The Lost Valley and Seeds of Memories are NOT harvest moon games. Natsume just kept the title to trick people into buying them. Story of Seasons is the rightful sequel to the Harvest Moon series.
For the sake of technicality, those two games are literally Harvest Moon games, but no longer part of the Bokujo Monogatari series (might have spelled that wrong), at which point the title Story of Seasons take over (for the English translation anyway). So basically, Natsume owns the Harvest Moon name, but Marvelous holds the marvelous heart of the Bokujo series.
You're wrong, they are still very much Harvest Moon games. Natsume just split away from Marvelous. They may have never developed any HM games before the split, but they have always owned the name. Their HM games still share the same basic idea and gameplay as well. Now, I just know that someone reading this will eventually respond and tell me that the Story of Seasons games are way better, so let me just stop you right here if you're that person. You are totally missing my point. I'm not saying that Natsume's games are better (or even equally as good) as Marvelous' games, just that they are every bit as legitimate.
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will always be special to me. ❤ It has a compelling story, and lovable characters. It's a bit hard when starting and kinda slow paced, but I love how it imitates real life. All in all, Harvest Moon will always be one of my favorites... and now, I'm looking forward to Story of Seasons. 😊
I'd have to say Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life is my favorite. The music brings me such nostalgic feelings and was one of my favorite GameCube games. I remember coming home from school and playing for hours. When I found out about the girl version I saved up and bought that one since the original was my brother's. I'm hoping they re-release it on the Nintendo switch virtual GameCube console so I can play it again! I hope they make a game similar to AWL in the future as well. Great video. Very comprehensive history telling! :)
if you want a game that feels like og harvest moon play story of seasons friends of mineral town. it is a 3d remake of harvest moon friends of mineral town
Same. This game was wonderful. Very nostalgic for me too. Yeah, middle school SUCKED, but this game was my refuge. The moment the theme from the GC game started playing when I started the video? Tears. ;~;
I also loved Magical Melody, which my sister gave me after graduating from middle school (because she knew I loved AWL which she also gave me two years prior for Christmas).
Another Wonderful Life is my favorite too. I have such warm memories of sitting in the living room floor in the dark on a snowy night playing wrapped up in a blanket. I really want it rereleased on the Switch but I’d LOVE a remake like they did with Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town 💜
I know a lot of people love fast paced HM games but the slow paced ToT is my fav, I helps me chill and be calm and no matter what, I always smile when playing it
Nice video, but you forgot to mention one very important thing. Bokujo Monogatari, the true name of this series in Japan, and got the Natsume/Marvelous Interactive shenanigans not entirely correct. Natsume and Marvelous Interactive didn't split because of different vision about the series' future, but because Marvelous merged with another company (I forgot the company's name). The company Marvelous merged with owns a subsidiary company known as XSeed Games, and Marvelous got full control of XSeed after the merge. Marvelous then decided it would be better to have XSeed localize Bokujo Monogatari to the west through XSeed Games, since it saves more time and money since they practically own XSeed, but XSeed had to create a new name for the series in the west since Natsume still hold the rights to the Harvest Moon games, and that's how the name Story of Seasons was born. However, it's Story of Seasons that actually belong in the main Harvest Moon series, and not the Harvest Moon games since The Lost Valley, since Story of Seasons belong to the Bokujo Monogatari series in Japan, while Natsume' s Harvest Moon games are their own series
Yes ToTT is my favorite also I don't know why every one isn't a big fan of it. It is just so unique compared other games in the series like if you agree
Grew up with 64, Save the Homeland, and MFoMT. Gotta say though, watching my cousin play A Wonderful Life always made me a bit jealous and that game is weirdly nostalgic for me despite not having played it. I would play MFoMT on my GBA and she would play AWL on her gamecube. I was always a little jealous because while MFoMT was a very solid game, the world of AWL seemed so much more fun and charming.
Harvest moon: a wonderful life will always be one of my favorites because it was the first game in the series I played and it has so much nostalgia. But a new beginning is by far my favorite game in the series, I probably have over 500+ hours in that game spread over multiple playthroughs
Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns was my first Harvest Moon game and I still love it so much, even if it does have a few things to complain about. Like the Harvest Goddess's reason to blocking out the tunnel and the cringey trash talk between the mayors.
Zoey Fen this was my first and I regret giving it away. Actually, it’s still my first and I just repurchased a 3ds. Any recommendations for next best harvest moon games?
@@Grace-hi6mx SoS: Trio of Towns has a similar vibe to Tale of Two Towns. Another good one is the first Story of Seasons. Those are good ones on the 3DS but if you want ones on other consoles, a huge fan favourite is definitely Animal Parade.
