{"id":4761,"date":"2011-04-04T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2011-04-05T18:22:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T01:22:34","slug":"harvest-moon-hero-of-leaf-valley-take-this-job-and-shove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/04\/harvest-moon-hero-of-leaf-valley-take-this-job-and-shove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley: take this job and shove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"4761\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Harvest_Moon_GD_03.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Harvest_Moon_GD_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Harvest_Moon_GD_03\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Harvest_Moon_GD_03.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Harvest_Moon_GD_03-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hero of Leaf Valley takes an interesting approach to tutorials, and I&#8217;m of two minds about it. For farming and fishing, the controls are explained to you and you&#8217;re cut loose to try them out on your farm.  But for other tasks &#8212; riding horses, mining for ore, cutting lumber, and cooking &#8212; you can do &#8220;part-time work&#8221; for your neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After the jump, how hard can it be to cut down trees?<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This system accomplishes two things.  One, it gives you practice in a consequence-free environment. It&#8217;s not <em>your <\/em> cow you&#8217;re mishandling, after all. Two, you&#8217;ll get paid for it.  Amounts vary, but it&#8217;s always at least a couple hundred gold, and sometimes you get to keep the fruits of your labor. Take care of Ronald&#8217;s chickens, for example, and he&#8217;ll let you keep an egg that you can sell, eat, or incubate to get a chicken of your own.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds fantastic on the surface, and for the first in-game week or so I loved it. But then I discovered the restrictions.  Right now, I&#8217;m just plain not allowed to mine ore or cut lumber on my own. I have no access to the forest at all without talking to Woody, and while I can enter the mine on my own, trying to break rocks without Rudolph&#8217;s blessing gets me an &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t do that&#8221; error message. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out I need to do this part-time work five times each in order to get unrestricted access. Five times isn&#8217;t many, granted, but they&#8217;re only available at certain times during the day, and on certain days. Being able to get there on time can really be a headache. Besides, the tasks in question aren&#8217;t that difficult.  One try at them is plenty. The rest is just padding, and I can&#8217;t think of a reason the game would work this way.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. At least I&#8217;m getting paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>Next time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/05\/harvest-moon-hero-of-leaf-valley-the-roads-not-taken\/\">other paths to glory<\/a><br \/>\nClick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/01\/harvest-moon-hero-of-leaf-valley-girls-girls-girls\/\">here<\/a> for the previous Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley game diary entry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Meghan Bowyer lives in Kansas City and works as a legal assistant when not playing\/obsessing over video games. 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