Harvest Moon

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Which Harvest Moon is the best Harvest Moon?

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Back to Nature For Girl for the PSX which is like an enhanced version of 64 and you play as a girl.

I like Stardew Valley a lot.

64 for me, but BTN and FOMT are also acceptable choices.

I remember you from the last Harvest Moon thread.
be my trap gf plskthnx.

Why did they change the name of the series to story of seasons? I didn't know about this until recently and my sister keeps on asking me if there's any new harvest moon games coming out soon.

There was a new Harvest Moon game that was released on Steam recently

See, that sounds good on paper, but what it basically means is that I'm going to have to seduce and marry a guy

Shitty mobile port and not from the original developers.

New translators, but Natsume has ownership over the Harvest Moon name.

And? It's not gay, there's still a girl involved. Just do it.

I'm not some shameless slut who goes around chasing after boys

user that's gay.

But your a man, playing as a girl, romancing a guy. It’s like being a trap by proxy.

Why?

DS is my favourite. I think it had some of the best music.

Just be the friendly girl next door.

No, in the harvest moon universe, user would be a girl, looking for a husband. That's entirely straight.

THERE IS NO ROOM ON THIS BOARD
FOR YOUR COMMUNITY

It's accessible and the virtual friends aspect that the youtube audience thirsts for is easier to reach without pesky gameplay getting in the way.

There's no room for heterosexual sex and a monogamous relationship? When did the gays get to you AJ? Was it when you were playing your videogames and talking to Holla Forums?

ANY RELATIONSHIP THAT INVOLVES
THE MAN PORTRAYING THE WOMAN
WITH ANOTHER MAN IS HOMOSEXUAL,
YOU WRETCHED SABOTEUR OF
DICK TOUCHING

64 pretty easily. Unlike Back to Nature it has good controls. Unlike Friends of Mineral Town it has an ending.

Animal Parade

That's the problem.

How many years until people stop asking this?

Fucking trashed.

Please calm down. That is an image I found on Google Images.

I'm play trio of towns now that the dlc has been released for it. It's surprisingly decent, when compared to the last couple of games on the 3ds, they've toned down a lot of the shit I hated about the previous ones, although I am playing on seedling mode because of how bad the fucking grind was last time, so that might help a bit. Still have the tutorial period being a lot shorter, being able to skip more shit is a god send. Kind of disappointed about the waifu selection though compared to SoS, but they're growing on me.

In terms of the best, I think animal parade is the closest in terms of features, it's too bad about the technical issues. MM is pretty close for me, but it does suffer a little bit from being ploddingly slow at times, but I think in terms of gameplay I think it's the best. 64 and btn are honorable mentions and only really fall behind because the newer series have added a bit more meat, but none have been able to capture that original feel of the older series.

What's the best one for raising bulls?

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but that's against the will of god

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It is fun if you haven't played shit in HM or RF series.
I cannot touch it after playing RF4.

This one.
And Daria is best waifu.

that's not harvest moon

Ann is best girl, prove me wrong

A Wonderful Life Special Edition on PS2 is the best Bokujo Monogatari game

Sure it is, says so right on the box :^3


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this isn't harvest moon faget

if you can get over the abysmal framerate issues then you are technically correct

A Wonderful Life is trash and basically introduced some of the worst elements and concepts that would go on to ruin the series. You are a shit eater.

What elements do they use from AWL in current games? AWL in general seems more like a giant tech demo to me, where they put in interesting, but ultimately unfun mechanics in it.

I thought that was just some shit Natsume added, but the first game is subtitled "new bokujou monogatari" even in Japan.

Depends, do people still ask why Final Fantasy goes "1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 -> 10 -> 10-2 -> 11 -> 12 -> 13 -> 13-2 -> Lightning Returns 13 -> 14 -> 15"?

Proxy trap is still gay.

Most of the games have an ending they just allow you to continue beyond that. Tbh if you play HM rushing the story you're playing it wrong.


AWL was filled with traps fuck that goat and forced progression Marry or the game ends, faggot. The only thing the PS2 SE fixed was allowing an endless mode After slogging through the game but God knows why you'd want to play that game forever.
I believe fruit trees made a debut in AWL along with the rotating stores/make your own store thing that resurfaced in Grand Bazaar and the first rechristened Story of Seasons game. I could be wrong but it also brought the seed maker in protoform with the hybrid plants garbage. It just had more shit that fell flat than succeeded. Cows not giving milk after one year without birth, being nearly impossible to move large amounts of product without Van being in town which deincentivises actually doing farm work, the clunky as fuck controls, etc.

In general I think they just had issues with trying to introduce a ton of new systems/transitioning to the Gamecube 3D all at once with few new systems panning out. They backtracked pretty hard before dropping off home consoles entirely which I think actually helped the series not become horrid.

