Creepy things in Harvest Moon

[serpentine]

Things that you personally find creepy, at least.

For me:

-That permanently locked shed in AWL sitting all alone in the distant corner of your farm.

-That possessed Teddy bear you can buy your kid in AWL, and the way you can see it breathing and moving around on its own.. And how your kid angrily kicks you out of his room when you walk in on him talking to it. All of this inexplicable creepiness is never given any explanation whatsoever.

-That weird wind noise you hear when you get near that lonely path by Vesta's farm in AWL, and how the game refuses to let you go up that path.

-That sasquatch in AWL and DS that wanders around the valley in winter. Just what the heck is that thing? Where did it come from? Why is it there?

-Meryl in MM, an adorable little girl who constantly talks about death. PTSD maybe? Yikes.

-Weird stuff that happens in various games at 4:44 in the morning.

[Robinstar]

My favorite sort of topic, but unfortunately I've already seen or heard just about everything for the creepy parts of these games, so I thirst for something new. Especially in the newer games. They're too soft and happy. Need at least one creepy thing in each game, I mean come on. If anyone can cover something in any game I haven't, I'll love you.
But anyway.

-If you interact with the mirror at midnight in FoMT, something creepy happens, right? Well what creeps me out more is that there is more than one thing that might happen, as well as the fact that it's choosy about whether anything will happen or not. Sometimes your character will just mention that it's midnight or something about fatigue. The creepy things that can happen can be combinations of the door slamming, a shadow in the mirror, your character jumping, and momentarily being unable to move. I've experienced these, but according to the internet, if you do this 34 times, on the 35th time, someone will say, "Better stop... or else." And your character will look behind. But what bothers me is that one night, nothing happened. No scares. But no normal midnight or fatigue message either. I couldn't interact with it. I don't know why, but it bothered me.

-The Harvest Goddess startled me in FoMT. It sounded fake to me that the Goddess would play a game with me if I clicked left while watching tv on the first couple days of spring. It sounded too specific. So I tried it anyway, and since I didn't expect it, I jumped when she appeared on the screen.

-That bear is called Daachan or Daniel (I usually say Daachan) and he's also in DS. I've always thought he was slightly creepy in AWL. I've never seen proof of the scenes where he steals from your fridge, so I tend to tense up when I enter the kitchen at night. If anyone can show me proof that those scenes exist instead of just claiming that you got them, I would appreciate it. All I've been able to trigger were the bedroom scenes.

-I have a hard time deciding on if Meryl is creepy or just depressing. But that rival event for Eve and Dan with Meryl was unsettling.

-The gnome in AP. It's a combination of creepy and amusing cause... just... why is it there? How does it move? Then again, the rubber duck moves around too.

-In RF4. the Obsidian Mansion bothers me not only for the story of what happened there, but because you see that ghost guy in there that you never get any help for. He just stays there and you can't interact. Also that whole writing with the blood thing, "it hurts".

-The sasquatch is called Mukumuku and he appears in A New Beginning as well. I don't find him creepy, but Daryl's obsession with him was kinda.

-The Witch Princess in DS requires 50 animal deaths, or as I say "animal sacrifices" to be married. Why was this allowed???

-Vesta talks about eating a skull fossil if you give her one in AWL...

[Bluie]

Most of what i've experienced has already been mentioned here.

While not creepy, the first time a wild dog appeared on my farm in FoMT, I about had a heart attack. They have a very rough bark and will appear if you leave your animals out at night. If you dog is trained enough, he'll chase them away, if not, he becomes the hunted. It's not fun to watch either way, even if they are just pixels.

[Lon Lon]

When I was younger I got weirded out when you turned blue and the music became distorted at low fatigue in MFoMT (forget if this happened in the boy version).

[white66]

I actually had a topic just like this a couple years back:

http://fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f ... y#p5155977

Other than the things mentioned in that thread and this one... I think the Meat Medley scene from DS is pretty creepy

[Celestrian]

Most of the above mentioned things never fazed me at all.

