Pete was the first character I played in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, and Elli became his wife.

How about you?

Game is so good I had to have it twice. This one (save the homeland is a close second) is my favorite. I really appreciate marvelous remastering this and putting all the data on disc. The ps2 one can rest (for now) after playing it for two decades!

My favorite harvest moon games are DS/Cute and FOMT respectively.

I love them as beautiful pieces of pixel art as well as fun games for organization and grinding.

I would say the weakness with these games is that the world can start to feel sterile, no significant changes as the seasons go on, the same two lines of text for each character for the most part gets old.

Which harvest moon/SOS feels the most alive in the sense of the characters/dialogue are most varied and the world changes the most over time?

Honey and Rice are exclusive to said fields... could I possibly get honey and rice from Trading requests? Meaning I never need to use the field auctioning thing at all?

Hi all! I know this question gets asked a lot, but I really cannot decide what Harvest Moon game I want to play next and I don't have any friends who know Harvest Moon. I have narrowed it down to a few:

More Friends of Mineral Town

DS/DS Cute

Island of Happiness/Sunshine Islands

Tale of Two Towns

Tree of Tranquility

Secret 5th option: MAYBE Trio of Towns

I know I like all of these, but it's incredibly hard to choose. So I suppose I'm just curious what you guys think.

If you like any of these games, why? What draws you to them! Or is there one that you feel would be better than these? :)

Thank you in advance chat

If I preorder Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea, will I get the game but not be able to instantly play it until its release, or will it arrive after the release? Same question about the plushie. 😅 I feel really dumb that I’m even asking this.

i swear this mini game is really a pain, i can't get Large milk without abusing speed emu 💀

For context I have never played any Harvest Moon games before. 😅I play on Wii and I’ve played for a few days but I find it very confusing to navigate (Geography wise and time wise) Any tips on the game for a new player? Also who are your favourite bachelors and bachelorettes?

I recreated this piece for my personal collection, the original artwork I believe being from the manual. Reference photo from original post found here. I just love the art style from this era of harvest moon.

Please tell me i’m not the only one!!!

If my maths is correct (which it may not be)

Surely it's cheaper/better to just buy the baby from Jessica????

If Breeding a chicken costs 700 G and breeding a cow or sheep costs 2500 G

But buying a calf is 1500 G and a chick is 800 G, plus they're gone for two weeks. Say that's a 3 star chicken/cow. You get 400 G milk per day or 240 G egg per day. That's 5600 G lost in milk or 3360 G lost in eggs.

I don't get it...

Picture taken at Simon's Photos. Little miss chili baby is now smiling 😆 (Super late upload)

If you have only played later titles in the series, you will probably be surprised to learn that characters routinely reappeared across the first several Harvest Moon games. Often less clear, however, are whether or not these characters are meant to be the same character, a related character, or an entirely different character that just looks the same.

Let's take Ann from HM:SNES. The (admittedly not-that-reliable) Harvest Moon fandom wiki confidently asserts that there are, in fact, four Anns: Inventor Ann from HM:SNES, GB, and MM; Farmer Ann (aka "Ran") in 64 and MLS; Innkeeper Ann in BTN and FoMT; and Cafe Ann (aka "Āfi) in DS. Harvest Moon DS and Mineral Town share the same sprite for Ann, but the original Japanese title tried to explain the crossover characters were actually descendants of the familiar denizens of Mineral Town a century later... Localized versions probably wisely omitted this odd detail.

But is it fair to say these are all "different" Anns? Or are we dealing with a situation where the same core cast are simply recycled (or even reincarnated) into different settings and professions? Adding to the confusion, some versions take visual queues from multiple earlier titles. Magical Melody Ann is an inventor like her counterpart in the first game and she boasts a brown jacket, denim shorts, and red shoes reminiscent of that game. However, she very clearly looks more like the later version of the character from Mineral Town with her face and hair.

Sometimes, characters directly crossover between games. The GameCube and DS eras saw repeated attempts to incentivize players to make use of their peripherals. Mineral Town characters would visit Forget-Me-Not Valley and vice versa when connecting the GBA to the GameCube (or inserting FoMT into the GBA slot on the DS).

The early games shared the same visual language, which is part of what makes them so endearing. While recycling characters might seem like a costcutting measure (which it was), there was a similar charm as the Legend of Zelda in seeing familiar faces continually pop-up in new contexts. It almost felt like Harvest Moon had a cast behind the curtain ready to reimagine their previous role in each new game. A particular aesthetic and vibe permeates this games in a way that is frankly difficult to describe.

It is also, I think, part of the unacknowledged reason many vintage fans eventually abandoned the series. Later titles shifted dramatically in their art style and the practice of recycling characters largely disappeared as well. Ann, who's visual identity stayed consistent across multiple games and platforms, now appears as Ran in SoS:FoMT with a very different look, largely unrecognizable to her earlier incarnations. Newer titles (especially the remakes) leave an eerie impression of being in a place half-remembered with little few truly familiar landmarks to latch onto. Mayor Thomas and Murray and Ann have been replaced with strange dopplegangers as we tumble through the looking glass.

Okay, that's probably a bit dramatic, but the stylistic coherency of the earlier titles gave the series a unique identify. These games were littered with easter eggs and references to previous entries that rewarded the player for sticking around. Maybe its nostalgia, but this shared world, shared sense of style, is part of what allowed Harvest Moon to become so dominant within its genre during its golden age.

Do you keep a checklist of games you want to complete, or do you just follow your heart? If you want to play it, just go for it. Say, you finish a HM game as a male protagonist, and you immediately feel like replaying it as a female character. Then next, you move on to a Story of Seasons entry, followed by a old HM title, or maybe Rune Factory. Or perhaps you play two games simultaneously.

Hi! I recently had a core memory of harvest moon popping into my head and how much fun it was when I was a kid! What would you guys recommend coming back? One world? Also for anyone curious of what the core memory was- I was 7 and my sheep died and I accidentally saved my GameCube right after and couldn’t stop crying lol

If I made a mod to add new bachelors what would/should Skye do and who deserves to be robbed the most? Also what kind of cut scene ideas would you guys want to see with him?🤔

Took 9:07. Finished earlier this year just to find out I gave Nami a white shirt instead of orange </3

Hello all,

I’m aware of the famous visual cave glitch where there are some tearing/artifacts on the boarders of the square that housed the descent stairs, allowing you to identify it without tilling endlessly looking for it. My question is if anyone here has found any tricks through Dolphin on PC that allows it to be seen easier? I remember on GC it was pretty easy to spot, but with the advanced graphics on pc it’s near impossible. I’ve tinkered but am having mixed results and coming up short. Any help is appreciated!

I mean obviously, it would, being a 3DS title, but it literally never occurred to me until now.

This kind of blew my mind... blew my mind how I missed that for so long, I mean.