d61fe5 No.16660932
www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/harvest_moon_friends_of_mineral_town_is_getting_a_switch_remake
Thoughts? It's probably the last actually good Harvest Moon game, and they're incorporating elements from More Friends of Mineral Town.
Hopefully they don't fuck it up like they did the last Harvest Moon game, which was quite frankly the worst fucking thing the genre has ever seen.
I tried archiving but archive.is is down for me at the moment. Anyone else having that problem?
d61fe5 No.16660944
Fucked up the link. Fuck my life.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/harvest_moon_friends_of_mineral_town_is_getting_a_switch_remake
Here's the text:
>A Nintendo Switch remake of Game Boy Advance game Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town has been confirmed for release in Japan.
>Very little has been revealed for the new game - such as how, and if, it'll expand upon or reimagine the original - but we do know that it appears to blend content from both Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town, a separate version of the game which features a female protagonist.
>The first few screenshots have been revealed via Famitsu.
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201907/02178856.html
>The game is set to launch on 17th October in Japan; no western release has been confirmed so far.
9ebc0f No.16661004
So is this the real Harvest Moon or is it some Natsume shit.
>>16660944
Use archive faggot.
7bac27 No.16661007
Friends of Mineral Town was fun, but I'm just going to say that I'm not a fan at all of the art style they chose for this. It just looks cheap-looking.
>>16661004
It's Marvelous that's remaking it.
b82edf No.16661009
>>16660932
>last harvest moon
Was that the story of seasons actual harvest moon or the fake minecraft one made by the current owners of harvest moon name? As far as I had heard, this new one is made by the story of seasons people who havent fucked up though i hadnt played the last one.
If you dont know the deal, the translators for the old harvest moons decided to make their own ones with the harvest moon name while the devs who made the good actual games had to change it to story of seasons, a name closer to the direct translation of the name in japan
57e95e No.16661035
>>16661004
>Use archive faggot.
archive.is and archive.fo aren't working for me. I don't know why.
>>16661009
>Was that the story of seasons actual harvest moon or the fake minecraft one made by the current owners of harvest moon name?
I was talking about the last game to use the Harvest Moon name, which appeared on Switch and PC, and it was absolute rubbish. Story of Seasons is actually decent.
As >>16661007 said, this one appears it's being made by the people that make Story of Seasons, so it will be better than that other piece of shit.
6a67bb No.16661041
Looks fucking awful
Why does everyone look like a funko pop
0f02c8 No.16661047
FoMT is the one i always get nostalgic for so i'll definitely keep an eye on it. Hope they add enough new content to justify remaking it though. Karen is best girl.
1c4ab6 No.16661049
>>16661047
Karen's a slut. Elli and Mary are best girls.
9ebc0f No.16661054
>>16661007
Oh, in that case there's promise.
1b307d No.16661058
>>16661049
Elli was the mother of my first video game child.
291519 No.16661074
>>16660932
>Super deformed bobblehead artstyle
I see no reason to downgrade from its predecessor.
1c4ab6 No.16661081
>all these niggas that never played magical melody complaining about the chibi style
505173 No.16661082
>>16661041
These are chibi. You can tell because they have more detail than a funko pop.
7bac27 No.16661113
>>16661081
If it looked like magical melody I wouldn't be complaining., it's the fact that it looks like a fucking mobile game. Compare the portraits of the kid in OP's second pic to the one in the original. Everything is so clean and bright and oversimplified.
25379b No.16661123
It looks like a Chinese phone rip off of Harvest Moon.
a9aabb No.16661143
Harvest moon has always looked like this? wtf are you faggots talking about?
>large heads
>simplified proportions
>cutesy artstyle
In fact, if you take a close look at it-
The only real "harvest moon" games that deviate from this norm is the shitty mobile games of nu-harvest moon which all use a shitty anime like style that looks out of fucking place for harvest moon.
This looks 10x better and more presentable then fucking light of hope.
1c4ab6 No.16661151
>>16661143
The Save The Homeland series was a little more realistic. I still like the Animal Parade style the best though.
>tfw the animal parade witch will never be in another game
b086cc No.16661603
>>16661081
>Niggas
This isn't cuckchan, bring out that hard R or get out
6a67bb No.16661617
>>16661143
>Harvest moon has always looked like this
I am playing through the series in release order right now and you're full of fucking shit.
505173 No.16661624
>>16661617
Then you're just somehow blind as fuck. This is how they've looked. Unless you're a fucking liar, but who would do that on the internet?.
6a67bb No.16661704
>>16661624
>This is how they've looked
Fuck off retard
Even the crops are more detailed in the PS1 game
c06d56 No.16661707
God damn, can't wait for autumn. I want to blaze some of the rare, red shit.
