+Catdragon Mew I forgot my first one but the ones that i remembered the most was Harvest Moon : A Wonderful Life. (Because i never actually got far into it.)
Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar was my favorite, it just added a whole new system of selling the love and it was really refreshing especially since you could upgrade tools, add more fields and everything
I just really love the way HMDS looks. It's very childish and nostalgic for me with all the colours and cartoonish designs and a lot of the character designs are really cool and interesting. Granted the plot is quite slow but it's still a childhood favourite of mine.
Here's my Top 5 HM games: 5 - Animal Parade: This game is kinda different from the others (in my opinion), but is just awesome! The graphics are really good, the gameplay is very precise, and it have pretty good quests. 4 - Harvest Moon DS: This is one of the first HM games that I've played. It is very fun, and have many different interesting things. Also, it's a ''port'' of A Wonderful Life, and I don't have any problem with the glitches. 3 - Harvest Moon 64: This is the first Hm I've ever played, but it was when I was small, and first have played the japanese version, so I don't understand the game. But many years later I played it again (in english) and it's an great game. The graphics are OK, the music is boring, but the gameplay is almost perfect. It has some glitches, but its fun and very enjoyable. 2 - Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life: This game is just incredible. I really enjoy the gameplay and the graphics. The best music in the game is Breeze, just hearing it makes me want to play the game. The history it's great too, and it have pretty good characters. 1 - Harvest Moon Back to Nature: This game is *PERFECT*. The graphics are pretty good, the soundtrack too, but the gameplay and the features in the game are perfect. It has awesome characters and a very good history. This is, with no doubts, my favorite Harvest Moon game. I haven't played Friends of Mineral, so I can't say if its better than Back to Nature. And the worst game (my opinion) is Save The Homeland. It's awful. Harvest Moon is one of my favorite franchises ever, and I'm sad that the newest games aren't good than the olders. Sorry for my bad english, I'm Brazilian XD
Gustavo Costa fiquei até interessado em jogar o friends of mineral town, sabe se contar quantas horas eu já passei jogando HM BTN no PS1 ou no Emulador no PC e no Celular cara juntando acho que dá semanas! Vou dár uma olhada nesse Friends of mineral town parece muito legal também.
***** I just can't like Save The Homeland, the same way I don't like Magical Melody. These elements you've talked about makes me love Back To Nature, but I don't find them in STH XD. Thanks for respecting my opinion too.
BluennBr : I like Back to Nature too but because I played it after playing Friends of Mineral Town, I thought the lover system is too easy compared with FoMT (maybe the dev fixed it in FoMT). For example, with just wild flower I can get Mari to green heart after just a season. When it's summer, it's Popuri and her pinkcat. Rune Factory 3 and FoMT have the best lover system in the series imo.
i love everything about magical melody. it is my favorite easily. i wish the town building system from a new beginning was implemented into more of the games though.
Elmy Natasya mine too both: friend of mineral town and MORE friends of mineral Town xD. my first HM was the first one and really like all (excepto island of happines and sunshine islands...) actually I was replay DS Cute 💖
Never was even close to finishing it, but it definitely was great. It's challenging too sometimes cuz of the freshness level of food and/or crops, but the fact that there's a bazaar and you had to lure and sell items was just beeeeyond fun.
Just seeing a wonderful life, hearing the music, and hearing you explain basically what i know it does brings tears to my eyes because i've played alot of games and Harvest moon is the first emotional tear jerker game i have ever played and i'm sure some migh tpoke fun of me at the fact i cried when, well i died, but it was really a sad ending.
I haven't played the newer ones so my list goes like: 1. FoMT/BTN 2. HMDS and the next three are usually interchangeable: 3. Tale of Two Towns 4. Grand Bazaar 5. Sunshine Islands
God I loved FoMT I was too young to appreciate the courting system or even really the good cast of characters. Most of my days were spent trying to figure out if there were ways to get Rick and Popuri's dad to come back. I didn't realize until later that it was because I related a lot to Rick, since my mom is also very sick. I've always been tasked with taking care of things she cannot do. I felt for both of Lillia's children.
Everyone seems to like Harvest Moon (more) Friends of Mineral Town, and I certainly do understand why, it's my favourite as well. They should honestly remake Harvest Moon (more) Friends of Mineral Town, I'd buy that instantly!
roronoa leo no, it's very different. Perhaps the graphics are similar but as games, but nope. Two different worlds. Grand Bazaar is my favorite Harvest Moon. I saw hate because the Harvest Goddess doesn't appear and because the game style. Personally I love it :v Tott was sure ignored, but I don't know why (I suppose because the cooking festivals perhaps seem boring to some persons). Was Harvest Moon or not, ToTT was a great game. I hate The Lost Valley, and precisely now it's very popular between posers because it has been translated to a lots of languages. That's the reason I prefer Harvest Moon games in english. Why? Because fans who know how to appreciate it will buy it. Not kids saying they love Harvest Moon games only playing... That :v Sorry, as you could guess, I'm spanish. My english is... :T
I actually am buying my first Harvest Moon game, and its Magical Melody! I saw these games, and before was like, "Bleh, its farming", and now I'm actually in love with them since I gave em a shot! Thank you so much for making this list, as this helps me decide on which one to get next!
Friends of Mineral Town and Back To Nature are my favorites ever! It's like that FMoT is the 2D version of BTN. Btw have you play Hero of Leaf Valley? that's good one too!
DS Cute is one of my favorites, partly because it has my absolute favorite bachelor in the main series, and I also feel like it was the best done of any of the N64 style Harvest Moons. I also really love that you could put your buildings where you liked and I could actually make my coops and barns inside a fenced off area, so I didn't have to worry about Wild Dog attacks when putting my animals back inside. It's also the second Harvest Moon to include my favorite overpowered device, the seed maker, and the first to completely break game balance by doing so (although it does at least give you a way to save up for that expensive Gold Lumber for immortal buildings). It also has fewer glitches than the boy's DS version, which was generally a mess, especially if you got one of the glitchier cartridges (some cartridges, like mine, had no severe glitches, others suffered from save file destroying glitches). I also love the accessories you can get to further break game balance. Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns is probably my absolute favorite at this point.
It's technically a spinoff game, but my favorite is Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon. It was my first Harvest Moon game--I bought it because it was the least expensive one for the PS2 at the time--and I didn't know what to expect. Needless to say I was very pleased, and spent many a day annoying my mum with the music as I planted my crops and went around collecting things. The only thing that's slightly disappointing is how short the game is. The first time I played it took me awhile, especially since I had to reset because I didn't pay attention to social cues and hints (kind of glad I did. I finally got around to looking up the "bad ending" and it was really devastating to watch), but as I'm replaying it I'm only 4 days in and I've already almost finished the first year. I'm half tempted to ignore the Fire Spirit's challenge so I can see what the alien invasion is like...
My top 5 favourite Harvest Moon games are: 5. Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GC) 4. Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (PS) 3. Harvest Moon 64 2. Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town (GBA) 1: Rune Factory: Frontier (Wii) Yeah, Rune Factory, some may say that it isn't a Harvest Moon game, however the subtitle to the series is 'A Fantasy Harvest Moon' so I'd say that the entire series of games are Harvest Moon games, with the possible exception of Rune Factory Oceans, as that games really took a deep departure from the formula that it was built on, and really focused on the combat and dungeon crawling aspects of the previous titles.