The characters and town itself aren't entirely shit which is why I actually enjoyed HMDS as a "redo" in (((localization))) even though it wasn't supposed to be because people's children in 100 years will look exactly like them, it essentially made the AWL setting fun to play with a few bonuses.

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The original HM DS would have been great if not for the bugs and the retarded harvest gnome faggot mechanics that require you to collect 400 of the fuckers to finally marry your waifu.

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Are any of the 3ds games good? Should I just stick to the DS games and the ones before them for Harvest Moon?

I'm looking forward to it going back to console. Handhelds hurt my fucking hands. Glad the switch is turning out okay.

Switch is a handheld though.

Not if I get a pro controller.

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A new beginning is decent but the
mechanics are a bit much, not game ruining. SoS1 improved that by only making you have to deal with your farm

SoS1/2 are definitely improvements and of the two I'd say SoS1 is a bit more customizable. SoS2 is just a further refining of SoS1.


it may be possible to hold in your hands but it isn't a handheld.

That's like saying the PSP isn't a handheld just because you can hook it up to the TV and control it with a PS3 controller.

It wasn't built into the device and touted as a feature. It isn't the size of a fucking tablet which is also not a handheld. It isn't three different pieces of hardware put together to be complete.

A New Beginning was okay. Other than the first month which was nothing but a drip feed of tutorial and content that I fucking quit before it was over the first time I played, only to go back months later.

Moving stuff around in the town was neat a first but quickly became tedious, I think limiting the customization to your farm alone would be best.

I think they realized that because SoS1/2 limited you to only your farm and 2 brought back going to a store presumably as a money sink because of how quickly it balloons after you get certain farm circles

Does anyone here have a link for the dlc of Trio of Towns? And any of you fags played it?
I want to try it, but I would like to do so with the full game, also RF4 costumes.

How did you nigs like oceans? I remember i started emulating it a while ago but something fucked up and I wasn't in the mood todeal with it o i just stopped.


I removed the nig, ran out of steam for his oreo so ill just say she was a genetic experiment.

It's on freeshop.

For what purpose?

The tan ones related but have "different" Read as, one is quiet the other is obnoxious personalities. The foxes are literally just
So they are technically the same character but grow a penis at your convenience for breeding

That's pretty lazy.

Sort of but the idea is
I'm just happy they brought back the ability to marry a goddess because it's been missing for a while. Now they need to bring back love rivals and all that.

On freeshop? Damn, guess I'll have to do some work with my 3ds now.

Dunno lad, the only thing I know is that Kasumi looks like best girl.

I was mainly talking about the brown twins, I didn't even notice the fox at first. Is she a loli?

Whoops, this is for

Kasumi starts as a manhater and while I'm sure her heart events make her less of a cunt I can't get over the initial reaction I had.


Nah, shes the same size as the MC/other adult characters. The mini-Harvest Goddess they introduced in SoS1 is in the game but isn't a marriage candidate. RIP hot Harvest Goddess.

Could never bring myself to marry the Goddesses since they didn't move in with you.

The Magical Melody/Save the Homeland goddess was the best.

It's even more strange that they don't live with you or sleep in your house but you can still have children with them.

What

It's a goddess brah, they ain't just gonna move into some mortals hovel.

You should move in with them and use a little portal to get back to your farm.

I didn't spend years tilling the land to live in a puddle on a mountain.

Kasumi softens, but yea she comes off a complete cunt at first, and I really can't find myself thinking that a woman who is so close minded as good marriage candidate.


That's the problem with all the special marriage candidates, is that they have significantly less content than the main ones, so I have a hard time going after them since I usually only play these games once through.

>3months later, after breaking the game with savescumming for a festival game
this game was made by the devil.
how did it capture me like that?

Oceans is probably ok if you enjoy the combat the most. Even then there's the endgame progression wall where you can't proceed without leveling up everyone's affection to 7 which is a bitch and a half made slightly less tedious with little events happening with every heart level. You can't court other people or even play as a girl at all until post game. The only thing to look forward to after marriage is that the kid will have your spouse's hair color. It's easy to break the economy. The farming is fucking depressing; you don't till or water or anything you just wave a wand above the ground then wait a few days.

at least the loading times were nonexistent

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Same reason people play Animal Crossing and the like.

This is gonna be a recurring theme thoughout the series, isn't it?

RF5 never ever

it's strange when the milf you can't marry has more character depth than the daughter you can

But the best girl is Mist

I married Yuri in ANB because Emma wasn't available Nor were Olivia and Rebecca. It seems like some weird Nip fetish to have all the best grills unavailable due to being slightly older. It's disappointing how much effort they put into a good milf or cake and then make them background characters.