3e1f10 No.16661724
Might play it even with the bad art style, Everyday Life won't be playable until late 2020 if I am lucky and Rune Factory 5 is also going to take a long time
I have been so hungry for a Harvest Moon-style game that i have even been thinking of replaying Stardew Valley
6a67bb No.16661733
>>16661724
I'd buy it to support Marvelous but I'd rather play the original over this one.
1c4ab6 No.16661738
>>16661704
Well that's an adult character. The adult characters in the newer games are pretty detailed as well.
1c4ab6 No.16661753
>>16661704
Also you can get a glimpse of what Popuri and Karen are going to look like in this magazine preview for ants. We'll probably get a better version when the magazine comes out today or tomorrow.
6a67bb No.16661755
>>16661738
>The adult characters in the newer games are pretty detailed as well
We are talking about this awful looking remake, not the Story of Seasons games.
Those look miles ahead of this funko pop nightmare.
1c4ab6 No.16661768
>>16661755
See >>16661753
There's nothing "funko pop" about the character art, just the 3D models.
3e1f10 No.16661793
>no western release has been confirmed so far.
It is not coming this year then…
1c4ab6 No.16661800
>>16661793
You know what to do.
3e1f10 No.16661818
>>16661800
Are we thinking the same thing?
e94d0d No.16661853
6a67bb No.16661865
>>16661768
>There's nothing "funko pop" about the concept art, just the game itself
what the fuck are you even trying to do?
2791fc No.16661903
>>16661707
It's the leaf of a Japanese red maple *Acer palmatum* you retard.
9e6b64 No.16661914
>>16661151
Tree of Tranquility and FoMT had the best art styles to me. I would like an Animal Parade remake too. It had many nice ideas but desperately need some quality of life features. For one, a free camera. If not that, then have it zoomed out so you can actually know where you're going in some areas.
1c4ab6 No.16661961
>>16661865
I'm not talking about concept art, I'm talking about character portraits, just like you were here. >>16661704 I'm not sure why you're confused.
015f13 No.16661966
>>16661965
Nigger I made this three years ago.
af0c80 No.16661967
So they're just gonna replace the nice 2D graphics with the generic soulless 3D style they've been using for about a decade now… And this is supposed to be an improvement? Maybe they'll make it an actual fucking game with a proper set of goals and end-game evaluation at least this time.
1c4ab6 No.16661975
>>16661967
>Maybe they'll make it an actual fucking game with a proper set of goals and end-game evaluation at least this time.
You should try Magical Melody if you haven't, there are a whole bunch of random goals.
https://fogu.com/hm/magical_melody/musicnotes.php
af0c80 No.16661982
>>16661081
I own and have fully beaten Magical Melody, I was complaining about how huge my farmer's ass was on release. The character models were awful then and they're still awful now.
af0c80 No.16661991
>>16661975
That is why I consider MM a better game than Friends of Mineral Town, at the very least. However… the game basically invented cheevos before Steam and XBox Live, and the way the player is basically left to guess blindly at how to get some of the notes is quite terribly implemented.
af0c80 No.16661999
>>16661991
>>16661967
Actually, I will even argue that unclear goals is in some ways just as bad as having no goals at all. If the player has no idea what success is like, then either way they're not really playing a game.
6a67bb No.16662016
>>16661961
>just like you were here
Where are the character portraits in the second screenshot you mongoloid
47669d No.16662117
>>16661967
They'll add more retarded endgame grind instead, just like what they did in FoMT when compared to BtN. Did you like New Year games, mining and cursed tools? And of course they'll still do nothing about fixing the characters themselves after they shuffled them for BtN and removed any sort of actual character from most of them.
9e6b64 No.16662182
>>16662117
The endgame grind and lack of any real sort of character development are my main issues with FoMT despite loving it so much. I don't mind the lack of a goal. I just realized making money and getting a partner was clearly one of the things the game wanted me to do. They should go full Rune Factory with the game.
>Everyone has new dialogue every day for more than a year
>Many more unique events with the people around town and not just with the people you can marry
>Multiple festivals per month to the point where you almost drown in them
>Tons of minigames besides horse racing
>Make mining fun like in Animal Parade
>Quality of life features like picking up multiple things at the same time or stack them in your arms
>Multiple animals to befriend
>More versatility when it comes to how you work with the Harvest Spirits/gnomes
There's plenty they can do. But we need more information on what they're doing.
cfa28c No.16662459
>>16661955
>not picking ann as your waifu
what do you hate tomboys?
do you not know the things they are for?
she literally also completes a farming aesthetic with the mc.
she is the sole reason why i will be buying the remake.
e9b132 No.16662490
when will the remakes stop?
for the love of god make something original
all of the entertainment industries need to crash and burn
09e4fc No.16662555
>>16661081
Its the (((current year))) anon. Everyone who experienced good shit back then have higher expectations now. The chibi style is outdated- especially for a game that has romance simulation. I would prefer if they used something like the Story of Seasons or A Wonderful Life that had semi-chibi models at minimum and not deformed babies.
