Reviewing Harvest Moon (SNES) in 2022. Is the First Farming Game Still Worth Playing?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Hi! In this video, I look back at Harvest Moon, released in 1996. Is the original farming game still holding up to its modern counterparts?
00:00 Intro
00:53 History of Harvest Moon
04:33 My history with Harvest Moon
05:28 Farming Mechanics
11:26 Other Activities
13:00 Festivals and Characters
14:33 Endings
15:33 Graphics & Music
19:00 Conclusion
All endings:
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As I said I'll be re-playing all games from this one all the way up to Animal Parade! Which review are you the most excited for?
Magical Melody is very fun! Trio of Towns is after Animal Parade,but is the best of the HM/SOS series to me!
Magical Melody is one of my favorites! I'll probably play the handheld games (including Trio of Towns) sometime next year.
I can’t wait for your magical melody video. I hope you stream it. I hold that game very close because they brought my favorite bachelorettes (Gwen and Eve) and flushed their characters out a little more and aloud you to marry them ( all the ones from save the homeland)
I'm looking forward to it!
Yes I will stream it!
I wish nintendo would put all the old harvest moon games on the switch, i would really love to play all of them!
Yes, I'd love an easy way to play all of these games on the Switch! 😭
I'd like to play SN version again. It was so cute on the switch. Of course Animal Parade is the second best.
They did put a lot of the old ones on 3DS. Guess they thought that was good enough? Would be nice though if they were all redone for Switch.
@@JoshGamingGarden That would be amazing! I've also missed on all the DS/3DS titles of HM and Rune Factory because i'm visually impaired and I never owned one because I can't see small screens very well. I can play the switch in portable fine, but probably would have never have bought that either if not for the docking? I'd just love to be able to play all the stuff I missed out on.
As much as I want to, though, I also have decided to not go down the path of emulation. That feels a bit morally sticky for me, and I think it's in a legal gray area at best.
Harvest Moon for the Snes has been released for Nintendo Switch online today, hope you get a nice gameplay everybody.
I played this on an SNES emulator as a teenager and I loved it. I fell in love with the genre. I played this so many times back then.
One thing I learned pretty fast is that time stops once it becomes night. You will never stay awake though the entire night.
So all farming work that is not selling stuff can be done during the night without penalties, like cleaning the farm,, planting and watering crops and gathering wood. If you run out of stamina, just go to the hot springs.
Save the day time for harvesting, gathering items to sell, fishing, shopping and talking to people.
This is the very first game I've ever completed. This series means so much to me
Same!
This is wonderful! I love learning about the history of the making of these games. Thank you for including it!
This game has such an interesting history! 😄 It's probably more well-documented than later games, but I'll try to include as much as I can for this series.
This was my first Harvest Moon game and kind of still my favorite. Sure the newer ones have much more content, but I kind of like the simplicity of this game. That's why I find it easy to come back to and replay it once in a while again.
Same. When i was a kid this game felt so big
I SOOOO look forward to this series!!! Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons is one of my favorite game series of all time. I recently tried to replay the first HM on SNES, but had a hard time getting into it. Back to Nature and 64 on the other hand!!! I played thos recently and lost myself in them immediately!
BtN and 64 are definitely a lot easier to go back to! I can't wait to play them again in the next months!
This brought me back when I first played this 20 years ago. It is amazing to see where farming life sims have come. Harvest Moon was revolutionary. There's a nostalgia dopamine hit I get from watching this gameplay again. I long for the days when video games made me feel the same way.
Oh my GOD! This is nostalgia, I was a kid back then. Now I have to play it again!
So glad I found your channel. My favorite games are the original harvest moon series, then story of seasons, and rune factory.
I’m super excited for this series! The first video was awesome. The SNES harvest moon will always be in my top 5 because of nostalgia. The sprite work and over all look of the game is so pleasing to me and along with the music just makes it’s worth playing (in my opinion). I can’t wait for the next video!
OMG great idea for a series! It was such a unique concept. Can't wait for more. I also like the vintage graphics
Near the end of the SNES era, I used to see tons of this game sitting on the Target game shelf for months. I regret not buying a copy now. Easily a top 5 SNES game for me.
I played this game around 2017 and I enjoyed it. I liked how simple is was no saving the harvest goddess story just a game where you take care of your farm.The music is also very good in this game.
Really interesting to see the gameplay of old. I've of course known of the game but never sat down and played it or watched a comprehensive review of it. You painted a good picture of it! I feel like I got a good grasp of it. It's amazing how much of it still remains the core of farming games today.
I bought a copy of the SNES game around 1999/2000 and since then I really love the series! Great video! I‘m excited for more content
11:23 the horse decided you weren't allowed to sell that one potato!
