>>718041330
>objectively superior?
People view Harvest Moon with rose tinted glasses, each subsequent entry after 64 is worse than the next.
Friends of Mineral town started the nonsense where you pay a bunch of midgets to run the farm for you, completely removing the farming aspect of the fucking farming game and instead wanting you to do the tedious sets of bullshit mines, two different ones I think that actively encourage savescumming because of their rng nature.
BtN/HoLV had even less emphasis on farming as the main pull of that game was doing all the miscellaneous sidequests to get the good endings.
Wonderful life was rock bottom as farming was the most tedious and least lucrative money maker. Tilling/watering was slow as dirt and there was no reason to do anything but trees. Cows were mind numbing as they could only be milked after pregnancy and were useless shortly after, once again in a game about farming, farm work was the shittest option when you could just fish all day for significantly less effort and three times the profit.