My reaction when I first heard of Harvest Moon for the SNES was: "A game where you do farm work? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Later on, my mom picked up Back to Nature for the PS1 and I decided to give it a try. Then my reaction was "My god...need more chickens, MORE CHICKENS!"
To think i spent more than a year ingame time to have a relationship with Karen, buying and wrapping dozens of wine bottles every game day. And you could just show her the dog.
I love hidden secrets and exploits of games, and those Harvest Moon ones were so interesting! I find the ones about Karen, and the TV "death" warning hilarious. One little bit of trivia I like to mention when talking about Harvest Moon is that in A Wonderful Life, your spouse can actually leave you, taking your child, if you neglect them and choose the wrong dialogue options at a certain cutscene. Then it goes to Takakura saying to your deceased father that you were never ready for marriage and the farm life, and the game ends. And although it's not really trivia, in A Wonderful Life, my friends and I found a pretty significant glitch. In the first years of having your child, when he is a toddler, you can pick him up and carry him around. And whenever you put down your toddler, he always runs straight back home. But there is a certain spot, in the shadows near the hill going up to town (where you can go to connect Friends of Mineral Town to Wonderful Life) where if you put down your child there, he will become frozen in place. You can still talk to him, but you can't pick him up, and he won't walk home, and so you have to leave him there until it's night time and your wife freaks out because the child isn't home, and goes to find him. After that cutscene, the child will be back. I've never come across anybody besides my friends and I who know of this glitch. It's just something we came across completely by chance.
Oh, okay then! Good to know. Most of my activity on UA-cam is for music, but sometimes my nerdy gamer side shows. It's kind of embarrassing haha but I like playing games a lot, when I have the time.
Your otaku then, right? Megan K. I always felt that I was born on the wrong continent........seriously! I even go as far as having framed posters.......don't you dare laugh. Just one figurine though, as a monitor pet. Its the one in TeaFlowers artwork on G+ page.
Sad how people praising shitardew valley dev for doing it solo, while actually most of the gameplay design job has been done by someone else in Japan. Original HM dev was the true hero, with just 3 people and 6 months. And they also have to came up with an idea and gameplay that have never been existed before.
Between this Final Fantasy ,Eartbound and Pokemon. Does every classic Japanese RPG has a heartbreaking story about how the developer barely managed to release the game after working tirelessly and sleeping in the office ?
As soon as I heard that theme music, I got so happy, you have no idea! And then the Winter theme music sent shivers of nostalgia up my spine. That was great!
That would be awesome! You raise a farm and build a town around you full of animals! But what about the animal raising? Like having cows or chickens..... OY ANGUS GET YOUR BEEFY BUTT OVER HERE! BTW Angus is a cow in Animal Crossing :)
In the more cartoony Harvest Moon game on the GameCube, if you push a cow into your mailbox, it will disappear and reappear in your barn the next day. When I rented the game, I discovered this within minutes and wondered how nobody ever caught that glitch.
Am I the only one who wants to know more about the whole "the company's president went missing" thing? I can't find any more info on it online (it's just interviews mentioning "the president went missing, literally") and it's just mentioned so flippantly like it's nothing. What exactly do they even mean?! Did he just wander off and stop contacting the company, or did he get kidnapped or something?
I would say that there is definitely more to it then him just missing out of nowhere,my guess is that there was a inner conflict with the team of harvest moon that caused him to leave.
+Samantha Port Probably because it _was_ nothing. People in his position are under a lot of stress. Sometimes you just want to be alone. I'm willing to bet he didn't answer phone calls or skype messages for like two days and people were like "OMG HE'S MISSING!!!"
Why are people comparing this to Animal Crossing and Farmville when this whole "Did You Know" basically spoke on it's SNES origin which means this game came years before Animal crossing or Farmville were concepts.
linkno1 Farmville has a completely different playerbase. You can't even compare the 2. Also a lot of people that 'play' Farmville sneer at those who play AC or HM because ''video games are for kids'' and ''video games are a waste of time''.
willnox1 They are alot more popular, that's just a fact. Everybody and their dog has at least heard of Farmville, and Animal Crossing is by far one of the most played games on the DS. I barely ever hear anybody mention Harvest Moon, and a discussion about it is usually started by myself rather than others. Do note, I'm not saying popularity is the same as quality, I would much rather play Harvest Moon than Animal Crossing, and especially God damn crappy Farmville. Razkali The type of playerbase is irrelevant. The three games are similar in either concept or gameplay, the playerbase has very little to do with that.
Harvest Moon 64 was one of my favorite games. Peaceful, rewarding, unexpectedly fun. I had no idea it'd be so cool. Plus, every girl in the town wanted me, so I was definitely, if only virtually, the town stud.
Farming Simulator: 1997 I recently figured I would try the original Harvest Moon on SNES Online for Switch. I grew up seeing these games getting released, but never actually played them, or thought they looked interesting. Started playing it last night since I found out it was added last week, and I've already clocked 6 hours on my playtime. It's highly addictive, and the way its aged is amazing! I just wish they would include an instruction manual to help teach newer players more of the mechanics on how things work. I was blown away at how complicated it can get at times!