470d1c No.16662560
>>16662182
If they did shit like this I would actually consider buying it, but it will be another easy cash grab remake. The fact that they have to re do all the assets means the content will probably be roughly the same but with more grind, because apparently that's the extent of the gameplay they're willing to put into these games anymore.
92864a No.16662805
>>16662555
>chibi style is outdated
>Unironically invoking [current year] as the reason
That's complete bullshit, no style becomes obsolete just because it's old. It's perfectly possible to make chibi look good, you just have to put some effort into it. It's not a singular artstyle, it's just a way of proportioning characters which can either look good or bad depending on how you do it. A Wonderful Life isn't semi-chibi, it's very much chibi, they just bothered to make it look good.
b82edf No.16663823
>>16661955
>the witch
I see you are also a man of taste who enjoys some hard as fuck tasks to get her love at least in the one I played to get her
276d86 No.16663951
I have a confession /v/. I tried to seduce one of the girls in fomt when I was a kid and nothing I did worked. I was able to trigger the first cutscene for affection but the second one never triggered. I looked it up on gamefaqs to make sure I was doing it right and my love went unrequited. I think that's why I'm fucked up. Nothing in my life has gone right since then and fomt is the cause.
47669d No.16663987
>>16663951
Even if you do nothing else, you can eventually get a girl to red heart simply by talking to her every day. And your first mistake was playing FoMT before something like HM64.
fbf3f0 No.16664490
Here's the full scans. Not a big fan of the graphics or the new artstyle.
291519 No.16664656
>People complaining about people complaining about the graphics
Lets NOT talk about the clearly inferior graphics from its predecessor(s) then:
How about, why should we buy this game when we already have the last iteration of this?
Is there going to be new marriage candidates or an extra town or something?
1c4ab6 No.16664733
>>16664656
>Is there going to be new marriage candidates
That's what the silhouettes in the article are.
1cb644 No.16664785
>>16664656
They redesigned every character, so if you liked BtN/FoMT but hated its characters, the game is perfect for you. Like if you hated how Cliff, the wandering guy, looked he was wearing animal furs, you can now have a bootleg nu-Link in your town instead. At least now you'll have a good reason to not look for a part time job for him. Or like how Karen, the one chick who hated the village and wanted to escape into the city, now wears traditional clothes for some fucking reason.
They are also adding llamas and other shit from SoS. And also some mystery waifu and husbando. Probably also something from SoS and not anything anyone would care about.
Mining, however, is back. And I don't see a basket in the trailer, either. Though inventory items now stack to compensate.
I guess one positive thing is that crops are more like FoMT again instead of the borderline mobage their latest games have been. Maybe Starjew Valley made them think twice about chasing retards and casualizing everything they make.
4ec295 No.16664789
Just throw in some good QOL improvements and I'll be happy.
>>16661793
It just got confirmed for the west;
http://archive.vn/Lyj1k
1c4ab6 No.16664794
>>16664785
Thomas looks like a pedo now.
abbf92 No.16664973
>>16664490
I love FoMT so I'll probably get this, but the new art direction is definitely disappointing. The old ones just feel better, the style suites a game like Harvest Moon more.
At least Popuri's still a real qt.
a56e04 No.16664990
>>16664785
>I guess one positive thing is that crops are more like FoMT again instead of the borderline mobage their latest games have been.
Could you specify what you mean with that?
1c4ab6 No.16665008
>>16664990
He's probably referring to how you plant 9 seeds at a time now instead of sowing and watering each one individually.
1cb644 No.16665066
>>16664990
You can only plant entire batches of crops at a time in a specifically designated part of the farm, and planting, watering and harvesting is all done by holding one button. Crops also have several characteristics that determine crop quality, like in those DS games, but instead of those characteristics being affected by water and sunlight levels like there, you increase them by processing plants into higher quality seeds, then chucking fertilizers onto those better seeds to repeat the process.
It's strange to see Harvest Moon games get some neat ideas at times, like plant hybrids in AWL and more complicated crop nutrition in Islands games, only for them to disappear in the next game, while these forms of mind-numbing grind always persist.