One thing I always wondered abut was how Gustafa never aged.

[Samansu]

Most of the above mentioned things never fazed me at all.

One thing I always wondered abut was how Gustafa never aged.

Probably all the herb...

[white66]

Stress ages you and Gustafa doesn't have any stress, look at him he doesn't have a care in the world!

To be fair tho he's seriously balding by his, what, mid twenties?

[Samansu]

Stress ages you and Gustafa doesn't have any stress, look at him he doesn't have a care in the world!

To be fair tho he's seriously balding by his, what, mid twenties?

Hey! I'm going seriously gray and I'm only in my late 20's... Don't hate!

[Anna_Lynn]

As a kid, I was always afraid of the unknown...

Spoiler:

-By around 8:00PM in (M)FOMT, the bell would chime, and all the music would just stop. If I was in the mountains, I would be too terrified to run home, feeling like something would pop out from the shadows at me...

-If you fail HM64, everyone in town hates you during the end scene. Oh gosh, little five-year-old me was so scared when I got the bad ending. I was like, "Why does everyone hate me?! Why does my Dad hate me?!"

-Hardy talking about how he heard a girl screaming around the valley in AWL. Pretty creepy.

-Daa Chan the "cute" teddy bear walking around in AWL and DS.

-Somehow, I fished up Kappa in MFOMT. I had yet to meet him, so I was so concerned that I glitched the game or something.

-MFOMT has the feature where your electricity can get cut in your house during a typhoon or snow storm. Yeah...long story short, I quickly powered my GBA off in fear that my game was possessed. I was not the bravest kid back in the day, haha.

-Washing Nina's grave gave me the spooks. I don't know why...

-Wild dogs in MFOMT. Stupid runts prevent me from ever putting my animals outside overnight. But hey, it's good motivation I guess.

-All the static on TV's when it's Friday the 13th.

-New years eve dreams from the Mineral Town/HMDS games.

-Ellen dieing in HM64 (hopefully that's not a spoiler alert, the game's been out for nearly 20 years)

-Cliff being beat up by Ann in HM64

-The scene in MFOMT where you can faint while Cliff's in the hospital, thus watching Doctor carelessly shove him over, and Elli drag him away.

-The distorted music that plays in the MFOMT/HMDS games when you get high fatigue.

-Anyone remember the "Sad Grant" record in HMDS? Not only did it not play any music in the boy version (a glitch, I suspect), it had a typo; "Sad Graat". I was so creeped out when I heard the song on YouTube for the first time. It totally brought out the creepy vibe of AWL, and I definately reccomend listening to it sometime if you haven't heard it before. I imagine it being the song that plays as a serial killer walks down the Valley's mountain. Did they even play the song ever in AWL...? I can't recall if I ever heard it play, but I guess it symbolized Grant's drive into depression with his family or something.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1oSZ533YI

Putting that all in a spoiler since I wrote a lot.

[Guest]

Serpentine your avatar is beautiful! what is that girl from?

[Shan O 123]

Spoiler:

Eda's death and nobody cares afterwards.

The empty village at night in your first few days in ANB.
Mr. Dunhill in general.
The sound of rain in 3oT. Especially at night.
TLV's valley at night.
The fact of you can literally push people in SoM.

[meepfulbread.stay]

Hi! Here are a few things that I experienced and found slightly "creepy" from Harvest Moon MFOMT/FOMT (GBA):

• The distorted music that starts playing when you run low on stamina/high on fatigue.

Spoiler:

It's ever so slightly unsettling to me, I'm not sure why. As someone who frequently plays horror games/watches horror gameplay videos or scary movies, it takes a LOT to scare me. But the first time I heard the happy background music get all mixed up made me feel a sense of dread.

• The ghost story that the character Carter supposedly experienced (Canon).

Spoiler:

To this day, I still wonder if the character actually experienced that or if he was just meant to be telling a story. His character did NOT seem the type to try to scare you, especially with being a priest and all. It definitely caught me off guard.

