If the soil type wasn’t great, the crops would take longer to grow and their quality wouldn’t be as great unless I added fertilizer, and so on. As a child, I had a really handy guidebook for A Wonderful Life that showed me the different crops that would grow each different seasons, how long they took to grow, and how much profit I would make for each crop depending on how much fertilizer I used and what the soil type was where I chose to plant the seeds. This gets the game off to a pretty slow start and those with short attention spans will not feel satisfied with the experience, but I always enjoy this part the most.Īfter clearing your fields you get into the exciting task of raising crops. Getting rid of the rocks and weeds is hard work and even a bit tedious at first, especially at the beginning of the game since you don’t have any items to restore stamina and you have to avoid passing out. Like with most Harvest Moon games, there are dozens and dozens of activities that you can do and dozens of characters to interact with all for the purpose of running a successful farm and leading a happy life.Ĭlearing off your field so that you can plant some crops is your first major task. I want to take a look at some of my favorite Harvest Moon titles and explore what makes them so special in comparison to newer releases. The series just hasn’t maintained the features I was introduced to and fell in love with as a kid. I’ve moved away from the Natsume Harvest Moon title because they’re severely lacking and sadly, the new Story of Seasons title has gone downhill rather quickly as well, with the exception of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, which I loved and I was really hoping the Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town release on the Nintendo Switch would stay true to my expectations, but sadly it crashed and burned following the Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town remaster in 2020 that excluded several great features in the original game on the GameBoy. RELATED: Harvest Moon Isn’t The Same Game You Grew Up Withīasically, Natsume was the publisher of the original Harvest Moon games and they held the original rights to the name “Harvest Moon”, and they’ve continued making their own games under this title. You can find a summary for the reason of the title change here. The Harvest Moon games were originally created by Yasuhiro Wada and developed by Victor Interactive software, who would later be purchased by Marvelous Entertainment and they would continue making these games (after 2013) under the new title Story of Seasons. Harvest Moon is an agricultural simulation role-playing game that many people now know as Story of Seasons. The very first Harvest Moon (the series is known as Bokujō Monogatari) game was released on the Nintendo SNES all the way back in 1996, and since then, there have been several releases, changes, translations, and even a new title. These days, Harvest Moon looks like a game you’d search for on the App store and scroll on the way down to the bottom and pick one of the very last search results, you know what I mean? Nothing good ever happens down there. Most people realize that the Harvest Moon title has considerably gone downhill and that’s for many reasons. Nowadays, farming games are pretty popular ( Stardew Valley I’m looking at you…) and for good reason. It was a lot of fun and it was a bonding experience that really resonated with me. She actually loved it as much as I did and would often ask me “What did you do on the farm today?” while we ate dinner at the dinner table. I also picked up the girl version for the GameCube– Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life–and later when I got the GameBoy Advance SP in 2003, I also begged my grandma to pick up Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, and so on. In fact, I think the only thing that really appealed to me was the character designs and the cute animals on the front.īut it didn’t stop there. See, the cover art doesn’t actually tell you much. I first heard of the Harvest Moon series from a friend who had a GameCube and she let me borrow her copy of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, and after staying up and playing it all night throughout the school week and all throughout the weekend, I immediately knew I had to have it for myself. Way back in grade school, well before having my own source of income, the only way to really try new games was to borrow games from friends. The Harvest Moon video game series used to be one of my all-time favorites, and it was a series I found by accident.
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