Sora de Eclaune said:
Can't we get a Harvest Moon game where you start off as being a long-time resident of the town you play the game within? Can't there be more than just farming and afterthought minigames? Can't there be decent dating simulation to get to the marrying (as in, a lot more choices to make the marrying and the subsequent marriage a bit more interesting)? And what about the farming and cooking; can't we have little minigames in that too (such as, you can't sell anything you take from the ground until it's cleaned off sufficiently.. Or you have to do Cooking Mama-style minigames to prepare a meal)?
But but. The whole point of the games is to build up an awesome ranch from basically nothing but an empty, dirty field. And managing time - if the cooking was done in a mini-game in Cooking Mama style, it'd take /forever/. Think of the petting/brushing/etc system we had for the DS version (... right? hopefully I'm not mixing it up). It was adorable, sure! But when you have to get ten thousand things done during the day, you just don't want to interrupt the routine and rushing to carefully pet each animal you own. It takes too long, and it interrupts the general flow of the game. It'd be the same for cooking.
Dunno, it just seems you're expecting way too much of the franchise. Your comment's the equivalent of going, omg I hope we don't have to train pokémon this time! in a pokémon hype thread |D;
Anyway. That aside, ajfsk I've been waiting for this game FOREVER. I'm beyond excited about it, and I've been poking around at the info we do have so far, sprites, etc, and it all looks so amazing. I can't WAIT to play it, and it absolutely seems way, way better than the previous titles.