• The birthing scenes and dialogue during them were a bit unnerving, however I still appreciate that Natsume included them.

Spoiler:

It's good that they decided not to hide it. It definitely would feel weird seeing someone like Mary have a child, but let's be real, the irl equivalent of Mary is going to become a mom someday, regardless of how innocent and youthful you may be. Some could argue that it's a bit "extreme" or "graphic" to be in a children's game, but what I have to say in my defence is:
A, do you know what kids are watching on television today!?
B, at the end of the day, childbirth is a part of life.
C, perhaps in Japan they're more open about this stuff(?), because remember that if anything seems alien to you in these video games it's because they're originally Japanese. I'm not Japanese so I wouldn't know for sure, it's just a guess.
D, they didn't really show anything, just some dialogue and "Push!" . I guarantee you that a ten-year-old who has never been exposed to the terrors of the "how are babies made?" conversation would NOT know what the heck was happening during that scene, they'd just be happy to get a pixel of a younger sibling out of it.

• The TV screen when you check the TV at exactly 4:44pm.

Spoiler:

Basically, to summarize this 'event' in case you haven't seen it, if you enter your house at exactly 4:44pm (not 4:44am since the TV is out of order after midnight) and check your television, the dialogue will repeat "4:44pm" in Japanese if I remember correctly with some random Japanese Kanji(?) letters thrown in here and there. In the first game (FOMT) the game will freeze, so you'll have to reboot your GBA/emulator and return to wherever you last saved. In the girl version I believe you can just hit the B button like normal. Still creepy though.
For context, 4 is a very, VERY unlucky number in Japan. It is associated with death, and since Japan can be quite a superstitious country at times, one may go as far as not letting four people sit at a table! (I heard this from a friend). I also recall that the Japanese word for death has "Shi" in it, and the number four is pronounced as "Shi".

• Whenever your animals on your farm pass on.

Spoiler:

So... Do I really need to explain why this is sad? It's especially heart-breaking if you're attached to that animal (Even if they are all just globs of pixels on the screen). Imagine you named your animal after your stuffed animal/pet, had her for years and maxed out her to ten. You wake up one morning to find yourself at the graveyard by the church, mourning the death of your first sheep, Lamby. And it's a bit worse when Barley and/or Rick scold you for their death(s) (this will happen if you let them get sick and don't treat them. Then they succumb to the illness). You just feel guilty.

I have a few more, but I wrote quite a bit so I'm too tired to write it all now.
p.s.,
Surely I can't be the only one who feels that in general FOMT/MFOMT got sort of depressing(?) after year 5 or so? It feels like a cycle of meaningless days - since you already got married and 'beat the game'.
Time sort of freezes. The same dialogue from the brain-dead NPC townsfolk, the same routine, same crops, same everything. This is not a complaint, just an opinion. Not to mention that no characters other than the farm animals ever die throughout the entire game, not even Ellen. Rod, Lillia's husband never returns, Zack never confesses to Lillia, your spouse's ex-crush (aka your rival) never gets married... It's just an endless loop. It makes me think about life and how it doesn't really matter. Tomorrow is the same as today. It's just another day.
I love it but it's sort of saddening.

I'm twelve years old and have been playing this game since I was nine!^^ I got to year 4 in the boy version when I was 9, and I married Karen. Then I lost my progress, quit for a year and a half and started to repaly Harvest Moon GBA sometime during early-mid 2024 with the girl version. I vaguely remember marrying Doctor once a while ago, but I'm not sure, so I'm trying with him again.

This took me so, so long to write and edit

meep meep!

[stay._.forever143]

Hi! Here are a few things that I experienced and found slightly "creepy" from Harvest Moon MFOMT/FOMT (GBA):

• The distorted music that starts playing when you run low on stamina/high on fatigue.

