One of these will be my first Harvest Moon. Which should I go for and why?
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One of these will be my first Harvest Moon. Which should I go for and why?
One of these will be my first Harvest Moon. Which should I go for and why?
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i went with ps1 version because it had bratty e-girles in it
Neither of them are good for your first since they're both kind of unorthodox for the series. A wonderful life is definitely closer to the rest of the series, it took some step forward in some aspects and a step back in others. Save the Homeland is weird, it's a short game without much content, no relationship/marriages and it's focused on beating the game, getting an ending and then restarting it to get a different one.
The best games in the series to be your first are probably 64/Back to Nature for PS1 or Friends of Mineral Town for GBA.
This tbh. Both games are great, but they remove the classic endgame of getting married, having a kid and working on your perfect farm till you get bored.
"A Wonderful Life" would be the best in terms of features, it even supports your character aging (by chapters, not tracking the actual time, but still), but here's the kicker... You die in it. You get a family, start really enjoying your farm, all of a sudden you can't enjoy it anymore. Maybe the wonderful life is the one we've led? - sort of bullshit. The PS2 port added an extra chapter and got rid of permadeath, however like
pointed out already, it's crap. Slowest game ever, with no code optimization whatsoever, runs at a slug pace, what, 10 FPS? Not kidding it's the slowest game I've played on the entire system and it's shameful. Maybe someone will fix it one day, dunno.
"Save the Homeland" is much smaller in scope (tiny fields, less crops, animals and tools, no marriage), but it does have a system where you build relationships with the neighbours. It's also a very beautiful game, best looking Harvest Moon to date in my opinion. It has this weird gameplay loop thing going on though, where you have a year of in-game time to somehow (you know it already, kek)... Save the homeland. So as an example you find a rare species that could get protected status, you get one ending and a reward of some sorts, like a different crop to try out. Game resets to day 1, no one knows you. You manage to do something else to help the village? Game ends, you get another reward, time resets. It's like Groundhog Day on a farm. The best way to play this game is do all the possible endings for all the rewards, figure out which season you like the most, stay in it and stop the passing of time using GameShark/ActionReplay codes while avoiding known triggers to end the game.
They have always been so convoluted with the time mechanics. I always prefered the Rune Factory series because you can just frick around forever.
>64
How on Earth can you say that the PS2 games are too unorthadox, then turn around and recommend 64?
Because it's better
It's not unorthodox at all, while it's arguable BTN might have established what the the "formula" was, 64 was like 90% of the way there already.
>Neither of them are good for your first since they're both kind of unorthodox for the series.
That may be true but AWL was said by the creator to be the biggest achievement of his original vision for the series. I don't feel like sourcing but you can look it up. AWL was also the bestselling game. I adapted to the rest of the series just fine after getting over the initial disappointment of finding out no one ages and time works differently in the other games
The PS2 port of a wonderful life is the worst possible version you can play.
I played it and it was functional but the music was ruined. It sounds totally different
Listen to this person OP the gamecube version was better PS2 version was poorly optimized. Just slap it into dolphin your experience wouldn't be better on real hardware if playing the PS2 version. I bought the ps2 ver because it is my favorite console and my gamecube disc was long ruined
I'd recommend Back to Nature, HM64 or Friends of Mineral Town. They are often considered some of the best entries for good reason. What made you want to go with one of these two?
Alright, so after the recommendations I am torn between 64 and Back to Nature. I thought they were the same game but it looks like there are enough differences between two that it kinda has me split. Leaning more towards the PS1 game though.
it's sad seeing this comfy series with absolutely beautiful art... and the soulless filth it turned into.
Biggest difference is the pace of the games. 64's days go by faster and generally you can get less done in a day than in BTN, but BTN is also more grindy in certain respects.
64 and BTN also share the same characters but their personalities and relationships with each other are different. I would say 64 is probably a little bit better in this regard, but don't make it the deciding factor.
Wonderful life is an unfinished game. The company victor interactive went bankrupt making it. Save the homeland is at least a fully realized title (even if that special edition adds some stuff)
It's gayggy as shit that they don't call it harvest moon anymore
Well, for what it's worth, the game is literally more homosexual now so it makes sense. Plus every remake is the definition of Soul vs Soulless. I have no doubt in my mind they listened to what the localizers said the western audience wanted.
Some of them do get called Harvest Moon, and the ones that don't are because they can't call it that.
In Japan it's called Farm Story. What happened was the English localizers came up with the title "Harvest Moon" and somehow managed to retain rights to use it. So when the Farm Story games moved to a different localizer, they had to come up with a different title.
So now one company releases Farm Story games under the title Story of Seasons, while the other releases knock-off games called Harvest Moon.
i like it that way because it easier to tell old from new without actually even looking or playing the games. name change is as big of red flag as it gets when it comes to disassociation to old. you can just safely ignore the series without pretending to be unbiased reviewer and your heart breaking from all the butchering they doing to the series. it's like when fans trying their best to justify newer games in the series and like them, but just cant because new games suck too much. name change is lesser of all evils in that regard... because it's different game, so you get your burden lessened
Back to nature because this is my fricking jam
Forget those and go for the Snes one
Solid advice, it's the OG for sure. IMO HM64 and Back to Nature are also good games.
Back to Nature