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5 Responses to “GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town Reviews”

1. 
   Andrea Carrier
   Sep 3rd, 2010 at 7:34 pm

   Review by Andrea Carrier for GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town
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   Hmm, where to start? Well, I’ll go ahead and begin by saying that this is basically the girl version of “Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town” that came out awhile ago. The games are very similar with the exception of a few, small additions, and of course, the gender specifications of each game.

   In this game, you’re a single, white, blonde female running a farm all on your own. If you’re a fan of the Harvest Moon series, you know that running a farm is much more fun and exciting than it sounds. There are crops to water, animals to feed, cows to milk, sheep to shear, fish to catch, villagers to befriend and much more. =)

   However, this game isn’t all work. A lot of fun little extra curriculum activities are also entwined into the plot. There are quite a few competitive festivals in which you often get a prize for winning. Some of these include the Cooking Festival (In which you cook a dish and bring it to Rose Square to be judged); the Cow, Sheep, and Chicken Festivals; the Dog Disk Tournament; and much more.

   Befriending the villagers will net you some nifty extras. For example, if you and Won become good friends, he’ll allow you to sell stuff to him, which is handy because some items he will buy for a higher price than Zack. That, and he’ll buy items that you can’t normally sell, such as flowers and things you cook.

   Mining is also a very fun experience in this game. Busting rocks with a hammer to get ores and gems… Who could say no to that? =P
   
   Once you build up your stamina and learn to make energy-replenishing dishes, you can go very deep in the mines. (Although I’ll admit, it can be VERY annoying trying to find the steps down to the next floor on the levels with huge areas. >__>)
   
   - Kappa (A swamp monster, pretty much, lol. Yep, a genuine Japanese water demon…)

   So there you have it. All the cool aspects of the game put into detail. Now for the bad things…

   - A LOT of typos. Seriously, it’s annoying. The oddest one is after you’re married to anyone but Gray, go talk to him. He speaks Japanese. O.o
   
   - Your animals can die. =( I know some people think this is more realistic, but I find it extremely annoying. After you go and win the festivals with them and get their affection all the way up, they die in a few years. (Chickens live for about 3 years before they start dieing. Cows and Sheep live for 4 or 5. Can’t remember.) Although you can cheat death by saving before you go to sleep and then loading if they die, since the funerals are always in the morning… =)
   
   - There are some very valuable and useful items that are obtained too late in the game. The Gem of Truth is a pain, and the Teleport Stone can only be gotten after the third year, and even then it’s annoying getting to it. (All the way at the bottom on the Spring Mine. >_

2. 
   K. McEvoy
   Sep 3rd, 2010 at 7:52 pm

   Review by K. McEvoy for GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town
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   For those who have never played a Harvest Moon game, the main storyline and goal of the game is that your main character gains a farm and must clean it up, grow crops, earn money, and socialize with the townsfolk. You also have the ability (in many of them) to woo and marry the spouse of your dreams and have a kid as well. Previous versions of the U.S. versions of these games have been known to make the main character male, allowing you to marry 1 of 5 potential women in the game. Doesn’t sound bad, unless you want to marry a guy.

   Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town makes the main character female – giving players that chance to woo and marry 1 of 5 potential men (with rumors of some secret possible ones). The potential men are the ones who were your rivals in the first GBA game: Cliff; Doctor; Doug; Kai; and Rick. The rumor is that you can also marry: Gourmet; Kappa; and Won (in a similar manner as you could marry the Harvest Goddess in the first GBA game).

   Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town also plays like the original GBA game of Friends of Mineral Town. Unfortunately, a little too much like the first version as cut scenes that affected your relationship with the girlfiends are also in More Friends of Mineral Town – making you to remember which version you are playing. In fact the original GBA version had two Thanksgiving Festivals. One in Spring, the other in Winter. The Spring one had the male charater give homemade cookies to the girls of interest and the Winter Festival had the girls (with required affection level) give your character chocolate. At least in More Friends of Mineral Town your female character gets to wait until Winter to give their gifts of chocolate to any of the guys they desire – which also means that unless you make real good friends with one of the potential men real soon you won’t be receiving any cookies in the Spring.

