Next Harvest Moon game?!

Icewings · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 4:57 am

Harvest moon: songs of magical heart melodies and tranquility of happiness IN AMERICA

Fretka · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 7:32 am

I was disappointed of Grand Bazaar and Twin Villages. I hope that this time we will get a game with some nice plot, characters and details.

When I say about details I think about small aspects which make a game more interesting. The RF3 already has a bunch of them:
- sleeping characters
- finding food on the ground
- shaving wild woolies
etc.

The similar nice details should be put to the HM3DS.

I'm wondering why Marvelous still hasn't said anything about this game....

Bellerrzz · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 7:36 am

Kameko Suigami wrote:You know what would be kind of awesome? An HM game where you have a night job as a ninja-pirate-cowboy. It could be called Harvest Moon: Badass Edition.

You could defeat the evil-pirate-robot-nazis-who-are-also-zombies with you ninja skills.
I would buy it.

Personally, in the next harvest moon game (if they ever release one), I would want more options to customize your character, like the options of hair color and hair style would be nice. But there would still be a default character if you're too lazy to create your own

//edit post again...//
A harvest moon game for the computer would be awesome.

SilverFire · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 9:24 am

Kameko Suigami wrote:You know what would be kind of awesome? An HM game where you have a night job as a ninja-pirate-cowboy. It could be called Harvest Moon: Badass Edition.

yeah and there could be a mass murder as a special marriage candidate (either gender). an you could help in said murderings.

and you could kill the mayor and make everyone your slaves that way you would never have to do anything ever again.

what? i have a weird sense of humor.

Kam · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 10:22 am

silverfire45 wrote:
Kameko Suigami wrote:You know what would be kind of awesome? An HM game where you have a night job as a ninja-pirate-cowboy. It could be called Harvest Moon: Badass Edition.
yeah and there could be a mass murder as a special marriage candidate (either gender). an you could help in said murderings.

and you could kill the mayor and make everyone your slaves that way you would never have to do anything ever again.

A moral choice system in a Harvest Moon game, perhaps? Beyond the "do I be nice and pick the obvious RIGHT answer, or should I be mean and pick the obvious WRONG answer?" they already have for the Heart Events. I hope not. The moral choice thingy either needs to die or get more realistic

In all seriousness, that's something I'd liked to see worked on in HM games: The choices you make during Heart Events. I'd like it if they made them a little more complicated, so there's rarely a clear right or wrong answer- and maybe at times you'd even have to GIVE the wrong answer or you can't marry that person.

Fretka · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 10:31 am

Kameko Suigami wrote: and maybe at times you'd even have to GIVE the wrong answer or you can't marry that person.

Do you know how many kids would have to start the game over again then? XD

Heart Events should be at least more serious than random chit chat. I was totally disappointed of the events from IoH/SI. They weren't romantic at all. Nothing was special about them. But I enjoyed the events from DS/Cute, because they were showing the growing bond between you and bachelor/ette.

Kam · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 10:49 am

Fretka wrote:
Kameko Suigami wrote: and maybe at times you'd even have to GIVE the wrong answer or you can't marry that person.
Do you know how many kids would have to start the game over again then? XD

Sucks to be them. I've often felt that they should release a HM game specifically for the people who have been playing the series since the beginning. Y'know, the ones that are mostly adults now. A lot of other series' have done it (mostly cartoons and the like, but whatever); it's time for MMV to jump on that bandwagon as well.

Fretka wrote:Heart Events should be at least more serious than random chit chat. I was totally disappointed of the events from IoH/SI. They weren't romantic at all. Nothing was special about them. But I enjoyed the events from DS/Cute, because they were showing the growing bond between you and bachelor/ette.

Agreed. I don't necessarily dislike the random chit-chat- most relationships in real life grow based on those sorts of day-to-day interactions- but if they're going to do them like that, there should be more of them, perhaps interspersed by more romantic events.

In any case, they need to make a bachelor/ette who's a nerd. And not a nerd the way that Rick and Elliot are supposedly nerds because they wear glasses; a genuine nerd: Someone with limited social skills and a singular obsession that drives their very existence. Carter and Trent come pretty close, but they're not really awkward enough to qualify. I still maintain that my ideal bachelor would be a guy who, if you catch him while he's reading, you'll have to talk to two or three times before he realizes you're there.

