About the best Harvest Moon game I ever played
The graphics. They do kind of remind me of Animal Crossing. I like that they are fairly colorful. Not that the realitic graphic are not good in AWL but if only AWL played like this game, it would have been even more enjoyable.
The sound is pretty good. I have no problem with it. Some music gets a little repretative, but that way there is the mute button. Not ground-breaking, but not bad either.
The gameplay is much improved from AWL. It is much more fun and even more enjoyable then HM64. There is one thing I don't like is switching items. I wish it would be like in AWL where you automatically pause the game when swith items, that way you don't work under a time limit. Other then that, the gameplay is good.
Value. For $40, I think it is worth the price. Heck I been playing my Gamefly Rental of this game for hours. Who knows I may or may not use the keep it option.