HM64 is my favorite. Followed by Back to Nature. I remember being super psyched for A Wonderful Life. Followed news about it and posted in forums non stop. But ultimately I was disappointed by it. It seemed unfinished in some ways. I never beat it, because like you said it can become boring with nothing to do after several years. I think I made it to the first 3 year chapter before I fell off. Which is too bad because the overarching story was really touching. I feel like Magical Melody is probably the best one, just with the huge world, interesting characters and the fact that you can buy land and have multiple farming areas. I'm super excited for Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town. That set of characters are my favorite. I probably won't be able to resist marrying Karen again, as usual. I wish they hadn't changed the look of the characters so much, but whatever. Just a few more days! I started playing the series with HM64 when I was 11 or 12. Never thought I'd still be playing them in my thirties :P
My favorites were Save the Homeland, More Friends of Mineral Town, Magical Melody, Another Wonderful Life, Tree of Tranquility, and the newest Story of Seasons.
Yeah 64 was my first one, I fell in love almost immediately lol. I'm pretty sure it was the first ever life sim type game that I played and it started a lifelong love.
This series underwent a lot of experimentation, adding and removing aspects of the game all the time, as well as changing the art style between 2D and 3D back and forth. Oddly enough, the original SNES Harvest Moon was one of the most well balanced and had gotten most of the key concepts right.
You messed it up a bit. XSeed has been around for a long time, but since Marvelous had an in house translator in them, they decided to not use Natsume anymore.
Started my Harvest Moon Journes with the GBC game and Harvest Moon Back to nature, I played those to games throughout my whole childhood, not even knowing there have benn new games availlable. But it never felt like I nedded something new, and my whole family was obsessed with the ps1 game, so I have very fond memorys of it. We even played it on the pc with an emulator many years after. When the wii came out I tried out a new Harvest Moon game, dont even know which one it was, it was just bad, so I think maybe it wasnt one from Marvelous. The Switch brought me back to this series, when Friends of minteralown came out I just freaked, because it has all those characters I wanted and loved for so many years. I still cant get enought of it. But I also like to play he new games of story of season, its just my type of game
I loved A wonderful life. It was my first harvest moon game and also the music and characters made me fall in love. The first time I beat the game I cried cause I didn't know you died and the game would end.
Thank you for this. I loved it. ❤ I love Harvest Moon. I've played many different versions but WOW there are so many more that I didn't know about until this video! And it was fun to get to see here how they play. 😊
my first exposure to harvest moon was HM DS, and i also picked up HM DS cute later. i liked both games and they really got me into the harvest moon series. I even went back later and picked up HM friends of mineral town/more friends of mineral town, and magical melody. I played almost all of the other harvest moon games from 2008 to now. i think i had the most enjoyment playing HM animal parade. the world was so big and the characters has different personalities. I loved the 2 male and 2 female character player options. the controls for the Wii were simple and i loved the graphics. the number of bachelors and bachelorettes and all there different personalities were so interesting and unique. 10/10 loved it.
The real Harvest Moon is now named Story of Seasons after Harvest Moon: A New Beginning. Stop buying the latest Harvest Moon titles from Natsume as they are just in name only but not in quality.
and now natsume has made the same game with some changes and publish it. Seeds of memories, skytree village and light of hope have almost the same town, yes, light of hope is bigger but that's it. They didn't even bother to change the sprites from skytree village to light of hope. Overall, for me natsume's "harvest moon" lost all the things I loved in the games, but Story of seasons still has them
I'm kinda disappointed that this video didn't come out just a little later, and that it wasn't just a little more comprehensive. I'm fairly new to the Harvest Moon series as a whole. I'd have liked to see how Story of Seasons Trio of Towns compared, as well as the Rune Factory games.
My favorite is...Harvest Moon (SNES). I know that the other Harvest Moon games had other things that made it more better & it's been claimed by most fans that Harvest Moon 64 is the best game in the franchise, but there are reasons why Harvest Moon (SNES) is my favorite. 1) It's the 1st Harvest Moon game I played / owned 2) It was released in 1997, (2 years past the SNES's expiration year (Just like Kirby's Dreamland 3) meaning the graphics & music were pushed past the SNES's limits. 3) In my honest opinion. A great place to start for newcomers to the franchise. Because it's so simple, beginners will find it easier to play & enjoy before moving on to the other Harvest Moon games. So I highly recommend you play Harvest Moon (SNES) as your starting point, for all you newbies out there. 4) Nostalgia. SWEET😋, SWEET😋, NOSTALGIA😍
My favorite is definitely A Wonderful Life, but it's worth noting that that's the oldest one I've played. All the games afterward, save for A New Beginning, just don't hit
Despite Harvest Moon DS/DS Cute having awful stories and same graphics as FOMT, I actually really enjoyed it and it's definitely one of my favourite games. I like the idea of having to gather at least 60 harvest sprites to get married & save the goddess, it forces the player to work for goals and use all the mechanics in the game making it more enjoyable. Even though the boy version was a lot more buggy & collecting the sprites were unfortunately easier, the girl version that I always played was really difficult to get 60 and wow that was rewarding. The style and well known characters felt very old school and I hope natsume decides to go back to the rustic vibe other than going insanely "anime/childish" in the lost valley and seeds of memories. (Personally I just dislike the new style) Also in HMDS & Cute the little mini games like fighting your rivals in your dog house and hilarious things you could do like poisoning & killing the entire town just made it so unique and funny. Plus the whole mining aspect?! AMAZING!! I remember I'd always compete with my friends with how far we can go down in the mine & it was such a fun challenge.
