Talk:Harvest Moon (series)

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[edit] Homosexual Relationships

Only one Harvest Moon game has yet allowed players to pursue homosexual relationships, "Harvest Moon: DS For Girl."

what "homosexual relationships" are present in the game? i've heard nothing official to this extent. cma 07:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I've done a little poking around, and it would seem that, in the girls version, the player can marry one of two guys or one of 4 special girls. I've seen no screen shots to prove this, just a lot of fourm talk. -- Jelly Soup 21:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
The "for girl" version of Harvest Moon:DS allows you to become "best friends" with the four special girls from the "for boy" version, in lieu of getting married. You have a ceremony to commemorate becoming best friends and you can even (I assume) adopt a child after a while. Also, there are 11(!) guys which you can marry if you decide not to befriend the four special girls. --Undrhil 06:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the template up by console? I would, but I don't know how... Supermariorobot 00:34, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I was working on it before I added the template to each Harvest Moon page. The script was screwing up on me. The problem is that the series isn't very large (system wise) and that throws the tables off. I'll take another crack at it in a moment. -- Jelly Soup 01:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Something keeps screwing up, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I saved it as the broken version, I assume that, what with the template being on so many pages, someone who know more about it will fix it. -- Jelly Soup 01:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
wow, that was fast...Supermariorobot 02:10, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Correct Developer

Natsume is not the developer of ANY of the Harvest Moon games. Please, do NOT put "Natsume" in the developer area of the various Harvest Moon articles. Depending on the time of release, the developer should say "Pack-In-Video", "Victor Interactive Software", or "Marvelous Interactive Inc.". --Sfida 15:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recursive Link

Yasuhiro Wada redirects to the self-same page it is linked from (this Harvest Moon page). This is useless (if amusing). Either put info up on Wada-san's page, or take away the link. Kilyle 07:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A lot of stuff removed

In this [1] edit, a lot of useful information that was never recoved has been lost. Should the article be reverted to this version, or should we try to accomodate the old information into the stuff that's been added since? Alcnolien 14:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

A full revert will elliminate everything added up till this point. Attempting to recover the information sounds like a better idea. -- Jelly Soup 01:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
A lot of stuff could be added. All the games should at least be mentioned. The corect year should be at the GBA game listed.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.93.205.203 (talk) 03:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Links?

Should things like fan games and role-playing forums really be added to the links list? -- Jelly Soup 01:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of all of the games in the series?

There should probably exist a list of all of the harvest moon games.

Also, this section is a little ridiculous: "In many versions, it is possible to have children, but always a boy with the exception of Harvest Moon, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition, and Harvest Moon 3. In Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town, when a girl is played, a baby girl can be born."

"always" is okay if there's 10-20 games, and one or two are the exception. Three games is pushing "always".

There's already a template on the page that includes all the Harvest Moon games. A list is unneeded. - —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.133.3.136 (talk • contribs) 15:15, March 25, 2007.

And on the "always" thing, I changed it to "usually". Is that any better? Raven23 14:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

On a games list: We already have a template with all of the game listed. This frees the article up to focus more on facts, history and trends of the series. -- Jelly Soup 20:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
The template is useful, but I'd like to see a more detailed list showing, for each game, what year it was released and on what system. - Brian Kendig 18:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I decided to address the deficiency myself. I collected the system and release date info from each of the Harvest Moon articles and posted it in a list in this article. User:Jelly Soup reverted me with the edit summary "Games list was moved to template (bottom of page) to free up article for other, possibly more relevent, information." I just want to point out that the template doesn't contain system information or release dates, and would become much larger if that info were added to it. I'd like someone (more familiar with the Harvest Moon series than I am) to organize the "Games in the series" section to include multiple releases of the game for different systems, and to group them to show which are sequels and which are merely alternate versions. The reason I came to this article in the first place was because I wanted to find out what would be a good Harvest Moon game for me to start with on my PS2, and when I didn't find that info here, I set out to add it to help other people. - Brian Kendig 03:11, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

All that information can be found in the individual articles for each game (or could otherwise be easily added so said articles). As for finding a good PS2 game, www.gamefaqs.com search for Harvest Moon with a PS2 filter then read the reviews. (There really aren't any good ones on the PS2 at the moment. Save the Homeland is crap, A Wonderful Life better, but still crap. Wait for Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon (Special Edition) to be released). -- Jelly Soup 04:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the tips! How about on GameCube? I could dust my GC off... is there a definitive Harvest Moon you'd recommend on that system? Meanwhile, when I get a chance, I'll go through the individual articles and improve the games list section. - Brian Kendig 18:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
At the moment, Magical Melody is your best bet. Unless you feel like importing a copy of Poem of Happiness. -- Jelly Soup 20:07, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harvest Moon Articles

Not particularly this article, but most of the Harvest Moon articles are pretty poorly written. If I sound like I'm complaining I'm sorry. I just don't know much about them or I would fix them myself. Quatreryukami 02:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

It might be a good idea to bring this up at one of the video game related wikiprojects. Or maybe start a Harvest Moon wikiproject. -- Jelly Soup 07:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Harvest Moon SNES title screen.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What is this Player for Anime/Series Anime stuff?

The article mentions these things without explaining what they are, and the link only points to anime which doesn't seem relevant. Can someone explain what these things are? Ham Pastrami (talk) 00:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Children section

In the children section, it states: "Harvest 3 is also the only versions where the player can have multiple children." Im playing the original snes game, and i already have a toddler and my wife is pregnant with a second. But im not actually playing it on snes, im playing it through emulation on my computer, so i dont know if maybe its a glitch or something. has anyone else ever had two children in harvest moon original? --Zoobz19 (talk) 18:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)