You should've played SoS. The waifu choice is pretty good, including an Ara and an ojou sama. Too bad the game has a 4 year long tutorial.

I hate this. I hate that on march 23rd you are give a cow and it's cow learning time. Then you are given a chick and it's chick learning time. Just put that stuff up for sale and I will buy it when I'm ready. Have a dude come by my house once and say "We have animals for sale!" But let me pick if I spend my money on more crops, animals, trees, or whatever the hell. Having everything timegated drives me batty.

youre objectively wrong

I love how torn Holla Forums is over Harvest Moon.

HM 64 shaped my outlook on romance in my early teens. Karen became a visual guideline for my interest in women.

Also, I'm not sure if they ever did this again, but starting in Year 2, if you speak to Ellen (Elli's grandmother) when she's outside in her rocking chair, you will trigger her death. As long as you don't speak to her during that year while she's outside she won't die.
Kind of messed me up as a kid.

Not directly but the newer games use the same faces for males and females. Then you can become a trap wear feminine clothes and a feminine hairstyle and impregnate your yuri wife with your feminine penis.

Alternatively I hear Cuckjew Valley has faggots or maybe it's a mod but since the game is trash and none of the characters are cute it would be pointless.

So would /monster/ just always go for the goddesses in HM. RF has a few monster girls, mostly just elves though.

I wouldn't really consider the Goddesses in HM to really be a MG and the RF characters including the elves look too human to really be considered MGs. But I also don't really consider most elves to actually be MGs
I doubt there will be a decent MG HM/SoS type game made by actual good devs. Probably some pateronfag looking for welfare but nothing ever actually finished.

On a side note, has anybody played Natsume's attempt at continuing the name of Harvest Moon lately? It's flashgame trash tier from what I've seen.

I liked Harvest Moon DS and it's dungeon, how you can buy machines and stuff and how much of a fucking asshole you can be. I think the very first thing you can do in the game is let your dog kill the mayor, you could also spike the yearly soup event with poisonous mushrooms, killing yourself and the rest of the village. What other games let me do stuff like that?

Where's Story of Seasons?

It's also missing a couple of RF games and STH/HOLV.

How long does it take to unlock the other towns in Trio of Towns? I hate this western town.

It's a time gate, they're one per season in the first year I believe.

Any idea how much time gating there is in trio of towns besides the towns? Seriously that shit is my only real complaint in these games.


Best taste right here.

Not so much a time gate but a lot of the shit you need for the later farm challenges requires shit in from multiple seasons Like thyme for the wine maker is only available in spring/summer or something but you need grape wine mostly just generic bullshit to make you play with a purpose longer.

I'm less worried about that and more shit being blocked off for months in game for no reason, like in SoS the mine wasn't available until fall or one waifu not showing up until like the 3rd year or some shit.

I know the animals are timegated but I forget how badly. I think a couple of the crops you need are also gated but you might be able to trade with somebody and get them early. That will probably suck the most. The only mine other than the underground cellar mine for finishing the main storyline is the one in Westown and it has everything you can get the underground cellar is another node

Sounds good to me, guess i'll give it a shot.

What the fuck? Why can't you marry this hottie? Bokujou Monogatari is taking cues from Rune Factory and adding unattainable MILFs now.

How many wasted hours of life would those games consume if you were to finish them all?

I been feeling that pain since ANB m7. I swear it's a Nip fetish.

64

They really do need at least a big sister type as an option (hell they could've got rid of one of the twins). I'm pretty sure Iris was one of the if not most popular girls in SoS, at least in the west.

Think that's actually similar to the Neptunia franchise's popularity votes. Green Heart is popular in the West but Nips tend to rank her low. Turns out they don't like Oneesans anymore.

They have a ton of ara/milf porn though.

Depends what you mean by finish. To see all content you'd need to marry every girl, which means doing up to ten or more playthroughs of some games.
Even if you just do one playthrough, each game would probably take 100+ hours before you could really say you'd fully experienced it.
They're the kind of games that are meant to be played a little bit each day for weeks or months on end.

Always remember that japs have shit taste in waifus.

Which Harvest Moon is the best Harvest Moon and why is Back To Nature?

Never understood why they fuck they love Yumi so much. Best girls are clearly Hikage and Mirai.

64 or back to nature. back to nature's probleme was saving time.

Yumi was a mistake

for what purpose?

To be a cute girl that dates other girls, duh.

I'd rather they just let you have yuri relationships. I don't want to be a trap.

The issue with allowing that is you'd have a lot of people bitching about how it was implemented.
it will never be enough for people if any sort of change seen as "progressive" is introduced and yes, it has always and will always go down this path particularly with series that have any nonzero amount of Western fans. I'd rather the series keep traditional coupling only than have to deal with self identity bullshit.