My faves are 1. New beginnings ❤️❤️ 2. HM: Light of Hope 3. HM: A wonderful Life 4. HM: Tale of Two Towns Those are the only ones I’ve got to play HM: New Beginning is number one for me cause of all the cool stuff you can do, the pacing wasn’t really something I had issues with tbh. I love it cause of the cow festivals HM: New Beginning will probably always be my fave. Thanks to any one who reads this have an amazing day or night!
I know this is late, and most people will already know this by now. But for people first playing Animal Parade, you’ll notice how difficult it is to befriend people. But! There is a feature where if you point the wii remote towards the screen, a heart will appear. Wave it around on a person until hearts appear, and it’s the equivalent of giving someone a gift! So, while playing, if you stumble upon a character, just do this. And it’ll make it so much easier for you.
When I was a kid and played "More Friends of Mineral Town", I didn't ever acknowledge the fact that I had a farm. I just used to be boy crazy and talk to all the boys that had a heart. And I slept through all the winters hehe. After a few restarts I started to take care of animals, go fishing, and participate in events but I still never really planted much. I like that the game doesn't force you to do one thing or the other. I learned something new every time I replayed. One bad thing about it though is that my save file would delete randomly after MANY months of playing T_T which is why I replayed a lot
I was really hoping to see Back to Nature in this list. But that's ok :) I'm still surprised by how many people know this game. I thought I was the only one because none of my friends know about this game
I'd say this was a pretty solid list. I hope they bring back the mineral town characters like they did in harvest moon ds. Actually just make a Harvest Moon 3DS.
Where is Back to Nature or Tree of Tranquility? I didn't think FOMT is better than Back to Nature. Back to Nature had so much better graphics than FOMT :)
Harvest Moon Back to Nature : is better than 64 , better graphics , decent game. but HM FoMT : it's not Rip-off from BTN it's actually Encahnced Edition of Back to Nature. you can marry Harvest Godess, there's P egg and X egg. upgrade more tools than mythril level. many more so.. yeah
+Lina G I feel like Animal Parade is a tad of an improvement over ToT, because the storyline with the bells is more interesting. In ToT I wasn't as motivated for story. XDD
My first harvest moon game is back to nature on ps1. Still my favorite up to date. Friends of Mineral Town is like the upgraded version of it, love them both!
I agree. I haven't played any other HM games except for Tale of Two Towns. I've seen other HM games but personally I would probably prefer Tale of Two Towns.
The memories of spending the holiday, trying to find cursed tools, making them blessed, and upgrading all of them to mythic, then fishing the treasures and fossils are just, priceless.
Yes you're right, in FoMT everything you do has a purpose. Even spending 50 years with your wife will reward you a dacha near the mountain, that's just neat, the price tag for town cottage though, it was 10 mil for Japanese version but Natsume gave it 100mil instead, gosh!
Sadly idk what the hell was GameCube back then, I don't think it was even sold in my country (but GBA is) so I kinda lose the ability to connect to AWL and have a seaside cottage.
Great video! Loved hearing about somebody else's opinions of the games and made me realize things I hadn't before (like your comment about Wonderful Life having not much to do outside of the town.) Friends of Mineral Town will likely always be my favorite game; and I logged MONTHS of playtime in it order the coarse of my lifetime. I would always take it a step further and imagine these complex side stories in my head, too. Harvest Moon is by far my favorite video game franchise, and up until some of the later DS versions- had played them all. The soundtrack to Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life AND Friends of Mineral Town bring back such beautiful childhood memories to me that they actually made me tear up hearing them now. Every once in a while I catch my grandpa whistling the FOMT theme to himself; which is crazy to think we remembers that little tune over 10 years after the last time he would have heard me playing it. I think I'm going to buy a new Gameboy and copy of FOMT now!
Friends of Mineral Town will always be one of my favorite games of all time... My list is so strange: GTA, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fable, Saints Row... and then... Harvest Moon. xD
I really hope they come out with another console Harvest Moon (or should I say Story of Seasons). I greatly enjoyed HM Animal Parade and would like something else in that vein, with new crops, a new cast, and it wouldn't hurt to have a visual upgrade on the Wii U. One can dream....
I agree! I like it a lot. Especially when you have already gotten the baskets, and have unlocked many doors and plots. And the animal rooms are pretty convenient too, as well as the buggy.
"A new Beginning" is probably my favorite recent Harvest Moon title, and i completely agree with all of your points. The pacing is quite horrible, but the core gameplay is among the best in the series and none of its mechanics feel rough or unfinished. The time and stamina systems are very well balanced, never putting too much pressure on the player and the customisation is just plain fun. And pretty much the same could be said about Animal Parade. Its as classic as it can get, with some fun leveling mechanics and, what i felt to be one of the most fun gameworlds the series ever had. Although its story quests tended to be a little on the cryptic side from time to time. Its rather close to A new Beginning, which only takes the first spot because of its customization features. And for the Mineral Saga (Back to Nature / Friends of Mineral Town and their spinoffs): This would be my all time favorite classic Harvest Moon. I grew up with Harvest Moon on the SNES und GameBoy, but it was Back to Nature which really got me into the series. And FoMT really cemented that love for it, by expanding and streamlining Back to nature and putting it on a handheld. Magical Melody on the other hand never really clicked with me for one, simple reason: Its stamina system. I always felt that you started out without enough stamina to do the most basic things. Tilling, planting and watering a 3x3 patch of crops pretty much renders you completely exhausted. And its much bigger focus on giving your townspeople presents so they actually stay where they are was also something i never really liked.
If they updated the fuck out of mineral town. Like not 3D doesn't have to be, but just really cleaned it up to make it look way nicer if for sure but it. And if they remade wonderful life for the 3ds and added all the stuff you said the game was missing. I'm sure people would love that too. All the recent games they've made are such a huge disappointment and I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on them
Captain Karma have you tried the story of seasons series that is branching off from HM it's only 1 so far but SOS is pretty solid and the next one looks to be pretty good
Captain Karma Fomt is the best though i also wish they make some changes.And i dont want them to make it in 3d its already perfect but i wish they add a little bit of that and this like **cough** divorce **cough** More festivals, and gosh the weeds. the weeds always pop up every damn day and its a waste of time picking and tossing them away.
Arre yougoing tobe playing Story of Seasons when it comes out Thomal? (a.k.a. the former Harvest Moon) Mine faves are: 1. Harvest Moon 64 2. Harvest Moon FoMT 3. Harvest Moon: A New Beginning 4. Harvest Moon 3 for GBC 5. Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns.
Harvest Moon animal parade was one of the best I've played. Second is Tree of Tranquility.... both of those had a really nice plot, plus everything was challenging and fun
I was searching for a review to watch before buying one of the PS Vita downloadable titles. Unfortunately, none of these are available, hahah. But the good news is I found a cool new channel!!! Thanks man :)
Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me out? I'm a little clueless. I used to play Save The Homelands ALL THE TIME when i was a kid! It was one of my favorite games and i thought the people were really fun and storyline was really cool. As i got older I learned that there were other games under the harvest moon name. Now i am really intrigued to play more of them. The consoles I have are ps2, xbox360, ds lite, and a pc. Apparently a lot of people who like harvest moon do not like Save The Homelands, but as someone who does, what would you suggest if I want to play more of the series? What should i start with?
For the pc, i would definately suggest downloading a free gameboy advance emulator and the Friends of Mineral Town rom (it's legal, just in case your wondering)
Good idea. I love your videos. Anyway, my favorite HM games are : 1- Back to nature (I think it's perfection, and FoMT is just an overcomplicated ugly rehash) 2- HM 64 3- Animal Parade 4- Sunshine Islands 5- the original on SNES I really wish they would focus on social interactions with simpler game mechanics like in Btn and 64.