5a47ed No.16665088
9133e4 No.16666728
>>16664490
>ponytails are gone
rip in biss
>Carter is ugly now
New guy better be a carbon copy of his old design.
609ecb No.16666734
>>16662182
The improved flesh fang. Don't need to thank me.
9e6b64 No.16666804
>>16666734
Listen here you little shit. Vampires don't have flesh fangs. Take that debauchery somewhere else.
e452ef No.16666830
>>16660932
>Funko POP the Farm Game
I rather play Stardew Valley. At least I can mod it so I can place a burning cross in front of that niggers house.
609ecb No.16666863
>>16666804
I'm a reasonable man.
10b3fd No.16667161
>>16664785
To be fair that's more of n64 Karen rather than btn Karen, but yes the new design is bland and it really fails to capture any of the feeling that her original character gives off. Popuri is okay though, she looks like she could be the same character at least.
>>16665066
I've ranted about it before, but it's because fujo's are their main audience now, which means goodbye to more complex gameplay and hello to grind.
1cb644 No.16667487
>>16667161
Karen had a reason to want to escape in N64, but they still kept her personality in BtN and FoTM, even though it made little sense after they remarried different characters and cut out a chunk of character development N64 cast had. So it just made her look like a spoiled asshole.
000000 No.16667504
>ann no longer looks like a tomboy
the game is ruined and soulless. they clearly don't get her character and just made her into a girly girl wearing a dress and with a pony tail instead of a braided pony tail
3cb913 No.16667511
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/story_of_seasons_friends_of_mineral_town_gets_western_release_and_new_info
This game just got confirmed for a proper western release.
Xseed is handling NA, Marvelous is handling EU and Australia.
It's official title is
STORY OF SEASONS: FRIENDS OF MINERAL TOWN
1c4ab6 No.16667541
>>16667504
Looks like she is wearing pants though. Sucks for Annfags, but I wouldn't mind if they got rid of her ugly overalls.
000000 No.16667676
>>16667541
her overalls are iconic it's what gave her https://softserve.8ch.net/azvn/imagefetch/zvqc/18676so much tomboy charm, but the devs of this game don't get that and just made her look like another generic girly girl like the rest of the girls.
at times like this i hate being a tomboyfag and an annfag because nobody ever respects tomboys enough and think everyone wants girly girls so that's all we ever get in video games for the most part as love interests.
*sigh* at least persona 4 still has two tomboys in it that you can date. the persona devs understand the appeal of the tomboy and teh old harvest moon devs did way more than these new devs for this soulless remake.
all they had to do was keep her design the exact same and just create a higher resolution model of it but nooooooooo, the director had to change of the iconic designs to his vision.
fuck this remake i was so hyped, and wanted to buy it, but now i'm just going to replay the old gba games or back to nature instead of playing this tripe.
0b9143 No.16667892
>>16664490
Pegleg artists should be shot in the face.
531bc5 No.16667897
>>16667676
Have you ever seen such an abhorrent yet at the same time on topic post. Because I am looking at one right now.
5a68b2 No.16667910
>>16667511
i thought xseed was completely dissolved, there's not really a reason to not just call it marvelous usa at this point
10b3fd No.16668914
>>16667541
Her overalls made her look like a country girl though. I think that's a lot what is missing from these new designs is that the girls no longer look like they could live in country, instead they look like city girls who are trying to look country.
0f02c8 No.16668929
>>16667541
I don't really hate these new designs, but they sure don't make me think of the old characters they're suppose to be.
>>16667910
Xseed only lost a few employees, though after NISA fucked their shit up i think they only get Marvelous games and random niche stuff so yeah.
707975 No.16669332
>>16660932
That shit looks like a mobile port.
4137a1 No.16670074
>>16669332
It's for a tablet.
1b307d No.16670332
I hate the harvest goddess. Marry the bitch and she fucks off to her pond. Then suddenly drops a baby on my lap and dashes off again. Is it mine? Fuck if I know, she could be banging turtles and shit in that pond. It's only mortal women for me from now on.
2f655d No.16670360
>>16661007
>It's Marvelous that's remaking it.
Thats all I needed to hear.
I wonder how Natsume felt having to crawl back to Marvelous to make this.
2f655d No.16670366
>>16664490
>that new Karen design.
I like the outfit, but sadden by the loss of her hairstyle.
I wonder if the game will have some of the older Easter eggs like the 4:44 crash.
a508ad No.16670368
Looks like shit, even though it was the last good Bokujou game it doesn't need a remake, it is a remake, and it's had remakes on top of that. Stupid Marvelous are just resting on their laurels at this point, and the art direction for this is complete shit.