Homos go back to starjew.

Light of Hope obviously

This is the problem with modern farming sim. There are a ton of nice outfits for girls, but seeing as you're a guy you can't (or shouldn't, as you'd be a fag) use them. You can't even ask your partner to wear them after marrying. And if you play as a girl you have to seduce a guy and watch as they do their incredibly gay blushing act all the time. It's a waste of good outfits.

They're twins. The pink one is selfish and loud while the blue one is lazy. You occasionally see blue for what she actually is though, and she's even less caring and more evil than her sister. You would think that pink becomes a better person as you get to know her, but all she really does is come to love you. She doesn't become less selfish or rude. Both of the twins were wasted potential, really.

Unless you meant the fox girl, in which case it's as someone already said; if you play as a girl it's a trap fag instead.

Japs like yuri too, who cares what the SJWs say?


At least that's something they did right.


Yeah, the only reason I play as a guy is because I want to date the girls. I'd prefer to play as a girl.

HM/SoS is currently well protected due to the company localizing it being a direct subsidiary of the Nip company that develops it That doesn't mean the bitching won't happen only that it won't do much of anything. Up until the point that it does. Remember that life sim Nintendo released called Tomodachi Life?

Why was this controversial? Because of Western faggots. Japan didn't give a shit about same sex marriage of either gender.
So they resorted to making shit up because most people believe or used to that a journalist receives irrefutable information directly from the mouth of God.
Campaigns from users being "faggots from the West that can't shut the fuck up about their

They bitch about everything though. Rather than avoid controversial topics the best answer is simply to ignore them.

That obviously doesn't work if a tiny minority can cause a company like Nintendo to placate them. Imagine what they could do to a niche series like SoS. That's the only good reason Starjew Valley is a good thing. It keeps the faggots away from the good farm life sims.

Well Nintendo is notoriously averse to controversy. Meanwhile Marvelous makes the Senran Kagura games in addition to SoS.

Which, when localized, had the ages of the girls removed. A pointless removal but still bowing to Western sensibilities. Can't have tits on girls younger than "18" after all. It also didn't work with how often journos get bitchy about the next tiddie game in the series.
The problem won't be Marvelous. It'll be Western journalists spreading bullshit/whipping their fanbase into a frenzy and XSEED adding/removing something and justifying it as a "benign" removal that definitely won't affect anything else down the line.

Well I can't say I really care what localizers do, since I just play the original Japanese versions.

I understand you're probably the same guy on every thread on the board that has to be smug because you speak Nip but these sorts of issues do not happen in a vacuum. It can and will eventually even affect your previous original language releases. The fact that you're so intent on dropping the
line every time you can't come up with a valid rebuttal to a very clear issue is retarded.

I also speak moon good enough to play games and read manga and such. But I'm not complacent enough to shrug and go not my problem, since we've already seen that the SJW's are entrenched in the localization industry and will go so far as to tell the developers shit is problematic. It is much of a problem with companies like Xseed, but it could be become a dangerous trend and I'll damn well fight for my anime tiddies. You'll probably dismiss this as slippery slope, but if you've been paying any attention in the last couple of years, we haven't stopped sliding down the damn slope yet.

I don't dismiss things as slippery slope because the only faggots I've seen use the term to argue it as a fallacy literally go to the next thing on the slope after they get what they want. It's less of a slope and more of a list of demands.
I agree, that is what I'm saying. Japan may feel isolated from it now but it's very obviously affecting how games are treated when a Western journalist can make up some bullshit like

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Wasn't expecting the creepy old guy to start dancing with the loli at the first festival.

You mean his daughter?

That's not his daughter. He has a son.

Then maybe Japan has less weird ideas every time a child and adult are standing next to each other?

You are not familiar with the ojisan archetype I see.

Who dances with who seems partially random. Why she doesn't dance with the guy's son is weird though, seeing as they're essentially a loli-shota couple (but the boy is too shy to realize).

Yeah I got an event where she wanted to give him flowers, so I was wondering why she would dance with his dad instead.

now that i take my nostalgia goggles off it does seem to have alot of flaws but i can't bring myself to hate i

Time for a stupid statement. I didn't exactly hate the game but it was a bit of a chore to play full of various pitfalls that I'm sure were unintentional and were probably
as opposed to the
That it felt like.
If I went back to it now it would probably seem less terrible than I felt it was solely due to the systems that were introduced in the game that were heavily refined later. Sort of a historical "started with this shit now we're here" type game that a lot of long running series get over time.

Good MG farming simulator when
never ever

Breeding Season :^)

Why must you do this?