User:Dreamitec

Hi, I'm not normally active here- apart from to look at Harvest Moon: animal parade - I'm a little more active on the series spin off, '''Rune Factory 4. '''

Harvest Moon Animal Parade
My first harvest moon of the series is Harvest Moon: Animal Parade. One of the reasons it gained my interest was because, compared to most of the other games of the series, I preferred it for its art style.

Thoughts of the game:
I really enjoyed playing the game. Although as it was sort of an old game, I found that there was some drawbacks. Particularly, the saving point and travelling was annoying for me. Because I'd always have to travel to that particular location in order to save- as well as the horse being the only fastest animal in the game. Another thing that was a little bothersome was the pace of the game. The game takes a slow pace, especially for developing relationships in the game. As I've been playing rf4 for a while, I realized how rf4 is at a more faster paced of time and other mechanics in game.

Otherwise, I found it pretty enjoyable.

Marriage (AP)
Bachelors Out of the Bachelors, Chase,  Gill,  The Wizard, were the ones I found interesting, in both character design and personality. However, as Chase is an early bachelor and out of these characters, one of the more easier ones to romance, I chose Chase. In game, I currently have one child with him. I felt that, although I liked his character, there wasn't much development to him. Which is one of the things I dislike about HM, compared to RF series.

When I get round to it, I'd consider getting the other marriage candidates. However, because it's quite slow to gain relationships, (as well as my Wii not functioning well), it'd probably be some time before I consider this.

Bachelorettes Witch (AP) Candace (AP) Luna (AP)

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
My second game of the harvest moon series. I did contemplate for a while whether I wanted to get another HM game, as I preferred their spin off series, Rune Factory (due to story telling, character development, art style, etc.) But I finally decided to get my hands on it. I also chose it because I liked the art style (in comparison to the other options for the DS. In addition, because a DS is more portable, I thought it would be fun to have.)

In comparison to AP, I liked it for it being easier to gain relationships. However, the game did have a slow start to it. It was also frustrating at times when developing relationships, because some characters needed to be around to move on heart events. (Such as Neil needing Rod in order to complete his second heart event)

I do like the design of character customization and being able to build the town area. It is a little frustrating though that some requirements need to be made in order to unlock certain characters. But mining and cooking in the game (compared to AP) I find is much better. You have higher chances for more valuable objects to sell. In addition, cooking is easier because you can buy recipes (although it can sometimes be annoying to unlock) and cooking is easier to earn money in game, compared to farming (so I mainly relied on this as a source for income). Another thing is that I don't like the festivals in Harvest Moon. Particularly in this game. If your anything but first, you don't receive anything. why game? In addition, festivals have always stopped me from getting things from shops. In AP, it wasn't as bad (since you couldn't enter other people's homes either.) but, it's pointless. For comparison's sake, Rune Factory allows the player to still go to shops on festivals. Only difference is that the work hours are shorter. why can't we have that for hm?

Also, surprisingly, the game had a lot of spelling errors. I don't have the images to show, but you'll have to take my word for it.
 * Toni says he liked to greet people. Greet is misspelt great. He wants to great people.
 * One of the characters say wwith. Can't remember which one.
 * A really weird thing happened. I was going through my male playthrough, and it was his birthday. Happened to be a day after Michelle's. I swear it was coincidence XD (I gave him a random birthday.) I gave the Harvest Goddess a mint, as I wanted to see what her dialogue would be like on the characters birthday. It was something like "Oh, one last thing before I leave. (Page) (Face_Goddess) (Right_face) "Happy birthday". It literally had some strange command written in her dialogue. I don't know if this was a fourth wall thing or my Ds, but it happened. Really.

Marriage (ANB)
Bachelors Neil (ANB)

Bachelorettes Michelle (ANB) Michelle is the girl I decided to go for in my male playthrough. I was interested, yet surprised to see that she was highly unpopular. Which at first, I wondered, how that could be the case, as she seemed genuinely kind and affectionate. It was only around her green and yellow heart event did I begin to see why people resented her. Though out of the two events, I felt her yellow heart event worsened her character, as it should've been the point of resolve in her character-where her character would improve-but instead, she said she saw nothing wrong with what she did. Despite what most people think, I decided to marry her.

I find her character interesting. She's quite unusual for a regular marriage candidate. She's a magician, a gold digger, two-faced and a bit of tsundere. I'm not sure what the creators were going for, but maybe with a bit more background, or a change in her heart events, I think that despite her antagonistic nature, she'd have maybe been more likeable. '''If they gave her a reason. Like perhaps, because of the economy failing in Echo Town, she's a gold digger. Or that bad experience has led her to be two faced?'''. Otherwise, I wouldn't say she's someone to hate. Nor really someone to like (or the part you'd probably like about her is the illusion of her sweet nature)
 * She has dated several people before and used them for her self gain. She mentions (when she rejects the ring) that men and women have approached her before.
 * She refuses many gifts from fans. There's this one bit of dialogue where she says she didn't want to seem unfair. Yet, she loves to be spoiled and enjoys gifts. When married, she says she doesn't want to seem greedy.
 * She cares a lot about appearance. Initially, she says she doesn't want to be "chubby" but when dating, she asks for desserts. She also masks her real nature by being cute.