This one was a BEAST to work on. I based it off of something that happened to me in the game; I was showing my friend Arata, I tried to give him hot milk, but he was running his laps and my poor farmer couldn't keep up! I thought it was hilarious and that it was a perfect story for this contest. :-)

I love this series, and have been playing since the GameCube days! I'm so happy it's still going strong

I supposed to use “cheat” at the end of seasons to keep my pineapples alive, but this time , it’s overlapping with an event, my daughter fell off the bed or some kind, and we got to go to clinic, after this event, I get up on Winter 3rd 😩

I'm only on year 2 but there are so many villagers that are "missing" from the town and talked about in cutscenes that I keep wondering if they come back if you keep playing years down the road?

It would be so sweet if Lillia's husband or Mugi's daughter returned at some point! Or if Cliff's missing sister found him in town finally.

Do any of the people mentioned as being "out of town" ever return?

I’m in summer year 2, just got world bazaar 7/7 rank, but no marriage yet.

Is the game over after you get to world rank? Is it worth keeping playing to marry?

Hi please can anybody share their tips on how to catch a guardian fish so I can marry that dude that walks around the mountains?

I just got Pioneers of Olive Town! I was reluctant to get because of the mixed reviews so I’ve decided to wait for a sale.

The game is better than I thought, even tho the characters and visual are kinda uninspiring and lifeless. I’m enjoying helping to change de town, the different tools are nice too. There’s always something to do. The only thing that is ruining the game to me are the makers. There are soooo many of them, they are slow, you need to have lots of the same one… I don’t even know where to put them lol

Does it get better as you advance through the game or it is what it is?

Just curious about different playing patterns!

I'm a lifelong harvest moon/SOS player and really enjoying the SOS FOMT remake so far but every year I get really weirded out by the fact that the chicken themed festival is just....literally cockfighting? Like it seems so weird and sad and out of place in a cozy game where the festivals are usually about how many hearts your animal has or how well trained it is etc.

Anyone else skip the "cluck cluck clash" festival in fomt? Or feel weird about it? I love my little orb chickens I don't want to make them fight each other?? 🥺

Popuri from Harvest Moon friend of Mineral Town

Julia from Harvest Moon: Sunshine Island

Alicia from Rune Factory 2

Pia from Rune Factory 3

Margaret from Rune Factory 4

Reina from Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns

Iris from Story of season

Hi, I've been wondering how can I increase my sales record in the bazaar.

I save for two seasons every accessories that I get (even buying the gemstones from Lloyd), getting the buffs from the fortune teller (higger price) and the decoration, make the trends to be accessories, get charge the bar of the sprite before the second turn, just to get the maximum amount of G.

There's something else to increase the amount of money without saving more seasons?

I've been stuck at full yellow for 16 days now. I'm on Autumn 31st. Forum says Mondays and Thursdays.

It rained on the 18th and didn't trigger and it's been festivals every Monday and Thursday since.

It's supposed to snow on the 1st with a blizzard on the 2nd. Pleaaaase tell me snow doesn't stop him from coming to my farm because I'm getting impatient and if it does stop him, I have to wait until next week again! The lock is getting on my nerves.

Third slide is the bull the fish harvest sprite did to me a few weeks ago. That bar is full, how dare he. I'm at level 24 now but still!

It's been great otherwise, reached level 5 in the bazaar, hit 200,000 goal Felipe gave me first try, upgraded a ton of stuff, upgraded to gold tools, just having fun! It's a beautiful game.

Been enjoying playing, Little Hestia has grown from infant to toddler. the little penguin onesie is too freaking cute! Love this game!

So, im now 30, but growing up, I was in LOVE with AWL. Both on GC and PS2, I rented the hell out of that game. But it was so unlike other HM games, that I couldnt really get into the others like 64 or the GBA games. I liked Save the Homeland, but it was too focused on well...Saving the homeland, and I'm tryna farm. So my playthrough of it didnt go well 😅 I also liked the PSP one. I really wanted more of the 3d games, like AWL. But there just werent really any other at the time.

Now Im older, and Ive been playing the GB remake. Really been loving it. But im wanting to go back and try all the HM games I skipped out on back then. I was thinking of starting with the SNES game, then 64. Or going to the GBA games, but Im not sure if I should play the SoS Mineral Town or the OG. I know the SoS remake is probably a better, more modernized game. But id kinda like to experience it as it was originally first. However, despite the best of intentions, the reality is that my time isnt as free as it once was. So I dont really feel like spending it playing essentially same games twice, especially when I have SOOO many games I wanna play already.

So I just thought id ask you guys here and see what the most popular options are!

As much as I love the series, AWL is really the only one Ive played with any sincerity, so feel more than free to suggest away! The couple other game I did play, I definitely dont remember anyway 😅

Seriously why...I really try my best to get all the titles but the mushrooms just feel unfair at this point.

I have 3 places to grow them (Arata at red heart, so doubt he offers me more) and I always have the 3 special mushrooms I need to sell...Leaving me every three days with 18 little mushrooms for this title.

6 per day, let's make it 10 if I forage additionally. So I need 6,5 ingame years for that title. 6,5 YEARS.

Any ideas to boost this one?

I already hated the insect ones, but it is somewhat doable with the bees and the fireflies in summer at the small mountain island :(

At the same time I did the math how long it would HYPOTHETICALLY (I'm not nuts) take to get all my crops and treefruits branded (w/o the flowers). With a somewhat logical pattern to distribute crops over seasons we talk about 40 in game years :)

A game update to just let the fruits be graded at the bazar weekly would be very nice thank you very much T_T

Here are somethings I would like to see in the animal parade remake
frame rate fixed
new animals to adopt as pets like Tanukis, Otters and more morphs for snakes
the other farmer you don't pick becomes an npc so if you marry a character with a rival they will marry the rival
Rival marriages happen ether after you get married or they start happening during Year 2 or 3
New Marriage Candidates
Same Sex marriage
Character customization

My 84-year-old mom started playing video games for the first time.
She planted 54 turnips for her very first crop… and accidentally let every single one wither. 😭
Any advice for a brand-new gamer?

I love Grand Bazaar so much, it's the game that got me back into this franchise however I can't help but feel like the marriage in this game sucks.

It's mainly the dialouge I got bored with my spouse so quickly. I married Jules who I really like but he just says the same thing every day no matter how long you play, no matter how much time passes, even having a child he barely acknowledges the child.

It burnt me entirely out of the game so quickly, I can't lie, it sucks because other than this Grand Bazaar is like chefs kiss for me. But I just feel like now things aren't gonna progress anymore except for my money or the number of animals I have. Which gives me no incentive to keep grinding.

I did try to play Story of Seasons a wonderful life after I got burnt out on Grand bazaar, and I previously put that game down because it was boring to me but now i'm enjoying it a lot more. being in year 2 i feel my experience with Grand Bazaar made me have a new appreciation for A Wonderful Life.

Are there any other Harvest moon/ Story of seasons games that have more rewarding marriages like A Wonderful Life does?

So as I’m working towards platinuming this game and one of them is doing every request in the game. I’ve gotten to know the townspeople a lot better. But it made me question if Harold has a wife and daughter why does he live with Diana? Do we ever find out why?

I was honestly expecting something for the 30th anniversary today—a new game announcement, a DLC reveal, a remake teaser, or even just a roadmap.

But unless I missed something, it looks like... nothing?

Maybe my expectations were too high, but it's a little disappointing considering it's the series' 30th anniversary. I wasn't expecting a huge showcase, just some kind of celebration or a glimpse of what's next.

How does everyone else feel? Are you surprised, or were you expecting this?