Story of Seasons! <3

[Lolipup]

I'm very excited for this game! This is the real harvest moon game, not the other one that goes by the Harvest Moon title. I've already decided I'll probably marry Klaus, he's dashing and I love dark hair hehe the farming aspect seem so much easier than before and I'm not sure if I like that or if I'll be happy about it. I loved spending a lot of time taking care of my crops but now that it's faster and easier, I can spend time doing other things around town. I hope this game trumps ANB.

Klaus is quite dashing~ though I'm still leaning more towards Nadi, I really love the variety in the bachelors this time around though! there are so many to pick from, though really there is no way to know until we get to play it what we will think of this game in the long run, It might be amazing! and that's honestly what I'm hoping for. ^^

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There is Normal and Seedling/Beginner mode in SoS as fas as I know. Marvelous created patch for download from j-eShop.

^-- this, sounds amazing, just playing on normal would be good and make it where it isn't too easy~

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I doubt the game itself has lost its core charm. I just feel the charm is a little dulled just because it's very similar to past games and doesn't have any big stand-out qualities that I can see yet. It may down the road for all I know, but I don't think I can sit through the LP that long to find out, and thus I don't think I'd be able to play it that long to find out (unless the bachelor courting was REALLY driving me). I don't really think you'll be spoiling that much, since you've apparently already seen the marriage prospects. Harvest Moon games don't have much else you can really be spoiled on, in general, besides a very basic story.

That's my opinion, though. I think it will still have enjoyable factors to the game and I don't think it's a bad purchase for anyone to make. I'm just a little disappointed, myself. It's 2015 and I was expecting something a little more new and exciting.

ohh...well I do understand that aspect, I myself do want something fresh but...even if it's extremely similar to other harvest moons I cannot say I mind? <3 I love the classic feel, so I won't be disappointed I believe. ^^ I'm a little disappointed to hear the story is quite basic, but otherwise I'm still really hyped for this game again! I saw a few more trailers as I'm too scared to watch the LP and disappoint myself. </3 but in the longrun I do think this is a good choice to play, I feel the only reason it might not be...too new? is because of Lost valley, the developers probably just needed to hurry up the release to get a real harvest moon game on the table?

Either way, it's a new harvest moon, new faces, new animals, and maybe just raising the bunnies will be quite fun? (I know the alpacas in the previous ANB really excited me. ;w; they were so cute!) so even though there are only a few new things...I think it's best to savour them. <3

 

[BirdsAreCoolYo]

...the fact that MONSTROISITY was someone's first harvest moon game hurts me....since it's a TERRIBLE game and really a harvest moon rip off. D:

As far as I know it comes out March 10th, PLEASE get it. owo

It was that bad? I'll preorder now!

 

[RosieThePeppyCat]

I'm getting it! This is gonna be my first harvest moon game I own :3 Got $40 eshop for my birthday and I'm planning to get it on launch

 

[Holla]

I'm getting it! This is gonna be my first harvest moon game I own :3 Got $40 eshop for my birthday and I'm planning to get it on launch

Me too! Though I won't be getting money until my Birthday (March 25th), but at launch on March 31st I will be downloading off the eshop! This will be my third Harvest Moon game though following Harvest Moon DS, and Harvest Moon A New Beginning.

 

[Lolipup]

I'm getting it! This is gonna be my first harvest moon game I own :3 Got $40 eshop for my birthday and I'm planning to get it on launch

Aww, go for it! ^^ I think you will really love it, it looks so good. ;w;

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Me too! Though I won't be getting money until my Birthday (March 25th), but at launch on March 31st I will be downloading off the eshop! This will be my third Harvest Moon game though following Harvest Moon DS, and Harvest Moon A New Beginning.

