Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley

Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley
Developer(s)	Marvelous Entertainment
Publisher(s)	JP: Marvelous Entertainment NA: Natsume EU: Rising Star Games
Series	Story of Seasons
Platform(s)	PlayStation Portable
Release date(s)	PSP[1] JP: March 19, 2009 NA: April 26, 2010 EU: November 12, 2010
Genre(s)	Construction and management simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley (牧場物語シュガー村と皆の願い, Bokujō Monogatari: Sugar Mura to Minna no Negai, lit. "Ranch Story: Sugar Village and Everyone's Wish") is a video game in the farm simulation series Story of Seasons for PlayStation Portable, developed by Marvelous Interactive Inc. and published in the U.S. by Natsume. It was released on March 19, 2009 in Japan and on April 26, 2010 in North America.

The game follows along the same lines as the rest of the Story of Seasons series, in which the player takes on the role of a farmer whose only goal in the game is to make a profit from the farm he runs. This includes producing crops and raising livestock. Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley includes marriage and more paths to save the homeland, and features the protagonist of Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland.

Story

The player travels to Sugar Village to pick up his grandfather's things after hearing that he has died. He learns that the village will be turned into an amusement park, and encounters three "Harvest sprites" and the Harvest Goddess, who ask him to stay on the farm and help them. The player then decides to take over his grandfather's farm and work hard to turn the village around. By choosing different paths, you can find up to 16 ways to save the village.^[2]

Reception

The game came out to positive reviews. IGN rated the game a 7.5 saying "the controls can be frustrating at times" but "I had a hard time putting down Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley."^[3] It currently holds a score of 74 on Metacritic.^[4]

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