#hm anb

[outofcontextbokumono]

[yazziescribbles]

[pansy-picnics]

one of my olive town farmers jasmine :3 at least how i envison her cuz the customization in that game only goes so far LOL. i actually haven’t played her file in ages and barely started my first year when i did so she’s rlly just an oc more than anything else

[nocterre]

amir is prolly cold in winter

[sovandefarm]

Listen I posted her but she deserves her own post bc Yuri is such an underrated bachelorette and I stand by that statement

[scuffle-with-spirals]

Having so many fun and peaceful flashbacks to that one time in Harvest Moon A New Beginning back in nineteen aught seven where I tried proposing to Allen and then promptly shut the power off and closed my 3ds facing the mental A.M cosplay my elementary school brain was pulling at myself when he rejected me. As an adult all I have to say to that kid now is you dodged a fat bullet because Jesus christ LMAO

[chibiexorcist]

Starting my first playthrough of Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (yes, I know I'm late to it).

Can't wait to fall for the inevitable stoic animal-loving dude again.

[debuarts]

Married Allen in anb :)

[roseybunlucy]

I have so much to say about every single one of these guys! Below i'll comment on my s/o, the runner up, who I thought I would originally marry and our kid names!

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Harvest Moon DS Cute

Commentary- I never actually played this game. I asked for it but my brother got me "Harvest Moon DS" instead, but SKYE is the reason I started playing harvest moon! When I was little I was trying to find games where I could marry and start a family. I found skye and I was swooning instantly! Now that I'm older, im too scared to buy and play the game because what if my fantasy of the guy who started my love of the series doesnt come close to who he actually is?

Harvest Moon : Sunshine Islands

Commentary- THIS was my first harvest moon game! As for Will, I cant remember exactly why I chose him since it was so long ago. Maybe I thought he was cute, I didnt like the other candidates or that I thought marrying him would help my income on the farm (Which it didnt!) But it doesnt change the fact that he'll always have a special place in my heart for being my first Harvest moon husband! I still do think he's a cutie to this day.

Who I thought i would marry - Pierre! I was on the road to him until Will came at the last minute! Lol

Child name- Maulina. I remember before the kid was born, i named my cow malina and i liked the name but i didnt want to name my child after a cow so i spelled it differently. I also remember seeing a "leak" of the child portraits, with will's kid having blonde hair and blue eyes and I thought the name was fitting for that design. I later found out that was not infact an official leak 😅

Harvest Moon : A New Beginning

Commentary - I had no patience to wait for all the bachelors to show up in this game so I regretfully rushed and married the first person that came, Neil. I was never a fan of his tsundere personality but his nervous face did make me smile after the marriage every now and then.

Who I thought I would marry/ Runner up - I remember dating allen in this game but I thought his personality was so horrible after a while I deleted the save file. I do wish I had took the time to get to know Sanjay. Thinking back on it, I couldve possibly liked him if I had talked to hime more.

Child name- I think it was Sage but im not 100% sure...

Story of Seasons

Commentary- My FAVORITE game of the series with my most FAVORITE bachelor! Mistel! His personality got me immediately! I was always caught off guard by him and blushing. Needless to say he's my number 1. With Nadi an extremely close runner up! I actually chose the picture of him that made me like him. The first time I ever saw that smirk, I had an instant crush.

Child name- Surprisingly I never married! It came out when I was in high school and I got too busy but I do sorta remember the names I was going to use! There was 4 names in total since this game gives you twins but I only remember "Drossel and Verona". I guess the art design made me feel like these names were fitting for this game. I also remember wanting to give Nadi's kids a plant based name.

Story of Seasons : Trio of Towns

Commentary- I liked Inari's ears and im a sucker for white hair. Other than that, I just wasnt a fan of any of the other bachelors

Runner up- If Inari didnt exist then I would had chosen Hinata, I like positive energetic characters.

Child name- Kana, After my child in Fire emblem Fates

Story of Seasons : Friends of Mineral Town

Commentary - Kai! I LOVE Kai! I hate putting my favorites in competitions with eachother but Kai is DEFINITELY in my top 3. He's so charming, smooth, funny and charismatic! How could I NOT like him? He's made me blush a few times too. Not to mention we both have the same favorite food!

Runner up- If Kai never showed up, I probably would have gone after Cliff, It made me sad that he came with no family, I wanted to help him go from nothing to a new found expanding family!

Child name- No child name! I got too busy with school again to marry him sadly! Plus I never thought of a name for our future kids.

