RPG feel.

To Buy or rent the game:

Buy the game! You do not have enough days to enjoy the game by just renting it.But it is totally up to you.This is a great addition to anyones PS2 collection whether your a Harvest Moon fan or not.

Little known fact:

You may know that the Japanese title for this game is Bokujou Monogatari 3: Heart ni Hi o Tsukete, but ever wonder what it means in English? It means Farm Story 3: Set My Heart on Fire

Recommend:

If you would like to try out a Harvest Moon game before this game is released in America and Canada you should try ALL OF THEM!

Release date:

Japan: July 5 2001(I'm playing this version) USA: October 20 2001(definitely getting it!)

I hope you liked my review!Have fun with the game!

Harvest Moon:Save Da Homeland

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is good but not great. The graphics are amazing but there are less characters to interact with like Back To Nature you can intreact with 50 characters but in this one u can interact with only 20. Theres 9 different ways to save the ranch which means 9 endings(this is surprizing)anyway this game is worth buying if you really like Harvest Moon games but I would Harvest GBC 3 is better in style but not graphics.

No you don't get marry at the end!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What's wrong with this one? It is totally deifferent from all of the rest of the series. Of course now The interaction is more serious, but no marriage at the end like the others...

The Best Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game could be better if the time was unlimited. The best graphics in the world and the sound is great. This is a whole lot better if you have surround sound. All in all this game is cool

One of the Best PS2 Games (besides Final Fantasy X) o_O

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THis game is the best!!! If you like animals, people, the sims, rpgs, anything! This game has it all...anyways, doesn't Hero (the farm boy) look a lot happier (and cuter ^_^) in this game than in Harvest Moon 64? Anyways, there are 20 new characters, and 9 endings. 9 ENDINGS!!! If you're not sure whether to buy or rent, buy. YOu cannot possibly enjoy the game when you only have a limited time to play it! Thanks~

In response to my previous reveiw of this game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As some of you know in my review of this game i stated that it was unclear if you could not get married, well i have found out is that you can't get married, but marriage may be 1 of the 9 endings. Just so you know, the game came out on Sunday it is just a matter of descision of the stores to decide when they want to sell the game. I got my copy of the USA/CANADA version on Sunday and have benn playing non-stop

Very Different Harvest Moon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 32
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a very different game, if you compare it to all the other Harvest Moons. In this game, it focuses on relationships with the town, and less on making money. It is a very interesting change. Here is some things about it:

1. Only four crops (Potato, Tomato, Corn, Breadfruit)
2. Marraige not certain. (I'm not sure whether you can get married or not, I'm not far enough, and rumors are going either way.)
3. 9 Endings, each after 1 year. When you succesfully get an ending, you will start a new year, keeping your house enlargements and all animals. (Total of 9 years at least to get all the endings.)
4. 6 Chickens Only
5. 5 Cows Only
6. 1 Horse Only
7. NO SHEEP!!! (WHAT IS WRONG WITH NATSUME?!?!)
8. Huge field W/O planting it!!!
9. Only 8 (4 plants by 2 plants) planting areas.
10. Bag of seeds puts seeds on one square, seeds much cheaper.
11. New five girls.
12. Less characters (only 20)
13. Better graphics.
14. Part-time work.
15. Per minute days (not by ten minutes like in HM:BTN)
16. Different yet still fun.

In All, I still give this Harvest Moon game 5 Stars.
~Chibi-Tux~

This game is totally sweet!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dude this game is so awsome.But it also [stinks].No sheep!!NO MARRIAGE!!Well marriage might be one of the nine endings.but only 2 thats right only 2 house extencions!!!!But other than that this game rocks with the part time jobs!!Heh heh keep it up Natsume but put the bloody marriage back in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Return to Simpler times

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Harvest Moon Save the Homeland is Natsume's return to a simpler Harvest Moon. If any of you remember the first Harvest Moon for SNES, you'll remember that everything was simple and straightforward. You didn't have a choice of cows,sheep and chickens. You only cows and chickens. It didn't take a whole lot of expensive gifts to satisfy a girl, you could just give her a flower, or talk to her. Natsume is trying to go back to these times. In HM:STH the focus is not on farming, but on getting to know people and saving the village from being bulldozed. Its up to you to get one of nine different endings that will save the village. Go for it minna!

Great game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is vey fun and has awesome graphics,but I can't say iit is better than the PS1 version. The flaw with this game is it is very short. I beat it in less than 10 hours of game play. There are 9 endings but it would be boring to go throught it over and over. But,it was very fun,but just too short.

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