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Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
PlayStation 2
Released On: Nov 22, 2001
76
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
76
57% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
43% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Harvest Moon gets under your skin that way. You'd never think it would be half as much fun as it inevitably turns out to be...Take our word for it and give this one a try.
Delightfully open-ended. [Dec 2001, p.164]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.5
63% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
29% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.5
63% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
29% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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PlayStation 2
I like this game even though it's not what I expected, because HM back to nature is more detailed and fun, I enjoyed it though
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Immersive and fun. It's not the type of game you play to beat as fast as you can. It's the kind of game you'll play a little bit every week, for many, many weeks to come.
It's fun for a while, but let's face some facts here – farming is a job, not a game! [Dec 2001, p.93]
About as much fun as watching your tomatoes grow...If you’ve got an agricultural attitude, patience, and a hankering for steady and safe gameplay, you just might be a Harvest Moonie.
It's still too boring and esoteric an experience for some of us to even take seriously. Add an extra point to our score for Save The Homeland if you're a fan of the series, or feel free to ignore whatever we say.
The potentially rewarding aspects of the game are hampered by an overly rigid structure that works at cross-purposes to its non-linearity.
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The farming is pretty enjoyable, it's fun talking around town for the first few days, all the endings are extremely boring though and at a certain point you literally have to go to sleep and wake back up over and over again just to trigger storyline events.
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This game is fairly terrible. I'm writing a Zero out of Ten review not because i think it's that bad but because I don't want Save the Homeworld to get that much sales. If you look at a lot of the high reviews they talk about the graphics, but the game only gives you a modicum of capabilities. You only play for 1 year, instead of 3 like in other games, you can't get married, there's hardly any minigames and even if there were, why would it matter if you're only playing for a year...
I feel like the people who love Save the Homeland they either liked it for the graphics (I.E. review is over a decade old) or they liked it because it was their first. Overall I'd rate the game about a 6 with most Harvest Moons being a 7-9. I might even go as low as 5. But just as a game overall it's too limiting for me to recommend or care about.
I'd write a better more detailed review for this game, but it's been so many years since I've played it, and I hated the game back then that it's mostly a blur.
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Summary Perhaps best described as a "Life Simulation," Save the Homeland's object is to successfully save the village from being turned into a resort. Construction begins in a year, so you must find a way to save your homeland before that. The game features nine possible successful endings. [Natsume]
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Nov 22, 2001
Developer:
- Victor Interactive Software
Publisher: Natsume
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