Story of Seasons : Pioneers of Olive Town

Commentary- Not too much to say here. I liked Jack's normal personality, his events were cute AND he's not too bad looking himself. I never finished the game far enough to marry him.

Runner up- Ralph. I had a hard time deciding between the two. Ralph's events were pretty cute plus I liked his personality.

Rune Factory 4

Commentary- Doug! I didnt expect to like him but I was so caught off guard the first time I saw his introduction! I was like "Woah! Whos that!" He had instantly piqued my interest after that!

Runner up- I remember I had accidentally asked Dylas out in one of my other files. I had no interest in him but seeing that he liked me made me see him differently. I also had another file where I had planned dating Leon but I lost interest in that

Who I thought I would end up with- Before the game came out I looked at everyones Bio and thought I would fall for Vishnal! His design was cute and his personality seemed nice on paper but once I started playing I lost interest fast lol.

"Harvest Moon" : One World

Commentary - Jamil had the best 1st love event to pull me in. It showed how compassionate and caring he is and has to be one of my favorite events I've seen. It had me thinking about him hard enough to leave an impression on me!

Runner up- Sami. I did marry him but Jamil stole my heart.

Who I thought I would marry- Everyone except Braden

Girls

Harvest Moon DS

Commentary- Muffy is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS! And has such a cute personality! I could never understand how she had romance troubles. If she were real I'd snatch her up in a heartbeat! As for Leia, Her sweet pwrsonality and cute looks got me too. Sadly, all my hard work went in vain as my save file corrupted and I was never able to marry in the game.

Harvest Moon : Sunshine Islands

Commentary- I never really had a thing for Lily, she was more of an "If I had to choose" option because I find her pretty.

Harvest Moon : A New Beginning

Commentary- I feel like If I could, I could write a whole essay about Tina. Im surprised that she's so underrated when she literally started my awakening! Everything about her is so perfect! She made me realize Im a sucker for short hair and her peppy outlook on life and energy made me feel so refreshed. Infact the first thing she ever told me that made my heart flutter was "Let's seize the day!" and she had the cutest little smile. For some reason that moment was a core memory. I just think she's best girl. I started a new save file just for her and Ive never done that before!

Child name- We never married but I had planned on naming our daughter "Tharja" for some reason.

Rune Factory 4

Commentary- Xiao Pai is just cute! I think I liked her mom more though lol.

"Harvest Moon" : One World

Commentary- Malika is just pretty and I think her personality is neat. I feel like she teases alot.

[ladylemrelle]

A New Beginning had so much potential!  I love so many features from it, but I feel like it didn’t quite follow through.  Mind you, it is the “newest” Harvest Moon/ Story of Seasons game that I’ve played (haven’t played SoS Friends of Mineral Town yet but I do own it) but... yeh.

Also, I love the headcanon that Yuri and Allen are siblings, both Emma’s kids!  Also also, I ADORE Emma and want to cosplay as her one day!!!

[nightbigail]

30 Days of HM/SOS!

Day 6: Best friends

I drew Rod and Allen from ANB as kids, since they’re childhood friends :] Rod was the only one who could tolerate Allen’s snarky attitude lol

[outofcontextbokumono]

In your Allen post you mentioned Natsume is notorious for bad translations. That's super interesting, I had no idea! Is it more of spelling error stuff or just straight up mistranslations?

first of all great question anon!! it's kind of a mix of both, and it varies from game to game. most natsume dialogue just generally reads very clunky and robotic in the english versions, especially when compared to the newer games, where everyone has their own unique way of speaking, and you can usually tell who's talking just based on their mannerisms.

there's more general info on this topic + natsume's involvement with marvelous games in my masterpost here.

xseed's newer games obviously aren't immune to forgetting a few punctuation marks here and there, but natsume's was bad. like, "something about the games just feel Off and uncanny and there's no other way to explain it" bad.

i'm pretty sure it's just because the translators weren't native english speakers, so everything is translated super literally, but if you are one yourself it becomes blatantly obvious simply by looking at the dialogue for more than 5 minutes. this ranges anywhere from minor miswordings to lines that just don't make any sense at all no matter how many times you read them.

and then there's stuff that's so messed up we don't even KNOW how it got there. like some of this shit i would 100% believe you if you just said the game got corrupted because if it isn't that then i can only assume the employees did a large dose of crack cocaine before translating these games. i'm talking like... entire lines that didn't even get translated. text so butchered its straight up unreadable. that one time they misspelled their own NAME in the startup screen. TWICE.