Spoiler:

It's ever so slightly unsettling to me, I'm not sure why. As someone who frequently plays horror games/watches horror gameplay videos or scary movies, it takes a LOT to scare me. But the first time I heard the happy background music get all mixed up made me feel a sense of dread.

• The ghost story that the character Carter supposedly experienced (Canon).

Spoiler:

To this day, I still wonder if the character actually experienced that or if he was just meant to be telling a story. His character did NOT seem the type to try to scare you, especially with being a priest and all. It definitely caught me off guard.

• The birthing scenes and dialogue during them were a bit unnerving, however I still appreciate that Natsume included them.

Spoiler:

It's good that they decided not to hide it. It definitely would feel weird seeing someone like Mary have a child, but let's be real, the irl equivalent of Mary is going to become a mom someday, regardless of how innocent and youthful you may be. Some could argue that it's a bit "extreme" or "graphic" to be in a children's game, but what I have to say in my defence is:
A, do you know what kids are watching on television today!?
B, at the end of the day, childbirth is a part of life.
C, perhaps in Japan they're more open about this stuff(?), because remember that if anything seems alien to you in these video games it's because they're originally Japanese. I'm not Japanese so I wouldn't know for sure, it's just a guess.
D, they didn't really show anything, just some dialogue and "Push!" . I guarantee you that a ten-year-old who has never been exposed to the terrors of the "how are babies made?" conversation would NOT know what the heck was happening during that scene, they'd just be happy to get a pixel of a younger sibling out of it.

• The TV screen when you check the TV at exactly 4:44pm.

Spoiler:

Basically, to summarize this 'event' in case you haven't seen it, if you enter your house at exactly 4:44pm (not 4:44am since the TV is out of order after midnight) and check your television, the dialogue will repeat "4:44pm" in Japanese if I remember correctly with some random Japanese Kanji(?) letters thrown in here and there. In the first game (FOMT) the game will freeze, so you'll have to reboot your GBA/emulator and return to wherever you last saved. In the girl version I believe you can just hit the B button like normal. Still creepy though.
For context, 4 is a very, VERY unlucky number in Japan. It is associated with death, and since Japan can be quite a superstitious country at times, one may go as far as not letting four people sit at a table! (I heard this from a friend). I also recall that the Japanese word for death has "Shi" in it, and the number four is pronounced as "Shi".

• Whenever your animals on your farm pass on.

Spoiler:

So... Do I really need to explain why this is sad? It's especially heart-breaking if you're attached to that animal (Even if they are all just globs of pixels on the screen). Imagine you named your animal after your stuffed animal/pet, had her for years and maxed out her to ten. You wake up one morning to find yourself at the graveyard by the church, mourning the death of your first sheep, Lamby. And it's a bit worse when Barley and/or Rick scold you for their death(s) (this will happen if you let them get sick and don't treat them. Then they succumb to the illness). You just feel guilty.

I have a few more, but I wrote quite a bit so I'm too tired to write it all now.
p.s.,
Surely I can't be the only one who feels that in general FOMT/MFOMT got sort of depressing(?) after year 5 or so? It feels like a cycle of meaningless days - since you already got married and 'beat the game'.
Time sort of freezes. The same dialogue from the brain-dead NPC townsfolk, the same routine, same crops, same everything. This is not a complaint, just an opinion. Not to mention that no characters other than the farm animals ever die throughout the entire game, not even Ellen. Rod, Lillia's husband never returns, Zack never confesses to Lillia, your spouse's ex-crush (aka your rival) never gets married... It's just an endless loop. It makes me think about life and how it doesn't really matter. Tomorrow is the same as today. It's just another day.
I love it but it's sort of saddening.

I'm twelve years old and have been playing this game since I was nine!^^ I got to year 4 in the boy version when I was 9, and I married Karen. Then I lost my progress, quit for a year and a half and started to repaly Harvest Moon GBA sometime during early-mid 2024 with the girl version. I vaguely remember marrying Doctor once a while ago, but I'm not sure, so I'm trying with him again.

This took me so, so long to write and edit

meep meep!