Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon starts off much differently than you
would expect for a Harvest Moon game if you have played any of the ones before
this new generation of the series. The only thing that you are able to choose
when starting up your game is the name of your character, nothing else. In
prior titles you were able to customize things like the name of your farm but
this is not the case in Innocent Life. Unfortunately you must sit through the
painfully boring cut scenes and tutorial, that may be beneficial to
understanding the story and new physics of the game on your first time through,
it will prove to be an absolute nightmare if you ever have to sit through it
again. The problem with the introduction of the game is that you are not able
to skip any part of it. Now that you understand the gameplay changes within the
game we can start with the story line. You will find that you're no longer a
human teenager, as you would expect, but a brand new robot. You will start the
game asleep in the Shine Pod located at Dr. Hope's mansion in Volcano Town. You
are then told that the story is taking place in the year of 2022 on a small
island located in the southern hemisphere. You will soon find that all
traditional methods of farming have become deprecated for a new style of
farming, that of auto-farming. All tasks that are usually carried out through
manual labor have been completely automated. This has angered some of the
spirits of nature within the game. Your goal is to take up the slack of people
not farming by manual labor, and in doing so unlock the Seals that have been
placed on the fertile land at the Easter Ruins.