I really want to know the story behind what went on with the dev team on Back to Nature. Like you are given a project to remake a specific game with a bit of extra content for a new platform and somehow wind up with a completely new town, rewritten characters, and an overall completely different game. Like was there a miscommunication somewhere? Did the team just go rogue and make what they wanted? There has to be a story there of how things took that much of a turn.
The one I played the most was the GC version "A wonderful life". I couldn't finish it though, no matter how far I got, the game kept opening another chapter of his life in between 2 to 3 years. It took too long just to see a new phase and how slowly I got through even one year I just couldn't finish it. It had already too many repetitive things, all my crops were rank S, I had a lot of money I didn't need to use, my farm was expanded to the max and I had all animals available. And all events of the year were exactly the same with no change, even the cutscenes and dialogues repeated. I wish I could've done more in the game to see it through the end, but at that point I just couldn't go on with it.
You can never really finish it if I remember correctly, After you get married, have a son wait for him to grow up and then eventually die and have him take over the farm, a chapter called "Heaven" starts where you run your farm as an old man,,, forever
Playing harvest moon was actually the final push that let me get the guts to convince my mum that we should have a veggie garden so my sister and I could learn how to grow vegetables properly, since she lived on a farm as a child and we never had an opportunity to have a garden until we moved. Three years later I know just about everything I need to know about growing and storing crops, and we're enjoying delicious home grown veggies every year, all throughout the year ;)
I don't know if there's much trivia about it, but you could do an episode on Rune Factory. It's a spin off of Harvest Moon that simply added combat, but people liked it so much it started a separate franchise of its own, presently at Rune Factory 4 for the 3DS.
if there isn't enough for a separate video, perhaps they could put the stuff into a Harvest Moon video, since it can be considered a Harvest Moon game still (being "A Fantasy Harvest Moon")
I remember spending hours on Harvest Moon for the SNES. For some reason, the Harvest Moon series is so addicting. I'm still playing Friends of Mineral Town to this day.
There's a surprising lack of videos on UA-cam about like, the history of the series. Or the ones that do exist, are super short. Like, I want an entire 1-2 hour long documentary about Harvest Moon, the change to Story of Seasons, and even spin-offs like Rune Factory. With a history of why and how it was made, the general opinion about the games, interesting factoids, comparisons, etc. Could even go into previous non-Harvest Moon games that might have been similar, or other farming games. But it doesn't seem like there's anything like that yet. Which is surprising considering how old the series is and how popular the games are.
ed fones Actually it was in an interview about why Harvest Moon 64 wasn't on the Wii Virtual Console, so he did mean it literally. And as PrescottOfficial pointed out it is already being done on PCs and hacked Wiis
Harvest moon is one of my favorite games. I'm a 21 year old guy and my friends can't get what I love about it. lol If you guys like Harvest Moon, check out Gin no Sai(Silver Spoon). It's like an Anime Harvest Moon.
Harvest Moon fan for life! Have almost all of the games (I own over 25 of their games, I lost count at this point).. been playing since the start. Beautiful series.. gotta love it!
Just want to say I love that there's no forced humour in these videos; sometimes you want a gaming channel without deliberately corny comedy throughout - doesn't mean it's serious, just normal.
I will ignore the profanity in that comment and get to the point. I don't want to use an emulator, unless the game is impossible to play without one, like an original NES game, since I don't have an NES. There are 3DS Harvest Moon games that I could buy, so I won't emulate any of them.
Could you also do a "Did you Know Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons" video? (An updated one, maybe centered around the current two series and the Natsume/Marvelous/XSeed split?)
The first Harvest Moon is great, the Gamecube one was an unforgettable adventure I grew up with and the DS one was one of the funnier ones. But, the 64 version was definitely the most memorable experience I ever had with the series. The activities were great, the brides were spunky and it was incredible. It had an update, and it looked great and all, but the 3D felt out of place. The game was so much more fun in its original, native N64 appearance. Sad thing is, they will release the other updated "Friends of Mineral Town" instead of "Harvest Moon 64" just because the first suffered bad sales, I believe. It sure seems that it will happen that way for Virtual Console, but the store does have a few clone games so they might do both, actually. I personally would not mind both, as there are some that enjoyed the GBA version; and I like the N64 version, so it would be a win-win situation. Either way, I hope we at least get the version I want; I liked playing it a lot more and getting drunk; that was really fun. Oh, and the exploration value is phenomenal.
Peppa Pig (MLG no-scoper) It was VERY good 3D for the Gamecube too, despite its rush to its deadline. The PS2 version PALES in comparison. Like, I understand entirely now why the Wii existed. Nintendo was pissed. They had the best graphics of that generation, yes even better than the Xbox; but the PS2 just sold better. A game like A Wonderful Life is a primary example of this. The PS2 cut the graphics pretty bad, specifically the shading. I liked its features and wish they were in the Gamecube version, though. I hope someone does a homebrew remake of that someday with the additional features. Granted, they were very minor, but I think they actually used the horse shed in the PS2 version. Or, they just removed it. I do not remember. Either way, fantastic game, I agree.
Medachod Well, you know what they say: To each their own! A wonderful life was the very first 3D harvest moon game I played, and after that I played magical melody and animal parade, both parade and melody just didn't top wonderful life for me. I also never played the PS2 version, so I don't know anything about what they left out on gamecube or PS2 port.