I just recently discovered this game. As a kid who grew up with a SNES, has heard of the game, and never played it. I absolutely loved it and this was a great analysis/review of the game. Looking forward to discovering the rest of the main series console games along with this series.
My first was one on the Gameboy. It's interesting to see some of the similarities they maintained up until then. The winter season looked and sounded very similar to my first experiences with that game.
Can't wait to see the rest of this series. Especially for the games I did not get to play yet.
I knew this game's history already, but I'm so happy you included this story in your video🥺
I also watched other interviews (ex. one with the Harvest Moon creator together with the Stardew Valley creator) and it was so wholesome and inspirational... I was at the verge of tearing up😹💗
More people nowadays should be made aware of how it all started.
Also, your conclusion was on point 😌👌
Oh, I remember watching that interview as well, that was a while ago! I should rewatch it.
The more history people know, the better!
I’m exited to hear you talk about Hero of leaf valley mostly because it had such a limited release being on the psp in America. So many harvest moon players just never got to play this remake. Which had one of the better stories upgraded with the new characters. I still have my psp and it’s so pretty on the console.
The Harvest Moon series are my absolute favorite games! My first game was Save the Homeland for PS2, and it was just randomly given to me by an older cousin (I still have it 20 years later). I've been obsessed since! I not only still play these today but make an effort to just collect physical copies of all of them (even if I dont have the system to play them on 😅)
I'm so excited for your videos!
Your cousin has great taste! 😍I also started collecting physical copies, I want to have a complete collection of Harvest Moon + Rune Factory! I recently bought the Japanese version for this one on the Super Famicom (the JP versions are always so much cheaper), even though I have nothing to play it on. 😆
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Oh I definitely consider Rune Factory as a part of the Harvest Moon genre and collect those too!
My goodness this Video brings back memories. I LOVED! this game and played it for hours! Pretty sure i still have it somewhere, time to rummage aeound in my storage 😂
I remember playing similar Harvest Moon game on gameboy it is currently available on eshop in 3Ds. There was something about of game which made me interested in farming sim could do with charm and simplicity growing crops and raising animals. Most of games I've played on SNES were Super Mario platformers or racing. I didn't have much game in past and never had N64 or Game cube. I didn't like controls on the Wii. Only after when I brought 2Dsxl and Switch did I get more in farming sim genre. Like I said before I usually play JRPGs, action, strategy. I'm excited to see your reviews on other HM games.
Yes, I have not played the Gameboy games yet but they look quite similar to this one. I can't wait to get to them (probably next year).
The 1st one was the Blueprint for ALL Farming games to me. Challenging and Fun.
I definitely look forward to you playing all these games. I have a special place for the N64 game and Playstation version in my heart but Trio of Towns took #1.
I can't wait to play Trio of Towns! I'll probably go through the handheld games sometime next year. 😄
I'm also a lifelong fan of this series but I started with the GameBoy version of this game. A simple and cut down version, but the basics were there and planted the seeds to get me to fall in love with the genre. At some point when I was a teenager, I decided to play this version and really loved it. Hours and hours sitting down and playing the game, I felt like a little kid again! It's been years since then though and now I look at those memories with the same fondness as my memories of the experience playing the GameBoy version, maybe it's time to revisit it.
OMG this is my first HM game 🥺❤ too bad it has 2 1/2 years only butbI played it a lot of times and married different cabsidates each time
Back to Nature was my first one, and I played it a lot. This one though I have played a handful of times more recently. I never had any Nintendo systems growing up until the GBA came out.
Even if the studio had a couple issues that made the game not have all the features they wanted to add, is still quite impressive how much content it had in a time where memory cards where very límites at the time. It also created a new genre of simulation games which are still played and become popular a couple of years ago.
I would also recomend the Did You Know Gaming video about Harvest Moon to know a bit more how the series started.
8:50 It seems guides tend to recomend Winter to socialise more with the townfolks since there is no much to do. So you could use that time to buy gifts and flirt with the bachelorettes.
I still have my old Harvest Moon game. 😀 I should see if it still works one of these days.
Hi. Wilk you be reviewing Harvest Moon GBC3?
my favorite game when I was a kid!
Best game and it's so relaxing😊😍
This was pretty nostalgic memories
My first HM game was Magical Melody. I was about 15, and had just gotten a GameCube. I rented Magical Melody from Blockbuster and fell in love! I had to have it, and I still do! I stupidly sold my GameCube because my Wii can play its games, so I can still play MM now, but there's definitely something to be said for the original experience
Magical Melody is one of my favorites! I also sold my GameCube (and that game 😭) in order to buy new games. But I bought everything back last year!
@@JoshGamingGarden "That's great you've got everything back! That game was so fun and cute! I also kind of loved pressing the Z button to highlight all the land parcels in different colors! I'm partially blind so, especially after dark, it can kind of be hard to see, even in a top-down sort of space. I can get lost a bit easily, especially early game. Those highlighted land bits definitely helped!
