(A number of great guides are available online to find out what also works in each recipe.) The best way to have a chance at winning comes when you start adding extra ingredients and higher quality items to recipes to increase their value and freshness. You do get used to the endeavor though, so eventually it isn’t as trying. Especially if you haven’t started going between the two towns, living in each one so you have access to crops and animal products. Initially, the contests are really quite difficult to win. That’s because you have to cook and attend the festivals to open the tunnel between the two towns. Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns also puts more emphasis on cooking than previous Harvest Moon games. Fishing in deeper water after getting a fishing rod is still an awesome way to earn quick cash. It’s quite helpful and it was a lot more fun to alternate bug catching, general scavenging and fishing rather than relentlessly fishing to earn quick cash. If you start in Bluebell, as I did, you also have milk and eggs that help boost your initial profits.
You can easily make between 200 and 400 gold each day if you do a lot of gathering. This isn’t such a bad thing, as the various mountain products are a great way to earn fast cash. After a while though, people will get more demanding and start wanting crops, rare items or large quantities of normal or out of season items. Initially, they’ll just require you to head up to the mountains and collect some fish, bugs and gathered items. Fulfilling requests is a great way to boost relationship levels with villagers, earn essential tools, acquire items or even get some extra cash. Since you can switch villages if you’d like, the game isn’t like you’re forced to stick with a choice you don’t like.īesides, most of your time will actually be spent running errands and exploring the mountain for goodies. If you start in Konohana, you begin the game by growing crops to earn money.
If you go to Bluebell, you start off with one cow and one chicken plus have access to other animals to raise and flowers to grow. Your initial choice of town doesn’t have too big of an effect on your farmer’s daily life. But, instead of just using her magical goddess powers to instantly fix everything, she’s forcing the new farmer to attend weekly cooking festivals between the two villages to restore the bond between the people of both towns so the tunnel can be cleared. Anyways, it annoyed her, so she decided to make the tunnel cave in so the two towns wouldn’t have to deal with each other, which she realizes that was a rash decision. I don’t know, maybe she was napping when it happened. The two towns used to be friendly, but a fight between two older mayors happened in the tunnel that went through the mountain angered the Harvest Goddess. Shortly after settling in, the Harvest Goddess pops by to visit.
The mayors fight a bit and ask you to choose a new home. Bluebell has a European look and focuses on ranching, while Konohana has an Asian feel and believes farming means growing crops. Fortunately, you land right between the mayors of Bluebell and Konohana, two major farming towns separated by a mountain. As you’re setting off to make your dream come true, you tumble down a mountain. You are are young man or woman who has decided the absolute best thing ever - would be a life as a farmer. Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns begins like every other Harvest Moon game. It’s pretty much a carbon copy of the DS version with a few minor enhancements. There aren’t too many RPGs or simulations yet, but Natsume has stepped up with Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns to help fill that void. Now that the holidays have come, the 3DS is finally starting to build an admirable library of games.