Kar Visiting My Town For A Sec During Its First Meteor Shower. (Two Stars At Once >w>)

Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 18

Day 18: So, not to be negative, but to make this challenge a part of a balanced breakfast, what’s your least favorite HM game?

Ignoring Natsume’s "Harvest Moon” series (because that’s too easy), it’s a toss up between Island of Happiness/Sunshine Islands or The Tale of Two Towns. I never made it into Summer in either game. I would also say Another Wonderful Life, but I’ve never given that one an honest chance, so I can’t really criticize it.

The main issue with the ToTT and the Island games... I found all the characters bland or recycled, especially for the Island ones and I was really excited for a new cast finally, but everyone felt like they were just replacing someone from Mineral Town... But that’s just me, they just didn’t catch me. I even hoped with the new controls in Sunshine, I’d enjoy it more and I did play a little longer, but nothing gripped me.

Tale of Two Towns was a really interesting concept. I was excited for its release, but I was very disappointed, again really bland characters. I’ve restarted the game in both villages to see if it would improve my experience, but no. Plus the requests always made me feel rushed. I think Trio of Towns really improved that mechanic, it’s not unreasonable with you.

That said, I do plan to give both games another chance, but... it’s gonna be a struggle for me. I really want to like them, I really do...

But that does lead me to wonder, if the games were always that bland (even in Japan) or if Natsume did a poor job translating them.

I think most fans know Natsume has edited some of the character sprites in the past to avoid issues in the states (I can only think of Grand Bazaar at the moment) and tried to hide drunk characters for a period, but it makes me wonder if they may have been censoring more than we know or if things simply got lost in translation, such as Luke’s letter having a secret message and other little things like that.

Once Xseed became the new North American publisher, the dialogue overall was vastly improved, but that could be mere coincidence and the games themselves improved.

Before the publisher switch over, A New Beginning felt like a much better game than most of Natsume’s previous titles, but I still always wondered even if something in that was changed...

Damn it, Kar! I have to punch you for getting this in my head.

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Not sure if I should list where they're from.... some are pretty obvious, some are more obscure.

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Favorites: Miku Wishlist - Tokyo Otaku Mode Shop

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Sorry, I was being stupid XD;; it's is perfect! My brain must have gone to pokemon mode.

But yeah, once you get a shovel, you dig a hole and bury the perfect apple in it and it will create a sapling :3 And remember to not plant it too close to another tree, a cliff or building or it will just die.

But apparently fruit is important. So I will announce right now that I have APPLES in my town. (Btw I named my town Azalea b/c fuck yeah Slowpokes ftw)

I have no idea how rare or valuable Apples are….but if you want let me know.

Does that commercial still air anymore?