What is the best Story of Seasons game on the Switch? Comparing the 5 games!
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In this video I compare all the Story of Seasons games available on the Nintendo Switch! Which one is your favorite?
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town
04:49 Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town
07:58 Doraemon Story of Seasons + FotGK
12:21 Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life
17:05 Conclusion
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I wish they would make Harvest Moon, Magical Melody again. It was fun collecting all the notes and having a rival to work against
I love Magical Melody too! I feel like that was one of the most engaging in the series however, Animal Parade will always have my heart
@@arrogantatheism7047 Ditto, I keep hoping they remake Animal Parade next!!!
I honestly feel like this will be the next remake. That or Animal Parade.
@@OHeyChrissy I agree, they're very likely. Magical Melody is more of a classic so probably that will be first. Possibly even Tree of Tranquility before Animal Parade?
@Cassandra Suzanne Honestly, I'm hoping they don't do Tree of Tranquility. I know it was before AP but it was more successful in my opinion. Or maybe they'll make a game where they combine the two? Idk. They're so similar as is so who knows.
I feel like Magical Melody will for sure be next.
The 3ds games remain the best titles in my opinion. They have the most content/activities and the most comfortable controls/gameplay. But you do have to endure the horribly long tutorials.
I would have liked to try the 3ds games as I have heard good things about them.
However without same sex marriage they're a complete no go for me.
Maybe they will get remade like mineral town and a wonderful life
Cough cough . Ds was best for me then animal parade
@@moritzmonaghan9421 If you haven’t played them and went straight into the Switch games, I can kinda get it. I do think the same sex stuff was poorly done in FoMT (havent tried PoOT), still felt like I was in a relationship with a straight person at times and it didnt really feel much different then how it was I played SoS and SoS Trio of Towns on the 3ds.
There are mods people have made for ToT and some of the older HM games so I do recommend looking into that if you’re into mods/emulators.
@@moritzmonaghan9421 yeah i totally understand you... as a queer person i also wish it had s/s marriage, but at least it allowed you to wear any clothes and go for any hair style regardless of your gender. So you could pretty much pick the "girl" option and still look like a boy or vice versa. The only problem were the pronouns, but the second one didn't have as many gendered pronouns, ToT did have a lot (one of the reasons why it's my least favorite) and a New Beginning was somewhere in the middle, not being as hard to ignore as ToT.
Thankfully there are some mods today like Van said, even if not everyone plays using an emulator.
I picked up the one with two towns cause it was on sale, but I'm not feeling it. Wondering if it's just not for me or if I want to experience one with BOTH farming and animal rearing. I also have Lost Valley, my sister bought it for her kids and they never opened it so now it's mine lol
No one remembers trio towns but they were my favorite. Actual festivals and events for every character even the animals
I do, komari best girl. and the ability to eat at your friends house is really REALLY useful. funny too how you can barge on their house and ask for food and they just "sure come along we have tons to share with!"
I just don’t think that’s true. Lol it seems to be one of the most well liked newer games (relative to how long the series has been around) on places like Reddit. Granted I know not the whole fanbase is on Reddit.
I played a tiny bit. My eye sight is a bit shit for 3DS but the game was the best out of the SoS games I'm familiar with. Even in just a short time Trio outshined the other games.
FoMT is poor. It's completely brocken with that BS in the mines. I never understand how it even gets slightly good reviews, nevermind high scores.
I would love an Animal Parade remake but I'm not certain it reached the level of demand the current remakes had.
there is still hope yet! i also thought that the chances would be slim, since AP had i think the second lowest sales in the series at one point in time I think...? BUT AP has a very dedicated niche fanbase both internationally AND in japan as well. Someone else said that it might be remade after MM which sounds fair enough to me personally.
All I know is, if they axe out the rival marriages in AP like they did for all the other remakes, they're dead to me lmfao
@@hallowen4279 this…. I want the game as it is just on the switch. I know adding same sex marriage is what they are doing, i would like options for “rival marriages” simulate the OG marriage experience and then “no rival marriages option” like how romance works in PooT or SoS:FomT.
