Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is a farming simulation game for the Nintendo 3DS video game console. As the new farmer in town, it is your job to use your farm and its resources to revitalize a once-popular…
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is an adventure developed by Marvelous AQL, released 19 October 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is an adventure game developed by Marvelous AQL and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Once a thriving town, Echo Village is almost empty after the inhabitants lost everything in a poor economy. Your parents recently offered you a chance to renovate the abandoned family farm, but reviving a successful ranch requires rebuilding the town. Can you find the materials and blueprints that allow you to create the best community in the land?
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is the 38th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived 2 years after Minna de Bokujou Monogatari. The next entry was Hometown Story in 2013. Its critic score of 75 is 9 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.
How it was received
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning launched on 19 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
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