+Medachod They're not releasing Harvest Moon 64 on Virtual Console because there is a problem with trying to emulate the game on the WiiU -- they can't get it to work properly due to the way the game is programmed, and there's no way to fix this it seems. Natsume has stated that because of this, Harvest Moon 64 will never come to the WiiU Virtual Console.
I bet he says that at the beginning of every social interaction. Goes to the convenience store, "Hey cashier, I'm peanut butter gamer, and I'd like a slurpee." Someone knocks on his door, they are selling cookies, "Hey Girl Scout, I'm peanut butter gamer, and I want to buy Thin Mints" Walks in to a crowded movie theater, ready to watch The Hobbit, "Hey everybody, I'm peanut butter, and I enjoy Peter Jackson's take on the Tolkien epic, The Lord of the Rings."
Some additions: Did you know that Harvest Moon: Back To Nature on the PS1 had a game breaking glitch where the game would lock up when you got married? Natsume issued an apology and sent out new copies for free to all players who contacted them about the glitch. Did you know that the Harvest Moon games that allowed for playing as female were generally never released outside of Japan and at times the US because of the mentality in the industry in the west about females as playable leads? It took time but eventually the Harvest Moon series would become more diverse outside of Japan in regards of offering players the choice of playing as female or male, many of the games never got released in Europe though and one Harvest Moon title, Magical Melody, was cut in half so to remove the female playable lead in Europe. The usual attitude about allowing for playing as female came from the romance options, many developers feel that if a male playing as female has their character fall in love with a male that it would be promoting homosexuality and make the male player homosexual in effect. A very stupid and narrow attitude for sure. I love the series, more so since it began allowing for playing as female. I feel the series improved a lot once that choice was finally offered. Also did you know that Harvest Moon DS was such a buggy and glitch filled game that the female version released much later fixed many of the glitches and was found to be a vastly better game as a whole.
My avatar is based off how I was meant to be had I been born fully female, I see the woman I am in my mind all the time. Sadly with the attitudes towards women in the world then people like me - transwomen - are deeply hated in society.
I tend to see things in a very blunt way, years of being mistreated and abused has made me fairly blunt and unable to see things in any way but a very factual way. Tends to make it hard for me to believe in the kind of fantasy that many around the world do
I try to not stoop to the level of the hateful, not easy, but I prefer to try and keep to myself then to get revenge. Hard to do when the hateful try and kill you for being different from them. Too many insecure fools in the world.
Jin is another way of saying "my" or well, not really "my", but it's sort of self-possessive, if that makes sense. So I guess a literal translation would be "My Life Story", but that is redundant.
A small correction: 人生物語 (jinsei monogatari) translates to "Life Story", not "Life Farm." The "monogatari" is the same word that's used in 牧場物語 ("Farm Story"). Great video!
I'm so happy that they made a Harvest Moon Did You Know Gaming. I absolutely love Harvest Moon and it makes it even better that PBG did it! :D Though, about half of these facts I already knew. XD
One of my favorite things about this game was the axe (I believe it was an axe) and the well. You throw your axe in a well and a woman will appear asking if you dropped your golden axe. Just tell the truth that the golden axe is not yours and she'll give it to you anyway. :)
They only even put them in there because DS was SO BUGGY that guys wanted to play the girl version as it was significantly improved. They made it where you could still marry girls as well for them. I wish we got that version though, I had to make a transgirl in A New Beginning just to get my lesbians (Nothing wrong with that but come on man...)
K. Charrette I had to make transgirls in Tomodachi Life as well //sad laughter That sounds kinda dumb though. Did they have the opinions of guys before they made the girl version? get it together already nintendo jfc
Stardank Valley is also really good, definitely recommended, i LOVE that game, although never played Harvest Moon, but since people keep saying that Mountaindew Valley is inspired by Harvest Weed, i thought i might give this videos a try.
I love the Harvest Moon games so much! I'm actually not a super-huge fan of Animal Crossing, at least not as much. Harvest Moon is probably my second-favourite game series, and it's one of my favourite hobbies or things to play on the road.
Harvest Moon 64 was my childhood, sooo many good memories of me and my sister playing that, I would remember waking up to the sound of the whistle, running to my sisters room and sharing what new secrets or info we discovered. That's what I love about Harvest Moon, I could go back to it today and still find something new I hadn't before... they deffs need to make a next-gen harvest moon, it would look beautiful and with games like GTA IV think about how in-depth they could make it with the all the characters and what not
Harvest Moon is my favorite game series and I was so excited to see that you did a DYKG video on it!! Unfortunately, the information was not as new or interesting as it is on your other videos, and I wish you treated harvest moon with a little more care :(
How to get a girlfriend in 1 day; show her your dog 50 times.
Or something else 😏
Technically 200 times, 50 for each heart level, starting at white by default and moving up to pink. White>Blue>Green>Yellow>Pink
+KirosGaming nah, stick with the dog 😂
+Kate the bear Well there is always the wiener dog amiright?
KaennC Who says it wouldn't work tho tbh
My reaction when I first heard of Harvest Moon for the SNES was: "A game where you do farm work? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Later on, my mom picked up Back to Nature for the PS1 and I decided to give it a try. Then my reaction was "My god...need more chickens, MORE CHICKENS!"