Same!! It’s by far my favorite of all time. And imo no mines were more fun than the water mine in AP. ❤
But tbh Animal Parade is already perfect as it is and I don't think needs any remake! Switch port, maybe!
They'd make the art style more generic, I'm afraid.
I've played Pioneers of Olive Town since it came out. The performance has gotten better, and they have done a lot of good work. I've enjoyed my time with the game immensely, and I still play it.
I just can't recommend it without mentioning the fact that the performance is still not great. Maybe if my farm was emptier, it'd be fine. But I've got fences, pathways, dozens of trees, hundreds of plots, all covered by sprinklers, multiple barns, topiary, lighting- And every time I hit a loading zone the game freezes for a second or so. Like, the audio stops too. It has never crashed by giving me the typical "an error was detected" notification like most Switch games, but it has sometimes failed to load when I was, say, using the shortcut from area 3 to area 1 near your farmhouse.
I love the game, I'll keep playing it until it becomes unplayable, I just wish the performance was better. If it was smooth? Omg walking around in camera (first person) mode would be even better. On a decorated farm with fields full of flowers? amazing.
I wish they'd given us a shed or empty barn building, to put makers in. I feel like so much of the bad performance is directly related to the fact that you need tons of makers even if all you're doing is making high level seeds.
Alternatively, they could implement a typical mechanic wherein selling seeds/crops of a certain quality raises the quality of seeds/crops sold at the shop. That way I'm not endlessly cycling 20 seed makers to make high quality produce and eventually, high quality recipes.
Still, they've long since moved on from improving that game. When they come out with their next new (not remake/remaster) game I hope they implement sheds if they keep makers. They had such a good thing going in SoS 3DS with their maker sheds, could've expanded on that... Idk why they didnt. Placeable greenhouses and customizable farm, too, back then. Even had a whole mechanic dedicated to decorating the town plaza areas.
Yeah the performance got a lot better and even the makers too (tho i still hate them). The one thing i wish they had offered us from the get go was a better map for customization, cuz there are a lot of places there are hard to customize because of the map layout.
I agree, I hate all the little makers.. I find it overwhelming. I like the orginal Story of Seasons where that stuff was in a dedicated building
What do you play on? I have it on switch and PlayStation and it really is night and day between the two.
On PlayStation the only problem that remains is the draw distance.
@@moritzmonaghan9421 I have the switch version. I imagine the pc version would be a lot better performance wise, too.
honestly surprised to see someone enjoying this game- I really *really* wanted to like it, bought the expansion pass and everything. it was honestly a great game for a while but those makers dragged the experience way waay down. having a limit of 20 when there's so much to do and make destroyed my experience with the game, sadly. putting that on top of bad performance and just kinda boring characters just made it feel like I wasted my money. maybe I'll give it another go (it's been a while since I dropped it), but I'm worried I'll feel the same ^^;
my first game in the series was animal parade and its definitely my favorite. I'm kinda hoping they remake it or port it remaster style + add same sex romance. it'd be nice to see that game on newer hardware, but it looks like I should turn to wonderful life's remake for the time being.
I'm excited to try A Wonderful Life later this year. I enjoyed Pioneers of Olive Town quite a bit, but I would get stressed about how I had so much to do and not enough time, so a more relaxed experience sounds perfect
Its already out
What do you mean with not enough time? Does the time expire for certain tasks?
@@1Jasmin The day/night cycle runs fast imo for the number of daily tasks around the farm and what you'd like to do in a day. Feeding livestock is necessary every day (technically you can skip a day here and there, but they get upset and if they're still mad, they'll leave) and harvesting crops and livestock goods are necessary every day if you want to maximize your yield. If you need to go into town to buy stuff, certain shops are only open some days of the week, and they have their business hours you need to be aware of. Mining will easily kill a whole day if you're trying to reach a lower level. Fishing results depend upon the place you're fishing and the time of day. Obviously festivals are only that one day, so that's another thing you have to go into town for and it usually wastes the rest of the day. And I haven't even mentioned talking to NPCs and gifting them to improve your relationship, taking photos of stuff for the museum, and decorating your house
Basically, you need good time management and even then, there's usually too much in your To Do list category and not enough time
I really appreciate the approach you took with this video which I think is quite unique. Most people would have said, here's 5 games and here's the one I think is the best, but I love that you highlighted the pros & cons of each and how they could appeal to different types of players because enjoyment will be subjective :)
I played a lot of Harvest Moon when I was younger, and didn't catch on to the HM/SoS situation til quite late and feel the need to catch up on SoS games.
