Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley was a divisive 3DS entry in the franchise, with some opinion that Natsume's attempts at modernising and evolving the series weren't a success; for our part we considered it to be below par.
In any case, it'll have its fans, and around eight months after its release Natsume has issued an update to incorporate feedback. Most of the changes are around balancing, while Fido's "naughty habits" have been reduced. Your humble writer hasn't played the game so isn't sure what this means on a practical level; perhaps Fido will do less 'business' where he shouldn't?
Thanks to all the fans who provided feedback for The Lost Valley to make it even better: a new patch has arrived for Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley! Your North American copy of the game should automatically prompt you to download Version 1.1, which includes:Improved Harvest Sprites~ Earn friendship faster, and watch them do way more work!Improved Watering Can: 50 wasn't enough, so now it holds 200!Change in dog's behavior: Some of Fido's naughty habits have been minimized!Minor tweaks to code that should improve gameplay!
There's no mention of European copies updating, but as it only arrived in the region a month ago it may have shipped with these tweaks.
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Oh, so Fido is a dog.
Maybe naughty habits wasn't the best choice of words.
Uh... What habits are these?
...Naughty habits?...
@ryanator008
Oooooh myyyyy
@Flowerlark Many recent HM games had issues like that. Either the days were rather short or you basically had next to no stamina to do your daily work (Looking at you magical melody).
I always wished that this would someday become some sort of "difficulty" option to either give you more or less time.
@Thomas Whitehead I can confirm that the European copy definitely does not have those tweaks (yet). Guess we'll be waiting for a patch and the missing DLC. But overall good to hear, I like the game despite it's shortcomings and anything to make it better is welcomed.
Oh, I should have realised sooner that Fido is a dog's name.
@Mona-Reggie like ur profile pic
I too am curious about these habits.
@RupeeClock Have you met a person named Fido before?
Must suck to be him.
@-Godot
Video game character names don't tend to fit certain norms, ya know?
For the people asking, most events in the game happen in the morning, including the event where your happy dog gives you a gift.
Sometimes, the dog would override other more important events with its daily gifts.
That means you had to not give him food for a few days so that he wouldn't give you a gift and the other event could happen.
Sounds like Fido and the neighbor's dog want puppies...
My eyes still burn when seeing this game
@-Godot my brothers nickname was Fido, based of our last name not because he was a dog though his flirting may have gave that impression =P
Hopefully the update will make this garbage disappear.
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