It's really hard for me to pick favorites of Harvest Moon games. A Wonderful Life was my very first though, way back when I was a little elementary school kid, so that one is particularly special to me. I just love all the games listed here. I love all the Harvest Moon games I've played. X3
so the first game I played is harvest moon friends of mineral town in the gameboy. Second is harvest moon boy and girl in the psp. I think I'm going to have a hard time to find a harvest moon that can match that
I spent so much time in Magical Melody and It's a wonderful life but never finished them. As soon as I heard the music in the video I Immediately went back to that time. Its crazy how great music in a game sticks with you
What harvest moon game should I play if all I care about is the farming aspect of the game and don't want to deal with the story or talking to npcs in the game? I know I cant escape the story completely but what I'm really looking for is one that focuses on the farming and item upgrades more than anything with little to no required "quests" to unlock things like seeds, livestock, tools, upgrades and so on. I had the harvest moon game on the psvita (think it was a port) the one where your a robot made by some scientist to do farming and whatnot. It was way to story heavy and I ran out of things to do very fast because I ignored the town for the most part and only went there for seeds.
Yes! Get Stardew Valley! It's the best farming game I've ever played, and I don't even like farming games! It can take a while for you to get a wife, because you can only increase their affection towards you with gifts (you can only give each NPC 2 gifts every week), but I think it's definitely worth a look. And if you do not like the game, you can just refund it! Hope that I was of help! ^_^
DingoPoo I would if I had the money for it but broke me cant afford it lol Watching someone play that game is actually the reason why i wanted to play a harvest moon game. and that person is Markiplier if anyone was wondering.
Harvest moon a new beginning would easily be my favorite game if they made the style and graphics the same as the opening scene. That wad SOOO nice and refreshing! I'm personally getting a bit tired of the cutesy chibi style HM has been doing lately.
I kinda wish they would like recycle characters like Gareth and Tabatha they’ve been in a few that I know of my first HM I played that it was an option for you to play different characters was New Beginnings I always went after Neil it’d be cool to see him in a new version of HM. Tbh I wish they would use those characters from that game again loved those characters
I played back to nature on the ps 1 when PlayStations and gaming systems were just coming out. I was a kid and my mom would help me. It holds so many memories to me and will always be number one! I’m currently replaying another wonderful life and really enjoying it. Animal parade is next on my list.
Harvest Moon 64 was my favorite. It didn't come out in huge supply at first so my friends would borrow my copy of it and delete each others' saves over and over (good ol' days of borrowing to play). Good memories and my favorite one to relax to.
A wonderful life is like the best and in my opinion I think the graphics are probably the best out of all the games... Just saying. I'm mad since you say it takes sooo long for it to water no it really doesn't lol you just need patience
Oh my god thank you I love A Wonderful Life too. The graphics ARE the best. Even if it's a 2004 game, you gotta give it a lot of credit. The characters can be a bit boring but I absolutely adore the family feature. A wonderful Life special edition I thought looked amazing but I have been hearing a lot of complaints about the frame rate, so I'm not taking any chances.
the lag is annoying but the rest of AWL SE is brilliant, especially the new features: - Being able to marry Lumina and/or have a daughter - Chapter lengths being reduced to 1 year in length - as much as I love AWL, I have to admit that on many playthroughs I simply got bored midway through Chapter 3/4. So this change helps immensely in that regard. - Being able to sell that goat - admittedly, I never really bought the goat but I've heard stories about how the fact you couldn't sell it in AWL, after it stopped producing milk, was SO annoying! So yeah, if you can get past the frame rate drops and peaks and the loading screens, AWL SE is a great game if a little frustrating for the aforementioned reasons.
My favorite game is a new begining whitout a doubt up until i got a new begining my favorite was back to nature/ friends of mineral town but a new begining is just so good the amout of things you get to do you have so much things to do and about it being slow yhee i know it is really slow in the begining but get passed the first spring and its so good and not having all the stores or mine or even the girls at the begining ist bad either its actually my favorite thing on the game everytime you build a house/store and someone comes to town i get a sense of acomplishment so big i remember that when i finnaly got the mine i was so happy i played the game for the entire nigth just mining :D
roronoa leo You can't move town building around, instead you unlock areas of the town that you can decorate. The is also a "fast traveling" system. so you can teleport to town from your farm. It's really convenient. The game looks similar to ANB, but it plays better. I would recommend it.
If you like harvest moon , try out Stardew Valley, its coming out in a weak on steam :) its inspired by harvest moon , but has TONS of stuff you can do , even a fighting combat in caves, you welcome
SNES games don't work on older 3ds. You need the new one. not an older one. Although, I don't believe SNES harvest moon is on the 3DS, i may be wrong. I personally would recommend Harvest moon 3, over Harvest Moon 2.
I just ordered my first Harvest Moon game which was A New Beginning. I'm pretty excited, honestly.~ I've been wanting to get into the series for awhile now and didn't know where to start. After reading some reviews and watching this video I'm pretty excited to start playing it in a few days.~
+TruferZ Better than the controls being diagonal like in Back to Nature. Also, you can change the angle for HM64. However, you can only do that for your farm. But I feel that outside of the farm, the isometric view doesn't make as much of a difference.
Friends of Mineral Town is the only Harvest Moon game I ever put any time into, but man was it fun. Just a really relaxing experience with tons to do. I once said that I think the best way to keep someone occupied for a lengthy period of time was to hand them an original DS with Friends of Mineral Town in the GBA slot and Animal Crossing: Wild World in the DS slot. I still stand by that. Just a great, great game all around.
You're kidding, right? You made FOMT 1st but you put HMDS on your top 5 worst list? Maybe that only rubs me the wrong way because my first HM game was DS but I feel like that's some bullshit right there.
Bruce Gunn Harvest Moon FOMT is the better harvest moon for me, I'm playing Harvest Moon DS since a few days and I'm sure about it, it does many things wrong
I love it. All the things he said about FOMT I can say about DS, just swap "translation issues" with 'glitches'. I have managed to get my cat stuck on top of my counter when my kitchen was delivered making it then stuck in my microwave but there was nothing that made the game unplayable. My advice would be to check where your animals are before saving though.
+Bruce Gunn I don't know, I kind of agree with him. I've played both, and HMDS has a lot of glitches... When I was trying to play it, it took me like four tries just to get a save file going. First, there was the ghost town glitch. Literally NO ONE exists in the town. You'll literally go day after day after day with all the doors locked, and the solutions I found (throwing your ball into the pond) didn't help. So I just started over. It was useless to try. My second try proved okay, and the town was actually populated. So I thought, "well, this is good!" I oh so foolishly decided to go to bed without saving on the first day, and then waited. Waited. The screen was just black when I saved. No matter what I did, it wouldn't do anything. So I reset. Again. The opening bit was pretty tiring for me, what with all the motions and little timestaking scene bits. Eventually I just got tired of consistently restarting and just stopped playing for a while. And then there are also times (like what he outlined in his ranking) where the save file just corrupts. It corrupts, and then that's it. You can't play it anymore. It's gone. And usually it happens when you've made a lot of progress, so it really sucks to restart. The glitches in HMDS actually can make it unplayable, so how he ranked it was actually pretty valid...
My first Harvest Moon was A Wonderful Life and my second was Magical Melody. No wonder I was disapointed with other games later. Those Gamecube years were very strong for Marvelous.