Yes/ Because if its a guide for other people it's a much better approach to explain why a game might appeal to someone, rather than to say "I like this so you should, too.". Especially without knowing why.
Animal Parade is my favorite about all, i want so much that they made a remake on it on switch
Or tree of tranquility 🥺
I love that they made the season changes gradual and focused so much on the scenery and visuals🥺♥️ I couldn’t play more than a year of olive town bc there was too much to do lol and it was stressing me out. I am so looking forward to a relaxing one for a change😭🥰
Thank you for this video. I’ve been interested to dive back in to the series but have been having trouble picking between the newer games so this was a lot of help!
Funny thing is - I was never too much into SoS and also not into Doreamon at all. But funnily enough those are my absolute favourites.
Thank you for this video.
The thing I really love about FoMT (the first one you reviewed) is the dating!! I think that needs to be noted, you can have boyfriends/girlfriends (yes plural!) Before you settle down and get married to one of them! And there's scenes for when you want to initiate being someone's boyfriend or girlfriend and you can see all of them (but only one marriage!) Was such a cute feature imo. I wish they kept the rivals tho
I think that with older games, the characters and story buildings were so much better to make up for the lack of freedom that the current tech enables. I seriously still remember every single one of Back to Nature (/Mineral town)'s characters and I can't even name 5 of my elementary school mates.
Having a list of pros and cons for each game should be super helpful for people who aren't sure where to start! I'm especially glad that you covered the Doraemon games, I don't see many people talking about them but they look really charming. I might have to pick up FotGK when I'm looking for a new game to play.
All of these games are going to appeal to someone! There's something out there for everyone regardless of what you might be looking for. Thank you for showcasing these games!
FotGK will not disappoint!
The 2nd game in the sos doramon series is amazing. It's easily my favorite sos game on switch. And man does it look beautiful 😍
The Doraemon SoS games are really underrated, but like everyone says, go for the second one with all the quality of life improvements
I’ve never seen even one episode of Doraemon (it never aired in the US if I remember correctly) but the artstyle is so pretty I’m debating on getting it since it’s on sale. I just hate that there’s no romance. Tho I understand why since I think the characters are kids.
Thanks a lot for your SoS summary! It's definitely helpful to me. I recently just got myself the FoMT due to missing the classic experience & now after watching your video I'm thinking of getting the Doraemon 2 next.. :)
SOS Pioneers of olive town really is my personal favorite 🥰 i just love the customization and all the little animals you can get. I love building the farm up to how i want it to look, just gives you more freedom to make it how you want. Mineral town is also a good one, still love pioneers more though. Never tried the Doraemon ones but kinda want to try it. And very excited for a Wonderful Life 🤗 thanks for sharing this video!! Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Rune Factory have always been my favorites
Thanks for the video! I am thinking on getting back on the series, played a ton of FoMT back in GBA. After your video, I decided that if I do get one game, it will be the remake of FoMT for sure. I was interested in A Wonderful Life as I've never played it, but what I really enjoy are the festivals, nice characters, etc. So yeah, back to Mineral Town for me it seems!
Great video! I enjoyed the simplicity of Friends of Mineral Town.
Thank you for making this video ☺ I actually searched your channel recently for a video like this since I was deciding which SoS to get. I ended up getting Pioneers of Olive Town and I love it so far but after watching this I'm definitely interested in A Wonderful Life and maybe eventually Mineral Town.
I am thinking of getting a Switch. I loved the old Harvest Moon games and the Story of Seasons for the 3DS. This video is exactly what I needed to see when considering what to try on the Switch, thanks!
I really appreciate the deep dive into those different games and it for sure made me decide against getting the newer one at the end of this month. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it that much - I already have FoMT and the Nintendo DS (&cute) versions are my favorites anyways. I hope they get a remake!