Don’t make the mistake of buying the current “harvest moon” games their like cheap mobile games. Definitely go for story of seasons it’s the real harvest moon now.
I enjoyed this video as someone who has never played Harvest Moon but am thinking I might wanna try it out. But I realized you neglected to mention the one game I'm thinking of playing, which is Harvest Moon My Little Shop for the Nintendo Wii. It's a Wiiware game but still thought you'd mention it. It's not a side game like Rune Factory. But I enjoyed the video.
Only because people weren't even designating Waifu's until around 2002-ish on the internet (possibly later, I'm very sure Azumanga Daioh popularized the phrase waifu among anime fans around then, and it began to pop up) Rest assured, I had the conversation with people (without using those words) about harvest moon 64 though. My favorite will always be Karen. They will always love the wrong ones. It's sad, but it's hard to change a mind. Some people just don't want to admit they were wrong, too. Karen is by far the best - obviously - and I have a sneaking suspicion that the other girls were all whores; maybe I'm biased.
I’m not sure if there were, but does hating the rival of the certain bachelor/bachelorettes counts? For example, Gray is incredibly popular amongst the female/HMBTNFG/MFoMT players, they all hated his love interest, Mary.
Watched this video because I was wondering if I should get a harvest moon game! After researching it a bit I think I might want to get A Wonderful Life, I don’t know, we’ll see. Thank you for giving me this wonderful information! :)
Back to Nature is my fave. A Wonderful Life is the last "decent' game. The games always had a "fairy tale" like atmosphere about them, but were still rooted in semi realism. Post Wonderful Life, they all look like pure fantasy to the nth degree.
Story of seasons is the real harvest moon harvest moon now the only thing that’s the same is the logo and name. One is the true game one (sos) and the new harvest moon feels like a cheap mobile game 5 years after this video was made.
Another Wonderful Life was the first I played, but I had no idea it was so late in the series. I thought it was one of the firsts because it was so different.
I have 2 favorites and I go back and forth between which one I like better, but my two favorites are definitely Friends Of Mineral Town and Animal Parade!!!
Harvest Moon animal parade’s long loading screens we’re always my “shove as much food in my mouth as possible before having both hands occupied again” cue 😂
Grand bazar is my favorite. The first one I played I think was melody something. It was something like that. And I got grand bazar from the memory of my first harvest moon game although being bad from lack of knowledge has a kid on how to do things and rushing in to things that unenviablely taught me to not rush through what's happening. so, you know, you don't press the wrong save slot so you're friend can play and then erase yours after repeated have attempts to figure out how to save in the first place. And redueingn everything over and over again till I decided I'm not doing that all again just because I was more stupid and erased everything.... but I loved the parts I played so, I thought I'd get this one for my dsi. I can remember the struggle from the saving problem. So many things that happened. I don't know if I cried, but I probably. I Was pretty upset after erasing my save. And that makes me want to cry now.... it's so sad, I struggle so much with it. - - - - Ok, so basicly grand bazar because it was the second chance to the game I loved but gave up on. Pretty good game if I say so myself. Only three or four, maybe five areas to go too. But it was still really fun. I think I wanted to marry durk, dirk? I don't remember his name, I just knew he was cute and I liked him. I never finished it though. I never seam to be able too. - - - - Oh gosh, I need to find someone who likes harvest moon so I can talk to them and not write a whole thing like I just did. - Ok bye. My favorite is grand bazar, I had like two horses for the game. Plushes from the series.
I legitimately never would’ve known the companies spilt if I didn’t see this video. I personally favourite story of seasons since this separation, though my favourite game will always be another wonderful life ❤️
I still liked Harvest Moon: Friends of mineral town, so much secrets to discover, no matter how much you played it, you'll definitely have a goal to do list. Like he said, it's like a fan base and really fast paced game with lots of things to do, but in time you'll get bored of it. Good job for a 2003 game. To be honest i thought it was a 2007 game. Anyways also i though the developers were going to create another game with similarities like that game, but while they were so busy with the gameplay, that they forgot about how much people loved the classic graphic with lots of secrets, giving a multiplayer might be a next level gameplay if you ask me, if they could figure sth out. But too late, since they departed
My favorite in the series was AnWL, in every way except the bachelors, I think they could have picked better bachelors. The bachelorettes in AWL and AWLSE are examples of that. Sure most of the guys in forget-me-not were married, but there was an easy fix imo. Make the inn slightly bigger, extend the amount of time you have to marry a bit, and add travelling bachelors (new characters) who come and go from and to the inn, according to some kind of "schedule". This could also make another destiny for your kid, like taking over the farm, athlete, etc. Where your kid is a traveller. Also I wish the feature to have a daughter instead of a son from AWLSE was in AnWL.