ALL THE CHICKENS
@@magatsuvale I remember once having a farm with 120 sweet potato crops by fall of the first year haha
@@chicoti3 damn its been 5 years since i made this comment bro but yea story of seasons still cool
2022 and still get chicken at day 3 Spring first year.
Yes.
Chicken will rule the world.
To think i spent more than a year ingame time to have a relationship with Karen, buying and wrapping dozens of wine bottles every game day.
And you could just show her the dog.
Thanks for having me on, Shane! Harvest Moon is one of my favorite game franchises of all time. =)
Tis awesome!
Second to 'Hey You Pikachu'?
da fuck-shit iz harvy m00n?
Chloe Johnson Nothing comes close to "Hey you Pikachu"......nothing
Yes! It's such a great game o-o FoMT was my favourite XD
OH BOY
MY TURNIPS HAVE REACHED THE THIRD LEVEL OF THEIR GROWTH CYCLE!
I love hidden secrets and exploits of games, and those Harvest Moon ones were so interesting! I find the ones about Karen, and the TV "death" warning hilarious.
One little bit of trivia I like to mention when talking about Harvest Moon is that in A Wonderful Life, your spouse can actually leave you, taking your child, if you neglect them and choose the wrong dialogue options at a certain cutscene. Then it goes to Takakura saying to your deceased father that you were never ready for marriage and the farm life, and the game ends.
And although it's not really trivia, in A Wonderful Life, my friends and I found a pretty significant glitch. In the first years of having your child, when he is a toddler, you can pick him up and carry him around. And whenever you put down your toddler, he always runs straight back home. But there is a certain spot, in the shadows near the hill going up to town (where you can go to connect Friends of Mineral Town to Wonderful Life) where if you put down your child there, he will become frozen in place. You can still talk to him, but you can't pick him up, and he won't walk home, and so you have to leave him there until it's night time and your wife freaks out because the child isn't home, and goes to find him. After that cutscene, the child will be back. I've never come across anybody besides my friends and I who know of this glitch. It's just something we came across completely by chance.
Huh? Say What? LOL. Glad I got out of gaming. You seem to love it, so carry on!
Lol yes I love it, and sorry for confusing you! Haha I should remember not to post comments to G+ if they have nothing to do with music.
I do not mind a bit, I like to keep up with all this and that.
Oh, okay then! Good to know. Most of my activity on UA-cam is for music, but sometimes my nerdy gamer side shows. It's kind of embarrassing haha but I like playing games a lot, when I have the time.
Your otaku then, right? Megan K.
I always felt that I was born on the wrong continent........seriously! I even go as far as having framed posters.......don't you dare laugh. Just one figurine though, as a monitor pet. Its the one in TeaFlowers artwork on G+ page.
staff of 3 over 6 months! that's impressive
Sad how people praising shitardew valley dev for doing it solo, while actually most of the gameplay design job has been done by someone else in Japan.
Original HM dev was the true hero, with just 3 people and 6 months. And they also have to came up with an idea and gameplay that have never been existed before.
Between this Final Fantasy ,Eartbound and Pokemon. Does every classic Japanese RPG has a heartbreaking story about how the developer barely managed to release the game after working tirelessly and sleeping in the office ?
The culture needs to change! Even in the states!
I can never forget Back to Nature...
The winter theme just too perfect. The feeling and the memories...
Oh I want to play it again now...
ya, but i like the winter theme of A Wonderful Life better, idk you heard that one before
wellfuckman yea... that's what people call as "taste", dude.... we can't compare everything at the same stone...
アップルパイ I don't know about you, I like white noise better.
PaRaLyZeR51 the quiet winter from the gamecube version, a wonderful life
Now I wanna go back and play Harvest Moon again.
That makes two of us. So much nostalgia.XD
Likewise, except I'm more leaning toward the NDS Cute version as it's called... F-For some reason ?_?
Honestly, you could've done like ten episodes on Harvest Moon.The game had a lot of easter eggs and exploits.
Especially exploits and glitches. Hoooooo boy
As soon as I heard that theme music, I got so happy, you have no idea! And then the Winter theme music sent shivers of nostalgia up my spine. That was great!
i want to see animal crossing and harvest moon combined
That would be a cool take :P
a game where you farm and marry animals lol
IcycleCrystalWorld Well maybe not that part xD But they could add some farming aspects to Animal Crossing.
***** maybe half animals half human?
That would be awesome! You raise a farm and build a town around you full of animals!
But what about the animal raising? Like having cows or chickens..... OY ANGUS GET YOUR BEEFY BUTT OVER HERE!
BTW Angus is a cow in Animal Crossing :)
In the more cartoony Harvest Moon game on the GameCube, if you push a cow into your mailbox, it will disappear and reappear in your barn the next day. When I rented the game, I discovered this within minutes and wondered how nobody ever caught that glitch.
Yes. I have Wonderful Life; I forgot the name of the other one.
PBG just has a great voice.
Love the ever bloody hell outta Harvest Moon games :D
I spotted a wild AlphaOmegaSin!
timballj22 Your profile pic...