My Top 3: 3. Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley: I probably likes the aspect that thos game looked so good on the psp. And it looked not as childish as the DS games. 2. Story of Seasons: Love this Game! Almost everything is perfect, but i kinda missed a few aspects from older games. 1. Harvest Moon A New Beginnning: Won't say too much about it. It is just perfect
"harvest moon 64 will not be on the list" *turns off video No offense to you but a list of best harvest moon games without harvest moon 64 is no list at all. Have a nice day.
Sean Fearnley So that means he made an incomplete list. It's like if i'm gonna make the best FF games, but i'll not add the old console versions because i didnt ever had them.
"That is no excuse. All that means is that he has never truly played Harvest Moon." Yes he has. You're just being a baby who can't take that your favorite game isn't on somebody's list. I came here looking for some opinions on Harvest Moon games to see which one I'd play next, and I actually appreciate that 64 isn't on here since that's all I'm ever told about. I don't like 64, so seeing something different was nice. "So that means he made an incomplete list. It's like if i'm gonna make the best FF games, but i'll not add the old console versions because I didn't ever had them." Different guy, but still wrong. You don't need to play every single HM game to give an opinion on which ones are your favorite, just like you don't need to have played every single video game ever made to make a "Top 5 Favorite Games" list. This video is just one guy's opinion, as he states at the start, and he makes no attempt at being objective. "The title of the video is "Top 5 Harvest Moon Games" not "My 5 favourite harvest moon games" And HM64 was the all time best harvest moon game." You don't need to add the "My" to the start because it goes without saying. Any "Top X Of All Time" video/article/whatever to have ever existed is just somebody's opinion. He says it within the first 30 seconds anyway. There's no such thing as the best game ever, or the best Harvest Moon game ever. It's all opinions. Also, Harvest Moon 64 is shit.
I love A New Beginning. I keep going back to it. ^_^ The only problem I have with it is some of the ridiculously difficult blueprints - whether for buildings or clothes or recipes or whatever - some of them are just stupidly hard. Other then that, it's amazing. Yes! I love Magical Melody. It was so much fun to me. Animal Parade is fantastic. I absolutely love this game. I could play it for hours. My favorite livestock to ride was the sheep. It was so cute! Haven't played Friends of Mineral Town. I want to though.
Hearing the music from A Wonderful Life gave me chills! One of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. I do agree too that Friends of Mineral Town is perhaps the best culmination of all farming sims even to this day. That includes Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley.
friends of mineral town was my first harvest moon
same
+Catdragon Mew I forgot my first one but the ones that i remembered the most was Harvest Moon : A Wonderful Life.
(Because i never actually got far into it.)
same
+Catdragon Mew N64 as mine
Same Here
Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar was my favorite, it just added a whole new system of selling the love and it was really refreshing especially since you could upgrade tools, add more fields and everything
I like back to nature the most.
Me to
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everybody did, it was the best
my favorite
My problem with A New Beginning was all the damn tutorials. My god the tutorials.
seeing the logo makes me smile a bit. it brings so much memories
I just really love the way HMDS looks. It's very childish and nostalgic for me with all the colours and cartoonish designs and a lot of the character designs are really cool and interesting. Granted the plot is quite slow but it's still a childhood favourite of mine.
Have you ever played Tree Of Tranquility? I would call that my favourite Harvest Moon game ever!
ToT 4 Life!!!
agreed!
Animal Parade is like a reduxed version of Tree of Tranquility more or less, having had played them both through. ^ v ^
I agree with you 100000%!
TOT is a great though I prefer Animal Parade, but the best thing about TOT is its soundtrack
My favorite is Animal Parade I know it takes a long time to befriend people and stuff but I just love everything about it
Same!!
Same here 😄😄😄
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Same! God I played that game LOADS of times because it just never really seemed boring to me
Here's my Top 5 HM games:
5 - Animal Parade: This game is kinda different from the others (in my opinion), but is just awesome! The graphics are really good, the gameplay is very precise, and it have pretty good quests.
4 - Harvest Moon DS: This is one of the first HM games that I've played. It is very fun, and have many different interesting things. Also, it's a ''port'' of A Wonderful Life, and I don't have any problem with the glitches.
3 - Harvest Moon 64: This is the first Hm I've ever played, but it was when I was small, and first have played the japanese version, so I don't understand the game. But many years later I played it again (in english) and it's an great game. The graphics are OK, the music is boring, but the gameplay is almost perfect. It has some glitches, but its fun and very enjoyable.
2 - Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life: This game is just incredible. I really enjoy the gameplay and the graphics. The best music in the game is Breeze, just hearing it makes me want to play the game. The history it's great too, and it have pretty good characters.
1 - Harvest Moon Back to Nature: This game is *PERFECT*. The graphics are pretty good, the soundtrack too, but the gameplay and the features in the game are perfect. It has awesome characters and a very good history. This is, with no doubts, my favorite Harvest Moon game. I haven't played Friends of Mineral, so I can't say if its better than Back to Nature.
And the worst game (my opinion) is Save The Homeland. It's awful.
Harvest Moon is one of my favorite franchises ever, and I'm sad that the newest games aren't good than the olders. Sorry for my bad english, I'm Brazilian XD
BluennBr Friends of Mineral Town é idêntico ao Back To Nature só que em 2D e com algumas atualizações.
Gustavo Costa fiquei até interessado em jogar o friends of mineral town, sabe se contar quantas horas eu já passei jogando HM BTN no PS1 ou no Emulador no PC e no Celular cara juntando acho que dá semanas! Vou dár uma olhada nesse Friends of mineral town parece muito legal também.
***** I just can't like Save The Homeland, the same way I don't like Magical Melody. These elements you've talked about makes me love Back To Nature, but I don't find them in STH XD. Thanks for respecting my opinion too.
BluennBr save the homeland isnt that bad its not that good but defenetly better then that thing called lost valley
BluennBr : I like Back to Nature too but because I played it after playing Friends of Mineral Town, I thought the lover system is too easy compared with FoMT (maybe the dev fixed it in FoMT). For example, with just wild flower I can get Mari to green heart after just a season. When it's summer, it's Popuri and her pinkcat. Rune Factory 3 and FoMT have the best lover system in the series imo.
I FUCKING LOVE MAGICAL MELODY THE SOUNDTRACK AND THE GRAPHICS ARE BEAUTIFUL
+hello kitty lover It's very Under-rated.....But its my favorite
+Undim totally love it too =) but he is right - i do hate the animations - well more the duration of the animations xD
hello kitty lover I'm so obsessed with Magical Melody 😁😁
One of my favorite's of all time. So much nostalgia in that music! I spent so much time in that world
i love everything about magical melody. it is my favorite easily. i wish the town building system from a new beginning was implemented into more of the games though.
It is nice to hear someone speak so earnestly and genuinely about a series I enjoyed a lot growing up.
Makes my day.
Cheers. 😁
Yay friends of mineral town is my favorite too😆
same
Sep también es mi favorito ;)
Let's all hope its on the switch eshop. FOMT with tv out? Yes plz!
Elmy Natasya mine too both: friend of mineral town and MORE friends of mineral Town xD. my first HM was the first one and really like all (excepto island of happines and sunshine islands...) actually I was replay DS Cute 💖
Harvest moon Grand Bazaar is my absolute fav I would definitely recommend!!👌🏻😊
Emily Reese that's my second. friends of mineral town is my favorite.
Never was even close to finishing it, but it definitely was great. It's challenging too sometimes cuz of the freshness level of food and/or crops, but the fact that there's a bazaar and you had to lure and sell items was just beeeeyond fun.
