HMFGP 2012, THE TWENTY TWELVIEST Options

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

I forget if someone else wanted to do this. Too late now! Unless they want to start their own topic for the group play or something. I don't know.

So yeah. Summer's upon us, so it's that time again. Summer's usually a slow time for video game releases, so what better way to get around that than by playing some old classics? Vote on your favorite Harvest Moon/Rune Factory title and in a few days that'll be the chosen title for everyone to have maximum togetherness in their funtimes. Alternatively, you can just play whatever the heck you want and completely disregard the majority. The only really important thing is to talk about your play experiences, what characters you interacted with, events you happened upon, and so on. Have fun with it!

I'm thinking of trying out Save the Homeland myself. I got it a while back for two bucks but I haven't gotten around to playing it.

[Mizukithepanda]

Well, I've been meaning to start over on Hero of Leaf Valley, so that sounds like a good idea to me. As much as I love 64 and GBC 2 & 3, we played the former last year and not enough people own/have access to the latter two.

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

I completely forgot about the group plays haha. Kind of feeling the orignal RF myself. Never actually finished it and a group play would probably get me pumped to, but I'm down to do whatver else too. Just hopefully I have the game to play (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

[Daniella]

I want to attempt to help out the wiki some, so I might pick up Magical Melody.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

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And here we go!

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Looks awfully muddy in the countryside. Must've been a lot of rain.

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So, I don't supposed you can direct me to the farm? I tried looking for a big field, but, well, there's a lot of empty space here...

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Oh. Oh. The one with the fence and grass. That'd make sense...

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Looks surprisingly cozy.

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Holy crap, an old Zenith. In color.

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Holy crap, I already have hooligans on my lawn. Farmin' life's gonna be tough.

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Very unperceptive hooligans.

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Jeez, now what.

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She proceeds to ask me a questionnaire. Sure, I'll take him home. But realistically I should probably make sure there's not an owner or mother already around.

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Stand beside the trash and talk to passerby about how disgusting people can be instead of taking any action. Clean it up, yeah that.

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Blackjack and women. I mean return it of course.

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Can't imagine why.

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It is then unveiled to me, that I am the Hero of Thyme. Reborn through generations to till soil during times others are too lazy to do so themselves.

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This name will be transcribed in the stories of our people.

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Killjoy.

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The Pawprint Star. The ultimate spaceship designed for ranching. Thus, the epic begins.

edit: First few days of Spring.

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Hey, remember how Nami does the weather in Magical Melody? I think Yuri somehow time traveled to be the weather girl here.

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Why does he get so mad to learn I run a farm?

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Maybe it's a carpenter thing. Like, they just KNOW I'm gonna ask them to DO stuff while so far they've just been living a cushy job pretending to cut the same chunks of lumber day after day.

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Gina is apparently the only person who bothered to learn someone was moving in.

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Apparently I can just buy an egg for fifty gold instead of paying some ludicrous sum for a chicken. I think I'll just do this and buy feed with the difference as I gain it.

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I'm one to talk.

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Only weirdos actually WANT to supply food to the village.

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WHAT?

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Then I learned the finer points of littering. I now know where I messed up in the initial questioning. I'm supposed to just chuck random stuff I find into the Goddess Pond. OBVIOUSLY.

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I get the feeling the Harvest Goddess doesn't really give a crap what I do.

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Katie was actually the most interesting person to meet. I was surprised to learn that "Grandpa" has a name. It's also kinda notable that you actually learn someone's age.

[Charmy]

NONONONONONONONONOI'VEWANTEDTOPLAYTHATFORWEEKS/NEEDSTOGETAHEADSOSHECANREADWHATYOU'REDOING
BAHA. SCREW WIKI TODAY. I'M GOING TO FINISH SECRET OF MANA THEN START PLAYING.

/CAPSCAPSCAPS

I'm excited. .-.
And my essay is over so I have time.

[Baby]

How does this work? I'm already doing this for FoMT for the Wiki, does that count?

[Charmy]

Yeah, you can play what you want, but there's generally a majority vote for one specific game. Just talk about whatever you're doing in the game or about it in general. 8D

[Noviwan]

you forgot to list rune factory tides of destiny

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

It only lets me list 20 items. =\

The epic continues.

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Why don't other games have nifty little profile dealies like this?

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Seems I stopped before a bunch of events happened. Like... a visitor?

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She proceeds to ask me about what it's like in Flowerbud... City? So Sugar Valley exists in an alternate continuity where the GBC character failed? Or something? Either way, most of what she focuses on is about the Goddess Festival. Namely the pretty pretty dresses.

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The barbaric rituals I describe deeply horrify her. She informs me she wants to make a new dress for the girls to wear. Which I think is a good idea because the one they have kinda sucks.

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Five minutes later, she's stumped. Welp. So much for that.

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Louis gets all the birds.

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HEY LOUIS!

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Birds love flutes.

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Suddenly, a different perspective is thrust forth as Gwen shows up to take Louis off somewhere.

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Louis ditches an old, crappy flute on me because couldn't sell it. As is tradition in HM games when it comes to tools.

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I have no idea what this does except let me jam.

