History VideoGame / HarvestMoonANewBeginning

* ForcedTutorial: UpToEleven! All of Spring is an extended tutorial, and onne of the main criticisms of this game is that almost the entire beginning is incredibly slow.

* {{Expy}}: The teenaged forms of the player character's children look an awful lot like Mark and Chelsea, the player characters from ''[[HarvestMoon Island of Happinness]]'' and ''[[HarvestMoon Sunshine Islands]]''

''Franchise/HarvestMoon: [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]'' is a title in the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' series. It was released in 2012 and is the first game to only be allowed on the 3DS.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: You're told by the seed descriptions for cotton to harvest using a sickle. Nope, they're harvested by hand just like most other crops.

* FakeLongevity:
** This game seems to love this. For example, the game forces this onto the player if they refuse to go online to get the required materials to complete tasks faster. Most egregiously, one particular task in Town Restoration Plan 4 requires you to ship 30 potatoes and 30 yams. By the time you get to [=TRP4=], chances are it would already be the end of year 1 fall, and yam seeds are not sold until fall of year 2. Even if you have the maker shed and yam seeds now (won from the Fall Crop Festival), you need to wait until year 2 summer to be able to get the blueprints for a greenhouse. And if you don't go online to get your parts, you'll be stuck waiting for year 2 fall to complete the plan. In other words, game delays you one whole year if you don't plan ahead or use Nintendo WFC, or 3 months if you do plan ahead but not use WFC. The quickest way out? Go online and beg for 30 yams to ship.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Can become this if you befriend all the animals.
* ForcedTutorial: UpToEleven! One of the main criticisms of this game is that almost the entire beginning is incredibly slow.

* GoingThroughTheMotions: Yup. Helps, since your character is a HeroicMime.
* HeroicMime: You get to talk a little, like in heart events.
* IronicName: It's title is called ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]''. This would be the last ''Bokujou Monogatari'' game published and localized in North America with the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' brand.

* UnskippableCutscene: A whole lot of them. They're one of the main complaints for this game.
* VirtualPaperDoll: First game in the series to completely show this off instead of being more limited like in previous games.

* FakeLongevity: This game seems to love this. For example, trying to go travel to far off places takes up a lot of time, and you need to go there to get semi-rare items. The time in general seem to go pretty quickly, and most people just switch their schedule just to get by. One big problem for many people is growing and shipping 30 yams and 30 potatoes in Town Plan #4. You’ll probably have already shipped potatoes and if you get the plan before Spring of the 2nd year you can know in advance to grow and ship some more. There’s also the greenhouse you can get in the Summer to grow some if you’re a bit late. The yams however can’t be gotten unless you beg someone to give you a couple, or wait until Fall of Year 2!

* CosmeticAward: A lot of the things you achieve in this game. Eating a bunch of poison mushrooms, giving gifts to the Harvest Goddess, and almost anything else gets you nowhere.
** However, some awards such as cooking a bunch of times (but not necessarily a lot of stuff at once) raises the star rank of the prepared dish a bit.

* FakeLongevity: This game seems to love this. For example, trying to go travel to far off places takes up a lot of time, and you need to go there to get semi-rare items. The time in general seem to go pretty quickly, and most people just switch their schedule just to get by.
** One big problem for many people is growing and shipping 30 yams and 30 potatoes in Town Plan #4. You’ll probably have already shipped potatoes and if you get the plan before Spring of the 2nd year you can know in advance to grow and ship some more. There’s also the greenhouse you can get in the Summer to grow some if you’re a bit late. The yams however can’t be gotten unless you beg someone to give you a couple, or wait until Fall of Year 2!