>>16670360
>natsume
They have nothing to do with this though, it's going to be released as Story of Seasons in the west, at least from what I've read.
d0d7cf No.16670403
>>16661914
>3rd pic
>harvest moon gachashit characters; by the creators of southpark
1b307d No.16670523
>>16670360
Natsume has no part. They've been busy smearing a thick layer of shit over the Harvest Moon name for the last few years. But they got a HM game of PC, maybe that would count for something if it wasn't a total pile.
7a7cb6 No.16670561
>>16670368
FoMT itself is a remake of Back to Nature with exciting new features like 255 floors deep dungeons and extra houses that you unlock after playing for 50 in-game years. And Marvelous has as much to do with Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons as Nicalis does with Cave Story.
1c4ab6 No.16670570
>>16670561
>And Marvelous has as much to do with Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons as Nicalis does with Cave Story.
You mean Natsume? Marvelous is the original developer.
4137a1 No.16670973
>>16670570
Marvelous is the publisher, they acquired the Bokujou Monogatari license some 15 years ago along with the original developer. The first Harvest Moon game under Marvelous's ownership was the GBA port of Back to Nature.
7e0450 No.16671498
>>16666804
>>16666863
I'd actually like Astolfo if he were a she instead
a508ad No.16672825
>>16670561
Marvelous have everything to do with this, they are developing and publishing the game. Natsume just own the trademark in the west, so they now publish their own Harvest Moon titles. It would be nice to see the Harvest Moon name go back to it's original series, but Marvelous are doing such a poor job with it I'd rather see Natsume outdo them, but Story of Seasons is already the best selling game in this genre, so clearly Marvelous don't actually give a fuck about competition and just want to shit up the IP.
The Western cover art from Harvest Moon on Snes is so dreamy, I miss when cover art was made by artists and not marketers.
f39977 No.16672866
for a while i was thinking there were a lack of harvestmoon/farmingsim games, now we might reach saturation point
af0c80 No.16672931
>>16670561
>>16670973
Fun fact about both Back to Nature and Friends of Mineral Town: they were actually developed by TOSE, that famous Japanese stealth developer. If you've ever wondered why they're hollow rehashes of the N64 game with glaring flaws only someone who wasn't the original developer would miss, now you know.
a508ad No.16673037
>>16672931
HM64 was so perfect, they should remake that instead, it's setting and characters were far better, the only thing it's lacking on are features.
96d0dc No.16673083
>>16672931
You have to be completely retarded to think FoMT is a rehash of HM64 or that 64 is better
7dcbd2 No.16673128
>>16673083
He is right though. I personally prefer the BtN variation of the cast, but 64 was developed first. It also had a lot of interesting features like the event pictures you could collect and generally more thought out writing for the characters. It was also not afraid to show some drama too, by letting Ellen actually die from old age, as the game progresses, which alleviated the stasislike issue the games have somewhat by showing that time does indeed pass.
49da51 No.16673221
>>16673128
>He is right though
He isn't
>by letting Ellen actually die from old age, as the game progresses
Thats not how she dies
4137a1 No.16673450
>>16673221
You mean that ACTUALLY she dies because you set a certain event flag after talking to her a number of times, and not of old age or because you progress through the game?
d9d065 No.16673467
>>16673450
starting from year 2 she dies if you talk to her during a certain animation
If you don't talk to her at all she doesn't die or if you don't talk to her during the days she is doing that animation she doesn't die.
Like all the things in HM64 it feels half baked and unfinished.
000000 No.16673860
>>16660932
With Jewtendo being allied with Israel? It will be shit.
https://archive.fo/MboQi
a5a5a6 No.16673982
>>16673467
How is the player supposed to know that, though? For most people, it will just seem entirely random if those are the requirements, so it's something unexpected happening in the game. It takes knowing these technical details to avoid it so unless you're specifically looking for this kind of information, it will never feel "half baked and unfinished".
How would you have it anyway? Death upon reaching max friendship with her? Or death if you haven't maxed her friendship by year 2, for instance?
>>16673860
>opening a store in a country to sell more of your shit is "allying" with someone
The absolute state of TOR posters, everyone.
d9d065 No.16675817
>>16673982
>How is the player supposed to know that, though
>don't talk to the NPC in the entire game
>she doesn't die
>start talking to her regularly
>she dies
Its pretty fucking obvious
>so unless you're specifically looking for this kind of information, it will never feel "half baked and unfinished".
What kind of stupid excuse is this?
>How would you have it anyway
Have her die around a date instead of tying it to talking to her.