Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos Official Trailer
Releasing September 26.
I haven't played a full Harvest Moon game since Natsume went it's own way with Harvest Moon titles, and original Harvest Moon games became Story of the Seasons. I have seen many people say they weren't any good, specially compared to Store of the Seasons games. This one looks pretty nice to me. Going to look for reviews on release.
Do you play farming games? What do you think about Harvest Moon games in general? And what about this one?
Harvest Moon lost its luster for me when they turned into a cringy dating simulator instead of a farming/country living simulator. Stardew valley is my jam now.
I get the same feeling, and have heard similar things from others. Hopefully once they have the engine down, they can start to expand the new 3D ones with more content.
My Time in Portia is really good, also liked the setting of restoring a post-apocalyptic world. I played it on Switch, and eventually got tired of extremely long load times to dropped it midway. May give it another go on PS, I think they have it on PS+.
Story of Seasons are the original Harvest Moon, I have heard they are better than Harvest Moon games, but I haven't played one recently.
Recent Story of Seasons titles have been pretty good. They've put out a few remakes of older titles, Friends of Mineral town and the one a few weeks ago A Wonderful Life. And they also have some new titles, Pioneers of Olive Town.
Last Harvest Moon game I played was Magical Melody. It had pretty much everything I wanted out of a farm sim game. I did play Rune Factory 4 on Switch and that was pretty cool, but I feel like I can't get much out of the genre, they all kinda feel samey and there are just so many to choose from these days.
Yeah, the genre is going through a renaissance, and now it feels like there are too many of these. The silver lining is that now there are so many options, so you can choose whichever you like most and ignore the rest.
I wish they'd take more aesthetic inspiration from the earlier games. Namely a bit more chibi. This seems....fine, but kind of generic, kind of mobile game-esque.
I also don’t mind 3d in general, but some games make it work better than others. But idk, something about Harvest Moon makes me want a 2d graphics game (I know there are other alternatives).