Soybeans are a fall crop, despite what the game says. If you buy soybeans in spring and plant them, you’ll get an error message.I like having all the major island citizens, with one or two exceptions, available at the very start of the game, but it feels like it takes away some of the motivation to work and develop the island.It’s essentially the exact same game, only much, much better. If you own Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness, I’d advise you consider trading it in towards Sunshine Islands.From the beginning of the game, practically everything and everyone you need is immediately available, and you can focus on making your farm great. The focus is on the farming and relationship building, and the overall story mission encourages those endeavors, rather than distracting from them. To know now that I can’t suddenly just decide to head to the bottom of a mine on the 28th of a month because I haven’t mined enough previously is just annoying.Īside from the new influence of the farm degree system, Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands is quite possibly the best, and most pure, portable Harvest Moon game to date. Part of the fun of Harvest Moon, for me, is to be able to just decide to do whatever I want, when I want. It makes things feel more realistic, but it also makes things quite harder. Or you can’t cook a certain recipe, even if you have all the ingredients, unless you’ve already cooked a substantial amount of lower level recipes.

For example, you can’t get certain seeds or animals until you have enough crop or animal points. You have to earn the farm degree for it first.

You can’t just do, mine, fish and grow whatever, you want in Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands. I’ve been playing since the first SNES entry, and wasn’t pleased with it, but there could be people who’d like the new concept. One of the new additions is the farm degree, something that some Harvest Moon fans may like.

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