I really really really hope for a Magical Melody remake!! I remember Harvest Moon 64 and AWL/AnotherWL the most fondly as that's what I played as a kid, but I'm wondering if I might be thinking of them with nostalgia tinted glasses. I think Magical Melody had some of the most fun and engaging mechanics, and I absolutely loved that game despite hating the chibi graphics lol. I also LOVED Save the Homeland but I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who played that one lol...
Very good summary! Thank you for your efforts! I am new to the series. So I'll start with Mineral Town.
This channel is such a gem. Just subscribed!!!
Great review Josh! I just got the new switch OLED and looking forward to play Doraemon. I have been looking for this kind of review before l buy it. You are amazing!
So glad I can always count on you to give reviews on the parts of the game that appeal to different types of players! I pretty much don't buy new farming games unless you've reviewed them lol
I have played all SoS Switch games and I have enjoyed all of them! I do enjoy the characters more in FoMT than in PoOT like you said 😂 but I still enjoy PoOT! And I also can NOT wait for AWL! I ADORE the family aspect! Not many games have that as the main focus!
Thank you for talking about Doraemon too cause I am interested in the second one! 😁
I'd been playing Doreamon friends of the great kingdom, and I'm having so much fun with it!
Thank you so much for this review! I’m from the Friends of Mineral Town and Nintendo 64 age of Harvest Moon, so along with the farming the biggest excitement for me as the games aged was the family aspect. I always wanted to see what happened once my child grew up and looked forward to characters aging. So I’m hugely thankful for this review and will be getting back into my Harvest Moon obsession bubble soon. Now, with a little more knowledge from you. So thank you again 😊
They need to remake / play off of titles from the Wii. ToT and AP were to me some of the best in the series. Massive yet busy towns filled with a range of different characters. Love interests even had rivals that might get married and have their own kids which were characters in and of themselves. Decent story lines from the main plot to different characters having kinda mini stories to go through and a decent farming system that wasn't so overbearing but still enough to keep you busy.
Hey Josh !! I’ve been loving your content 😊 Also I’ve been wondering if you’re French Canadian ?? Random question haha ! Thanks for the awesome work 🎉
I really wish they remake Animal Parade, I really enjoy the fact that you can use a cow to go around the town instead of a horse, and the mechanics of Tree of tranquility that allows you to work part time job in the stores, is one of the things that I enjoy too
Thank you Josh for the great list! So glad Story of Seasons has been so successful for so long.
Thanks for helping me decide what to play next
This was very helpful, thank you for the video!
My favorites are definitely the Doraemon games and Mineral town! The music in the first Doraemon beats the 2nd imo, but everything else is better in the 2nd. Even aside from the Doraemon characters, all the villagers are interesting and have nice events, and it’s still worth checking out for making friends (not spouses haha). Mineral town was so fun for me that I got more friends of mineral town for my gba! I stopped playing it to play PooT, but wanna get back into it again.
Excited to try A wonderful life though! I was gonna play it on my Wii, but the remake QoL changes are more worth it. Definitely wanna try animal parade or tree of tranquility sometime tho! I tried Trio of towns but for some reason can’t get into it ; ; maybe I’ll try Tale of Two towns next!
within the SOS franchises their 3ds titles were just SO good. The switch ones are fun but really have not come up to par with their predecessors. Excited to play Wonderful Life and have high hopes for it based on your reviews!!
also character wise the 3ds titles just excelled at this
Completely agree, the switch games feel empty and a bit bland while the ds games have so much personality and charm.
Awesome video keep up the good work & I played two story of seasons games on Nintendo switch so far but I still enjoy playing Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town a lot now & it is my favorite & first farming game ever in my personal opinion & I played Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town last year in 2022 & there is one thing I really hate of that game is the Dialogue because they say the same thing every single day & I got myself a headache from it & fun fact that there is emotional secret backstory of marriage candidates in Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town that I did just finding out myself while I’m playing the game & I believe that Damon & Jack & Ralph have emotional backstory in this game so far & I’m glad that I’m there for them right by their side no matter what ☺️
Out of every farming game I’ve played SoS Doraemon has been my absolute favorite. When Friends of the Great Kingdom was announced I was so excited.
