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The stamina bar at the top of the screen now seems to last forever while money is a lot easier to come by as the wilderness contains loads of items that can be sold for fair amounts, such as honeycombs and walnuts. Your farm doesn’t start out like a barren wasteland that needs lots of attention – it’s luscious to begin with. Two Towns isn’t so much about getting down and dirty, but more about exploring and helping others. One irritating thing we found though is that before a request can be started you need to find the person who put the request up, and often they’re not in the place you’d expect them to be – ie inside their own home. Each completed request nets you a reward and more often than not you have a choice of gift.
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The first few quests are just thinly disguised tutorials teaching you how to fish, collect bugs and present townsfolk with gifts. The aforementioned request board? That’s to be found in the centre of either village. A trip to Konohana to the blacksmith is recommended – he dresses in a panda outfit and becomes quite enraged when anybody insults it. You can visit either town any time you fancy, thankfully.
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Opting for the green fingered career is a lot more engaging – crops have to be sown, picked, fertilised and watered twice a day. We originally favoured animal husbandry, but found that after milking the cows, collecting eggs from the chicken coop and popping into town to take said goods to the shipping box there isn’t a great deal left to do other than pick up a few quests from the request board. The two towns have a distinct style to them too – Bluebell village is very typical of the villages found in other Harvest Moon games with picturesque cottages, while Konohana has oriental-style buildings with Chinese lanterns outside almost every building. One believes that farming is all about rearing animals while the other thinks farming entails caring for crops and nothing more. The two are vastly different, so you need to think carefully. The next decision you have to make is more important still – you’re asked to choose which village to live in. You also have to choose a name for your farm and whether to play as a boy or girl. Like all Harvest Moon games, you arrive as the new farmer in town and are greeted by the locals who are happy to show you the ropes. The fact that the mayor gives you the ingredients you need and tells you what to cook is one of the many signs that A Tale of Two Towns has been designed to be a lot less laborious than previous Harvest Moon games.
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It so transpires that reuniting the towns isn’t anything too taxing or inventive – every season has a cooking festival which you must win to prove that each town is as skilful as the other. As soon as we learned of the storyline our minds started to muster up all sorts of ways that this task could be achieved. It was the plot that compelled us to pick up and play it – the story is a novel one, in which you’re required to reunite two towns that have been feuding for decades.
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We’ve had a soft spot for Harvest Moon ever since the series made its debut on the SNES, but our fondness for the franchise wasn’t the reason we were eager to play this 3DS endeavour.