wheres my true love ?

Man i can't wait for Magical Melody to get a remake, or a new non-doromon title.

A fun farm sim dated with tediousness. The game lost me when it introduced that to max your animal affection, you needed to continuously breed and raise to adulthood a lineage per animal type. Combined with that to meet the most extreme increments of"completion", you need to play 5 or 50 years in game, that's too much time commitment for a farm sim. I need to have an "ending" in sight. Otherwise i would play a MMO.

I grew up with the original Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, and honestly that kept me from stardew valley. I don’t know those people! And I missed mineral town far more than I missed the farming sim as a genre.

The redesign of character portraits is simply gorgeous. I’m skeptical of making pixel art into low-fi polygon animations usually, but post 3ds, I think this form of remake has managed to not look terrible.

The text everywhere has been retooled and modernized and even in translation it shows a strong comforting voice and some real charm. I think it shows that you can have compelling characters without introducing the rougher aspects of rural life. We’re not butchering the cows, therefore we’re not dealing with anything more depressing than a drifter needing a steady job before he opens up to the townsfolk.

One downside is that there’s really not too much time before you hit bedrock, it got my 100+ hours in, but sim games are built to a different standard. This started as a GBA game, and while there are many many QOL aspects added, it’s still a similar initial scope.

This game’s great. I like it a lot. Nostalgia’s a big factor, but if you wanted to farm sim and something about Stardew doesn’t really land for you, I’d say this is more than worth a shot.

bring back memories... new rules but more fun

Blast to the past! I played harvest moon more friends of mineral town years ago still entertaining to this day if you just want to do some mineless farming