Gameplay | Harvest Moon Back To Nature

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is a video game in the farm simulation series Story of Seasons, developed by Victor Interactive Software and published by Natsume. It is the first Harvest Moon game for a non-Nintendo console. Characters from Harvest Moon 64 were transferred to be the characters in this game, although with new lifestyles, personalities, and relatives. A version featuring a female protagonist, Harvest Moon for Girl, was also released.

As a young boy, the main character went to his grandfather's farm for the summer. His grandfather was too busy taking care of the farm to spend much time with him, so the boy explored the town and countryside on his own. The boy befriended his grandfather's puppy and met a little girl his own age with whom he became close friends. When the summer was over the boy had to go back home, but he promised the little girl that he would return someday. Ten years later, years after his grandfather's death, the boy, now a grown man, returns to the town to take over the farm. Upon meeting the main character, mayor and other villagers decide that he would be allowed to stay as the rightful owner if he restored the farm to its original state within three years. Otherwise, he would have to leave.

Gameplay

The game begins with main character inheriting a small amount of money and ramshackle farm covered in weeds. Over the course of the game the player must build a thriving farm, and become a friend of the citizens of Mineral Town. Throughout the game the player must balance between attending to the farm and interacting with other characters to maintain friendships.[7][8] In order to begin with the story, the player must overcome the first obstacle of reestablishing the farm by getting rid of weeds and planting new crops. Once that is done a time frame of three years to completely rejuvenate the farm begins. Time passes while the player is outdoors, and pauses inside different buildings such as shops or barns and mines. Both the growing of crops and raising of livestock require daily attention and the expenditure of time.

Player starts off with an assortment of rudimentary farming tools which can later be upgraded and refined to allow for a more efficient work rate, allowing more work to be done with less energy. Energy is the predominant element of the game, affecting all other aspects of it, particularly in the early stages. The main character can perform a limited amount of tasks each day. Rather than displaying an energy bar, the game instead shows the character becoming more tired as he performs more tasks. Working after the energy has been depleted results in character's blackout and hospitalization which leads to incapacity to perform work; duration of hospitalization increases with each subsequent blackout. There are weather patterns as well as four different seasons in the game, often changing at random but also when certain progress is made. There are rainfalls, hurricanes, frost and blizzards which all do damage to player's farm as they would in real life.

Player can participate in a number of activities, such as betting on horse races, dating and partaking in festivals which coincide with the seasons. During the game, the player will be tasked with finding a suitable wife who will, once proposed to, join the player on the farm where they soon after marry and start a family.

Once the initial three years pass, if the farm was completely renewed, the player character's family settles on their farm for good and the game continues indefinitely, otherwise the game ends.

1.Relaxation Tea Leaves

To get a relaxation tea leaves  in spring you have to go to Supermarket and buy 7 flour or honey and wrap them and then enter sprites' house between 3 and 4p.m. and you'll see their usual dialogues have been changed ... give everyone a wrapped flour and then you'll see a cutscene and they'll give you a bag of Relaxation Tea !

2.Win a Cooking Festival

To win Cooking Festival easily you only need to make a relaxation tea by using the tea leaves that you get from sprites. To make relaxation tea you need :

Pot,Relaxion Tea Leaves, & Sugar only that. and bring it to cooking festival and you will be announced as the winner!!!

3.Harvest Goddess

The goddess lives by the waterfall near the cave where you get the stones for upgrading tools. Behind the waterfall throw in a home grown vegetable and the goddess will come out and say thank you. For so many offerings things happen.

After 5 offerings  the goddess will thank you for coming often. Then she will give you a power berry.

After 10 offerings the goddess will

thank you and ask if you had a sweetheart. Say yes and the girl that likes you most will say she's taking a bath. Go in the hot spring and come out and the girl will be shocked your there. Ann's scene is the funniest.

After 20 offerings the goddess will thank you. Then she gives you a piece of wood. Then Gotz will show up and buy the wood for 1000G and you will be better friends with Gotz.

4.Power Berry

Power Berries are special items that increase maximum Stamina by 10. There are a total of 10 Power Berries. Attaining all 10 will double the player's initial Stamina of 100. The Mystic Berry is not technically a Power Berry, as it affects Fatigue. And there is 10 way for you to get Power Berry :

1.Side of Mother's Hill - Use the Axe on the single lone cedar tree. When it speaks, tell it you won't cut it down.

2.Waterfall Mine - Randomly dug up using the Hoe.

3.Harvest Goddess - Throw five (5) crops into the waterfall. (20 crops in the PSP Girl version)

4.Swimming Festival - Win the swimming competition.

5.Winter Mine (outside) - Around the backside of the mine entrance (left side).

6.Winter Mine - Randomly dug up using the Hoe.

7.TV Shopping - On Saturdays, a Power Berry will randomly be sold (for 5,000G) instead of a Cooking utensil.

8.Mineral Beach - Randomly fished from the ocean during Spring or Winter.

9.Anna's Gift - Plant 91 flowers. When Anna visits, tell her she can pick some flowers.

10. Horse Race - Trade 1001 medals.

11.Kappa – Throw 3 cucumber into Water where kappa lived.

5. Hurricane Perfume

Hurricane Perfume is a perfume that can be used to gain higher heart meter if you give it to any girl in Harvest Moon Back To Nature. To get the Hurricane Perfume you have to go to Mineral Beach the day after the hurricane hits in the Summer. A cutscene will be triggered with Kai asking how long you plan on staying in Mineral Town. Tell him you plan on staying forever and he will give the player a bottle of Perfume.