Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town Review

Graphics= 9
The Graphics are very nice and deserve the nine, with some -but little- exceptions like I saw a glitch on the 134th floor on the mine of al the rocks being clones of YOU. That scared me but the graphics deserve the high number for the detailed portraits of characters when you talk to them.

Sound= 8
The music is very nice and calming, though the sound effects made it fail the perfect 10 rating. The chicken, dog, cow, etc. Sound effects can get VERY annoying if you hear them too often. The music is very catchy and hard to get out of peoples heads!

Addictiveness= 10
This game is so addictive and I cant stop playing it! Doing this review is the only thing that can stop me from playing! if you don't mind, I'm going to play it for a bit. (5 hours later) I'm back and that was really fun and addictive for me to play that long! I cant wait to play again.

Story= 6
The story is not too good. All the game gives you when you start the game is that when you were a little boy, you went on a vacation to mineral town, and you were separated from your mother. you and your undirected mind since you were unfamiliar with the area, you mosey on to an old mans farm and he notices a "small child" and directs you to your mother and he offer you to stay at his farm, free of charge, and you meet a girl that you play with every day and when you leave, a few days after meeting her, you have to leave and she is upset with the fact that you have to leave, and when you're grown up, you're on his farm, but you are unaware that the old man has passed away and in his will, you inherit his farm, and that's when you start playing.

Depth= 10
There is so much to do in this game. Farming, Mining, attending to festivals, playing with your dog so he can grow up, making your animals happy so they can give you produce, befriending people, impressing the bacholorette of your choice, and even get married and have a baby!
I find this game doesn't have replay ability, because of all the stuff you can do and unlock! And with 2 save files, you can test stuff on one, and actually use the info you got on your test file, on your real file.

Difficulty= 5
I think the game isn't too hard except for the fact that stamina and fatigue have such a small capacity early in the game. Something else that is difficult is getting a bacholorette to like you and getting them to say "I Do" to you.

Overall= 10
All the games flaws just do not stand a chance against all the good things in the game. This game deserves the ten it gets from me and hopefully a lot of people agree with me!

Let me be the first to say "I agree". This game is nothing short of awesome. I've played through it twice now, and plan to keep playing through at least four more times (once for each girl + goddess). And may I say, congrats on even reaching the 134th floor! lol I barely made it to the 75th floor before getting tired of digging. Also that rock glitch is pretty freaky! xD I have to see that now. Someone should submit a screenshot of that. lol Anyway, good review. Keep it up.