Parent's Guide: My Life On A Farm 3D - Age rating, mature content and difficulty

My Life On A Farm 3D is a farming game, in which players take over an old farm, tending to animals, harvesting crops and selling their produce on.

Perhaps unusually, there's no need to plant or water crops here, though, as trees, bushes and plots come pre-planted - all you need to do is harvest the results by tapping on the visible produce. But what may be a tad confusing is that the game permanently shows the crops in full bloom, as if ready to be harvested - even when they're not. It's also not particularly obvious which things can be harvested and which can't, and there's nothing to tell you either, leading to a lot of random tapping on everything in sight until you figure it out. Some items are a little bit more involved, as harvesting them triggers a mini-game, which mostly involve things like tapping a couple of spots on the screen, moving an electric shaver to shear a sheep or steering a tractor around a course in a field.

Unfortunately, in terms of accessibility, My Life On A Farm 3D is very difficult to get into. There's little to no explanation given about what you're doing, at all, with the game simply plonking you in a field and leaving you to figure out the rest for yourself - which, given it's poor game design and dodgy English, is easier said than done. With no voice over at all, reading is pretty much a necessity if you want to know what items people are requesting from you, but the game's poor English doesn't really make things any easier either. The intro to the first mission tells you how "the farmers in your area are looking forward in meeting you!", amongst countless other dodgy bits of text, so those without a strong reading ability may find a few too many stumbling blocks here.

Being a farming game, My Life On A Farm 3D is about as inoffensive as it comes in terms of content - no guts, sex or bad language.

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Format Reviewed: Nintendo 3DS