---That's actually funny, considering Alpha seems like the kind of guy who likes hardcore games.
Wow you wouldn't really look like the type that plays harvest moon lol.thats why you're awesome alpha.
True dat
Am I the only one who wants to know more about the whole "the company's president went missing" thing? I can't find any more info on it online (it's just interviews mentioning "the president went missing, literally") and it's just mentioned so flippantly like it's nothing. What exactly do they even mean?! Did he just wander off and stop contacting the company, or did he get kidnapped or something?
Maybe creepy pasta has something, or should have something
I would say that there is definitely more to it then him just missing out of nowhere,my guess is that there was a inner conflict with the team of harvest moon that caused him to leave.
+Samantha Port Probably because it _was_ nothing. People in his position are under a lot of stress. Sometimes you just want to be alone.
I'm willing to bet he didn't answer phone calls or skype messages for like two days and people were like "OMG HE'S MISSING!!!"
+Shmandalf Skype didn't exist at that time.
I scrolled down to the comments for this very reason.
I guess we'll never know... ^^'
I'm glad PBG did this video :) knowing he loved the series I'm sure he was more than happy to do it ^-^
I AM GLAD TOO!!! I LOVE IT WHENEVER HE TALKS ABOUT HARVEST MOON!!
Now it's a requirement that you make a DYKG on Rune Factory.
Why are people comparing this to Animal Crossing and Farmville when this whole "Did You Know" basically spoke on it's SNES origin which means this game came years before Animal crossing or Farmville were concepts.
People tend to compare things they don't know much about to things they know more about.
It doesn't matter what game came first, Animal Crossing and Farmville are way more popular.
linkno1 Both of theses statements aren't true at all keep on giving out false information you know nothing about.
linkno1 Farmville has a completely different playerbase. You can't even compare the 2.
Also a lot of people that 'play' Farmville sneer at those who play AC or HM because ''video games are for kids'' and ''video games are a waste of time''.
willnox1 They are alot more popular, that's just a fact. Everybody and their dog has at least heard of Farmville, and Animal Crossing is by far one of the most played games on the DS. I barely ever hear anybody mention Harvest Moon, and a discussion about it is usually started by myself rather than others.
Do note, I'm not saying popularity is the same as quality, I would much rather play Harvest Moon than Animal Crossing, and especially God damn crappy Farmville.
Razkali The type of playerbase is irrelevant. The three games are similar in either concept or gameplay, the playerbase has very little to do with that.
I always wondered why it was called Harvest Moon.. makes sense!
I always thought you had a farm on the moon. Clearly I misunderstood that :/
When I first heard it I thought it was a weird game.
MORE! Harvest Moon part 2 please! ='DDD
Harvest Moon 64 was one of my favorite games. Peaceful, rewarding, unexpectedly fun. I had no idea it'd be so cool. Plus, every girl in the town wanted me, so I was definitely, if only virtually, the town stud.
Farming Simulator: 1997
I recently figured I would try the original Harvest Moon on SNES Online for Switch. I grew up seeing these games getting released, but never actually played them, or thought they looked interesting. Started playing it last night since I found out it was added last week, and I've already clocked 6 hours on my playtime.
It's highly addictive, and the way its aged is amazing! I just wish they would include an instruction manual to help teach newer players more of the mechanics on how things work. I was blown away at how complicated it can get at times!
How about a video on Rune Factory?
at 2:30 when the winter theme from friends of mineral town started I got such a nostalgia chill.
I don't know I should love farms or fear them. Sometimes they feed me, and sometimes they try to kill and eat me.
Just eat the food and quickly fly away. Be sure to crap on something when you leave.
ive seen you in mangaminx channel
I am now reinstating that you, A duck, are everywhere I go.
But I still always get caught off guard and laugh at your humor.
It's a hard duck life :C
Golden_Tsubasa
It's hard
It's hard
It's hard out here for a duck...
I really want to know the story behind what went on with the dev team on Back to Nature. Like you are given a project to remake a specific game with a bit of extra content for a new platform and somehow wind up with a completely new town, rewritten characters, and an overall completely different game. Like was there a miscommunication somewhere? Did the team just go rogue and make what they wanted? There has to be a story there of how things took that much of a turn.
The one I played the most was the GC version "A wonderful life". I couldn't finish it though, no matter how far I got, the game kept opening another chapter of his life in between 2 to 3 years. It took too long just to see a new phase and how slowly I got through even one year I just couldn't finish it. It had already too many repetitive things, all my crops were rank S, I had a lot of money I didn't need to use, my farm was expanded to the max and I had all animals available. And all events of the year were exactly the same with no change, even the cutscenes and dialogues repeated. I wish I could've done more in the game to see it through the end, but at that point I just couldn't go on with it.
You can never really finish it if I remember correctly, After you get married, have a son wait for him to grow up and then eventually die and have him take over the farm, a chapter called "Heaven" starts where you run your farm as an old man,,, forever
***** Man that's kinda creepy, but that game was, interesting.
ANNE FOR LIFEEEE!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAH
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agreed
Ellen/Elli is far superior. :/
LloydieLynn nice opinion there, Ann is first for me though, Second Karen.
Aaah just hearing the winter music again reminds me of my love for the series. Back to Nature on PSX is my favourite.