Harvest moon save the homeland is the best harvest moon game ever I can say the game has the best graphics in the entire series and the music is great. Well the map is so little and have a short gameplay and before you can achieve 9 endings you wouldnt see winter coming cuz i always ended up in autumn or summer. But its an old games anyway
Wow what a great video I really enjoyed that and learnt so many things about the series! Good job! My favourite is defiantly a wonderful life it was my childhood but I also have a strange soft spot for true o tranquility despite its REALLY ANNOYING slowness
Loved the vid and am now plotting to get four seasons just wondering are you going to update this or make another vid as new games come out and are you going to talk about some of the ones that did not come west? Either way thanks for the vid it was fun
@@DeltaShinyZeta Thank you for the reply also please take your time I will watch it when you are good and comfortable with doing and releasing it. Also, give me time to work through your other vids especially the pokemon and summoners war walkthroughs. I am currently consumed by Ever Oasis and will wait till I finish before I watch those walkthroughs. Kinda surprised how this one went under the radar for such an interesting game. Got good scores too. In either case, I will be around.Next year I am aiming to get Story of 4 Season Happy Holidays
17:34 the bazaar doesn’t occur every day for a limited time! if i remember right, it was every friday or saturday from around 10am-5pm? something similar to that. and you would have the whole week to prepare for the bazaar. it’s not the best game, but i like it better than the older ones, and it was also the first hm game i ever played 👀
Thanks for this video! I’ve played so many old harvest moon games on emulator many years ago! I even began collecting all the plushies I had missed previously from preorders. I tried the first Natsume attempt at HM, didn’t like it then later found out about the split. Got Story of Seasons soon after 👍 haven’t given Natsume money since.
The Lost Valley and Seeds of Memories are NOT harvest moon games. Natsume just kept the title to trick people into buying them. Story of Seasons is the rightful sequel to the Harvest Moon series.
it's not a trick. it's business, they own the IP of the namesake, it's a sad reality for English speakers.
For the sake of technicality, those two games are literally Harvest Moon games, but no longer part of the Bokujo Monogatari series (might have spelled that wrong), at which point the title Story of Seasons take over (for the English translation anyway).
So basically, Natsume owns the Harvest Moon name, but Marvelous holds the marvelous heart of the Bokujo series.
You're wrong, they are still very much Harvest Moon games. Natsume just split away from Marvelous. They may have never developed any HM games before the split, but they have always owned the name. Their HM games still share the same basic idea and gameplay as well.
Now, I just know that someone reading this will eventually respond and tell me that the Story of Seasons games are way better, so let me just stop you right here if you're that person. You are totally missing my point. I'm not saying that Natsume's games are better (or even equally as good) as Marvelous' games, just that they are every bit as legitimate.
@@JMFSpike I mean, Natsume didn't create shit to begin with. They only translate the original game to the west.
@@MatheusRodrigues-gm5tf You either skimmed through my post or you have poor reading comprehension.
I’ll just play as a guy and pretend I’m a really butch lesbian instead of trying to track down the Japanese version of DS Cute
Back to nature is my favorite
I really liked Harvest Moon DS..
Leah 0000 must plag freinds of mineral town
Which one?
@@MarioMasterProductions the DS one
Cute
Harvest moon ds cute can also be titled Harvest Moon Kawaii Desu
Omg harvest moon a wonderful life!!! My first harvest moon game and no other one ever capture the magic of it again Q_Q
Well 4 years later they are remaking it with lots of new thing like festivals and new farming equipment. Can't wait.
@@markos50100 idk finally! So happy!
Brought tears to my eyes.. like I'm seeing my childhood pass right through my soul 😂
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will always be special to me. ❤ It has a compelling story, and lovable characters. It's a bit hard when starting and kinda slow paced, but I love how it imitates real life.
All in all, Harvest Moon will always be one of my favorites... and now, I'm looking forward to Story of Seasons. 😊
Couldn't agree more!
And a year later from this comment, we get its remake for switch! Can't wait to play again with the farming additions.
@@DeltaShinyZeta how many harvest moon games are there exactly
Do not underestimate how hard this game is I’ve been playing harvest moon ds for 10 years now and I’m still no were near finished
I'd have to say Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life is my favorite. The music brings me such nostalgic feelings and was one of my favorite GameCube games. I remember coming home from school and playing for hours. When I found out about the girl version I saved up and bought that one since the original was my brother's. I'm hoping they re-release it on the Nintendo switch virtual GameCube console so I can play it again! I hope they make a game similar to AWL in the future as well. Great video. Very comprehensive history telling! :)
if you want a game that feels like og harvest moon play story of seasons friends of mineral town. it is a 3d remake of harvest moon friends of mineral town
Same. This game was wonderful. Very nostalgic for me too. Yeah, middle school SUCKED, but this game was my refuge. The moment the theme from the GC game started playing when I started the video? Tears. ;~;
I also loved Magical Melody, which my sister gave me after graduating from middle school (because she knew I loved AWL which she also gave me two years prior for Christmas).
