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In Friends of Mineral Town, accessing the place where gathered items are stored – the rucksack on your very shoulders – is an absolute pain. It follows that this collecting and dropping should be a simple, intuitive process – we invented door handles so we wouldn’t have to lift the entire plank from its hinges every time we try to pass through, right? Picking up things off the ground and then dropping them off in a collection box for a profit so you can buy tools and more efficiently pick things up and drop them off is the inalterable core of the series. Here goes… It’s a mainstay of Harvest Moon that you collect things – rocks, crops, fish, forage. And while I absolutely wasn’t planning to open this retro review with a lengthy discussion of inventory management, it is so downright offensive in Friends of Mineral Town and stymies your progress from the outset that I’m completely cornered by the subject. I was bothered, however, by singularly frustrating early-game design decisions that play keep-away with the classic Harvest Moon experience for a good many hours.

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That the full potential of these ideas is not realised in FoMT, is entirely understandable, and simply implies a somewhat limited experience. FoMT innovated on Harvest Moon 1-3 for GameBoy (Color) by expanding the social experience and fuelling collectionist impulses – features that that would become staples for the genre at large.

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Add to that an apparent vicious insistence on making life unnecessarily difficult, and many of today’s less determined players will be put off by FoMT long before the game opens up and becomes truly enjoyable.Ī bit of context: Friends of Mineral Town is popularly seen as the high-water mark for Harvest Moon: the last of the classics before a quality decline took hold that goaded the series to the brink of oblivion.

The problem, however, is just that: the game, by today’s standards – is all groundwork all the core genre ideas are present in a neonatal sort of way, recognisable but underdeveloped. It indisputably laid the groundwork for (spiritual) successors like Animal Crossing and the much more recent Stardew Valley. On release, Friends of Mineral Town (FoMT) was an innovative title that pushed the boundaries of the farming / social sim genres and raised their mass market appeal. I’m conflicted about Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.

Get to know the boy or girl of your dreams, and you might be able to date them, get married, and even start a family! Mineral Town is home to several eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. Mineral Town is full of friendly faces, both old and new! Head into town, give gifts, and learn all about your neighbors as you befriend them. Raise them all with love and care, and you’ll have plenty of products to harvest, sell, or cook with! Care for crops, livestock, and more as your very own story of seasons unfolds.Ī menagerie of fruits, veggies, and livestock are waiting for you. You’ve returned after many years to restore your late grandfather’s farm to its former glory. Your farming life begins in Mineral Town, a charming village surrounded by nature.