Current Events > I'm beyond excited for Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town

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Are they keeping the saving component of saving wherever you want? This is essential for the mines to get the good stuff

Leanaunfurled posted...

I'm narrowing my interests down to Gray, Doctor, and Ran. Brandon I'm on the fence on, if he's less "artist with his head up his ass" or not.

Who's Brandon? Is that supposed to be Cliff or Kai?

Man these name changes are fucking me up >_>

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Is this actually a good game? Harvest Moon has fallen off so bad over the years and now it has the incomparable Stardew Valley taking a massive slice of the pie

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I thought only Two Towns was buggy af? I don't remember any bugs in ones I've played.

And yes you can save anywhere.

Brandon is the new guy

BignutzisBack posted...

Is this actually a good game? Harvest Moon has fallen off so bad over the years and now it has the incomparable Stardew Valley taking a massive slice of the pie

imo yes, but I also love recent games in the series. Trio of Towns stomps all over Stardew for me.

BignutzisBack posted...

Is this actually a good game? Harvest Moon has fallen off so bad over the years and now it has the incomparable Stardew Valley taking a massive slice of the pie

What you are thinking of isn't actually Harvest Moon Natsume lost the localising rights after Animal Parade but because they came up with the localised name of Harvest Moon they got to keep that and make crappy knock off games with it while the new localisers of the actual games went with Story of Seasons @BobanMarjanovic and this game is a remake of what is considered the best in the series.

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NeonOctopus posted...

When are Americans getting this game?

The 14th.

NeonOctopus posted...

Who's Brandon? Is that supposed to be Cliff or Kai?

Man these name changes are fucking me up >_>

Brandon is a new character they're introducing, theres a new bachelor(ette) for each character.

NeonOctopus posted...

When are Americans getting this game?

Next week. Actual release date is the 14th IIRC.

spikethedevil posted...

What you are thinking of isn't actually Harvest Moon Natsume lost the localising rights after Animal Parade but because they came up with the localised name of Harvest Moon they got to keep that and make crappy knock off games with it while the new localisers of the actual games went with Story of Seasons @BobanMarjanovic and this game is a remake of what is considered the best in the series.

Oh wow shows how much I know, I literally thought this game was called Harvest Moon: Story of Seasons

I will have to check it out

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Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

haha I remember saving, hoeing every tile to find the stairs, and then reloading to find only that stairs tile in HMDS I think, the mines were so poorly designed in that game

go down 65 thousand floors lol

Oh God, I forgot there was 65000 floors in DS (iirc you skip a ton of floors if you fall down holes tho, right?). And wasn't that silent princess at the bottom and you had to make that trip everytime just to give her gifts if you wanted to marry her and bang her? Fuck that >_>

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NeonOctopus posted...

Oh God, I forgot there was 65000 floors in DS (iirc you skip a ton of floors if you fall down holes tho, right?). And wasn't that silent princess at the bottom and you had to make that trip everytime just to give her gifts if you wanted to marry her and bang her? Fuck that >_>

excuse me what the fuck lol

What? >_> I haven't played it in like 8 years so I'm probably forgetting details

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Oh no you misunderstood, I didn't know about that at all and it sounds like an absurd decision

Oh lol. Yeah DS had some fucked up requirements to marry the secret Bachelorettes. Like the Goddess required you to find every single missing sprite, Witch Princess requires you to kill like 200 animals or something, the silent princess requires a shit ton of trips to the mine to find her, and there was also a Mermaid that had some crazy requirement too but I forget. I'm sure they're all on fogu >_>

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https://fogu.com/hm6/chan3/witch.php

The Witch Princess also requires 10,000 presents before she can marry you. And you can't just give her a stack of 99, you have to give her 1 at a time.

I liked DS but some of the requirements are so fucking dumb. Fuck. That.

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Bah ran out of short enough games to play before this comes out... After replaying and playing the entire Trails of Series in preparation for Cold Steel 4, pretty burnt out on RPGs and need this to recover! Don't really want to start a replay of Persona 4 on PC until after this.

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LightHawKnight posted...

After replaying and playing the entire Trails of Series

whoa, i finished the first trails in the sky and still havent felt like playing the second for the first time, i can imagine playing all 8 or 9 games twice or whatever

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Ack, I didn't know what Van's Favorite was the first time I got one, gave it to Van like a dummy. Later learned it can be sold for 55k to Huang lol.

Right now I'm looking at Jennifer and Ran. They any good for waifus?

Also, I really liked Trio of Towns. It was such a novel concept. I hope they get a new, original SoS out soon.


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I love Ran so much, she tempted me a lot. I finally decided to go with Gray, though.

Jennifer, I can't stand. Great design but she's really annoying with her hippy personality.

Leanaunfurled posted...

Ack, I didn't know what Van's Favorite was the first time I got one, gave it to Van like a dummy. Later learned it can be sold for 55k to Huang lol.