Yeeesssss👍❤
Any Tale of Two Towns fans?
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Just seeing a wonderful life, hearing the music, and hearing you explain basically what i know it does brings tears to my eyes because i've played alot of games and Harvest moon is the first emotional tear jerker game i have ever played and i'm sure some migh tpoke fun of me at the fact i cried when, well i died, but it was really a sad ending.
this is exactly how i feel about mineral town.
Yes! Such a classic. Reminds me of my childhood when I was horrible at video games but still played anyways
I haven't played the newer ones so my list goes like:
1. FoMT/BTN
2. HMDS
and the next three are usually interchangeable:
3. Tale of Two Towns
4. Grand Bazaar
5. Sunshine Islands
I agree i havent really played the newer games so im sticking with fomt and ds
I have played tales of two towns, its great but im still sticking with fomt and ds
Grand Bazaar was my first HM game xd
God I loved FoMT
I was too young to appreciate the courting system or even really the good cast of characters. Most of my days were spent trying to figure out if there were ways to get Rick and Popuri's dad to come back. I didn't realize until later that it was because I related a lot to Rick, since my mom is also very sick. I've always been tasked with taking care of things she cannot do. I felt for both of Lillia's children.
My favorite is Harvest Moon Tale of Two Towns!!!
me too!
me too
Great game. On my 2nd play through
Same! It’s very underrated!
Me too finaly someone feel like me 😂😂
Everyone seems to like Harvest Moon (more) Friends of Mineral Town, and I certainly do understand why, it's my favourite as well. They should honestly remake Harvest Moon (more) Friends of Mineral Town, I'd buy that instantly!
Defiantly agree! Do you know if the pink lady's husband ever came back? I haven't played the game in forever :')
Clare ACertainLastName i want an answer on that too :D
play Stardew Valley. The game remind me of Harvest moon Friend of mineral town alot.
They should remake it! Funny, because Friends of Mineral Town is a remake of the PS1 game HM: Back to Nature
Guess what they're making a remake of it for switch!!!!! 😍
so is everyone just going to ignore Tale of Two Towns? okay 😭 I love that game to death
tiffany mcdonald Tale of Two Towns was the first HM game I've ever played and I loved it! :)
I'm sure it's great! Of course, I wouldn't know -- I got it for the 3DS, so it freezes almost every time I leave town.
I played it for the DS and it never froze up on me. I'd switch the two and give it another go.
tiffany mcdonald i think grand bazar is basicly tale of two towns but better have you ever played grand bazar ?
roronoa leo no, it's very different. Perhaps the graphics are similar but as games, but nope. Two different worlds.
Grand Bazaar is my favorite Harvest Moon. I saw hate because the Harvest Goddess doesn't appear and because the game style. Personally I love it :v
Tott was sure ignored, but I don't know why (I suppose because the cooking festivals perhaps seem boring to some persons). Was Harvest Moon or not, ToTT was a great game.
I hate The Lost Valley, and precisely now it's very popular between posers because it has been translated to a lots of languages. That's the reason I prefer Harvest Moon games in english. Why? Because fans who know how to appreciate it will buy it. Not kids saying they love Harvest Moon games only playing... That :v
Sorry, as you could guess, I'm spanish. My english is... :T
Friends of Mineral Town taught me so much english. Aside from being awfully entertaining, it was really helpful as well. Pineapples for the win. :P
to me the best harvest moon games is, harvest moon the grand bazzar
+Naila Sabrina Zalfa me too, i really love the bazzar events.
YASSS
Have u ever tried harvest moon ds? That's my favorite but I lost it which is very disappointing
try to emulate it and i agree by far the best hm
Same I love it so much!
I actually am buying my first Harvest Moon game, and its Magical Melody!
I saw these games, and before was like,
"Bleh, its farming", and now I'm actually in love with them since I gave em a shot!
Thank you so much for making this list, as this helps me decide on which one to get next!
Harvest moon grand bazar is great you should get that game also.
For Animal Parade, you just pick up a second wiimote and point it at the character you want to befriend and "pet" them. Easy friendship points
Friends of Mineral Town and Back To Nature are my favorites ever!
It's like that FMoT is the 2D version of BTN. Btw have you play Hero of Leaf Valley? that's good one too!
DS Cute is one of my favorites, partly because it has my absolute favorite bachelor in the main series, and I also feel like it was the best done of any of the N64 style Harvest Moons. I also really love that you could put your buildings where you liked and I could actually make my coops and barns inside a fenced off area, so I didn't have to worry about Wild Dog attacks when putting my animals back inside. It's also the second Harvest Moon to include my favorite overpowered device, the seed maker, and the first to completely break game balance by doing so (although it does at least give you a way to save up for that expensive Gold Lumber for immortal buildings). It also has fewer glitches than the boy's DS version, which was generally a mess, especially if you got one of the glitchier cartridges (some cartridges, like mine, had no severe glitches, others suffered from save file destroying glitches). I also love the accessories you can get to further break game balance.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns is probably my absolute favorite at this point.
It's technically a spinoff game, but my favorite is Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon. It was my first Harvest Moon game--I bought it because it was the least expensive one for the PS2 at the time--and I didn't know what to expect. Needless to say I was very pleased, and spent many a day annoying my mum with the music as I planted my crops and went around collecting things. The only thing that's slightly disappointing is how short the game is. The first time I played it took me awhile, especially since I had to reset because I didn't pay attention to social cues and hints (kind of glad I did. I finally got around to looking up the "bad ending" and it was really devastating to watch), but as I'm replaying it I'm only 4 days in and I've already almost finished the first year. I'm half tempted to ignore the Fire Spirit's challenge so I can see what the alien invasion is like...
My top 5 favourite Harvest Moon games are:
5. Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GC)
4. Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (PS)
3. Harvest Moon 64
2. Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town (GBA)
1: Rune Factory: Frontier (Wii)
Yeah, Rune Factory, some may say that it isn't a Harvest Moon game, however the subtitle to the series is 'A Fantasy Harvest Moon' so I'd say that the entire series of games are Harvest Moon games, with the possible exception of Rune Factory Oceans, as that games really took a deep departure from the formula that it was built on, and really focused on the combat and dungeon crawling aspects of the previous titles.
Nah Rune Factory its like comparing and Orange to an Apple.
My faves are
1. New beginnings ❤️❤️
2. HM: Light of Hope
3. HM: A wonderful Life
4. HM: Tale of Two Towns
Those are the only ones I’ve got to play HM: New Beginning is number one for me cause of all the cool stuff you can do, the pacing wasn’t really something I had issues with tbh. I love it cause of the cow festivals HM: New Beginning will probably always be my fave. Thanks to any one who reads this have an amazing day or night!
You should for sure check out Story of Seasons Trio of Towns!
Back to the nature is my favorite
Animal Parade was my favorite Harvest Moon. I was so addicted to it!
I liked Tree of Tranquility and Tale of 2 Towns
Friends of mineral town will never die \m/
So glad FoMT is number one.
I know this is late, and most people will already know this by now. But for people first playing Animal Parade, you’ll notice how difficult it is to befriend people. But! There is a feature where if you point the wii remote towards the screen, a heart will appear. Wave it around on a person until hearts appear, and it’s the equivalent of giving someone a gift! So, while playing, if you stumble upon a character, just do this. And it’ll make it so much easier for you.
I always said that A Wonderful Life + the festivals and richer towns of 64/Back to Nature would be the perfect HM game.
Monica S. true, I think so too. How the characters change throughout the years in AWL was awesome.