and, last but not least, probably one of my all time favorite errors in a natsume game but one i'll never be able to post here because it's funny purely in context- and it is the singular line in harvest moon: friends of mineral town where the priest, carter, just speaks to you in fucking German

this. this is the error i don't have even the SLIGHTEST explanation for. and, correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm 99.9% sure nobody else does either.

this was....just one line. just the one line of dialogue. where he speaks german. in a japanese farming game that was being localized into english.

at least with the untranslated kanji you have some general sense of how that happened. like, yeah, okay, they just missed a line, whatever. but this isn't even remotely close to the same situation. there should be NO german in this equation whatsoever. it's like if you did 2 + 2 and somehow got 17. and nobody looked over your paper and went, "hey, that doesn't look quite right, man, maybe you should fix that", so you just turned it in and for some reason not even the TEACHER questioned it, they gave you a full grade and a gold star and put your paper on the whiteboard clear as day for all your classmates to see. that's what this feels like.

I. do not think the natsume employees are okay can someone check on them for me

[moonlight-moondrops]

Why Michelle from 'A New Beginning' is a Brilliant Character

Any Harvest Moon fan who has plays A New Beginning and decides to romance Michelle--the bubbly pink magician--will come across a twist in her heart events.

A twist that's reasonably upsetting. The kind of twist that could make you put your blue feather away. One that could push a player to start the arduous process of breaking up in A New Beginning. Bluntly, Michelle is kind of a bitch, and I love it. Spoilers beneath the cut!

Getting the majority of Michelle's heart events requires you to bring her items that she asks for, which increase in rarity over the course of the events. After you start dating her you catch her talking to herself about how you'll really bring her anything...

Yeah, she's been using you for gifts.

What's even worse is her reaction to being found out!

Not an inch of shame in this woman.

But the thing is...she has a point.

In HM/SoS, the main way you raise affection is by giving presents. If you were to rely solely on talking to your love interest, it would take several in-game years for them to fall for you. Not to mention the only real dialogue you see from the player is during heart events.

This comic I found on Reddit is basically what I imagine. This is not at all to excuse Michelle's behavior, of course. It's also very unfair to anyone who chooses to break up with Michelle after her reveals her true colors, since the break up process in A New Beginning will take you at least a couple of seasons, since you have to not talk to your sweetie for 31 days, including avoiding festivals they participate in. But Michelle's motivations and character arc do bring up an interesting point about how you're essentially winning your Harvest Moon loves over with gifts. In regards to the pink trickster herself, Michelle will be surprised if you say you accept her as she is. At least she wasn't expecting you to stick around...? And granted that you can marry her, Michelle's feelings aren't a lie. That'd be going pretty far just to get another Pink Diamond. What I'd love to know is: what made Michelle this way? Did she grow up spoiled, and isn't used to not getting what she wants? Where did she learn to manipulate men in this fashion? Would she play the same tricks on a woman, if given the chance? Does Michelle is lesbian? I personally find Michelle's hidden personality a refreshing break from some of the more one-dimensional personalities in the series. She won't be winning any "World's Best Girlfriend" awards anytime soon--But I will argue that our sneaky pink demon makes for a fascinating love interest.

[heavyshrimp]

just realized i've been excessively playing farming sims each year since 2016

[nocterre]

ALLENROD.... DECADE!!!!!!!!! 10 years since I played hm anb with my friends and they gave me their gems to sell for money bc my game arrived after theirs loool

also i accidentally deleted the post with them holding the love candy so if anyone is a old hero from 2016 and reblogged it link me so i can have it on my blog again sobs

[a-crumb-of-whump]

Leaving this snippet here as a teaser for the next anb chapter <3

“Someone yelled at you?” he eventually whispered, almost as if he wasn’t completely sure he’d heard Ryker correctly. A part of him hoped he hadn’t. “Why… why would anyone do that? To you? That’s so mean.” 

He received a small shrug in response. “I dunno. Havin’ a bad day, I guess. I thought I handled it pretty well, but then I clocked out and proceeded to have a two hour panic attack in the back seat of my car.” 

Carlos’ heart sank as he pictured the image. Panic attacks were horrible. So, so horrible, and it always took a toll on the person’s energy levels, though it wasn’t always noticeable until after the attack had passed. He remembered multiple times where he’d passed out for hours after his own share of them. 

“Ryker…” 

“Should’a brought my emotional support pup with me when I left, hm?” He tightened his arms around Murphy’s body and took in a deep, relaxing breath. “I’m all good now, man.”