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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...

One step closer to Ib-themed house (Yeah, I know there's a ton of them, but I wanna join the club! D< Dagnnabit!)

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I tried. I might post a second version later today that doesn't have the vertical lines in the front.

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Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 7

Day 7: Favorite way to make money?

In the classic sense...

Mining, especially in Mineral Town and DS Cute (even though you could  do the indoor farming cheat in DS Cute...)

It always felt like the fastest way to make money while trying to wait for your crops to grow, especially if you invested in a basket first instead of upgrading your bag (it feels like an eternity at first since your bag doesn’t have many slots, but it’s really worth it on the long run). Then afterwards, it became the challenge of how deep can you go before the day is through or I’m almost out of energy and I have no food!

Fishing always seemed like a mixed bag and took up too much of your time in a time-sensitive game and I would almost always get garbage. I do enjoy foraging, but depending on the game, it was extremely limited or fairly plentiful, but the amount of money is usually minimal.

And of course, farming and producing items will make the best money in the end, but I’ll be honest....  I was usually “done” playing the game once I got around to the point where I could build the makers. The makers didn’t fit my “schedule“, but I have weird priorities...

You’d team up with Ashley...and Wario!

Hey! Wario wants to be a part of this fearsome team, too. Ashley is an actual witch. Sounds like a good match…until Ashley tries to cast a spell on you. You can try to tackle Ashley’s bewitching microgames in the WarioWare Gold game.

Which micro-gaming mini-team would you want to join?