My first HM was Harvest Moon 64 and then I found friends of mineral town and that became life lol
I have always love Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town. It's just.. It's awesome!
When I was a kid and played "More Friends of Mineral Town", I didn't ever acknowledge the fact that I had a farm. I just used to be boy crazy and talk to all the boys that had a heart. And I slept through all the winters hehe. After a few restarts I started to take care of animals, go fishing, and participate in events but I still never really planted much.
I like that the game doesn't force you to do one thing or the other. I learned something new every time I replayed.
One bad thing about it though is that my save file would delete randomly after MANY months of playing T_T which is why I replayed a lot
I was really hoping to see Back to Nature in this list. But that's ok :)
I'm still surprised by how many people know this game. I thought I was the only one because none of my friends know about this game
I'd say this was a pretty solid list. I hope they bring back the mineral town characters like they did in harvest moon ds. Actually just make a Harvest Moon 3DS.
Where is Back to Nature or Tree of Tranquility? I didn't think FOMT is better than Back to Nature. Back to Nature had so much better graphics than FOMT :)
Harvest Moon Back to Nature : is better than 64 , better graphics , decent game.
but HM FoMT : it's not Rip-off from BTN it's actually Encahnced Edition of Back to Nature.
you can marry Harvest Godess, there's P egg and X egg. upgrade more tools than mythril level. many more
so.. yeah
+Ryan Indiefest it's about Gameplay. not "Graphics"
+Lina G I feel like Animal Parade is a tad of an improvement over ToT, because the storyline with the bells is more interesting. In ToT I wasn't as motivated for story. XDD
I know I loved tree of tranquility
+Lina G ToT is my second favorite, after N64 ofc
My favorites are Animal Parade and Magical Melody. I love the characters and the stories.
My first harvest moon game is back to nature on ps1. Still my favorite up to date. Friends of Mineral Town is like the upgraded version of it, love them both!
What. Tree of Tranquillity is hands down the best.
YES
Yeah
Harvest moon tale of two towns anyone? Nobody? Uh okay.. Then..
My first few hours with it were great. I actually expected that in the video but...
I agree. I haven't played any other HM games except for Tale of Two Towns. I've seen other HM games but personally I would probably prefer Tale of Two Towns.
Nope, me! I love that one so much! I ended up writing a fic just so the towns could actually be at war, lol
I like that game...
I like that game...
The memories of spending the holiday, trying to find cursed tools, making them blessed, and upgrading all of them to mythic, then fishing the treasures and fossils are just, priceless.
Sadly the female version of FoMT turned out better, she can sell her golden lumbers where it's just paperweight in FoMT.
Yes you're right, in FoMT everything you do has a purpose. Even spending 50 years with your wife will reward you a dacha near the mountain, that's just neat, the price tag for town cottage though, it was 10 mil for Japanese version but Natsume gave it 100mil instead, gosh!
Sadly idk what the hell was GameCube back then, I don't think it was even sold in my country (but GBA is) so I kinda lose the ability to connect to AWL and have a seaside cottage.
Great video! Loved hearing about somebody else's opinions of the games and made me realize things I hadn't before (like your comment about Wonderful Life having not much to do outside of the town.)
Friends of Mineral Town will likely always be my favorite game; and I logged MONTHS of playtime in it order the coarse of my lifetime. I would always take it a step further and imagine these complex side stories in my head, too.
Harvest Moon is by far my favorite video game franchise, and up until some of the later DS versions- had played them all.
The soundtrack to Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life AND Friends of Mineral Town bring back such beautiful childhood memories to me that they actually made me tear up hearing them now. Every once in a while I catch my grandpa whistling the FOMT theme to himself; which is crazy to think we remembers that little tune over 10 years after the last time he would have heard me playing it.
I think I'm going to buy a new Gameboy and copy of FOMT now!
Friends of Mineral Town will always be one of my favorite games of all time...
My list is so strange: GTA, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fable, Saints Row... and then... Harvest Moon. xD
BeckyWithTheGoodHair strange indeed!
Thanks for this list! I'm gonna have to try FoMT!
Animal Parade, Story of Seasons, Tree of Tranquility, Another Wonderful Life, Magical Melody. My favorite harvest moon games lol.
ITS FINAL , FRIENDS OF MINERAL TOWN IS BEST
I really love the Rune Factory games, so I think it's too bad you didn't actually put them on this list, they deserve at least an honorable mention...
Well he said no spin offs.
Man I love friends of mineral town
I really hope they come out with another console Harvest Moon (or should I say Story of Seasons). I greatly enjoyed HM Animal Parade and would like something else in that vein, with new crops, a new cast, and it wouldn't hurt to have a visual upgrade on the Wii U. One can dream....
That would be awesome, even it would be called Story of Seasons now.
Grey will forever be the benchmark for bachelors
Have you try Harvest Moon Back to Nature ??? that's the best harvest moon for me
same, but he probably never tried it
Ever tried Innocent Life - A Futuristic Harvest Moon for the psp ? Its a really nice HM with a unique setting and atmosphere
I agree! I like it a lot. Especially when you have already gotten the baskets, and have unlocked many doors and plots. And the animal rooms are pretty convenient too, as well as the buggy.
Very underrated and a hidden gem. I love that one.
"A new Beginning" is probably my favorite recent Harvest Moon title, and i completely agree with all of your points. The pacing is quite horrible, but the core gameplay is among the best in the series and none of its mechanics feel rough or unfinished.
The time and stamina systems are very well balanced, never putting too much pressure on the player and the customisation is just plain fun.
And pretty much the same could be said about Animal Parade. Its as classic as it can get, with some fun leveling mechanics and, what i felt to be one of the most fun gameworlds the series ever had. Although its story quests tended to be a little on the cryptic side from time to time.
Its rather close to A new Beginning, which only takes the first spot because of its customization features.
And for the Mineral Saga (Back to Nature / Friends of Mineral Town and their spinoffs): This would be my all time favorite classic Harvest Moon.
I grew up with Harvest Moon on the SNES und GameBoy, but it was Back to Nature which really got me into the series. And FoMT really cemented that love for it, by expanding and streamlining Back to nature and putting it on a handheld.
Magical Melody on the other hand never really clicked with me for one, simple reason:
Its stamina system. I always felt that you started out without enough stamina to do the most basic things. Tilling, planting and watering a 3x3 patch of crops pretty much renders you completely exhausted.
And its much bigger focus on giving your townspeople presents so they actually stay where they are was also something i never really liked.
Aaah I am glad that I'm not the only one who absolutely loves Harvest Moon: FoMT and MFoMT. I feel like I haven't played an HM game like it.
If they updated the fuck out of mineral town. Like not 3D doesn't have to be, but just really cleaned it up to make it look way nicer if for sure but it. And if they remade wonderful life for the 3ds and added all the stuff you said the game was missing. I'm sure people would love that too. All the recent games they've made are such a huge disappointment and I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on them
Captain Karma have you tried the story of seasons series that is branching off from HM it's only 1 so far but SOS is pretty solid and the next one looks to be pretty good
Captain Karma Fomt is the best though i also wish they make some changes.And i dont want them to make it in 3d its already perfect but i wish they add a little bit of that and this like **cough** divorce **cough** More festivals, and gosh the weeds. the weeds always pop up every damn day and its a waste of time picking and tossing them away.
Arre yougoing tobe playing Story of Seasons when it comes out Thomal? (a.k.a. the former Harvest Moon)
Mine faves are:
1. Harvest Moon 64
2. Harvest Moon FoMT
3. Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
4. Harvest Moon 3 for GBC
5. Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns.
