Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon Special Edition

Compared to other Harvest Moon titles, this one feels like it strays pretty far away from the franchise's formula. The inconvenient truth is that while you still harvest crops, the farther into the game you go, the less important farming becomes and the more island exploration takes over. Unfortunately, the unbalanced level of exploration, slow development of the story and nonsensical character development (coupled with his virtual isolation) makes the game one of those titles that appeals to an even smaller niche of this niche genre. What's more, the limited additions to the "Special Edition" doesn’t make this one better or any more improved over the PSP version.

"Unfortunately, most gamers won't be able to make it past the first few hours, which is fine for a game like this, but it also doesn't fully embrace its target audience, either. It's certainly not the best Harvest Moon entry, that's for sure."

"While it was nice to see some new things for the Harvest Moon series, Innocent Life just didn't give me the thrill I was hoping for. There were some good ideas, but they were poorly executed. I definitely wouldn't recommend this game to veterans of the series. Innocent Life would be more of a game for a casual gamer or, because of the ease of difficulty, maybe someone just starting out in the series."