Simply a must play. Yes, I too played Harvest Moon -- the original, on SNES, and none of the others because I kind of grew up and didn't have a console to play games. When I first saw this, I immediately connected it to Harvest Moon, and had to get it. And while it's been so long that I can't reliably compare the two, I have spent *so* *many* *hours* on this game. I'm a control freak, and a perfectionist, and this game really allows those two facets of my personality to come out. Also, it's really nice to have a game where you don't have to shoot people to win.
My kids are really into this, and so am I. Well executed and wonderful eye candy.
I was very frustrated playing this. OK, so I'm elected at the very beginning of the game. Then why are there 11 million members of the other party, but 0 members of mine? I thought I just, you know, got elected. I would think there would be at least one member of my party, namely me. And who are these people in my cabinet if no one is even in my party? The tutorial was massively annoying, and the "quit tutorial" button was non-functional. So, I'd have to click on whatever the tutorial told me to do -- which, when I got to a page where the tutorial's instruction wasn't there, resulted in essentially a hard freeze of the game requiring a kill from the task manager. OK, start it back up, I don't expect perfection. After 2 1/2 years I was assassinated. Well, maybe something weird happened. Start up another game -- an identical hard freeze on the same page caused by the tutorial, and now my cabinet ministers are just a series of stacked horizontal lines. Yeah, I feel like I wasted my money here. That's not even getting into the game play.