Finally! Someone else who shares my love for HM 3 GBC! That was my first game!
I also like FoMT and ANB. Haven't played ToTT or 64 though.
crystal2862 HM 64 was the first game I ever played from the series. It was so simple yet I fell in love with it :)
Harvest Moon animal parade was one of the best I've played. Second is Tree of Tranquility.... both of those had a really nice plot, plus everything was challenging and fun
I was searching for a review to watch before buying one of the PS Vita downloadable titles. Unfortunately, none of these are available, hahah. But the good news is I found a cool new channel!!! Thanks man :)
Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me out? I'm a little clueless. I used to play Save The Homelands ALL THE TIME when i was a kid! It was one of my favorite games and i thought the people were really fun and storyline was really cool. As i got older I learned that there were other games under the harvest moon name. Now i am really intrigued to play more of them. The consoles I have are ps2, xbox360, ds lite, and a pc. Apparently a lot of people who like harvest moon do not like Save The Homelands, but as someone who does, what would you suggest if I want to play more of the series? What should i start with?
Try Harvest Moon:Sunshine Islands for the DS. Or Rune Factory 3 (which is basically Harvest Moon but with ARPG elements added into it)
SleepyHound Rikuverse Thanks so much! I will look into it.
For the pc, i would definately suggest downloading a free gameboy advance emulator and the Friends of Mineral Town rom (it's legal, just in case your wondering)
pokefan 417 Thank you! I will try this.
pokefan 417 and how is that legal?
Good idea. I love your videos. Anyway, my favorite HM games are :
1- Back to nature (I think it's perfection, and FoMT is just an overcomplicated ugly rehash)
2- HM 64
3- Animal Parade
4- Sunshine Islands
5- the original on SNES
I really wish they would focus on social interactions with simpler game mechanics like in Btn and 64.
FenrisLoki the original is the best there is.
It's really hard for me to pick favorites of Harvest Moon games. A Wonderful Life was my very first though, way back when I was a little elementary school kid, so that one is particularly special to me.
I just love all the games listed here. I love all the Harvest Moon games I've played. X3
A wonderful life on the gamecube was a big part of my childhood, i still have it
so the first game I played is harvest moon friends of mineral town in the gameboy. Second is harvest moon boy and girl in the psp. I think I'm going to have a hard time to find a harvest moon that can match that
I've played harvest moon grand bazaar
I think your list is spot-on! My order might have differed a bit, but the top 5 I totally agree with!
I spent so much time in Magical Melody and It's a wonderful life but never finished them. As soon as I heard the music in the video I Immediately went back to that time. Its crazy how great music in a game sticks with you
What harvest moon game should I play if all I care about is the farming aspect of the game and don't want to deal with the story or talking to npcs in the game? I know I cant escape the story completely but what I'm really looking for is one that focuses on the farming and item upgrades more than anything with little to no required "quests" to unlock things like seeds, livestock, tools, upgrades and so on. I had the harvest moon game on the psvita (think it was a port) the one where your a robot made by some scientist to do farming and whatnot. It was way to story heavy and I ran out of things to do very fast because I ignored the town for the most part and only went there for seeds.
+FinalFantasyFan66666 Friends of Mineral Town is a good one, there's no actual main story in it.
Thomal9
Thanks
+FinalFantasyFan66666
Definitely Stardew Valley. Check it up on Steam. It was released a week ago. Its a freaking masterpiece.
Yes! Get Stardew Valley! It's the best farming game I've ever played, and I don't even like farming games!
It can take a while for you to get a wife, because you can only increase their affection towards you with gifts (you can only give each NPC 2 gifts every week), but I think it's definitely worth a look.
And if you do not like the game, you can just refund it! Hope that I was of help! ^_^
DingoPoo I would if I had the money for it but broke me cant afford it lol Watching someone play that game is actually the reason why i wanted to play a harvest moon game. and that person is Markiplier if anyone was wondering.
Harvest moon a new beginning would easily be my favorite game if they made the style and graphics the same as the opening scene. That wad SOOO nice and refreshing! I'm personally getting a bit tired of the cutesy chibi style HM has been doing lately.
I kinda wish they would like recycle characters like Gareth and Tabatha they’ve been in a few that I know of my first HM I played that it was an option for you to play different characters was New Beginnings I always went after Neil it’d be cool to see him in a new version of HM. Tbh I wish they would use those characters from that game again loved those characters
I played back to nature on the ps 1 when PlayStations and gaming systems were just coming out. I was a kid and my mom would help me. It holds so many memories to me and will always be number one! I’m currently replaying another wonderful life and really enjoying it. Animal parade is next on my list.
Harvest Moon 64 was my favorite. It didn't come out in huge supply at first so my friends would borrow my copy of it and delete each others' saves over and over (good ol' days of borrowing to play). Good memories and my favorite one to relax to.
A wonderful life is like the best and in my opinion I think the graphics are probably the best out of all the games... Just saying. I'm mad since you say it takes sooo long for it to water no it really doesn't lol you just need patience
Oh my god thank you I love A Wonderful Life too. The graphics ARE the best. Even if it's a 2004 game, you gotta give it a lot of credit. The characters can be a bit boring but I absolutely adore the family feature. A wonderful Life special edition I thought looked amazing but I have been hearing a lot of complaints about the frame rate, so I'm not taking any chances.
I agree entirely
the lag is annoying but the rest of AWL SE is brilliant, especially the new features: - Being able to marry Lumina and/or have a daughter
- Chapter lengths being reduced to 1 year in length - as much as I love AWL, I have to admit that on many playthroughs I simply got bored midway through Chapter 3/4. So this change helps immensely in that regard.
- Being able to sell that goat - admittedly, I never really bought the goat but I've heard stories about how the fact you couldn't sell it in AWL, after it stopped producing milk, was SO annoying!
So yeah, if you can get past the frame rate drops and peaks and the loading screens, AWL SE is a great game if a little frustrating for the aforementioned reasons.
i agree you just have to be patient and i dont think the characters are boring at all.
My favorite game is a new begining whitout a doubt up until i got a new begining my favorite was back to nature/ friends of mineral town but a new begining is just so good the amout of things you get to do you have so much things to do and about it being slow yhee i know it is really slow in the begining but get passed the first spring and its so good and not having all the stores or mine or even the girls at the begining ist bad either its actually my favorite thing on the game everytime you build a house/store and someone comes to town i get a sense of acomplishment so big i remember that when i finnaly got the mine i was so happy i played the game for the entire nigth just mining :D
roronoa leo story of seasons is better than a new beginning :)
roronoa leo story of seasons is better than a new beginning :)
never played story of seasons does it have the customizasion like in a new beginign beimng able to build the town etc ...
roronoa leo
You can't move town building around, instead you unlock areas of the town that you can decorate. The is also a "fast traveling" system. so you can teleport to town from your farm. It's really convenient. The game looks similar to ANB, but it plays better. I would recommend it.
Thx a lot ill give it a try but what i really liked about a new beginign was the sence of progresion still story of seasons seems really good thanks
FOMT was my first HM game. I've been playing ANB lately, but FOMT has and will always have my heart.
Where's my Island of Happiness people at???? Favorite ever
If you like harvest moon , try out Stardew Valley, its coming out in a weak on steam :) its inspired by harvest moon , but has TONS of stuff you can do , even a fighting combat in caves, you welcome
But...isn't one of the nice parts of Harvest Moon how it's a pretty well rounded franchise that does not depend on a combat system?
