Harvest Moon - Hero of Leaf Valley (PSP) - Spring 3, Year 1

Things just get weirder and weirder. Today, as soon as I woke up and left the house, three more weirdos came out of no where. I'm not sure what was up. Two were wearing suits - some guy that's never met a comb and another short fat guy that was bold and worse sun glasses. The third was some chick who was wearing a belly dancer outfit for some reason. She seemed kinda cute and nice until she opened her mouth. "What a dump!" is exactly what I thought of your personality, lady.

Anyways, turns out the chick was the CEO of the Funland company, the people that want to turn the island into an amusement park. As soon as she started acting like a bitch, I no longer felt like this place would be better as an amusement park. What kind of social-stunted idiot thinks it's alright to walk up to someone and tell them they "need to get your things together and get out of here." Even if they apparently "own the deed" of this farm and every other farm (How did they pull that off? Perhaps the weird people in this town realized how much of a crappy place it is and sold out.)

They offered to sell me the deed for something like $50,000 and then proceeded to call me a peasant. Also, apparently she keeps her office at the North side of town. My guess, based on how shoddy the trio was, is that this is some rich guys daughter trying to prove herself or something by starting up her own amusement park company. Why bother choosing some remote island? Why not buy an old amusement park and fix it up in a better location? What the hell is going on here?

After the trio-of-fail left, I went ahead and watered the crop. Or that's what I did when the three Sprites left. Yeah, apparently I'm the only one that can see them because the CEO and dumb and dumber didn't seem to react to them at all. Come to think of it, they didn't even flinch when I turned and talked to the three little weirdos. I wish I understand what was going on.

I have to admit that seeing the potatoes already sprouting felt good. I mean, I didn't do much work but it felt really satisfying. Almost like I was compelled to grow. I wonder how much I'll get when they're done growing? I'm still not hungry, so I doubt I'll need them for food. Are potatoes supposed to grow that fast?

After I was done watering, I didn't get much else done. I decided to visit the ranch on the other side of the island to see what was up. Apparently they sell animals. Apparently they'll sell me chickens, cows, or a single horse. Not sure why it's only one horse, though. Either way, buying those potato seeds yesterday took all my money so I couldn't afford anything.

I wondered around for a bit, trying to figure out where the ranch kept their animals. At around noon, though, I decided I would head over and look at the villa near the center of town. Along the way I ran into the shorty with sunglasses, who was surprisingly nice without his friend or boss around. Outside of the villa, some guy in a bug catchers outside asked me about eating breakfast. I ignored him.

Next to the front door was a notice, apparently the villa was looking for a part-time chef. Starting at $250, at 10AM until sometime in the afternoon. I went inside and talked to "Martha" in the kitchen, but she didn't even acknowledge that I was asking about the job. I guess because it was almost 1PM? I dunno. I explored around the rest of the Villa but didn't find anything interesting. Sure, there was another cute girl (what's up with this village and young, cute, and single girls?), but we didn't have much of a conversation.

After the Villa, I headed to the Carpentry shop. The Master Carpenter was an old guy named Woody and he had two apprentices, it seemed like. I'm actually surprised at the size of their operation. I was imagining a single guy working in a tiny one-room workshop. But woody had a two-story house, a large side-edition to said house, and a separate building for his workshop. I think I kinda latched onto that place as an anchor into reality. Everything else in this crazy village seems like an odd caricature of reality.

Behind Woody's place was a gravel path that lead further up the mountain at the back of the village. Along the way, I ran into Parsley. I almost cried when I spoke to him, because he actually had something varied to say. No more of the one-line conversations, I hope. Maybe what happened on the second day was just some kind of hazing ritual the village has?

I continued up the path and stumbled upon the mine. This place also had a notice about part-time work. It paid more than the chef job at the villa, but started at 9AM. Because it was nearly 2PM, I didn't even bother going inside.Right outside the mine was really modern building - security cameras and all - which was a really odd contrast with the rest of the place. I set up my phone on a timer and took a selfie with the building. Ignore the odd border, I couldn't figure out what I was doing and accidentally added it to the picture.