Another Wonderful Life is my favorite too. I have such warm memories of sitting in the living room floor in the dark on a snowy night playing wrapped up in a blanket. I really want it rereleased on the Switch but I’d LOVE a remake like they did with Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town 💜
LUCKY YOUUU! it’s five years later but they announced the remaster for 2023 ❤️
For me personally harvest moon AWL is one of the best games ive ever played, of all games. I think u already knew. What's ur fav? Loved the vid btw!
Back to Nature will always have a place in my heart.
Sherwin Marcelo no doubt about that.
Once I heard the title sequence in this video, it took me back.
I know a lot of people love fast paced HM games but the slow paced ToT is my fav, I helps me chill and be calm and no matter what, I always smile when playing it
Nice video, but you forgot to mention one very important thing. Bokujo Monogatari, the true name of this series in Japan, and got the Natsume/Marvelous Interactive shenanigans not entirely correct. Natsume and Marvelous Interactive didn't split because of different vision about the series' future, but because Marvelous merged with another company (I forgot the company's name). The company Marvelous merged with owns a subsidiary company known as XSeed Games, and Marvelous got full control of XSeed after the merge. Marvelous then decided it would be better to have XSeed localize Bokujo Monogatari to the west through XSeed Games, since it saves more time and money since they practically own XSeed, but XSeed had to create a new name for the series in the west since Natsume still hold the rights to the Harvest Moon games, and that's how the name Story of Seasons was born. However, it's Story of Seasons that actually belong in the main Harvest Moon series, and not the Harvest Moon games since The Lost Valley, since Story of Seasons belong to the Bokujo Monogatari series in Japan, while Natsume' s Harvest Moon games are their own series
I love Magical Melody, I was hoping there was some form of remake or sequel here... 🥺
This series has so many different styles.
My all time favorites will always be harvest moon more friends of mineral and tree of tranquility
DeltaShinyZeta mine is take of two towns. is it a good choice?
Yes ToTT is my favorite also I don't know why every one isn't a big fan of it. It is just so unique compared other games in the series like if you agree
Tree of tranquility yes. Friends of mineral, I've never tried.
Agreed with mfomt. It is the only Harvest Moon I 100% completed. I loved it.
My top 3 are Magical Melody, Animal Parade, and Friends of Mineral Town.
I grew up on HM 64 and HM Back to Nature, but my favorite is hands down HM Magical Melody.
Grew up with 64, Save the Homeland, and MFoMT. Gotta say though, watching my cousin play A Wonderful Life always made me a bit jealous and that game is weirdly nostalgic for me despite not having played it. I would play MFoMT on my GBA and she would play AWL on her gamecube. I was always a little jealous because while MFoMT was a very solid game, the world of AWL seemed so much more fun and charming.
Harvest moon: a wonderful life will always be one of my favorites because it was the first game in the series I played and it has so much nostalgia. But a new beginning is by far my favorite game in the series, I probably have over 500+ hours in that game spread over multiple playthroughs
Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns was my first Harvest Moon game and I still love it so much, even if it does have a few things to complain about. Like the Harvest Goddess's reason to blocking out the tunnel and the cringey trash talk between the mayors.
Zoey Fen this was my first and I regret giving it away. Actually, it’s still my first and I just repurchased a 3ds. Any recommendations for next best harvest moon games?
@@Grace-hi6mx SoS: Trio of Towns has a similar vibe to Tale of Two Towns. Another good one is the first Story of Seasons. Those are good ones on the 3DS but if you want ones on other consoles, a huge fan favourite is definitely Animal Parade.
Zoey Fen thanks! Definitely looking forward to getting back into my childhood favorites
@@Grace-hi6mx hopefully you enjoy these games
HM64 is my favorite. Followed by Back to Nature. I remember being super psyched for A Wonderful Life. Followed news about it and posted in forums non stop. But ultimately I was disappointed by it. It seemed unfinished in some ways. I never beat it, because like you said it can become boring with nothing to do after several years. I think I made it to the first 3 year chapter before I fell off. Which is too bad because the overarching story was really touching. I feel like Magical Melody is probably the best one, just with the huge world, interesting characters and the fact that you can buy land and have multiple farming areas. I'm super excited for Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town. That set of characters are my favorite. I probably won't be able to resist marrying Karen again, as usual. I wish they hadn't changed the look of the characters so much, but whatever. Just a few more days! I started playing the series with HM64 when I was 11 or 12. Never thought I'd still be playing them in my thirties :P
I love animal parade the most I literally have nothing bad to say about it, would absolutely love a remastered version
Ah Harvest Moon 64, the only game I ever faked an illness for so I could stay home and play.