Tori-chan · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 12:17 pm

I think the next HM's should be, like some others already mentioned, more mature. I mean, I have nothing against the newer ones (okay, GrB sucked... and I don't unterstand TV yet.), and I haven't played the really old ones like 64 or AWL (but I'm planning to do), so I can't say much about them, but I started with MFoMT and even if I played it just once right, I loved it. The characters were alright as far as I remember, there were some background storys and... almost everything around the cast felt right. DS/C was a bit like that, too. But starting with IoH/SI, it just fell off. Okay, I love the games, but it's just so annoying that really everyone is happy-go-lucky there, and if not, they soon will become. ToT/AP is almost the same; yeah, we have Mira, who lost her husband, and Chase, who has no parents, but the game doesn't really say much about them. It's like: "Let's forget about the bad things and be happy~" But that annoys me a lot.
I mean, I really think that Marvelous is trying to make HM more appealing for children, while RF is meant to be for the older players... but I see the games as different... games, and I really like to have a HM where everythings allright. ö_ö

Fretka · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 12:46 pm

The last games were totally for children. The Twin Villages is like Grand Bazaar, only with some new aspects (requests, two villages, mini cut-scenes aka dates). I'm a big fan of the Rune Factory series but I would like Marvelous to make more serious Harvest Moon too. Actually the HM is going down. I haven't played ToT/AP so I can't tell too much about them, but: IoH, SI, MLS, GrB, TV - they all are bubbly and made for 6-12 years old children, who have no idea what husband and wife may do when they are together. I would be very glad if at least one new HM game was as serious as Rune Factory.

Kam · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 12:55 pm

I say we petition MMV for one. We could say something like "Hey. Hi. Most of your fans are grown-ups now so... Yeah. Use that information." Only, y'know. In Japanese.

Googaboga · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 12:58 pm

You really shouldn't compare Harvest Moon with Rune Factory. If you except them to have the same details you're just going to be disappointed. And you can't blame Harvest Moon for not having the same qualities as a different video game series.

Anyways what about Louis? He was awkward and had terrible social skills. In MM he was flat but I thought he was cute in StH and HoLV. I think he counts as a "nerd" marriage candidate I guess

.

I like both the happy HMs and the older ones. So I don't mind the new games at all. I still like them (GrB did get boring pretty quick though). But the problem is now all they're making is happy games. It was good before when they were making games like AWL and then tossed in MM for people who liked cutesy games. Now all of there games have the same mood. And that mood is inhumanly-happy-even-though-things-are-apparently-going-wrong-since-there-is-some-kind-of-problem-you-have-to-fix mood.

Kam · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 1:05 pm

Oh, yeah. I forgot about Louis. I never really play MM, so...

I don't really mind the more cheerfully tone, either, but it's a little odd when they start off seeming worried about whatever's going wrong, then turn right back around and act like everything is hunky dory, like they do in ToT and AP. In SI, they were more like "you want to collect Sun Stones and raise islands, huh? Well, have fun with that," which makes a little bit more sense, since there's no real problem with the islands being sunk

Spoiler:

In any case, that's just one of those things that doesn't really bother me while I'm playing it, but when I think about it later, it's like "Wait, what?"

Fretka · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 1:08 pm

I'm wondering what would happen if they made at least one game as serious as Innocent Life. I'm not thinking about plot. I'm saying about the problems the characters have, their life, past etc. Innocent Life was full of interesting, mysterious and sometimes sad moments and characters.

Kam · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 1:10 pm

If you can't get married in it, the overwhelming opinion will be "THIS GAME SUUUUUUUKS!!!!111"

Googaboga · Post Posted: Jan 25, 2011 1:29 pm

Well, that reason is why the games are the way the are. A large portion of the opinions is for games like this. I mean it's not like the Harvest Moon games have starting to become drastically less popular. Then they would have to make changes. Since things seem to be selling fine they're just staying the course.

I like more simple Harvest Moon games (Which is why SI is definitely not my favorite). It's like they lost the ability to make just running a farm fun, so now they have to add all this other stuff.

But who knows there isn't any info on HM: 3DS. Maybe it will be good

. I'm planning on getting it

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