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The Harvest Moon Discussion Thread!

Can someone tell me the latest and best game in the series?

Best is kind of hard to pinpoint. A Wonderful Life is my personal favorite, but it's one of those games where people either seem to love it, or hate it. Harvest Moon 64 seems to be the most popular out of all of them though, so if you can find a working 64, that one would be a safe bet.

The latest on is Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, and I must say it's pretty fantastic. I would strongly suggest any Harvest Moon fan to get it. Even though it starts out kind of slow, it becomes really fun once it gets going. The bachelors/ettes are all fairly interesting, and I actually had a hard time picking my wife this time around, which has never really happened. The best part is that you can now customize both the town and your player character. So I would get this one if you don't have an old machine to play A Wonderful Life, 64, or Back To Nature.

I personally don't like most of the handheld ones, so unless you're getting A New Beginning, I suggest a home console Harvest Moon.
 
I really liked AWL, but my absolutely favourite has to be Back to Nature for the Playstation. I never played 64 though, so I can't comment on that.
 
I might emulate 64, I dunno. I heard Back to Nature wasn't that good because it was too different. I dunno though. What's it like?
 
Too different to what, 64? It was a reasonably basic game compared to recent games. No crop qualities or anything. Just grow crops, raise animals, forage, get married etc...
 
Too different to what, 64? It was a reasonably basic game compared to recent games. No crop qualities or anything. Just grow crops, raise animals, forage, get married etc...

Ooops. I mied it up with Innocent Life, the futuristic one. Mah bad.
 
Well its like HM meets monster hunting and such. I have never really played it, but some people I know have and say its pretty good.
 
I need help...




getting back into ANB. I just got the tailor but I don't really know what to go for next, any suggestions?
 
I need help...




getting back into ANB. I just got the tailor but I don't really know what to go for next, any suggestions?

Which town plan are you on? Also, if you don't have a cloth maker yet, I suggest you start making that, because the tailor is kind of useless otherwise. If you already have that, then just keep building things to get the town plans moving forward. Maybe build some decorations for the gardening space as well, since you need to complete several of those.
 
Which town plan are you on? Also, if you don't have a cloth maker yet, I suggest you start making that, because the tailor is kind of useless otherwise. If you already have that, then just keep building things to get the town plans moving forward. Maybe build some decorations for the gardening space as well, since you need to complete several of those.

Right now I'm working to get the cloth maker.
 
I'm really curious about how the next game in the series is going to be. I hope they at least learnt a few things ANB didn't do so well on. Specially the extremely slow beginning on the first season. ;-; Also, assuming Natsume is going to translate the next installment too, I hope they make sure to revise the translation carefully for errors cries
 
Yeah, they need an option to skip over everything. Like have the mayor ask: Do you know how to plant crops? or Do you want to meet the villagers?

They don't need to take the tutorial out, they just need to make it so that it isn't forced.
 
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