INTUITIVE FARMING CONTROLS
In Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, there is very minimal menu management and item swapping when it comes to competing tasks around your farm. Instead, when your character walks up to a square plot of land that you can interact with, pressing B will automatically do the task that is required of that square for farming. For example, interacting with tall grass cuts it, clicking a cleared plot of land turns it to useable soil, crops will be watered, trees will be cut down, etc.
These sorts of controls were first designed for Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories since it also came out on iOS. Getting rid of tiny menu screens was a priority on mobile devices, and lends itself well to Switch’s portable mode. If a player was only using the TV mode, then menu screens wouldn’t be an issue, but it would be kind of confusing to use those menus for portable mode when switching between the two continuously. Intuitive farming controls fit perfectly for the launch of Switch, and likely were chosen with that in mind.
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope will release for PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch at a currently unannounced date.
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