recomend me a DS harvest moon. Options

[hylianknightmare]

I like animal parade, so so with tree of tranquility, currently playing through magical melody and loving that, and have started a file with back to nature, though MM is keeping my time spent right now, but I do like what I've seen. also, innocent life is right up there with my favorites.

as for ones I DON'T like:

original HM (reason being, it ends, and the time goes TOO fast.)
all wonderful life games (farming feels off, and seriously, killing seeds you walk on? not 4 me.)
HM64 (the "endless" mode doesn't let you farm! what's the point?!)
rune factory (rather not go there. it's just not my taste. don't bother mentioning them.)
save the homeland (new game+ is only ok if it's optional. not required.)

so now you generaly know my likes and dislikes. based on that, what harvest moon games on DS would I like? also, what GB harvest moons would you recomend, should they come to the 3DS virtual console? I played the first one, and I liked it pretty good, but if there was an end, I never saw it.

This post has been edited by hylianknightmare: Sep 8 2011, 01:57 AM

[Mizukithepanda]

When talking about HM64, what do you mean "endless mode"? Are you referring to the fact that you can play the game as long as you like even after completing the story?

You may have told us what you don't like, but that actually doesn't help much in recommending games, since most of the games on the DS involve things you've mentioned that you don't want.

The Harvest Moon DS games (excluding Rune Factory & puzzle games) are as follows:

Harvest Moon DS (Boy Only)
Harvest Moon DS Cute (Girl Only)
Harvest Moon Island of Happiness
Harvest Moon Sunshine Islands
Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar
Harvest Moon Twin Villages (Soon to be released in the US as "A Tale of Two Towns".)

DS and DS Cute have a combination of the cast from AWL and HM64/BTN. If you didn't like the characters in those two games, you probably won't like these two games either.

Island of Happiness and Sunshine Islands take place in a new village with a new cast, though many people often have problems with the game and say it's boring. Look it up if you want as I don't know enough about it to tell you anything.

Grand Bazaar also takes place in a new town with a new cast, but it differs from many of the newer games as there's no real goal in the game other than to farm and build up the bazaar. The bazaar itself is quite fun, but if you're looking for a game with some sort of goal you have to focus on, this is not for you.

Twin Villages has two small villages that you can choose between to live in, and it does have a plot/goal, though it's really silly. You have to win cooking contests over the course of the game to build friendship between the two villages and dig out the tunnel separating them. However, depending on which village you live in, you're limited in how many crops you can plant or animals you can own.

As for gameboy Harvest Moon games... GBC 2 and 3 are both great. I have no idea if they'll be up your alley, though.

[hylianknightmare]

guess I should have been more specific. I only want HM games that let you farm "forever". as for why I don't like wonderful life, the characters were fine (especialy nami... wanted her in MM until I read you can't) but I didn't like the complexity of the game, and to me, the character controls were off, and killing seeds by walking/running over them, combined with the off controlls, I just didn't like it. also, I want to farm endlessly, so I figured I'd go with the PS2 version, since it doesn't end. problem is, I can't stand the framerate drop that occurs so frequently. that, and with time running even when in doors... just everything combined, no thanks.

and yes, that mode in HM64 doesn't allow you to keep farming if I recall, so really, what's the point? besides, I don't have a 64 anymore, don't intend to get one soon, and with nintendo $%^&*ing arround with the virtual console service as a whole, let alone the 64, I don't see it coming out any time soon.

but yeah, I don't mind what kinds of characters there are at all.

and so you know, I just bought grand bazaar. haven't played it yet, but we'll see. I read that it doesn't end. so far, sounds good.

oh yeah, are the first two you mentiond (HM DS for boys, and for girls) different enough to warrant buying both? I don't "mind" playing as a girl, but if they're basicly identical, I don't see any point.

[Mizukithepanda]

But, in Harvest Moon 64 you can farm forever. Literally. I don't even think the year counter has a limit. You could probably play up to 99 years before the game would glitch and reset it to "Year 1" without restarting your game. (Actually, finding out what the year counter limit is could be an interesting experiment.) And what's more is you can farm eternally too. The only way you wouldn't be able to farm forever is if your game got fucked up somehow and had glitched beyond repair. So, I have no idea what game you're talking about when you say that you can't farm.

Now, in BTN for Girl as well as other early titles that involved a female player, your game would end when you got married, but... I really can't remember a single game that doesn't end at a specific point where you can't farm after you finish the story, if there is a story.

Anyway, if you only like playing as a specific gender then I'd go for just the one version of DS that fits that. There's not enough of a difference outside of an extra marriage candidate for the girl to warrant buying both. Though, with DS you should also know that it has a plot kind of similar to Magical Melody in that you have to collect a certain number of somethings over the course of the game. (I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.) You may or may not like that. *shrugs*

And actually, the harming crops when you walk on them thing is something I was talking about. Most of the DS games have that feature. You'll just have to live with it. It's not really a deal-breaking feature anyway. You get used to it. *shrugs*

[hylianknightmare]

the reason it was so bad in AWL is mainly because the character doesn't move instantly when you press the stick, making it hard to judge when to stop, and how hard to press the stick. it wouldn't have been bad otherwise. I could learn to live with it otherwise.

as for HM64, I must have had some bad information then. I didn't know it was like that. I may consider it should it come to VC, but I don't even want to bother with a 64 again. too hard for me to get my hands on good controllers, memory cards are begining to fail, and right now, I just don't have the cash to pump into a system like that. here's hoping nintendo and natsume get on the ball with virtual console re-releases. heh, enix too for that matter. me want some mischief makers.

anyway, the goals thing I don't mind one bit. it adds to a game. I just don't want my hard earned farm and family to just dissapear when it's all over, and have to start again, know what I mean? I don't care if a game has an ending. just so long as I can continue to play past it. and I happen to love MM.