Aww cute! if you haven't tried some of the older harvest moon games, might I recommend some you might enjoy?? <3

 

[Holla]

Aww, go for it! ^^ I think you will really love it, it looks so good. ;w;

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Aww cute! if you haven't tried some of the older harvest moon games, might I recommend some you might enjoy?? <3

I'd love to play some GBA or GameCube Harvest Moon games, but GBAs are hard to come by and I do have an original Wii but no GameCube controllers or memory cards. :/

But, games like Friends of Mineral Town, Magical Melody, a Wonderful Life etc. look really good in my opinion though I've never played them.

 

[Lolipup]

I'd love to play some GBA or GameCube Harvest Moon games, but GBAs are hard to come by and I do have an original Wii but no GameCube controllers or memory cards. :/

But, games like Friends of Mineral Town, Magical Melody, a Wonderful Life etc. look really good in my opinion though I've never played them.

aww....maybe you should invest in some game controllers and memory cards? D: It would be the worth while, I assure you! Magical melody is actually one of my favorites, along with Another wonderful life. <3

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I'd love to play some GBA or GameCube Harvest Moon games, but GBAs are hard to come by and I do have an original Wii but no GameCube controllers or memory cards. :/

But, games like Friends of Mineral Town, Magical Melody, a Wonderful Life etc. look really good in my opinion though I've never played them.

They're probably going to be hard to find, but if you're up for the search I promise you will not be disappointed. Friends of Mineral Town and A Wonderful Life are two of my top favorites and I have played MANY Harvest Moon games. I haven't played Magical Melody but I have been looking into getting it recently since I've been kinda let down by these newer HM games.

I will say, Friends of Mineral Town will be more "difficult" than the games they have out now, but there's so much cool stuff to do in the game. It never gets old. And A Wonderful Life is seriously a beautiful HM game. The gameplay and graphics are awesome.

 

[Holla]

They're probably going to be hard to find, but if you're up for the search I promise you will not be disappointed. Friends of Mineral Town and A Wonderful Life are two of my top favorites and I have played MANY Harvest Moon games. I haven't played Magical Melody but I have been looking into getting it recently since I've been kinda let down by these newer HM games.

I will say, Friends of Mineral Town will be more "difficult" than the games they have out now, but there's so much cool stuff to do in the game. It never gets old. And A Wonderful Life is seriously a beautiful HM game. The gameplay and graphics are awesome.

Well, I have played Harvest Moon DS (yes the glitchy boy version) and I remember it being more difficult then the current day games. I might invest in some GC stuff someday when I have some money to spend lol. I've always wanted to try the original Animal Crossing too, as I started with Wild World in the series.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

Well, I have played Harvest Moon DS (yes the glitchy boy version) and I remember it being more difficult then the current day games. I might invest in some GC stuff someday when I have some money to spend lol. I've always wanted to try the original Animal Crossing too, as I started with Wild World in the series.

I had the extremely glitchy boy version, too. It made it so I couldn't see heart events and I basically could never marry. But that game is pretty difficult! There were a lot of sprite requirements and it took me a long time to get there. On DS and DS Cute. While Friends of Mineral Town doesn't have as many requirements for things, it's still more challenging than A New Beginning and I would chose FoMT over ANB any day.

 

[snapdragon]

thanks to this thread i found out about this game, and i definitely want it! *.*

 

[LyraVale]

I'm excited about it! I'd never played a HM game before, so I got A New Beginning as a sort of warm up to Story of Seasons...to see if I should bother to be excited, or bother to wait for it. While I have a lot of complaints about ANB, if someone were to ask my opinion of it, I also can honestly say I love it. I had to put it down and step away from it for a while...and I started playing Fantasy Life now. But I think I'll definitely go back to ANB in a while...just to maybe have my baby with Neil!!! <3

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BTW, do they have the same characters in each game? I mean is Neil going to be in SOS? I hope so...

 

[Eldin]

BTW, do they have the same characters in each game? I mean is Neil going to be in SOS? I hope so...

No, I think it's an all-new cast except for Licorice (Reina from ToTT), Kamil (Cam from ToTT), & Witchie (Witchkin from SI).

