Honestly I'm going to be biased, but from memory of playing through this game - it was amazing, I really loved how simple it was? Generally speaking about the storyline and the gameplay.
I'm not sure if this was my first ever harvest moon, or farming game in general that I ever played, but I remember playing it a lot and I was obsessed with it when I was younger.
I was a little irrational, as I just wanted to play it.
I loved it and still do.
The music, even now sometimes I go back and listen to it and it's so memorable and just positive, I love the smooth beats and just how cool the soundtrack was. Repeatedly though, it would get annoying to listen to the main spring theme, or whatever theme for the game hours on end when you would play through it. (Partially my fault however, you can just turn it down/off, but I just loved the music anyways)
I really loved the concept of the two towns, even though both were based on certain things that you could do, you still had the chance to raise some animals if you went to the Asian style village! (Forgive my forgetfulness of the towns' names) and the chance to grow crops in the other town!
- as well as trying to get them to communicate and be friendly to each other again, they all just used to be friends and I loved this
I thought that the animal designs were really cute, as well as the human designs, some where okay & some where stunning. This game doesn't allow you to customize how you look, besides picking between two gendered characters (boy/girl) IT did however have outfits that you could collect (still not change) but some of them were really cute. I never actually noticed this, until I played it at some point again.
I don't think the game ever told you about the other outfits, unless I was idiot and don't remember when they explained that.
Moving on, I think that's all, this is really just me talking about how much I love this game, I kind of wish of a remake of this game or a port to the new Nintendo generation of consoles, which would be really cool, because I would definitely have my time to play this game a lot again.
It would be cool to also see more events in it too, I did find that going through the months and year's was boring a little, however there were definitely some events and features that I liked in this game. :)
Ps. I'm sorry for making you read this, ILY!