Deciding I should continue my exploring, I went further up the mountain to the area called "The Goddess Spring" and was ambushed by the Sprites again. They taught (forced) me how to summon the Harvest Goddess. I think I may have been inducted into some sort of cult. The Goddess appeared after I tossed an apple in the water and proceeded to flirt with me. Apparently she liked flowers and nuts (ha!). She doesn't like weed, though. Needless to say, I GTFO fast.

Further along the trail, I came across the local lake. Unfortunately, I also ran into the local Tanuki (Raccoon). He was wearing some kind of weird hat and a cape. Apparently he can't be seen by most people (I wonder why I'm the only one that can see all these weird things. Am I insane?). Ponta (the Tanuki) seemed nice enough though. At least he didn't demand I save his village or something. I left decided that I liked Ponta and made my way to the Cafe. Oh, there was some old building that looked like a church or something, but it was locked.

By time I got to the cafe, it was almost 7PM. I figured that the Cafe would be owned by a cute girl, as there seems to be a pattern of that in this village. However, it was oddly reassuring to find that it was actually owned by some old guy. His menu seemed nice, but I had no money to get anything. Thankfully, I still wasn't hungry. At around 8PM I decided I should head to bed and went home. I finished Episode 3 of Daredevil before falling asleep.

Harvest Moon - Hero of Leaf Valley (PSP) - Spring 2, Year 1

Today I woke up to the horrible realization that what I witnessed yesterday was reality. I also slept about eighteen hours. I think I'm in shock because I took that news quite well. I got up early and checked out the old TV. The image was horrible, but the thing worked. I didn't bother paying attention to it, though, as there were only three channels.

I decided to leave and explore the "village." I ran into a couple of people in the area right outside my farm. I talked to them but they would only say a single sentence, no matter how many times I prompted them for conversation. Kinda creepy, but I'm the new guy, right? I headed through the rest of the place, which took a while due to how oddly set up the roads are, and met a few other people. I visited a few of the shops, but most were closed. At around noon I finally got around to the Item Shop and Florist.

The item shop was useless to me and the guy that owned it creeped me out, so I left there fast. The florist was kinda cute, but she kept her eyes closed the whole time. I wondered if she were blind, but didn't want to ask. Though she probably wouldn't have told me anyways, as she would only say the same line every time. I bought some corn seeds just to have an excuse to leave.

I went immediately back to my Grandfathers farm and realized it was only noon and I needed something to do. I decided to go ahead and try planting the corn, but honestly didn't know much of what to do. I grabbed the hoe from the house and got to work and made a checkered pattern hoping it would work out. I planted the corn (I could only afford three seeds... thanks grandpa...) and some potato seeds that were left in the house. After that, I watered them all.

It was about this time that I came to the eerie realization that I had used up about half of my energy reserves. It was eerie because I somehow knew that I had exerted half of my total energy. As in, if I were to continue going, I knew exactly when I would pass out. It's kinda odd.

Come to think of it, as I sit here in bed watching Daredevil on Netflix on my phone (thankfully I have a signal here), I realize that I'm not hungry. I haven't been hungry since I talked to those Harvest Sprites. I wonder why.

Harvest Moon - Hero of Leaf Valley (PSP) - Spring 1, Year 1

Today I somehow got pressured into taking over my Grandfathers farm in a place called Sugar Village. I honestly didn't want to take over, but when I came out of my Grandfathers old house, there were three Harvest Sprites outside the door. I didn't even know they existed. And, for some reason, they decided to include me into their plans to stop this small island from being turned into an Amusement park.

Oh yeah, there was also a Harvest Goddess that appeared out of no where. For some reason they decided that it would be appropriate to administer a short personality test and then decide that I was their only hope. I "could" have denied them, but when three tiny people with elf costumes and a delusional woman appear in front of your house, you feel inclined to just go with whatever they want.

I honestly don't see why it's a problem if this place is turned into an Amusement Park. I mean, there's maybe ten people living here. There's a ranch, my Grandfathers farm, a Florist and Item shop, a small cafe and a grocery store. There's also some villa and a mine. Really, you can't even consider this place a village because everything is spread out. There's a plaza that literally only has a platform in it. Also, I don't get why there's a horse racing track. You'd think these people would spend their money building something more helpful to their survival, like a hospital.

I went to bed as soon as the weirdos left, hoping that this was all an illusion.