Grand Bazaar or Sunshine Islands?

rainydaze · Post Posted: Apr 28, 2011 2:02 pm

i don't think most ppl are hating on gb, it is just so simple compared to si. gb is pretty relaxing (good if what ur on the train ride for is stressful) while si is like my crops

o mi gosh my crops

!!!

Peach_Tea · Post Posted: Apr 28, 2011 3:37 pm

I'm really rather surprised at how much love SI is getting, especially since this is the GB board

. I did not like SI, far too complicated and frustrating for my taste. I absolutely hated the sun/water system. You have no control on the weather, you can't refresh the day to change it if you don't like it, like you could in older games. Well you can, if you're willing to refresh two days prior, ugh. So if it rained one day your crops could be dead, very frustrating. I don't enjoy games that frustrate me, I prefer to relax. I know a lot of people complained to Natsume about the crop system (and other stuff) being far too complicated and frustrating and so as a result of those complaints Natsume made GB much less complicated.

So I agree with Basketshooter and Taniyama Mai, my vote also goes to GB. Especially if you're mainly going to be playing the game on a train without access to the internet, which you will need to help you through SI. Unless you're willing to buy the strategy guide (amazon has them) along with the game. But I had the guidebook and still got frustrated with the game and needed the internet for additional help.

But as Taniyama Mai said, it depends on the type of player you are and what you really want out of the game. If you're traveling to/from work/school and need something to de-stress then I'd recommend GB. If you're traveling to/from something boring and need to wake up your brain after listening to a bunch of dull speeches or something then I'd recommend SI.

What are some of your favorite HM games that you've already played and what did you enjoy about them? That could help in figuring out which game you would actually enjoy more. Clearly different people enjoy different games, so depending on what you've liked in the past could help decide which game you'd enjoy next.

pshycho · Post Posted: Apr 28, 2011 6:42 pm

i dont know if you've decided yet, but i prefer SI alot more. Alot of ppl need to keep track of their sun/water system for their crops, but i honestly never needed to. None of my crops died unless i kept them on the vine for too long. The only time i ever needed to go onto the UnoT website for was to find out when heart events were and how to activate them. infact, thats how i found out about UnoT. So alot of people say its complicated and fustrating, which it may be, but i didn't find it that much of a challenge.

GrB got boring to me after, like, a week :/
maybe two

Taniyama Mai · Post Posted: Apr 29, 2011 8:24 am

pshycho wrote:i dont know if you've decided yet, but i prefer SI alot more. Alot of ppl need to keep track of their sun/water system for their crops, but i honestly never needed to. None of my crops died unless i kept them on the vine for too long. The only time i ever needed to go onto the UnoT website for was to find out when heart events were and how to activate them. infact, thats how i found out about UnoT. So alot of people say its complicated and fustrating, which it may be, but i didn't find it that much of a challenge.

GrB got boring to me after, like, a week :/
maybe two

Well yea, if you find SI to be so easy, then of coarse you'll find GB boring. :/

rainydaze · Post Posted: Apr 29, 2011 10:33 am

I am extremely curious now as to which one is going to be purchased... I never really had thought of all of these pros and cons of hm until now, because usually i just buy it anyway to experience all of the different characters and to expand my harvest moon collection

harvestmoongirl333 · Post Posted: Apr 29, 2011 4:54 pm

I really didn't care for either IoH or SI. Both were too... fast. And the whole double health bars got annoying.

pshycho · Post Posted: Apr 29, 2011 6:20 pm

Taniyama Mai wrote:
pshycho wrote:i dont know if you've decided yet, but i prefer SI alot more. Alot of ppl need to keep track of their sun/water system for their crops, but i honestly never needed to. None of my crops died unless i kept them on the vine for too long. The only time i ever needed to go onto the UnoT website for was to find out when heart events were and how to activate them. infact, thats how i found out about UnoT. So alot of people say its complicated and fustrating, which it may be, but i didn't find it that much of a challenge.

GrB got boring to me after, like, a week :/
maybe two
Well yea, if you find SI to be so easy, then of coarse you'll find GB boring. :/

well i didnt find it really easy..it was still difficult. i just didnt really make it into a project. im too lazy to .-.

MysticForest · Post Posted: Apr 30, 2011 1:16 am

Sunshine Islands. Will for the win!

harvesting_sprite · Post Posted: Apr 30, 2011 9:40 am

Wow, glad I read this thread before posting whether or not I should get this game

I've been playing IoH which I've hated (you may refer to my rant about it in the section for IoH titled IoH versus SI) although I never looked at it from a challenge perspective, maybe I've been too keen on just getting married :S
I wonder now if I should invest in both SI and GB because I do love the character artwork for GB ^_^

Taniyama Mai · Post Posted: Apr 30, 2011 9:39 pm

pshycho wrote:
Taniyama Mai wrote:
pshycho wrote:i dont know if you've decided yet, but i prefer SI alot more. Alot of ppl need to keep track of their sun/water system for their crops, but i honestly never needed to. None of my crops died unless i kept them on the vine for too long. The only time i ever needed to go onto the UnoT website for was to find out when heart events were and how to activate them. infact, thats how i found out about UnoT. So alot of people say its complicated and fustrating, which it may be, but i didn't find it that much of a challenge.

GrB got boring to me after, like, a week :/
maybe two
Well yea, if you find SI to be so easy, then of coarse you'll find GB boring. :/

well i didnt find it really easy..it was still difficult. i just didnt really make it into a project. im too lazy to .-.

Me ether. My goal was to get married(in every HM game, that's really all I go for, unless I have no choice), and I couldn't even do that in ether. The dual health bars, crop mechanics and the like made it too complicated. It lost its fun so I just stopped playing. I even tried to not use crops and just fish, raise animals, and forage but it just got so bad that couldn't do it. Same with TOT and AM>.>

Lackofclover · Post Posted: May 02, 2011 7:22 am

I was actually going to ask this same question for similar reasons. I've been playing my 3DS during my breaks at works (which between lunch time and a two breaks adds up to just under an hour of time I get to burn for myself) and kind of want some more laid back than Samurai Warriors, which I've now beaten.

I disliked IoH, least favorite of the series, so I never intended to get Sunshine Islands. I didn't care for the cast and spent all my time fishing since it was so much more reliable for money, and it made marrying that one fisherman guy a breeze. I had really rotten luck with farming crops.

I also thought the village was big and empty. Not because their weren't people, everything was just too spread out and the graphics were kind of bland aside from the characters themselves.

It looks like I'll be getting Grand Bizarre, even if only for the new cast and a manageable crop system.

Slytherin · Post Posted: May 02, 2011 2:05 pm

Sunshine Islands! It has both quantity and quality.