Playing harvest moon was actually the final push that let me get the guts to convince my mum that we should have a veggie garden so my sister and I could learn how to grow vegetables properly, since she lived on a farm as a child and we never had an opportunity to have a garden until we moved. Three years later I know just about everything I need to know about growing and storing crops, and we're enjoying delicious home grown veggies every year, all throughout the year ;)
I don't know if there's much trivia about it, but you could do an episode on Rune Factory. It's a spin off of Harvest Moon that simply added combat, but people liked it so much it started a separate franchise of its own, presently at Rune Factory 4 for the 3DS.
if there isn't enough for a separate video, perhaps they could put the stuff into a Harvest Moon video, since it can be considered a Harvest Moon game still (being "A Fantasy Harvest Moon")
I remember spending hours on Harvest Moon for the SNES. For some reason, the Harvest Moon series is so addicting. I'm still playing Friends of Mineral Town to this day.
Of course PBG would do this one
Hurray you did Harvest Moon! I love this series and Innocent Life too.
Innocent Life was pretty unique in its storyline(which was actually kinda good, if simple).
There's a surprising lack of videos on UA-cam about like, the history of the series. Or the ones that do exist, are super short. Like, I want an entire 1-2 hour long documentary about Harvest Moon, the change to Story of Seasons, and even spin-offs like Rune Factory. With a history of why and how it was made, the general opinion about the games, interesting factoids, comparisons, etc. Could even go into previous non-Harvest Moon games that might have been similar, or other farming games. But it doesn't seem like there's anything like that yet. Which is surprising considering how old the series is and how popular the games are.
I love you guys so much for doing this. The harvest moon franchises it's one of my favorites, and it's nice to see it get some recognition.
Harvest Moon 64 is the best in my opinion but Natsume claims it's "impossible to emulate" and will "never be re-released"
Seriously!?
it's obviously possible to emulate. I'm doing it right now.
PrescottOfficial They might have meant it in a creative sense.
ed fones Actually it was in an interview about why Harvest Moon 64 wasn't on the Wii Virtual Console, so he did mean it literally. And as PrescottOfficial pointed out it is already being done on PCs and hacked Wiis
Ever played magical meloday Labry?
Insanonaga YES! I rank it as the second best :)
PBG I KNOW you didnt do all that reading on your first try. Come on. It's PBG.
more harvest moon.
Farmville will never trump this series.
Wait, all I had to do was show Karen my puppy...
"Hey, check out my dog!"
"Aww, he's cute!"
"Look at him again."
"Uhh... okay?"
"Look at him 50 more times."
"MARRY ME! ❤"
Seems logical.
Time to get a dog then!
Karen Carson should I laugh?
Yes, yes you should.
"Did you know? THE INSPIRATION FOR HARVEST MOON CAME FROM..."
Harvest moon is one of my favorite games. I'm a 21 year old guy and my friends can't get what I love about it. lol If you guys like Harvest Moon, check out Gin no Sai(Silver Spoon). It's like an Anime Harvest Moon.
I'm happy PBG got to do this episode of DYKG. Many of his older video have shown his passion for Harvesty Moon
Possibly one of the most chill games right next to Animal Crossing.
Not to mention Stardew Valley, one of the few games where pirates fell in love so hard they bought it themselves afterwards.
***** Yeah, and Harvest Moon wouldn't exist without Iwata.
Harvest Moon fan for life! Have almost all of the games (I own over 25 of their games, I lost count at this point).. been playing since the start. Beautiful series.. gotta love it!
HM has been one of my favorite game series ever. Just thought I'd put that out there. It's fun. I like it.
Just want to say I love that there's no forced humour in these videos; sometimes you want a gaming channel without deliberately corny comedy throughout - doesn't mean it's serious, just normal.
This makes me want to play Harvest Moon, but I don't own any HM games... I guess my Rune Factory 4 will satisfy my farming needs.
PBG you hate me too?
What?
Sorry. We... uhh... Let him out again. He won't be bothering you anymore.
Emulate that shit, nigga.
I will ignore the profanity in that comment and get to the point.
I don't want to use an emulator, unless the game is impossible to play without one, like an original NES game, since I don't have an NES. There are 3DS Harvest Moon games that I could buy, so I won't emulate any of them.
Awww, I love the Harvest Moon games! Thanks for doing a great video on the series :D
Could you also do a "Did you Know Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons" video? (An updated one, maybe centered around the current two series and the Natsume/Marvelous/XSeed split?)
You have no idea how much I loved Back to Nature and the N64 version. Great vid!
Jinsei monotagari means life story, not life farm.
+megablueblaster Yeah. Even I can tell and I don't even know how to speak, read or write Japanese, lol.
+LaBerengenaAtomica not everyone is a weeb ok
Mikasa loly Your point being?
Mikasa loly said by someone called "mikasa loly".
Not everyone is a narrow minded monolingual either, dude.
MegaBlasta Hahaha how did I not notice that name, lol.
The ones for the GameCube; Another Wonderful Life and magical melody were my favorites. You should definitely do a part two! :)
The first Harvest Moon is great, the Gamecube one was an unforgettable adventure I grew up with and the DS one was one of the funnier ones.
