The General Harvest Moon Thread

[CalliopeSoul]

So a lot of us like Pumpkin Online because we like Harvest Moon. Hence, I bring you a Harvest Moon thread!

I think I started with Harvest Moon 64. I also have Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. I like that the kid you have in A Wonderful Life can grow up, but it takes way too long so I never actually saw it happen. Well, my kid grew from baby to child, but I didn't get beyond that.

[mrs saturn]

I've played More Friends of Mineral Town for the GBA (emulated), though not even long enough to get married. I've also watched my boyfriend partially stream the N64 Harvest Moon game, though he never got very far either.

I'd honestly love to play more, but as it is I don't have a lot of patience for emulating video games, and then I don't have a lot of money for buying them either. u__u

[CalliopeSoul]

Maybe you could find an older Harvest Moon game used somewhere if you have the system to play it on?

[CalliopeSoul]

*pokes the thread* Y U people no add to the conversation? :P

[Teagan]

AHHHH I'll never forget my first Harvest Moon game!!! It was Animal Parade and it took me forever but I finally married Owen!
I think I've played a few other games since then but like Mrs Saturn said I'm also pretty lazy w/ emulators and I'm flat broke! ):<

[Angerfish]

I've played HM64, HM: Another Wonderful Life, and Animal Parade. 64 was my first and my favorite! I loved the pace of the game and that made it extremely re-playable!

I also liked that your baby in Another Wonderful Life actually grows up. It was pretty freaky that games before it basically kept your child in that awkward, rat hat stage. Wonderful Life had such a unique vibe that I wish more HM games experimented with. That said, I wasn't a big fan of HM:AWL's game play, or the love interests. Animal Parade was wonderful and solid.

[Eiburine]

I always go for the asian looking doctor bachelor in harvest moon :3 idk why
Kinda sad that anb didnt really have one but i settled for the hairdresser.

Anyways the first harvest moon game I played was magical melody i remember how it was so hard to 100% complete because my pig couldnt find any truffles :3

[Prismshard]

My first Harvest Moon was an emulated version of the original, because my older brother had roms for pretty much every SNES game and I was too young to know about that sort of thing. I annoyed my sister soooo much by constantly asking for help reading larger words.

What really got me hooked on the series though was HM64, which we bought a legit copy of not long after it came out. It was so much fun talking with my sister about the different characters and comparing which town's folk we befriend in our files or who had the most animals.
I don't know if I'm blinded by nostalgia(probably), but no game in the series has ever grabbed me in quite the same way that HM64 did. Not even Back to Narture for PS1, which was more commercially successful and the most ported/remade game in the series.

Animal Parade for Wii is pretty darn good though and definitely one of my favorites. I just wise if had a slightly faster pace. I'm still slowly working on the last Bell....and once I'm done with the main story, the Wizard will be mine. >3<

[Jymaru]

I've only ever played the handheld games - which, unfortunately, means I miss out on characters such as the Harvest King (I wish he was in a portable game) - but I have played every single handheld Harvest Moon besides Lost Valley and Stories of Seasons, even ones such as DS Cute. My favorite is probably A New Beginning, because of the character customisation, and the fact that Amir is probably my favorite love interest in the game (why do I always like the hard ones) (give me all of the dark-skinned hotties) (all of them)

[Angerfish]

Bumping up this old thread, haha!

So I just recently got Story of the Seasons, which is the new Harvest Moon game that's not technically part of the franchise due to legal reasons. I'm loving it so much! Right now I'm in Fall and am experimenting with making my own seeds. I'm also mulling over if I should date either Fritz or Reager.

The difficulty curb is surprisingly high, since there's a higher emphasis on micromanaging and crafting than other games, I think. You have to manually build new tools and ship your crops directly to buyers, rather than just dump them in a shipping bin. I'm not playing with any online guide, but from my understanding, there are no power-berries in this game, so fatigue is a real issue. I find myself cooking and eating at the local restaurant much more in this game than I have in past ones.