I am in love with the Doraemon SoS games, especially the recent new one. From its simple yet engaging gameplay to it's gorgeous world!
Honestly I'm not a big fan of Doraemon but the art direction really pulled me in, a new main SoS in this style will be perfect!
I recommend also Trio of Towns on the 3DS, such a great addicting game with so much content, also the 3DS eshop is shutting down in a few days so I highly recommend getting the DLC asap for more story content!
Harvest moon 3ds was my favorite game I ever owned and I literally just found my sisters old DSi and thank god it works on there but I was so upset they didn’t have it for switch so I got friends of mineral town and it has a little bit more conversation and interaction that the OG game but I still want moreeeee.
And that watercolor looking game I have never heard of that but you are 100% right it looks incredibly beautifullll wtf!!! I love this video lol I’m only 25 but I be feeling old cause the new versions are sooo different lol
Thanks for the video!! It is really helpful.
Doraemon Friends of the Great Kingdom was BY FAR the best Story of Seasons game I have played yet. I'm an old, old, ooold fan from the early GameBoy days, and nothing else in the series has been as good since Harvest Moon 64. Don't sleep on this one!
I agree . The 2nd game is amazing. So beautiful looking too. And such fun unique tools.
I just bought story of seasons AWL. and I am actually considering getting the 2nd doreman one as well in the future. Heard it’s way better than the first doreman
@Jose0421 it's way way better then the 1st. Still think the doramon series looks the best. The watercolor backgrounds are so good looking .
Honestly, I liked olive town but of all the games in the story of seasons genre I love Trio of towns and original story of seasons game plus Animal parade on the hm/ SoS side. Like the characters and story are everything and with the recent ones I haven’t vibes as much with the characters. I want my old husbands back (Klaus, Ford, Gale and Julius).
Thank you for the very objective opinions! Now I'm curious, which ones appeal to you personally the most, and why?
This advice is spot on! I would've said exactly the same thing. Also more conmunity love for Doraemon: SoS!
Really wish they would remaster and port story of seasons trio of towns into the switch that one, was truly one of the best story of seasons game and the game had so much charm to it you also connected with the characters too and they also had personality to them as well.
Amazing video! Thank you so much!
Another thing to add to Pioneers because it was a massive negative for someone like me who considers the romance in farming sims to be very important. There are no character portraits while talking to the characters. You often can't even see their face at all when talking to them cause you're zoomed too far out, they're facing the wrong way, or your own character is in the way. And their character models are kinda... dead eyed, and lifeless. That added to the blandness of the characters for me vs not thinking I'd like a character in previous games and then their portrait did something really cute or funny making me like them.
There is an option in the settings to make the camera zoom in and focus on characters' faces when you speak to them and that worked fine through most of my playthrough. Though the models are still less expressive than the portraits were in previous games.
@@AkuAkane Did they add that in an update, cause I don't remember that in launch version. I gave up on the game after about 2 1/2 seasons because I found it so dull.
@Annie Nunyabiz it wasnt in the game at launch yeah. But it is now and it's pretty good. It makes quite the noticeable difference
@@moritzmonaghan9421 I'm hoping to pick up PoOT if it goes on sale during the Steam Summer Sale. I'm equal parts a crafter and a character person, so I'll keep this in mind.
Doraemon the 2nd one is my most favorite out of all these games! Thanks for this video. But I can’t wait for It’s a Wonderful Life!
Do you think they will be putting out new content and updates for A Wonderful Life later on like they did for Olive Town? I’m not familiar at all with the Story of Seasons brand so I wasn’t sure if it’s common for them to update there games after release or not.
The only thing I really didnt like about FoMT was that you pretty much have to befriend the sprites to manage any sizable farm and its really annoying needing to take gifts to them daily to keep your relation high enough as well as needing to reset their job every 7 days or whatever it was. You otherwise just couldn't manage the energy requirements for anything large scale as well as time being that timen in that game passes really quickly. I love the pace of PoOT and AWL.
