Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 10

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Thought I'd make his winter outfit for good measure.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/pirate-quiz

I wanted to celebrate the fact that the Veronica Mars movie will be out in theaters on the 14th! (I've been a total marshmallow ever since my dad introduced me to the show, when it was originally airing on UPN)

If you haven't seen the trailer for the movie yet, click the link!

And if you haven't seen the series yet, check it out on Amazon Prime if you have subscription! (They offer a free month trial if you don't want to pay the hefty price.)

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...

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Lifesigns, you mainly made my list because of the Black Jack reference. But you're still a really fun game, especially for $6. I wish the prequel was released here, I would have gladly purchased it.

Though I could have easily put the Black Jack game on here instead, but I forgot of its existence. Shun me if you must...

What was at the top of the stairway to heaven in your glitch pics? :p

Oh, it was just main street or whatever you want to call it, lol.

“Result: Your patronus is a Dun Mare/Stallion”

Every time I see this scene in the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer, I always think of the End of the World scene from Grandia.