 

[Holla]

I'm excited about it! I'd never played a HM game before, so I got A New Beginning as a sort of warm up to Story of Seasons...to see if I should bother to be excited, or bother to wait for it. While I have a lot of complaints about ANB, if someone were to ask my opinion of it, I also can honestly say I love it. I had to put it down and step away from it for a while...and I started playing Fantasy Life now. But I think I'll definitely go back to ANB in a while...just to maybe have my baby with Neil!!! <3

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BTW, do they have the same characters in each game? I mean is Neil going to be in SOS? I hope so...

I agree, ANB was a great game but has many issues too. I think SOS will be a better game though as ANB was the first true Harvest Moon game on 3DS (Tale of Two Towns was on 3DS first but it was basically a port of the DS version of the same name). That being said ANB was a bit of a guinea pig for bringing Harvest Moon to 3DS, so they will have worked out many problems that ANB had in SOS.

Also, sadly Neil is not in SOS. Most Harvest Moon games have many new and unique characters, and only a few are reused in some games. It's not all bad though as there are some amazing new bachelors to choose from in SOS!

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Edit: if you don't mind spoilers scroll to the bottom of this webpage to see images of all the characters in SOS including the bachelors and bacholrettes.

 

[DrewDiddy1996]

The bachelors and bachelorettes all seem great.

If I decide to create a male character I will probably pick (iris) or possibly (licorice).
Or if I create a female than I'll pick (mistel) or (raeger).

Does anyone know if story of seasons will have a multiplayer portion? Or is it only single player? I've never played a harvest moon before so I don't know much of this game but I'm still extremely excited.

 

[Holla]

The bachelors and bachelorettes all seem great.

If I decide to create a male character I will probably pick (iris) or possibly (licorice).
Or if I create a female than I'll pick (mistel) or (raeger).

Does anyone know if story of seasons will have a multiplayer portion? Or is it only single player? I've never played a harvest moon before so I don't know much of this game but I'm still extremely excited.

Yes, it has multiplayer. I've seen it on LinandKo's let's play on Youtube (they do a word for word translation of the Japanese version). ANB also had a very limited multiplayer. SOS's multiplayer still seems limited but at least it seems you can actually check out the other player's farm, while in ANB you were limited to a boring field. Also it seems you can select from a few pre-selected messages to send while ANB had no chat feature what so ever.

 

[LyraVale]

Edit: if you don't mind spoilers scroll to the bottom of this webpage to see images of all the characters in SOS including the bachelors and bacholrettes.

Aw, too bad about Neil. :C It was love at first sight between us. lol
On the other hand Klaus looks pretty tempting. And the rest of them (the bachelorettes too) all look really adorable.

I feel safe discussing my obsession with the romance/marriage-aspect of this game on this thread...you guys won't judge right? lol, it IS pretty hard to explain it without sounding like a weirdo to people who don't play the games. XD

Also I can't wait to be able to use the multiplayer feature...since I didn't get to try it out with ANB. I can't imagine it would be easy to show someone around your farm without being able to chat though, if they make it so you can do that.

On ACNL it was hard enough to type out short messages, and that seemed like the bare minimum you could get away with, if you wanted a misunderstanding-free visit...I can't imagine having even less. Could cause a lot of interesting situations, or at least some very short visits.

 

[Holla]

I feel safe discussing my obsession with the romance/marriage-aspect of this game on this thread...you guys won't judge right? lol, it IS pretty hard to explain it without sounding like a weirdo to people who don't play the games. XD

Yes you are safe haha, you are right though you really need to talk about marriage candidates with fellow Harvest Moon fans or else you will get weird looks. Klaus is very dashing that's for sure! ^.^ So far I'm leaning towards cute little Mistel despite his young looks, but it will all depend on what happens in game really as I learn each character's personality my choices may change. If I do make a boy file I'm leaning towards Agate right now as a bachelorette, but that's if I make another save file.

 

[Cou]

almost there.... march..... please hurry..

 

[DarkDesertFox]

I recently stumbled upon this game and it looks like it'll be good. I'm definitely planning on getting this.