But, the 64 version was definitely the most memorable experience I ever had with the series. The activities were great, the brides were spunky and it was incredible.
It had an update, and it looked great and all, but the 3D felt out of place. The game was so much more fun in its original, native N64 appearance.
Sad thing is, they will release the other updated "Friends of Mineral Town" instead of "Harvest Moon 64" just because the first suffered bad sales, I believe.
It sure seems that it will happen that way for Virtual Console, but the store does have a few clone games so they might do both, actually.
I personally would not mind both, as there are some that enjoyed the GBA version; and I like the N64 version, so it would be a win-win situation.
Either way, I hope we at least get the version I want; I liked playing it a lot more and getting drunk; that was really fun. Oh, and the exploration value is phenomenal.
+Medachod A wonderful life is hands down my favorite Harvest Moon game. The ending of the game made me cry lol and just loved everything about it.
Peppa Pig (MLG no-scoper) It was VERY good 3D for the Gamecube too, despite its rush to its deadline. The PS2 version PALES in comparison. Like, I understand entirely now why the Wii existed.
Nintendo was pissed. They had the best graphics of that generation, yes even better than the Xbox; but the PS2 just sold better.
A game like A Wonderful Life is a primary example of this. The PS2 cut the graphics pretty bad, specifically the shading. I liked its features and wish they were in the Gamecube version, though.
I hope someone does a homebrew remake of that someday with the additional features. Granted, they were very minor, but I think they actually used the horse shed in the PS2 version. Or, they just removed it. I do not remember.
Either way, fantastic game, I agree.
Medachod Well, you know what they say: To each their own! A wonderful life was the very first 3D harvest moon game I played, and after that I played magical melody and animal parade, both parade and melody just didn't top wonderful life for me. I also never played the PS2 version, so I don't know anything about what they left out on gamecube or PS2 port.
Peppa Pig (MLG no-scoper) Just an extra bachelorette, building and crop shipper. But, the graphics are horrid and the load times are not worth it.
+Medachod They're not releasing Harvest Moon 64 on Virtual Console because there is a problem with trying to emulate the game on the WiiU -- they can't get it to work properly due to the way the game is programmed, and there's no way to fix this it seems. Natsume has stated that because of this, Harvest Moon 64 will never come to the WiiU Virtual Console.
the amount of times I'm like "I need to relax so I'm gonna play a game where I run a farm and try to do all the side parts in town"
It's weird seeing/hearing a video with PBG that doesn't start with "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M PEANUT-BUTTER GAMER!"
I bet he says that at the beginning of every social interaction. Goes to the convenience store, "Hey cashier, I'm peanut butter gamer, and I'd like a slurpee." Someone knocks on his door, they are selling cookies, "Hey Girl Scout, I'm peanut butter gamer, and I want to buy Thin Mints" Walks in to a crowded movie theater, ready to watch The Hobbit, "Hey everybody, I'm peanut butter, and I enjoy Peter Jackson's take on the Tolkien epic, The Lord of the Rings."
I'm proud of PBG's diligence in trying to properly pronounce all of the Japanese names.
Since you have done Harvest Moon, can you do Rune Factory now, please? (It would kind of make sense to do it, since you have done Harvest Moon.)
I loved every second of this as Harvest Moon is my favorite franchise!!! Thank you!
Some additions:
Did you know that Harvest Moon: Back To Nature on the PS1 had a game breaking glitch where the game would lock up when you got married? Natsume issued an apology and sent out new copies for free to all players who contacted them about the glitch.
Did you know that the Harvest Moon games that allowed for playing as female were generally never released outside of Japan and at times the US because of the mentality in the industry in the west about females as playable leads? It took time but eventually the Harvest Moon series would become more diverse outside of Japan in regards of offering players the choice of playing as female or male, many of the games never got released in Europe though and one Harvest Moon title, Magical Melody, was cut in half so to remove the female playable lead in Europe.
The usual attitude about allowing for playing as female came from the romance options, many developers feel that if a male playing as female has their character fall in love with a male that it would be promoting homosexuality and make the male player homosexual in effect. A very stupid and narrow attitude for sure.
I love the series, more so since it began allowing for playing as female. I feel the series improved a lot once that choice was finally offered.
Also did you know that Harvest Moon DS was such a buggy and glitch filled game that the female version released much later fixed many of the glitches and was found to be a vastly better game as a whole.
My avatar is based off how I was meant to be had I been born fully female, I see the woman I am in my mind all the time.
Sadly with the attitudes towards women in the world then people like me - transwomen - are deeply hated in society.
In difference we are all enriched by the variety insisted and granted by nature;s random chaos. As it's always been.
I tend to see things in a very blunt way, years of being mistreated and abused has made me fairly blunt and unable to see things in any way but a very factual way.
Tends to make it hard for me to believe in the kind of fantasy that many around the world do
I try to not stoop to the level of the hateful, not easy, but I prefer to try and keep to myself then to get revenge. Hard to do when the hateful try and kill you for being different from them.
Too many insecure fools in the world.
I don't think the police found, or cared to find, the recent attackers. They rarely do.
_Harvest Moon_ for the SNES is the most oddly-addicting game ever made.
