What games do you recommend for someone wanting to get into the Harvest Moon series Yea Forums?

What games do you recommend for someone wanting to get into the Harvest Moon series Yea Forums?

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Back to Nature/Friends of Mineral Town is all you need.

fomt of course

Well, 64 and Back to Nature are pretty great, and I'd recommend them for a start. AWL was the swan song for the original creator IIRC, but your choices for it are either
>the GCN version, which plays a lot better, but lacks a lot of the new features in the PS2 version, and has a few typos in the script
>the PS2 version, which has load times all over the place, a few sound errors, and framerate issues, but also comes with the extras, like a fourth marriage option, the daughter option, etc.
>also Another Wonderful Life, which is essentially the girl option for GCN, but also comes with a few extras
Hopefully, we can get a proper remaster for it someday, and not just an emulation of the PS2 port.

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going outside

Story of Seasons: Trio of towns or Harvest Moon DS. First one has shit ton of things to do and it's slower paced so you don't have to know too much stuff before starting it IMO. Second one has some combat, it's more soulfull and more old school.

Just play stardew valley and get the weeb portrait mod for a better experience than any harvest moon game, not even joking.

I prefer Stardew Valley but it's much faster paced and has a different feel.

>when you switch from one series to another and realize that season don't last for the same ammount of days

>Harvest Moon DS
>some combat, it's more soulfull and more old school

And a whole assload of glitches.

And general lack of fun since it's just a AWL demake.

64, BtN, and FoMT are the classic ones you should try first.

Wrong.

Originality is overrated.

there he goes again
when are you going to stop shitposting?

BtN and FoTM are classics. AWL and HoLV are great if you want a more story focused game, esp HoLV with all of its minigame and stuffs.
Trio of Towns 3ds is the best modern one out there. Shit tons of stuffs to do, streamlined gameplay esp the greeting button. You can just tap it and “talk” to a bunch of villagers at once. Great when you think talking to all of them is a hasse. The pace can be too slow at 1st tho, but its good for easing you in.

Not the guy but SV can make a strong case for being a better game. Also it's generally cheaper and moddable.

You want a fast jump into experience then Save the Homeland, its severely underrated but ain't a game to play if you want a long lasting playthrough, its more mission based. Also has objectively the best OST in the whole franchise.

The only strong points of SV i can think of are
>greatly customizable farm, and the working stations/machines are neat
>good, asmospheric music
>junimo and the town hall. Nothing revolutionary, but its great to have a goal to strive for.
The spriteworks, character developments, etc are subpar.
I know its a 1 man work, and i greatly admire the guy. But saying its better than classic like awl, fotm or even modern ones as 3oT is just arrogant.

Friends of Mineral Town and Rune Factory 1

Trio of Towns
Animal Parade
Back to Nature
Friends of Mineral Town

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You simply have more stuff to do. Most of HM games don't even let you brew beer. Character sprites are bad but SV world looks nice. Thinking ahead for community center bundles, collecting stuff for museum, 2 dungeons, greenhouse etc are really fun. Character developement is bad but HM is also pretty bad when it comes to it, Rune Factory is the only game that managed to have decent dialogues. SV IMO is much better than any HM game.

I think im just baited, but fuck, check out 3oT
The sheer ammount of stuffs to do is HUGE, and with it the depth. Just the livestock aspect is enough headache.
>beer
Good lord, its not like cero is retarded, and SoS is aimed for everyone, so you cant have alcoholic drinks. You can pretty much cook anything else tho.

A lot of HM games have Wine in. SoS1 was the latest I think.

3oT has lots of content but a lot of it is very tedious, having to push cows every day, getting sick in the rain, animals have a life span of a mayfly, wives that will leave you for passing out twice etc. HM games either have too little content (older ones) or they are souless and tedious (new ones).

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