My favorites were Save the Homeland, More Friends of Mineral Town, Magical Melody, Another Wonderful Life, Tree of Tranquility, and the newest Story of Seasons.
I really enjoyed Harvest Moon: Back To Nature and have played it lots of times
64 is the best one hands down. FOMT, BTN, and IAWL are close contenders.
Yeah 64 was my first one, I fell in love almost immediately lol. I'm pretty sure it was the first ever life sim type game that I played and it started a lifelong love.
This series underwent a lot of experimentation, adding and removing aspects of the game all the time, as well as changing the art style between 2D and 3D back and forth. Oddly enough, the original SNES Harvest Moon was one of the most well balanced and had gotten most of the key concepts right.
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will probably always be my favorite by far
You messed it up a bit. XSeed has been around for a long time, but since Marvelous had an in house translator in them, they decided to not use Natsume anymore.
Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar will forever be my favourite
Will you be making a follow up video for the sequels?
Started my Harvest Moon Journes with the GBC game and Harvest Moon Back to nature, I played those to games throughout my whole childhood, not even knowing there have benn new games availlable. But it never felt like I nedded something new, and my whole family was obsessed with the ps1 game, so I have very fond memorys of it. We even played it on the pc with an emulator many years after. When the wii came out I tried out a new Harvest Moon game, dont even know which one it was, it was just bad, so I think maybe it wasnt one from Marvelous. The Switch brought me back to this series, when Friends of minteralown came out I just freaked, because it has all those characters I wanted and loved for so many years. I still cant get enought of it. But I also like to play he new games of story of season, its just my type of game
I loved A wonderful life. It was my first harvest moon game and also the music and characters made me fall in love. The first time I beat the game I cried cause I didn't know you died and the game would end.
7:00 The best one
in the future i'm gonna make Harvest moon Future of Mineral town
Okay
no need they releasing a new version, your wish came true
bro you literally predicted the future since they made a remake 😳
Thank you for this. I loved it. ❤ I love Harvest Moon. I've played many different versions but WOW there are so many more that I didn't know about until this video! And it was fun to get to see here how they play. 😊
my first exposure to harvest moon was HM DS, and i also picked up HM DS cute later. i liked both games and they really got me into the harvest moon series. I even went back later and picked up HM friends of mineral town/more friends of mineral town, and magical melody. I played almost all of the other harvest moon games from 2008 to now. i think i had the most enjoyment playing HM animal parade. the world was so big and the characters has different personalities. I loved the 2 male and 2 female character player options. the controls for the Wii were simple and i loved the graphics. the number of bachelors and bachelorettes and all there different personalities were so interesting and unique. 10/10 loved it.
The real Harvest Moon is now named Story of Seasons after Harvest Moon: A New Beginning. Stop buying the latest Harvest Moon titles from Natsume as they are just in name only but not in quality.
The music from these games brings me right back to my childhood playing AWL and Magical Melody on my gamecube. Gosh I miss that feeling
I loved harvest moon ds 🥺🥺 there was always so much to do!!
and now natsume has made the same game with some changes and publish it. Seeds of memories, skytree village and light of hope have almost the same town, yes, light of hope is bigger but that's it. They didn't even bother to change the sprites from skytree village to light of hope. Overall, for me natsume's "harvest moon" lost all the things I loved in the games, but Story of seasons still has them
DS was my intro to the series and it triggered my gay awakening so it holds a special place in my heart
I'm kinda disappointed that this video didn't come out just a little later, and that it wasn't just a little more comprehensive. I'm fairly new to the Harvest Moon series as a whole. I'd have liked to see how Story of Seasons Trio of Towns compared, as well as the Rune Factory games.
My favorite is...Harvest Moon (SNES). I know that the other Harvest Moon games had other things that made it more better & it's been claimed by most fans that Harvest Moon 64 is the best game in the franchise, but there are reasons why Harvest Moon (SNES) is my favorite.
1) It's the 1st Harvest Moon game I played / owned
2) It was released in 1997, (2 years past the SNES's expiration year (Just like Kirby's Dreamland 3) meaning the graphics & music were pushed past the SNES's limits.
3) In my honest opinion. A great place to start for newcomers to the franchise. Because it's so simple, beginners will find it easier to play & enjoy before moving on to the other Harvest Moon games. So I highly recommend you play Harvest Moon (SNES) as your starting point, for all you newbies out there.