I saw younger people talking about Harvest Moon as "a game that copied Stardew Valley, but is fine on it's own I guess" and I lost my marbles.
The link to the ending is somehow missing the the ) at the end, its not being counted as part of the link.
Thanks for letting me know! It seems CZcams is messing up the link for some reason, I fixed it with a shortened URL.
my first farming game is Harvest Moon DS MT
This year I finally finished More Friends of Mineral Town and Another Wonderful Life after playing it casually since I was a kid when the games were new. I had beaten the original on emulator when I was 10 years old in 2001. Next I'll play 64, and then I'll be done with the series. I'm a bigger fan of the Kawa no Nushi Tsuri series.
I do love that they made the marriage candidates from this game into the grandmothers of the traditional girls
I hope licensing issues get dealt with so we can get it on Switch Online. Japan already has it.
Cool video
Thank you!
Josh are you free at the moment? As a fellow Bokujou Monogatari fan I'd love to show you something me and my buddy ErickADub did for the series
3 months after ur review they added HM SNES to NSO! guess it came tru
makes me sad that you're skipping the handheld games for this series because harvest moon: a new beginning is my favorite game in the series and i never hear anybody talk about the game, despite how good it is. that being said ill still enjoy watching the videos :D
Playing story of seasons and I would want an ending on that to. There is nothing left to do after like 2 years in it. Harvest moon SNES is stil the best harvest moon in the series
New Nintendo Switch Online announcement brought me here.
This pixel art style really held up.
gameboy advance Harvestmoon friends of mineral town was second harvestmoon game. Playstation harvestmoon mineral town was my first harvestmoon where you can play as a girl too and my sister and me both play turn by turn so that we don't tired ourselves . we fight on whom we married was funny i want Ann and my sister was all in with Elli the nurse. Oh the memory just flooding back in. ofcousr Ann won.
The minimalist gameplay in comparison to the other games is its greates strength besides the atmosphere.
I also love the music.
@@blubblurb Yes
what are the things that they had to cancel?
Now I want to get it. Still have a Wii u
You should! There is also Harvest Moon 64 available on there, if you don't have it already, I think it's a better option!
I know you said that you're skipping the handheld versions, but I think it's important that you at least review friends of Mineral town, as it is so important to the series I think being one of the best
I will review the handheld games eventually, but I'm starting with the consoles one! I'll also talk a bit about Friends of Mineral Town in my review of Back to Nature :)
@@JoshGamingGarden very nice! Thanks for the reply! Very good reviews so far!
Wish they would remake all the first harvest moons games to switch...the real games.
HM64 and Animal Parade are the BEST!
Wait it’s not called Harvest Moon anymore in the west but Story of Seasons? Yikes that’s a bad name in comparison, and no wonder I never hear anything about it anymore.
Still the first HM game on Snes is the only one I played as a kid and beat because I loved it. It was the art style mostly that hooked me so when they changed it up for the N64 I wasn’t really interested, also Stardew valley just looks goofy to me so I never got really into it like I did the OG HM.
It is very hard to go back to now after modern games because of how tedious some tasks are and how much running around there is, and pre planning that can screw you over later if you don’t do well.
Oh my god watching this video is reminding me of all that time I spent as a kid running back and forth, it’s just so much time wasted because they didn’t have enough time to program the game better and give you an inventory.
If only we had Stardew valley but with harvest moons Snes art style, it would be a perfect game in my eyes.
Cutest game ever!
The problem of playing this game is the English translation, as it is not very good. (For example, there is a "seed of a tree that grows money" which is in reality a bell tree for the cows😅) I spent quite time translating this game into my language and there are a lot of wrong things in English 😖
Josh, I think you should start making actual farming videos, with real animals and crops.
Haha, I would love this! Maybe one day I could visit a farm or something😆
Hello sir how are you i hope you're good.
Hi Nik! I'm doing great, hope you are as well! 😄
@@JoshGamingGarden Hello sir thank you very much for asking and i'm doing great too and i want to say that keep up the good work😄
Thank you!
@@JoshGamingGarden You're welcome sir.
Harvest moon snes is as orange as fallout 3 is green
It's funny that SNES is still a good and playable game, while it's 2022... And then we have new "Harvest Moon" like Light of Hope, which is a total crappy and I got bored after 2h of gameplay.
no wonder stardew valley is an improvement!🐄🐷🐑🐇🐣🌻🥞🥖🍕☕🫖🎂🍪
Oooh, this is so great! The first Harvest Moon game I played was Harvest Moon DS and I had no damn clue what was going on...I might've still been a bit too young 😂 The Wii games finally got me into the series though (Animal Parade will forever have a special place in my heart 💜), so I'm very curious and excited to see what Harvest Moon/SoS was like before those games!