I don’t have a switch, just a ps5 but since these are available on that too, Im watching this. I have played just PoOT and got the platinum trophy, but had played all the old DS and 3DS games and loved those. I enjoyed PoOT and your videos were super helpful in getting all the trophies. I am considering FoMT too.
heyya nice content. havent done any sos game, started doing doraemon little bit.
will be interested in HoLV HD Remake, like, PS2 upscaled is fine. probably the best HM series with little to no repetitive things and heavily story oriented. at least until the end of second year which is actually the end of the storyline.
WAITTTT I haven’t watched you in a while but a FACE REVEAL!!! CUTE! Nice seeing a face to the voice :))
very informative video, learned a few things
I highly recommend Rune Factory games if you like a fantasy version of farming games (or Harvestella from Square Enix)
I bought Doraemon - Story of Seasons last year as a sort of introductions to farming games (it was on a very good sale). As such, it was a horrible idea. I didn't get what the point of the game was and barely lasted through the 1st Spring. However, it did show me that the concept of farming games in general was something I found interesting. Just not that game, but I think I might enjoy it better now (after having played other games), and now that I know I just need to tough it out through all the grinding. Because you are right, the artwork is beautiful, the people are interesting, the farm has great potential, and (best of all) the mine was simple. 😅
I feel like the time moves too fast on FoMT.
Besides, I'm finding I enjoy the rune factory series moreso than HM/SoS. Though I pushed too hard in RF5 and finished the main story before end of summer 1...whoops.
That said, AWL was my favorite HM (followed closely by Animal Parade) so I'm looking forward to playing this updated version of it.
That was my biggest complaint about FoMT, I don't understand why they sped up time in the remake. Also was disappointed with the lack of customization but that doesn't affect game play.
Animal Parade is my favorite, I'm hopeful they'll remake it, probably after they do Magical Melody is my guess.
@@LunarEleven why is time so fast…. I feel like I have to rush everywhere to even do something.
Thanks this is so helpful!
hope they will make a remake of Harvest Moon Animal Parade
i dont see anyone talking about that game
Thanks, this helped a lot!
Estou impressionado com o seu amor para com jogos de fazenda. Eu joguei somente o Doraemon e você foi tão preciso. Lhe agradeço por este maravilhoso vídeo, pude conhecer outros jogos incríveis. Mil abraços.
Festivals and contests are everything for me in this franchise, so I really didn't like all the other games after FoMT 😬 I really would like to have a remake of "Tree of Tranquility" in the near future, for me it was the best Farm game ever, just perfect ⭐
Pioneers I have done a playthrough of... I would Recommend it Definitely for a first time player... Friends of Mineral Town for Returning Players...
My first (and so far only) SoS game was Olive Town, and something I’ve found I really enjoy are the flowers! I love the variety and the honey that comes from it as well, and there’s not too many other farming games I’m finding that also have flowers in their gameplay like that. So far, only Stardew Valley, I think?
Littlewood has some good pixel flower variety, and you can breed them to get rare colours :)
The second Doraemon game is on sale. I decided to get it! It looks like such a pretty game.
Hope you enjoy it!
The 2nd doramon game is really underrated imo. Its made alot of improvements from the 1st. It is easily the one ive got the most hrs in on switch. Looks the best by far and has some interesting differences compared to the other sos games on switch.
I have played Mineral Town and Olive Town. I recommend Mineral Town over Olive Town. I can't wait to play A Wonderful Life!
Sadly I'm not interested in the Doremon games but it's cool you enjoyed them.
The game I played when I was younger was Harvest Moon DS Cute. I loved it, I never even “completed” the game I don’t even think I got married yet! But I enjoyed it so much and it’s the reason I love the franchise so much, even though that and olive town were the only ones I played.
My cousin had the gameboy mineral town and if you put the cartridge into the ds while playing ds cute, you unlock extra marriage candidates from mineral town! They only walk past the town at a certain time of the day, but it was fun to have more options as I had planned to marry gray.
As a kid I found the mines both scary and exciting, I remember there being a princess on one level?? And I loved the sprite casino too!!
I read so much about the game that I wanted to play it slowly so I didn’t miss out on any triggered dialogues etc, if I find it again I’d love to play again and finish it as there was still so much I hadn’t experienced!
That game was my first harvest moon game too, I married Kai in it! I still have it and play it once in a while.