4) Nostalgia. SWEET😋, SWEET😋, NOSTALGIA😍
My favorite is definitely A Wonderful Life, but it's worth noting that that's the oldest one I've played. All the games afterward, save for A New Beginning, just don't hit
Top 5 imo are
#1 back to nature
#2 tree of tranquility
#3 64
#4 boy and girl
#5 GB color
Despite Harvest Moon DS/DS Cute having awful stories and same graphics as FOMT, I actually really enjoyed it and it's definitely one of my favourite games. I like the idea of having to gather at least 60 harvest sprites to get married & save the goddess, it forces the player to work for goals and use all the mechanics in the game making it more enjoyable. Even though the boy version was a lot more buggy & collecting the sprites were unfortunately easier, the girl version that I always played was really difficult to get 60 and wow that was rewarding. The style and well known characters felt very old school and I hope natsume decides to go back to the rustic vibe other than going insanely "anime/childish" in the lost valley and seeds of memories. (Personally I just dislike the new style) Also in HMDS & Cute the little mini games like fighting your rivals in your dog house and hilarious things you could do like poisoning & killing the entire town just made it so unique and funny. Plus the whole mining aspect?! AMAZING!! I remember I'd always compete with my friends with how far we can go down in the mine & it was such a fun challenge.
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P.S. I cried from hearing the song 5 seconds in xd
Definitely checking out Story of Seasons.
Don’t make the mistake of buying the current “harvest moon” games their like cheap mobile games. Definitely go for story of seasons it’s the real harvest moon now.
I enjoyed this video as someone who has never played Harvest Moon but am thinking I might wanna try it out. But I realized you neglected to mention the one game I'm thinking of playing, which is Harvest Moon My Little Shop for the Nintendo Wii. It's a Wiiware game but still thought you'd mention it. It's not a side game like Rune Factory. But I enjoyed the video.
The thing I'm surprised of about this game series is that there's no waifu or husbando wars
Only because people weren't even designating Waifu's until around 2002-ish on the internet (possibly later, I'm very sure Azumanga Daioh popularized the phrase waifu among anime fans around then, and it began to pop up)
Rest assured, I had the conversation with people (without using those words) about harvest moon 64 though. My favorite will always be Karen. They will always love the wrong ones. It's sad, but it's hard to change a mind. Some people just don't want to admit they were wrong, too.
Karen is by far the best - obviously - and I have a sneaking suspicion that the other girls were all whores; maybe I'm biased.
because there's no weeabo
I’m not sure if there were, but does hating the rival of the certain bachelor/bachelorettes counts? For example, Gray is incredibly popular amongst the female/HMBTNFG/MFoMT players, they all hated his love interest, Mary.
Harvest moon a wonderful life was one of my favorites harvest moons game
Watched this video because I was wondering if I should get a harvest moon game! After researching it a bit I think I might want to get A Wonderful Life, I don’t know, we’ll see. Thank you for giving me this wonderful information! :)
Harvest Moon 64, Save the Homeland, and Magical Melodies will always be my favorites!
9:00 that game is still to this day fire to the player
Animal Parade was easily my favorite ❤
ive only played tale of two towns but i want to play them all now!
except lost valley...
Back to Nature is my fave. A Wonderful Life is the last "decent' game. The games always had a "fairy tale" like atmosphere about them, but were still rooted in semi realism. Post Wonderful Life, they all look like pure fantasy to the nth degree.
Story of seasons is the real harvest moon harvest moon now the only thing that’s the same is the logo and name. One is the true game one (sos) and the new harvest moon feels like a cheap mobile game 5 years after this video was made.
Another Wonderful Life was the first I played, but I had no idea it was so late in the series. I thought it was one of the firsts because it was so different.
Harvest moon gb was my first. I was so mad my mom got me a farming game. 20 years later I'm still playing this series.
I love the harvest moon friends of mineral town😍😍😍😍😘😘😘
probably the best story line
Magical Melody is incredibly underrated
I have 2 favorites and I go back and forth between which one I like better, but my two favorites are definitely Friends Of Mineral Town and Animal Parade!!!
Harvest Moon animal parade’s long loading screens we’re always my “shove as much food in my mouth as possible before having both hands occupied again” cue 😂
hero of leaf valley is the best
My all time favorites 1. Friends of Mineral Town, 2 Sunshine Isles, 3 A New Beginning.
Oh fuck yeah! They're my favourite as well.
Grand bazar is my favorite. The first one I played I think was melody something. It was something like that. And I got grand bazar from the memory of my first harvest moon game although being bad from lack of knowledge has a kid on how to do things and rushing in to things that unenviablely taught me to not rush through what's happening. so, you know, you don't press the wrong save slot so you're friend can play and then erase yours after repeated have attempts to figure out how to save in the first place. And redueingn everything over and over again till I decided I'm not doing that all again just because I was more stupid and erased everything.... but I loved the parts I played so, I thought I'd get this one for my dsi. I can remember the struggle from the saving problem. So many things that happened. I don't know if I cried, but I probably. I Was pretty upset after erasing my save. And that makes me want to cry now.... it's so sad, I struggle so much with it.
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Ok, so basicly grand bazar because it was the second chance to the game I loved but gave up on. Pretty good game if I say so myself. Only three or four, maybe five areas to go too. But it was still really fun. I think I wanted to marry durk, dirk? I don't remember his name, I just knew he was cute and I liked him. I never finished it though. I never seam to be able too.
