The “Harvest Moon” genre is not one that has really been associated with out-of-the-box thinking. Even the darlings of the genre, such as more recent Story of Seasons titles, or Stardew Valley, have largely kept to the aesthetic and narrative traditions of the genre. By that I mean they’ve been colourful, wholesome, and the right kind of twee. Village in the Shade upends that with an exquisitely gory death in the opening chapter. In what is pretty clearly a spiritual sequel to the Yomawari titles (and developed by the same team at NIS), Village in the Shade takes all the…