First Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley details
Siliconera has published a preview for Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley, revealing first gameplay details. You can find them rounded up below.
– Been in the works for over 2 years
– Made by Natsume’s Tokyo office
– Natsume looked at what were the most popular selling Harvest Moon games
– Those were Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for PsOne, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town for Game Boy Advance, and Harvest Moon 64
– Natsume then looked at common elements in the three titles, analyzed media reviews, and listened to fan feedback to guide the game’s development
– Visuals are like Harvest Moon: Back to Nature with super deformed characters
– You can dig up ground all the way down to water and stack ground to make mountains
– In the E3 demo, there was a mountain one of the producers built
– Can quickly make a winding staircase
– Build by bringing up a menu and pressing B to dig (lower the terrain’s height) or X to fill (increase height)
– Need resources to build
– Each time you dig up ground you gain one soil unit, which you can use to fill land
– Other materials include lumber, stole, wool, ultimate wool
– Can make bridges
– Players can plant crops at the apex of a player made hill
– The game has an invisible wall that protects famers from falling more than two squares
– You can also dig a river nearby you to fish in if you don’t want to walk far
– Game changes how the rucksack works
– You used to have to equip a tool to use it and if you want to switch tools you have to go through menus
– In The Lost Valley, the A button is the all purpose tool button
– Once you place a tool in the rucksack, the game will automatically use that tool when you need it
– Don’t have to switch between the shovel or axe
– You can just press A to terraform your farmland
– Game has animals to care for
– These include sheep, cows, and a pet dog
– Choose to be a boy or a girl
– Marriage system
– NPCs: Hanna, Iris, Catherine, Gilbert, Hunter, Emily, Tony, and April
– One of the characters is a mad scientist
– Another character is a wizard and the game has a bard too