I'm definitely going to wait until the wonderful life one. This is my first time playing any of these games. The only farming games i played before is Rune Factory 4 & currently 5.
Those are developed by the same company or they used to be the first rune factory was called rune factory a fantasy harvest moon
You should definitely try one of these games before that comes out, if you have time!
Great info! Thanks
I have SoS PoOT and FMT, it seems that FMT is more popular but I like PoOT more. That is more do in PoOT that I feel is worth doing. With FMT after 100 hours (about one and a half year) I have done all that I feel is worth doing. As Josh says it's repetitive, still a good game that I will go back to after a long break.
I would like to play the Doraemon games one day.
In the GBA versions of FoMT, you had to prioritise marriage over proceding because of rival heart events, and only two save files, and inventory management and so on restricted your movements/income. All the QoL improvements made to the Switch removed a lot of the challenge and left it blander
Very well explained my fellow farming friend! I’m so very excited for the release of sos a wonderful life. Thank you for including the sos Doraemon games, I had no knowledge of them and the art is absolutely amazing! I do wish the game allowed you to be a girl though. Great content in this video and I look forward to seeing more, thank you!!
15:45 you caN CROSS THE RIVER NOW WITH A HORSE!
A bunch of other changes in SoS AWL:
- Fast, and I mean FAST running!!!
- Say goodbye to the dreadful framerate drops from PS2 version! (My inner children are happy)
- Everything feels just like the SE version (Sorry, OG Parrot-Pepper players)
- You can be a they/them and charm absolutely EVERYONE in the candidate roster, this is insane (and your kids will still look like your partner) yo even CODY is a candidate WOW!!!
- When you mine stuff a little "spoiler" of the item you dig will show up in the dug-up patch and the particle colors when you dig
- You can give Gordy (Cody) stuff when he's walking around, but not idling
- Lumina is aged way older now (thank goodness), but Cole is still scary
- You can supercharge seed-planting, grass grows instantly the next day after you fertilize it
- You don't have to push your animals near the watering hole at the pasture to give them a bath lol, it's automatic now
- You have a shit ton of save slots, up to 8 of them. Back then my dumb young self only saw 3 lol
- You can leave the valley and it shows a lil text popup about what you were doing in the town next door (instead of that ominous, "hey hey dont leave us!" dialog from everyone while all you wanted was to explore 😭)
My very first HM game was Save the Homeland. I loved it sooooo much, but hated how the game ends after a year. I had always wished they would remake it so you could play it for as long as you could.
Great video!
In my opinion the second Doraemon game is the best one.
The regular ones all fall short :/
Really waiting on a SOS Animal Parade remake. It was the ideal blend of story, freeform, and farming sim and didn’t take itself too seriously.
I played a little bit of Friends of Mineral Town. It wasn't for me.
Later on, I found that I enjoyed trying to get rich and finding ways to get rich in a farming sim game. Pioneers of Olive Town is the best in my personal opinion so far in that regard.
I am very interested in the family focused life with the idea of seasons gradually changing. With that said, i'm looking forward to when A Wonderful Life is released in English.
I was in a limbo of buying one of the games as a birthday gift for a family sibling because he used to been super obsessed with the Harvest Moon GBC game back then.
It’s so hard to find a copy of the new Doraemon game I appreciate you linking playing Asia though just the shipping is really high
Tbh imma get them all (except the first doreamon). I started with Doreamon 2 and then got sos olive town. I love both.
Sunshine Islands on the DS and Story of Seasons 3ds remain my favorite of the series. So far none of the switch ones seem to interest me enough to even try them out since they feel quite different from them. I never played A wonderful Life but thats the one that i will try when it comes out since it feels very, homey haha.
Sunshine islands was so good! I pray they update it for the switch!
Thank you for this, it was so informative 😁 now I got a better clue what fits me and u comfirmed one game that I've been thinking about (a wonderful life) ☺️
I would love seeing you make this same type of video for rune factory series ☺️please if u have time do it 😅🙏
I would love an Harvest Moon Animal Parade Remake:)
I would love having Story of Seasons: Three towns - Was for the 3DS and I loved the different areas so much
Story of seasons trio of towns was the best one 😢 I miss it so much 😢 I need a remake now
They don’t need to remake it. They can just remaster it and have it ported over to the switch, just like they remastered and ported Rune Factory 3 and 4 to the switch.
sun haven, coral island, my time at sandrock and immortal life are good games too
Hey, Josh!