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Later, Katie comes to meet me to tell me she's helping Gina out. She also learns that I am mentally unstable, but still believes I'm pretty great at dress design.

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Yeah, that's about right. Though, to really help I'll need to take further advantage of my psychosis...

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I head off to the Goddess to ask her for any more tips.

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Weave moonlight? I'm not a damn wizard.

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She says she'll just do it herself because I suck so much. Unfortunately, I need non-magical thread to do so. Just take a quick gander at my wallet and then the price of the silk.

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The miracle of life.

LATER THAT DAY

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Yeah. Looked like frantically trying to spot a UFO or something.

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Oh. That makes sense. You're the gruff type, so you have to have some random sissy thing you do.

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Holy crap stalker. Stalker sez, let's find a really freaking RARE butterfly with the aid of a blue flower. I know just the person to ask.

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Sup.

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She proceeds to (unknowingly) prove to me that she dyes her hair. Not only does she believe blue flowers only grow high on mountains (idiot), but she needs to go find an expert for me. Great. Thanks for helping Not-Popuri.

[Daniella]

I'm not sure if I'd want to go to a place called just Food Shop.

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

I never realized how tiny the main character in SH was, and like everyone in the game is, but the bio they give him is pretty awesome

[Charmy]

I might be getting the game next week. Hopefully. I've wanted to play it for ages, whyyy. T___T

[Noviwan]

I have save the homeland it looks nothing like that is that a different version?

[Charmy]

There's Save the Homeland and Hero of Leaf Valley. The latter's for the PSP, if that's what you have confused.

[Daniella]

Hrmm...

Playing Magical Melody.
I'm on Spring 26th? I've got 18 notes.
Ray is on 3 hearts,
Joe is on 3 hearts,
Kurt is on 2
and Ellen is on 1.
I've got a barn, and two baby cows.
I live on the River Side, and I also own the Town property too.
I don't know how much money I have (maybe around 2000g), but I'm going to have to spend it all when I play again to get the Poor Note.

edit: I have 5475g. .__. I guess I could buy some sheep.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

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Was wondering when this would happen. And now to never fish.

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Though this seems more interesting than just handing over a basic piece of equipment.

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Hooray!

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Curiosities lead me to learn not only can I sell most of my goods in Dia's kitchen, but their utensils are apparently friggin' awesome.

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Martha meanwhile shows that she seems sorta like one of those elderly ladies who is constantly condescending but so nice about it.

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Seems farmer man's having second thoughts about his ponytail... or maybe that's just the goal he had to begin with. The world will never know.

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Evidently, I can just run up to any old dog and snatch it up to claim it as my own. This seems wildly irresponsible, and I named him Murphy to go with the theme of completely lacking a theme.

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What do I know about my grandmother's cake...? Well, it was delicious... and that's about all I got. Why?

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Oh. Seems Katie wants to skip town by stealing grammy's cake recipe and winning a 10,000G contest with it. While I'm not bothered by the attempt at theft, I will say that no one is allowed to leave town until I am. So she's stuck here forever.

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Eventually, I managed to afford the silk and hand it over to the Goddess. A few days later...

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The fanciest rags in all the land that will soon be used to make the fanciest dress in all the land. Hopefully I never have to interact with a ridiculous Goddess who shall never call me sweetie again. Now to just take these to Gina... Oh?

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Apparently Dia wants to be more independent and make her own decisions. Maybe step one would be to stop relying on someone else to bring her blueberries all the time and we'll see where it goes from there. Anywho...

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Yeah, that's the moonlight weaved in there. s'pretty sweet.

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And I have to explain to yet another person I totally met the goddess and I am in fact not insane. Probably helps that either way I helped them out a lot, so they just avoid the fact I probably shouldn't be the only person in town with dangerous farm implements.

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Then a big event happens where the two people who know I'm crazy get to work on doing their part to save the town. Unfortunately, Dia's pretty fed up with being out of the loop on what it is they're doing all the time, and Katie just blows up for no real reason... which just causes Dia to run off to weep behind the house. Fortunately, that's resolved due to my amazing head petting prowess, and we now actually have a model for our fancy dress and Katie feels properly like a total ass. Preeeetty sure this'll be the ending I'm getting at this point, though I'm not too sure if it'll be with Gina or Dia.

[Daniella]

Now I'm on Summer 14, with 28 notes. 4209g. Got 2 cows (Bessie and Nellie), one calf (Cowda) and one adult sheep (Woolbur), and they all have 1 heart.
Ray has 5 hearts,
Joe has 5 hearts,
Kurt has 4 hearts,
Ellen has 3 hearts,
Blue has 2 hearts,
Bob has 1 heart,
and it Jamie has 1. Bob for some reason doesn't want to get two.

On my River Side home property I have some grass and my barn, and on the town one I've got an unreasonable amount of tomatoes and corn growing.
My dog Space Filler has one heart (I never feed them) and pig Mushroom Pig has none. Rabbit has one heart since I always throw weeds at it when it's around.

And Blue just came to give me his two heart gift after forever and I'm really disappointed. Only just a good milk. Atleast it was better than Joe's cheap 15g Dace. :/

[ChronosGiegue]

Lol Naming a chicken BATMAN? I approve 100%