Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns

Long ago the towns of Bluebell and Konohana were friendly neighbors, joined together by a tunnel underneath the mountain that separates the towns. Eventually the towns started to disagree with each other on…

70 8 July 2010 ESRB E

What Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns is

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns is an adventure game developed by Marvelous Entertainment and released in 2010. It was published by Marvelous Interactive. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Long ago the towns of Bluebell and Konohana were friendly neighbors, joined together by a tunnel underneath the mountain that separates the towns. Eventually the towns started to disagree with each other on whose town had the best cooking cuisine. As the villagers became more obnoxious with each other, the Harvest Goddess became more annoyed with them. One day she finally put her foot down and collapsed the tunnel between the towns, cutting them off from each other. Now the only interaction the towns have with each other is at their cooking festival, where their cooking conflict continues four times per season. As a new farmer, you are eager to start your new life at one of the towns but a…

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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: The Tale of Two Towns is the 36th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived 9 months after Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. The next entry was Minna de Bokujou Monogatari in 2010. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.

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How it was received

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns launched on 8 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Singularity. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Singularity.

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