One of those 'recommended with caveats'. It's certainly one of, if not the, best iterations of Harvest Moon since the Natsume/Marvelous split. It is however firmly within Natsume's interpretation of the series which not all farming/life sim fans are going to get along with. What you get is a large open world to explore with numerous points of interest, an over-arching storyline to drive the gameplay and pretty solid farming/animal husbandry mechanics. What you don't get are particularly in-depth NPC interactions (or in many cases, characterisation), extended production chains or much in the way of character and farm customisation (even with the DLC it's mainly just the ability to recolour stuff).

One of those 'recommended with caveats'. It's certainly one of, if not the, best iterations of Harvest Moon since the Natsume/Marvelous split. It is however firmly within Natsume's interpretation of the series which not all farming/life sim fans are going to get along with. What you get is a large open world to explore with numerous points of interest, an over-arching storyline to drive the gameplay and pretty solid farming/animal husbandry mechanics. What you don't get are particularly in-depth NPC interactions (or in many cases, characterisation), extended production chains or much in the way of character and farm customisation (even with the DLC it's mainly just the ability to recolour stuff).