Well. I got ambushed by a new Harvest Moon release. Completely blind-sided. Didn’t have a clue it was coming out. Yeah.

That was a week ago, actually.

Apparently everyone else was also surprised by this release. When I got the game (2 days after the NA release), there was not a single FAQ/Walkthrough to be found online. I checked all of the usual suspects an was completely unrewarded. In fact, the only information I could really find on the game was on the Wikipedia of all places.

Now, I’m writing a FAQ on the game. It looks like other people have finally started producing docs as well. I’ll be posting it online as soon as it gets a bit longer (it’s currently only 28k). Penny and I have each played through half of a year of the game by now. I’m technically 1/4 of the way to “winning”.

Aside from the wierd controls and strange graphics, this is arguably my favorite Harvest Moon to date. They stole about 1/2 of the new features Nicole and I came up with for Strawberry.

Since I’m already writing a FAQ, I am not really in the mood to write a full review.

But… given this current stimulus and recent conversations I’ve had with Adam and Chris, I just might be revisiting (and revising and rewriting) my Strawberry spec.

Update: Yeah, so the FAQ was about 70% written before I forgot about it and scrubbed the HD it lived on. Go me.