I used to really like the old Harvest Moon game I played on Gameboy. I wonder why I never got more into the series.
1:55
"... Jinsei Monogatari, which translates to Life Barn."
Except it doesn't?
It translates to Life Story.
Jin is another way of saying "my" or well, not really "my", but it's sort of self-possessive, if that makes sense.
So I guess a literal translation would be "My Life Story", but that is redundant.
Some of the soundtracks of Harvest Moon in this videos really hits me so hard, oh childhood ;_;
You should tell in the video... Bokujou Monogatari has changed their name since 2013... Is not Harvest Moon anymore. It's called Story of Season now.
1:55 Jinsei Monogatari／人生物語？ That's "Life Story" which would explain why the Jinsei was changed to Bokujyou／牧場 (farm)
Yea translation error by the whoever did the research
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Part two please!
Do Rune Factory next!!!
I was so excited when I saw a video about one of my favorite game series. So many good memories playing Harvest Moon...
A small correction: 人生物語 (jinsei monogatari) translates to "Life Story", not "Life Farm." The "monogatari" is the same word that's used in 牧場物語 ("Farm Story"). Great video!
thats right bro i am happy to see some people learn out language
Awesome video, these have always been my favorite games.
Damn, I might have to play a Harvest Moon game now.
PeanutButterGamer was the perfect choice for this video.
I'm so happy that they made a Harvest Moon Did You Know Gaming. I absolutely love Harvest Moon and it makes it even better that PBG did it! :D Though, about half of these facts I already knew. XD
Harvest Moon is my favourite Game Franchise of all the time, thank you DYKG team for making this episode! :D
I love the way that PBG pronounces Japanese names. Many other English speaking UA-camrs will pronounce them strangely, but PBG does it very nicely..
Harvest moon is one of my favorite series of all time. Been playing since SNES...wow I think its been over 15 years I been playing this series.
So when exactly is DYKGaming going to do a Fire Emblem video?
WajiRock don't ask me
I can't believe this, Harvest Moon honestly has to be one of my favorite game series, if not my favorite
One of my favorite things about this game was the axe (I believe it was an axe) and the well. You throw your axe in a well and a woman will appear asking if you dropped your golden axe. Just tell the truth that the golden axe is not yours and she'll give it to you anyway. :)
isn't that Animal Crossing...?
ObliviousAngel It's in that game as well, yes.
Wait its in here too 0_0
Shouty Dog It's in both but I'm not sure which versions..
TheSwordbird98 Must be in one of the earlier ones because after the days of GBC, gold was no longer the best tier of tool.
Harvest Moon 64, one of my favorite games growing up. Been a while but it'd probably still be one of my favorites.
_why would they remove same sex marriages like_
_the yuri could have been _*_so strong_*
They only even put them in there because DS was SO BUGGY that guys wanted to play the girl version as it was significantly improved. They made it where you could still marry girls as well for them.
I wish we got that version though, I had to make a transgirl in A New Beginning just to get my lesbians (Nothing wrong with that but come on man...)
K. Charrette I had to make transgirls in Tomodachi Life as well //sad laughter
That sounds kinda dumb though. Did they have the opinions of guys before they made the girl version?
get it together already nintendo jfc
this guy made my childhood and my whole gaming life
Psx music from harvest moon is so fucking nostalgic for me.
Are you telling me that the original harvest moon was made by THREE people?? That's absolutely mind-boggling.
Stardank Valley is also really good, definitely recommended, i LOVE that game, although never played Harvest Moon, but since people keep saying that Mountaindew Valley is inspired by Harvest Weed, i thought i might give this videos a try.
Brings back a lot of memories. Dang. The sound, the countryside feel, that dog... how I wish it's still the early 2000's.
Did you know Rune Factory!!
WOO! Harvest Moon! xD Love it so much. The original Mineral Town version has always been my favorite.
Next up: Rune Factory! :D
I love the Harvest Moon games so much! I'm actually not a super-huge fan of Animal Crossing, at least not as much. Harvest Moon is probably my second-favourite game series, and it's one of my favourite hobbies or things to play on the road.
0:22 Which Harvest Moon game is that?
The 2D one is Friends of Mineral Town (GBA) and the 3D one is Save the Homeland (PS2)
Mr. Magic Mooshroom Thank you good sir and/or madame
Harvest Moon 64 was my childhood, sooo many good memories of me and my sister playing that, I would remember waking up to the sound of the whistle, running to my sisters room and sharing what new secrets or info we discovered. That's what I love about Harvest Moon, I could go back to it today and still find something new I hadn't before... they deffs need to make a next-gen harvest moon, it would look beautiful and with games like GTA IV think about how in-depth they could make it with the all the characters and what not
i think the most interesting moments in harvest moon is when you are finding a wife and how you marry her (or fail miserably)
I swear I read "fondling a wife" at first, and had to reread your comment. What the hell is wrong with me.
The words "that's all for today" is the bane of my existence...
Ah, Harvest Moon
Holy shit this comment was a trip to find 8 years later seeing how Stardew Valley turned out lmao
Harvest Moon is my favorite game series and I was so excited to see that you did a DYKG video on it!! Unfortunately, the information was not as new or interesting as it is on your other videos, and I wish you treated harvest moon with a little more care :(