How do you sell it to him?

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Found out for every 10 separate transactions at the normal shop the best day you get another vans favourite so you can get 50-57k a day depending how much Haung likes you.

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Damn, that's what triggers the raffle? It's winter right now so I'm not buying a whole lot.

And to sell Van's Favorite (and things like dishes) you need to get Huang to 4 music notes. I give him apples and oranges from the trees.

Any good places for apples? I have the grape tree at my farm so could I switch it and get instant apples?

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I don't think there are any you can forage, but I might be wrong about that. For yourself though you can have 5 trees on your farm, and you can buy them for 1k each at Gotts' place. I'm not sure if there's a way to remove them or not if you end up not liking what you picked, though.

https://fogu.com/sos3/farm/trees.html

Gotts has Apple, Orange, and Wild Grape Trees for sale for 1000 G each. Once purchased, Gotts will install the full-grown tree immediately on your farm. The tree will then start producing its fruit the next day.
A fruit tree can be replaced with a new variety by chopping the tree with your Axe, then paying 1000 G to Gotts for the new fruit tree of your choice.

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D'oh. I didn't think to try chopping, silly enough.

Leanaunfurled posted...

D'oh. I didn't think to try chopping, silly enough.

TBF same here lol.

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Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

My American ass is going mental knowing all the Europeans are playing this and I still have to wait until Tuesday

i need my fix

@Copy_X_Mk_ll Oh boo hoo considering Europe usually has to wait sometimes over a year after the US (19 years for 64 and about 15 for Save the Homeland).

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I ended up picking Gray, we just started dating. I'm happy with my choice :)

In case anyone else is curious about the elevator in the mines, you have to gift the goddess for 100 days to unlock it (a cutscene will occur when you walk into one of the mines). And the warping is for every 50 floors, in both mines.

I didn't know it was coming out so soon, I replayed the PS1 version last year around August-November and don't have any interest in this one. I'm waiting for FF Crystal Chronicles and Captain Tsubasa next month.

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Can you give her whatever or does it have to be something specific?

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Eggs work well as she likes anything from your farm.

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Yeah you can give her a lot of things. I just give her one of whatever falls off my fruit tree that day.

So does the town still get extremely jealous of you and yell at you every morning if you build a gold lumber fence? lol

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NeonOctopus posted...

So does the town still get extremely jealous of you and yell at you every morning if you build a gold lumber fence? lol

No gold lumber this time from what I can see.

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Can you access the middle of the crop without harvest sprites? You couldn't in the original without upgraded tools, and I want to know if I can plant a full 3x3 crop without wasting the middle space.

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Alucard188 posted...

Can you access the middle of the crop without harvest sprites? You couldn't in the original without upgraded tools, and I want to know if I can plant a full 3x3 crop without wasting the middle space.

You can walk on crops in this game, you can fill the entire area with crops if you wish.

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Awesome.

Is the Harvest Goddess' High or Low quiz show still on in Spring? She was a good way to get an early infusion of cash.

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Alucard188 posted...

Awesome.

Is the Harvest Goddess' High or Low quiz show still on in Spring? She was a good way to get an early infusion of cash.

Can't play the game till tomorrow, so I don't know that. There is a beginners tips topic on the board and there is a money trick that can be used earlyish.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/268704-story-of-seasons-friends-of-mineral-town/78842009

bondylolz posted...

This might count as a game mechanic abuse but you can get 48-57K everyday by abusing the van's favorite trick and selling it to Huang. The game has a hidden counter everytime you buy something from a shop, everytime this counter hits 10 and you go to sleep, the next day you will get Van's Favorite in your mailbox.
So if you want to abuse this for some early money here are the steps.

1. Give Huang gold ores until you get a cutscene where he will start buying items from you
2. Go to any shop and SAVE (I used chicken feed for this since its cheap but you can use anything), buy one chicken feed, close out of the buying menu and run home to sleep
3. If you get a mail the next day then you'll know that your hidden counter was at 9, if you didnt get a mail then reload your save and this time buy 2 chicken feed. Repeat this process until you get the mail with van's favorite whic you can sell to Huang for $$$$$. If you're unlucky like me, it'll take you maximum of 10 times.

IMPORTANT : Everytime you buy something and exit out of the shop menu by pressing B the counter goes up by 1, Even if you buy 50 chicken feed all together and exit out of the shop menu, the counter will go up only by 1. So the most efficient way is to buy one at a time. This counter is affected by buying anything but the $0 water in the inn and Kai's shop. (Not sure about buying animals counting though)
If you're gonna do this, the tricky part is planning out your purchases each day so that it lands exactly on 10 everyday, i end up saving everytime before i start buying anything from a shop.

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The Goddess quiz is in the game still! I forgot about it completely and missed it. ;_;

Also I'm a married woman now.

Jesus Christ, Thomas's hat is ridiculous

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This is out today right?

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