   There is now a new feature that allows you to sell things to Won (the seller who stays with Zack). This is especially handy since he will buy things that you can’t sell to Zack (such as flowers and Golden Lumber). You have to make friends with him first. I managed to unlock it after giving 3 gifts of Pirate’s Treasure (one of which was wrapped).

   You can also store the fish you have gotten from the rivers, lakes, and ocean in the pond on your farm…but I don’t think they will reproduce as they could in the Playstation version.

   Aside from the above new things, the opening storyline is different as you see an ad for the farm and decide to quite your job, move out of your apartment, and move to the country. Not to mention the fact that the Mayor laughs at you for believing the ‘sweet talk’ wording of the ad for the farm. The other versions have it that you had visited the place when you were a kid and met a new friend that lived there. In this version, EVERYONE is a stranger to you.

   Whether you are new to the Harvest Moon line or a long time fan, this is still a game to get. It is non-violent, easy to play, and you can save the game’s progress just about anyway…making it a great game to play when on the go.

3. 
   Shiva J.
   Sep 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 pm

   Review by Shiva J. for GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town
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   The entire Harvest Moon series is based on roleplaying. However, most of the games in the past had you either get married, succeed at the farm, or befriend the villagers in order to continue playing. This game is much different! It allows you to run the farm in anyway you want, and you won’t get that horrible sign that everyone hates, “GAME OVER”. It is somewhat different then the boy version of this game. There are a few new recipes, you can change your clothes, but the most important aspect is that you are a girl! You can marry the many guys available, or stay single. I must say that getting married is very fun to do. You can get a child and raise her. Yes I believe you can only get a daughter, and they stay as toddlers. Raising the animals, and tending to the crops is a lot more fun then it sounds. You get many benefits from them, such as money. Whatever you produce on the farm you can use in your cooking. You can expand your home, which you must do in order to get married. Some people do not like the many challenging parts, such as trying to get a certain jewel or befriending a local villager. But the more they play it, the less challenging it seems, and the more fun it gets. And what is really great about this game is that, even when you’re married, have a kid, get a lot of money, have great animals, theres ALWAYS something to do, something to achieve. I highly reccomend this game, you will not regret it. If you’re gonna pick up a copy of this game, I might suggest you get a nice comfortable couch to sit on, and have some chips to snack on, because once you start, trust me, its hard to stop

4. 
   Bell
   Sep 3rd, 2010 at 8:30 pm

   Review by Bell for GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town
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   I purchased HM: MFoMT at the store, thinking it would be something along the lines of it N64 ancestor; it isn’t! Harvest Moon games in general are addicting, but this one is tops! plus yo can take it with you anywhere. I have the N64 version, the PSO, and both Gamecube versions…but I like this one most of all. My partner is Doctor,(so have I become Mrs. Doctor?) he is so cool, and a real sweetie. Ellie was my rival. My point is BUY THIS GAME! it my be a routine in the begin but once you get into it, you’re captured for hours; I’m living proof. Another great buy would be Harvest Moon: Another Wonder Life, it’s 3-D counter part. When you connect those two, the dialouge of the characters change.

5. 
   Wendy Silva
   Sep 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm

   Review by Wendy Silva for GBA Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town
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   While I love the Harvest Moon series and overall recommend them, I need to say that if you already own the first Friends of Mineral Town, do NOT bother to buy this one. They are exactly the same with the single exception of your character being a girl in this one. The characters are the same, the farm is the same, the events are the same, etc. Since I own all the previous HM games, I was looking forward to this one, expecting the usual “same premise, different game” that they have so far provided. Not so.

   That said, if you don’t own the other version, this is certainly up there for a high quality, highly addictive game. I love it.