Can you please do like a mini skincare routine? Your skin is always GLOWING @_@
I think you nailed my main reason for avoiding the doraimon games: They aren't totally SoS games. I understand you can enjoy the game as a farming sim, but they can never be real SoS games for me. I think fans of the characters would get more out of it than those who don't know them also, as they feel that connection. For me, the story developing around characters with more story elsewhere messes up the experience for me. That said, I wonder how the game would sell if it was instead released unbranded? Hard to say, but they did make two for a reason.
The Bokujou Monogatari brand has had many spin off games. Rune Factory started that way. Popolocrois was a cross over. I had almost no knowledge of the Doraemon characters before I played the first game. The Doraemon show is decades old and meant for kids, so all the characters are easily recognizable archetypes if you watch any anime. That isn't to say they aren't interesting! Watching the cowardly Nobita struggle to be brave in a new world, or Shizuka imploring the boys to listen to their better angels makes for fun character interactions
@@annalepper457 Haha I have to say I haven't played Rune Factory either. I never quite got into the monster aspect.
I'm playing story of seasons trio of towns on 3DS (I've just started) and it's my first farm sim , could you please make a comparing video for DS and 3DS farm games? Thanks!
Im playing sos fomt rn and im on year 4 now, still got loooots of things to do as i JUST got all the blessed tools and im waiting for my baby to be born c: i think this game is really good for new fans and new, and its a game thats fun to try and get all the achivements in as they arent THAT hard but they will still take some time and effort. So anyone on the fence, get it! Its well worth the money
I’ve never heard of doraemon!!!? Looks really cool!
It seems like so many people love the 3DS titles, which I unfortunately missed out on. I was a teenager at the time and I didn't notice the whole name change situation at first! Would Trio of Towns be the most recommended title? Also wondering if anyone here would recommend the Popolocrois spin-off? I'm a big Rune Factory fan so RPG elements are a plus for me.
I enjoyed Trio of Towns, SoS1, and HM: A New Beginning! So I would recommend all three of you can get all three
I also took a long gaming break missing out on those games, and I would say you can go straight for Trio of Towns! The 'first' game just called Story of Seasons is a bit of an acquired taste, so maybe look into what people liked and disliked about it. For me it was the market mechanic; it made selling stuff unnecessarily tedious and I just couldn't get into a decent flow, so I dropped it after 20 hours or so. ToT was an instant connection for me, although I haven't progressed too much yet before taking a longer break. But the characters have been super fun, and I love the different towns (you unlock them throughout the game)! There's also mini jobs and having meals with the villagers, it's just so fun to play!
@@Anni_ka Thank you! I'll look into both, but from what you mentioned ToT sounds like a good one to pick up 🙂
@@technicolorheartbeat Yeah, I would go for that one first, and afterwards you can always give the other one a try! Although I guess with the eshop closing it might be good to look for a physical copy now...
Rune factory is on the switch the old fourth and third is a remake and I have the new fifth version.
How about a video like this but comparing highly rated or most popular farming games on switch? You could even separate it further into indie titles and non indie titles etc.
Also. thanks. This is helpful.
I still wish they would put the first two story of season games on the switch I love those two games so much but out of the ones out on switch freinds of mineral town is my favorite so far that might change once I get to play a wonderful life
ive played friends of mineral town, pioneers of olive town, and a wonderful life and overall hands down my favorite is FOMT! the BEST and I play it for hours and Hours and hours. never gets old. I just cannot get into the others.
Dang, there are chicken fights? Most redneck/gangster things I’ve heard in a video game. I played Harvest Moon 64 and don’t remember that being in there lol
I've been praying for an animal parade and/or tree of tranquility remaster for the switch, those games were my childhood
I really liked the old AWL art style. I remember little old me racing against time to take care of the farm, get all the forageables and talking to people, all in one day. There was no relaxing in my vocabulary 😂😂