+Chicken Skit tried it, got a refund two hours later
hated the controls, things are so much better on nintendo systems
Faye Catlow im sorry to hear :(
Silentgrace11 true , but you dont have to go and mine and fight the monsters , you can just buy the ores
it might just be my laptop to be honest but i dont like laptop controls as a whole anyway, if i could, i would connect my xbox controller
What would you recommend for a second game if I've only played a wonderful life (and really enjoyed it)
I would say maybe Animal Parade or FOMT, AWL is probably the most unique one in the series
If you have a Wii, or 3DS XL, download SNES-Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon 1-2 Gameboy.
MFOMT is also a good choice.
SNES games don't work on older 3ds. You need the new one. not an older one. Although, I don't believe SNES harvest moon is on the 3DS, i may be wrong. I personally would recommend Harvest moon 3, over Harvest Moon 2.
+Randy Beltran mfomt is basically just a girl version of the fomt ...
I love harvest moon a wonderful life, I'm looking for one for PC or xbox not sure if they have one for it or not
I just ordered my first Harvest Moon game which was A New Beginning. I'm pretty excited, honestly.~ I've been wanting to get into the series for awhile now and didn't know where to start.
After reading some reviews and watching this video I'm pretty excited to start playing it in a few days.~
Magical melody was the first harvest moon game I ever owned. I loved it it's how I got into the series.
how did u not play harvest moon64....smh
+Monk Onyx exactly what i was thinking. lol animal parade? not even ToT?
exactly my nigga. i recommend the 64 version with every
+Monk Onyx how about Back to Nature bro?
+Monk Onyx I just don't like it because of the camera angle and how it's like diagonal
+TruferZ Better than the controls being diagonal like in Back to Nature. Also, you can change the angle for HM64. However, you can only do that for your farm. But I feel that outside of the farm, the isometric view doesn't make as much of a difference.
harvest moon tale of two town is the best
I Agree To Number 1 It Is The First Harvest Moon Game I Played And It Brings Back Memories.
Friends of Mineral Town is the only Harvest Moon game I ever put any time into, but man was it fun. Just a really relaxing experience with tons to do. I once said that I think the best way to keep someone occupied for a lengthy period of time was to hand them an original DS with Friends of Mineral Town in the GBA slot and Animal Crossing: Wild World in the DS slot. I still stand by that. Just a great, great game all around.
You're kidding, right? You made FOMT 1st but you put HMDS on your top 5 worst list? Maybe that only rubs me the wrong way because my first HM game was DS but I feel like that's some bullshit right there.
Bruce Gunn Harvest Moon FOMT is the better harvest moon for me, I'm playing Harvest Moon DS since a few days and I'm sure about it, it does many things wrong
I love it. All the things he said about FOMT I can say about DS, just swap "translation issues" with 'glitches'. I have managed to get my cat stuck on top of my counter when my kitchen was delivered making it then stuck in my microwave but there was nothing that made the game unplayable. My advice would be to check where your animals are before saving though.
+Bruce Gunn
I don't know, I kind of agree with him. I've played both, and HMDS has a lot of glitches... When I was trying to play it, it took me like four tries just to get a save file going. First, there was the ghost town glitch. Literally NO ONE exists in the town. You'll literally go day after day after day with all the doors locked, and the solutions I found (throwing your ball into the pond) didn't help. So I just started over. It was useless to try.
My second try proved okay, and the town was actually populated. So I thought, "well, this is good!" I oh so foolishly decided to go to bed without saving on the first day, and then waited. Waited. The screen was just black when I saved. No matter what I did, it wouldn't do anything. So I reset. Again.
The opening bit was pretty tiring for me, what with all the motions and little timestaking scene bits. Eventually I just got tired of consistently restarting and just stopped playing for a while.
And then there are also times (like what he outlined in his ranking) where the save file just corrupts. It corrupts, and then that's it. You can't play it anymore. It's gone. And usually it happens when you've made a lot of progress, so it really sucks to restart.
The glitches in HMDS actually can make it unplayable, so how he ranked it was actually pretty valid...
the other thing i don't like about HMDS is that it's way to easy and it has things like the teleportation necklace that can be used in the beginning
Anastasia Celtano
Odd, that's never happened to me or any of my friends. I'm playing the european version, are you playing a different version to me?
You should make top 5 worst
Back to nature was the first one I ever played and it marked my teenage years. I had never played a game like that.
My first Harvest Moon was A Wonderful Life and my second was Magical Melody. No wonder I was disapointed with other games later. Those Gamecube years were very strong for Marvelous.
i love MM
my favorite harvest moon is stardew valley
ThatRottenPotato STARDEW VALLEY IS LIT
My Top 3:
3. Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley: I probably likes the aspect that thos game looked so good on the psp. And it looked not as childish as the DS games.
2. Story of Seasons: Love this Game! Almost everything is perfect, but i kinda missed a few aspects from older games.
1. Harvest Moon A New Beginnning: Won't say too much about it. It is just perfect
No.1 Stardew Valley ❤
Perfectly Imperfect fuck that game
"harvest moon 64 will not be on the list" *turns off video
No offense to you but a list of best harvest moon games without harvest moon 64 is no list at all. Have a nice day.
Matthew C He hasn't played it.
Sean Fearnley That is no excuse. All that means is that he has never truly played Harvest Moon.
Sean Fearnley So that means he made an incomplete list. It's like if i'm gonna make the best FF games, but i'll not add the old console versions because i didnt ever had them.
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The title of the video is "Top 5 Harvest Moon Games" not "My 5 favourite harvest moon games"
And HM64 was the all time best harvest moon game.
"That is no excuse. All that means is that he has never truly played Harvest Moon."
Yes he has. You're just being a baby who can't take that your favorite game isn't on somebody's list. I came here looking for some opinions on Harvest Moon games to see which one I'd play next, and I actually appreciate that 64 isn't on here since that's all I'm ever told about. I don't like 64, so seeing something different was nice.
"So that means he made an incomplete list. It's like if i'm gonna make the best FF games, but i'll not add the old console versions because I didn't ever had them."
Different guy, but still wrong. You don't need to play every single HM game to give an opinion on which ones are your favorite, just like you don't need to have played every single video game ever made to make a "Top 5 Favorite Games" list. This video is just one guy's opinion, as he states at the start, and he makes no attempt at being objective.
"The title of the video is "Top 5 Harvest Moon Games" not "My 5 favourite harvest moon games"
And HM64 was the all time best harvest moon game."
You don't need to add the "My" to the start because it goes without saying. Any "Top X Of All Time" video/article/whatever to have ever existed is just somebody's opinion. He says it within the first 30 seconds anyway. There's no such thing as the best game ever, or the best Harvest Moon game ever. It's all opinions.
Also, Harvest Moon 64 is shit.
I love A New Beginning. I keep going back to it. ^_^ The only problem I have with it is some of the ridiculously difficult blueprints - whether for buildings or clothes or recipes or whatever - some of them are just stupidly hard. Other then that, it's amazing.
Yes! I love Magical Melody. It was so much fun to me.
Animal Parade is fantastic. I absolutely love this game. I could play it for hours. My favorite livestock to ride was the sheep. It was so cute!
Haven't played Friends of Mineral Town. I want to though.
Friends Of Mineral Town made my childhood. I would play that for hours at a time for years
Hearing the music from A Wonderful Life gave me chills! One of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. I do agree too that Friends of Mineral Town is perhaps the best culmination of all farming sims even to this day. That includes Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley.