Best Harvest Moon?

[Bronty-2]

I've never played any of the Harvest Moons. Suggestions? :)

[Clay]

Being a Harvest Moon freak, I think I can make some suggestions here. My personal favorite is A Wonderful Life. It is almost the perfect evolution of the game. I don't like some of the aspects of it, such as being forced to marry the first year, and the lack of girl selection, but other than that, I love the game.

I feel that Save the Homeland is the weakest, as it was to much of a departure from the series. Farming didn't seem to be the main point of the game, and got real unnecessary after the first completion.

The rest of them are good, and I almost suggest playing them in order of release, just to see the evolution of the game. Plus each game has offered something a bit different to the series.

One thing to keep in mind about the Harvest Moon games, is that they tend to have some localization errors, and usually some bugs, but I kind of view it as just one of those things. Maybe I am just so biased that I can over look the problems.

Clay

[Bronty-2]

thanks Clay!

[max 330 mega]

well i thought i might have been wierd, because i hated a wonderful life, but then i let my friend borrow it too.. he got stuck around the same spot in the first year also, wake up, barely have time to tend to the gardens, never made any profit off of the crops, no time to fish because all was spent with gardening and cattle, and if we were lucky our character maybe made it to bed by like 11 or 12. a tedious boring chore with no positive outcome or game progression. yea...... what a wonderful life.......... x_x

[NintendoMan]

I like the N64 version. BUT, I haven't played the SNES or Gamecube versions yet. Just for some reason I have never played them??

[Achika]

I've said it before, I'll say it again, after playing all the Harvest Moons the N64 version is still the best. It had everything: gardening, cooking, wooing & marrying a wife, mining, raising kids, animal husbandry, making friends, etc. Also it had the greenhouse, which is by far my favorite building in the HM world.

The point of AWL, IMO is not to farm all day, that is secondary. I think it was made that way so people could finally focus on the other aspects of the game, rather than farming all day. Your real profit is made from cattle, and gardening should only be done in order to get crops for cooking.

[Kamino]

Of the versions i own(snes, n64, ps1, ps2) I'd say the ps2 version is quite relaxed for once. For a newbie, it's easier to get started in.
The n64 version is by far the toughest, with roughly 10 million things to do. LOL
I haven't monkeyed much with the ps1 version, though. (it's ps1, so why bother.)

[Cauterize]

Gameboy version for me, i got it as a kid when i first got my GBC one xmas morning... its great havin a farm in your pocket! LOL

[potatobob]

They're are the best except for the PS2 one. Too many endings.

[AFGiant]

I vote HM64. Who DOESN'T love a game where the developer spells their own name wrong on the title screen? LOL

seriously, though, HM64 is by far my favorite.

[josekortez]

Back to Nature on PS1, hands down.

[om3ga]

They are all good man.

Personally I like ps1 back to nature and the SNES version.

=)

Its all preference.

[Raedon]

love these games..

N64

worst: that first PS2 one..

[Neonsolid]

Raedon Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:59 am Post subject:

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love these games..

N64

worst: that first PS2 one..


I agree fully.

[Aussie2B]

I vote for the N64 game as well. There's a reason why it's the most valuable US N64 game. ;)