Fans of the Harvest Moon franchise were recently diving into the demo for the upcoming Harvest Moon: One World, and there’s one gameplay feature that was highlighted in the aforementioned demo. Specifically, the feature that was shown off is the game’s multiple regions, and what’s interesting about this is the fact that each of these unique regions can have its own farms.
When Harvest Moon: One World was announced, many were understandably skeptical about its quality, especially when compared to other farming sims that have grown popular over the years like Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons.
Many fans of the farming simulation genre criticized Harvest Moon: One World because of its similarities to Story of Seasons, believing that the developer simply copied from the franchise in an attempt to earn money from its popularity without providing genuine quality.
However, we can see that Natsume has definitely been hard at work in enhancing the quality of One World since the game’s first trailer was released. Now, it appears that the upcoming video game will be incorporating interesting new gameplay mechanics.
Various videos and content revolving around Harvest Moon: One World’s demo have been circulating online recently, and perhaps one major addition to the game that many have highlighted is its multiple regions, which, apparently, were based on real-world areas.
Specifically, Harvest Moon: One World will have 5 different regions, namely the Halo Halo island inspired by Hawaii, the volcanic region called Lebkuchen, the snowy village Salmiakki, and the grasslands area Calisson.
Players will be able to explore each different region, but there’s more to Harvest Moon: One World than that. The exciting part is that players will be able to create farms in each one, and they’ll have special characteristics given the fact that each region is also distinct. To make things easy for the player, they don’t have to create individual farm buildings for each region. In fact, they can simply pick up these buildings and then transfer them to another area.
However, it’s worth noting that this only applies to the buildings. The crops that players plant onto certain regions will stay there. Harvest Moon: One World will also feature crop variations. For instance, planting a tomato in the snowy lands of Salmiakki will result in a frozen tomato sprout. We’re definitely interested to see what kind of recipes can be made from these different variations, or if their prices vary as well when sold.
Of course, given that Natsume has put a special emphasis on exploring different regions in this game, players can expect other gameplay mechanics as well, including weather conditions.
Weather conditions will affect the player character similarly to the way it affects Link from Breath of the Wild in that they can cook and eat hot meals in order to stay warm in the cold, snowy locations. The Monster Hunter franchise has a similar mechanic as this as well, although it will no longer be present in Monster Hunter Rise.
In any case, Harvest Moon: One World is set to release next month on March 2, 2021, so get ready for more farming action!