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Oh gosh, I need to find someone who likes harvest moon so I can talk to them and not write a whole thing like I just did.
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Ok bye. My favorite is grand bazar, I had like two horses for the game. Plushes from the series.
Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life Is My Favorite
I legitimately never would’ve known the companies spilt if I didn’t see this video. I personally favourite story of seasons since this separation, though my favourite game will always be another wonderful life ❤️
I still liked Harvest Moon: Friends of mineral town, so much secrets to discover, no matter how much you played it, you'll definitely have a goal to do list. Like he said, it's like a fan base and really fast paced game with lots of things to do, but in time you'll get bored of it. Good job for a 2003 game. To be honest i thought it was a 2007 game. Anyways also i though the developers were going to create another game with similarities like that game, but while they were so busy with the gameplay, that they forgot about how much people loved the classic graphic with lots of secrets, giving a multiplayer might be a next level gameplay if you ask me, if they could figure sth out. But too late, since they departed
My favorite in the series was AnWL, in every way except the bachelors, I think they could have picked better bachelors. The bachelorettes in AWL and AWLSE are examples of that. Sure most of the guys in forget-me-not were married, but there was an easy fix imo. Make the inn slightly bigger, extend the amount of time you have to marry a bit, and add travelling bachelors (new characters) who come and go from and to the inn, according to some kind of "schedule".
This could also make another destiny for your kid, like taking over the farm, athlete, etc. Where your kid is a traveller. Also I wish the feature to have a daughter instead of a son from AWLSE was in AnWL.
Oh god that lost valley looked like a hot mess.
sunshine island is my childhood, the first harvest moon game i have played, ive married all the guys xd
Harvest moon save the homeland is the best harvest moon game ever
I can say the game has the best graphics in the entire series and the music is great. Well the map is so little and have a short gameplay and before you can achieve 9 endings you wouldnt see winter coming cuz i always ended up in autumn or summer. But its an old games anyway
Played Back to Nature and PS2 version. " BACK TO NATURE " is No.1 from the bottom of my heart! bring back memories ...
Top notch video. Super well done. Thank you.
My favorite HM Game was Tree of Tranquility
was playing pokemon yellow and blue when harvest moon came out
animal parade was my first HM game and its definitely one of my favorites!!! best HM game
Wow what a great video I really enjoyed that and learnt so many things about the series! Good job! My favourite is defiantly a wonderful life it was my childhood but I also have a strange soft spot for true o tranquility despite its REALLY ANNOYING slowness
"Because the developers were on dru-"
Demonitization: *Im gonna stop you right there*
My fave is either ds or friends of mineral town remake
Loved the vid and am now plotting to get four seasons just wondering are you going to update this or make another vid as new games come out and are you going to talk about some of the ones that did not come west?
Either way thanks for the vid it was fun
@@DeltaShinyZeta Thank you for the reply also please take your time I will watch it when you are good and comfortable with doing and releasing it. Also, give me time to work through your other vids especially the pokemon and summoners war walkthroughs. I am currently consumed by Ever Oasis and will wait till I finish before I watch those walkthroughs. Kinda surprised how this one went under the radar for such an interesting game. Got good scores too. In either case, I will be around.Next year I am aiming to get Story of 4 Season
Happy Holidays
Friends of Mineral Town is my all time favorite
Thank you for this video! I greatly appreciate it!
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17:34 the bazaar doesn’t occur every day for a limited time! if i remember right, it was every friday or saturday from around 10am-5pm? something similar to that. and you would have the whole week to prepare for the bazaar. it’s not the best game, but i like it better than the older ones, and it was also the first hm game i ever played 👀
thats my favorite event
Not really into LPs so I hope you make more vids like this. Great job!
Great chronological review! Its nice to look back now and then
hm tale of two towns is my favorite 😍
Can you update this list😢 🙏
This video needs an updated version.
I wish I had known about DS Cute when I was a kid! DS always upset me because I couldn’t play as a girl.
Would love an update!
This is fascinating! Thank you so much for putting it together.
I remember Friends of mineral Town. I was addicted to it. Luv it so much
The first story of seasons was my favorite of all times. I still play and LOVE it so much :)
It makes me so happy to see someone else love that game!! It's so underrated😭💔
Thanks for this video! I’ve played so many old harvest moon games on emulator many years ago! I even began collecting all the plushies I had missed previously from preorders. I tried the first Natsume attempt at HM, didn’t like it then later found out about the split. Got Story of Seasons soon after 👍 haven’t given Natsume money since.
I love harvest moon! ❤ Animal Parade is actualy my favorit harvest moon of all time!
Harvest Moon: Friend's of Minreral Town (Gameboy) was my favorite, spent I don't know how many hours and or days in real life on that game.
Also, a second Story of Seasons is in production