Frontier is good, but I prefer playing with cheats that disable the Runey system. Note, I never use cheats. This is one of my few exceptions.
What do you think of Harvest Moon?
Liam King
Ryan Foster
AWL was pretty poor though. There's nothing to do in the town, no events or anything. You've got animals like the goat who are literally useless etc.
There character growth doesn't really make sense either as an 80 year old outlives the protag who has aged a good 40 years over the course of the story.
Sebastian Peterson
Animal Parade and Trio of Towns are good too.
Jace Watson
Runey's would be fine if either
A. They didn't naturally progress to extinction and instead can only go extinct if you purposefully fuck with them.
B. There is no penalty to extinction, but if you wanna micro manage them you can still get double grow speed.
Gotta look into playing with that cheat tho, Runey's are really the worst part of that game.
Yeah you're not wrong the game lacks a lot of content but it also has a lot of impressive bits like the friendship rewards and other secrets, like the plant you get in the third chapter that makes fruit fusions.
I think it's just a shame because no other HM game has ever really touched on the idea of time progressing and characters dying or growing older.
John Nelson
Yeah, I just remembering doing some stuff on Homebrew to lock Runeys at max levels in all of the areas. You should be able to find out some stuff about it if you Google Homebrew, Runeys, and Rune Factory Frontier.
If you play with Dolphin, it should also be easy to do.
Henry Baker
AWL is my personal favorite but it has some serious issues. Most characters (outside of cutscenes that are sometimes a bitch to trigger) have only a few lines of dialogue based on the weather or what room their currently standing in. Though on the plus side, Forget Me Not Valley is probably my favorite location in any Harvest Moon game I love the atmosphere so much. I'm hoping the SoS team goes back and gives it a fresh coat of paint someday without losing a lot of what made that game special.
Elijah Kelly
HMDS was literally the FoMT to AWL. But I hated that game too since it was just buggy and not much fun.
Dominic Hernandez
I play on a hacked Wii U so once I have some free time I'll look into it! Thanks user!
Agreed, I saw they did a remake or something of Friends of Mineral Town.
Aiden Price
>disgusting art style, absolutely atrocious
Fucking this. Any time I try to get into it, I get turned off by how hideous everything is. The art in that game is deviantart-tier. Normally I have no problem looking past bad graphics or artstyle, but goddamn Stardew Valley is fucking horrendous to look at. It's seriously vomit-inducing.
Zachary Collins
Yeah, I have HMDS too and it really feels like it was just slapped together without much thought. It's a pain in the ass to progress and collecting the harvest sprites was just unnecessary padding. Which is a shame because it gave the AWL cast some much needed character development. Even if it was just a little.
I think it's supposed to come out this summer in the west. I'm excited to play it but I haven't looked into it too much.