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yuri sells the boy and girl outfits regardless of which gender you picked, so you can have the boy wear dresses or the girl wear the obviously boy-oriented clothes if you want to. Allen does the same with hairstyles, meaning you can have your character ''look'' the opposite gender but not actually be it.
** The only thing giving away the actual gender is the icon on the map (since the girls icon always has long hair with cowboy hat) and the eyes (while it is possible to get the eyes changed by the Witch, it is absolutely impossible to get an eye style from the opposite gender)
** Plus, your save file will say "Boy" or "Girl" on it, and you'll still be addressed as that gender - i.e., when you propose to Rod, Allen tells him he's "got a good woman," Rod talks about seeing you in your wedding dress, etc.

* IronicName: It's title is called ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]''. This would be the last game published and localized in North America with the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' brand.

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* AerithAndBob: You have normal names such as Rachel, Hana, Emma, and Neil. You also have, in the very same town, Hossan, Niko, Dunhill, and Yuri.

** Plus, your save file will say "Boy" or "Girl" on it, and you'll still be addressed by that gender - i.e., when you propose to Rod, Allen tells him he's "got a good woman," Rod talks about seeing you in your wedding dress, etc.

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''Harvest Moon: A New Beginning'' is a title in the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' series. It was released in 2012 and is the first game to only be allowed on the 3DS.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Yup. Allen is a good example, with his bangs and all.

* CharacterCustomization: While some other games in the series had some of these aspects, ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]'' gets it done. Games like ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon3 GBC 3]]'' let you customize your character before the game actually began, but you could just change the color of their clothes. ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade Animal Parade]]'' let you buy some clothes for you and possibly your children. ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]'' lets you change your skin tone, your eye color, hair, AND clothes. And you can eventually get these changed again in the game, but only if you move the right people in.

* IronicName: It's title is called ''A New Beginning''. This would be the last game published and localized in North America with the ''Harvest Moon'' brand.

* CharacterCustomization: While some other games in the series had some of these aspects, ''A New Beginning'' gets it done. Games like ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon3 GBC 3]]'' let you customize your character before the game actually began, but you could just change the color of their clothes. ''Animal Parade'' let you buy some clothes for you and possibly your children. ''A New Beginning'' lets you change your skin tone, your eye color, hair, AND clothes. And you can eventually get these changed again in the game, but only if you move the right people in.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Yup. Allen is a good example, with his bangs and all.

* UnskippableCutscene: A whole lot of them.
* VirtualPaperDoll: First game in the series to completely show this off.

* BrokenBridge: As usual in a ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' game. You can unlock some of them by completing certain town plans.

* BrokenBridge: As usual in a Franchise/HarvestMoon game. You can unlock some of them by completing certain town plans.

* CharacterCustomization: While some other games in the series had some of these aspects, A New Beginning gets it done. Games like GBC 3 let you customize your character before the game actually began, but you could just change the color of their clothes. Animal Parade let you buy some clothes for you and possibly your children. A New Beginning lets you change your skin tone, your eye color, hair, AND clothes. And you can eventually get these changed again in the game, but only if you move the right people in.

* HeroicMime

''Harvest Moon: A New Beginning'' is a title in the VideoGame/HarvestMoon series. It was released in 2012 and is the first game to only be allowed on the 3DS.

Along the way, like in most VideoGame/HarvestMoon games, you can get married and even have a kid. You can also have various kinds of animals, such as llamas, sheep, alpaca, chicken, silkies, and more on your farm.

* ChekovsGunman: At the very beginning you see Hossan and his son Niko move out to get more business. They move back in once you build their houses in a town plan.

* UnskippableCutscenes: A whole lot of them.

* ArtificialDifficulty: This game seems to love this. For example, trying to go travel to far off places takes up a lot of time, and you need to go there to get semi-rare items. The time in general seem to go pretty quickly, and most people just switch their schedule just to get by.
** One big problem for many people is growing and shipping 30 yams and 30 potatoes in Town Plan #4. You’ll probably have already shipped potatoes and if you get the plan before Spring of the 2nd year you can know in advance to grow and ship some more. There’s also the greenhouse you can get in the Summer to grow some if you’re a bit late. The yams however can’t be gotten unless you beg someone to give you a couple, or wait until Fall of Year 2!