Harvest Moon : Fan Art + Comics

Oops. I almost forgot that it was my day to post today. XD
Well, I don't really feel like writing a long post today, so rather than doing a "game of the day" review-type thing, I'll just talk a bit about, and provide wonderful fan art of one of my favorite game franchises: Harvest Moon!

So, Harvest Moon is really different from The Legend of Zelda, but somehow I love them both. XD It's a farming simulator (Don't stop reading now! It's much cooler than it sounds!) in which you interact with the villagers in your town. I like to think of it as a mix between any type of farming

game (but better - it's so addicting....which is weird), animal crossing (You know, that cute game with the town filled with animal citizens, where you talk with them and such?), and a dating sim (you'll understand in a moment). 

So, like I said before, the farming piece is a huge aspect in the game. That's because all of the games in the franchise involves your running of a farm (Again, it's addicting...not to mention that I become really attached to my animals). However, as much as I enjoy that piece it definitely isn't my favorite part. Next in line would be the interactions you can make with villagers. You get to talk to them, give them gifts, celebrate their birthdays, and see their cutscenes. All of the villager personalities are always very varied and interesting. You find yourself actually really caring for the villagers in these games. This probably also stems from the fact that, just as in real life, they don't start out as your friend immediately. Once you talk with them often, and get to know more about them, their friendship meter will grow, giving you a visual representation of how close you are with them. It's also interesting to see how their dialogue changes when you increase your friendship with them. I just love being able to learn the personalities and stories of these often really interesting and well-developed characters.

Now, call me weird or whatever, but my favorite aspect of the games in the Harvest Moon franchise is definitely the romance aspect. Because the entirety of each game is centered around your life on the farm, the franchise made it possible to marry a character in the town and even have kids. I love that. >w< I love being able to see the stories and personalities of the bachelors in real depth, which only happens with the bachelors, as their characters are always the most well-developed. I also love seeing the cute "heart events" that you get at certain times after the bachelor (or bachelorette if you play as a guy) likes you enough. The cutscenes are so cute! >w< In the end I usually end up liking all of the bachelors in the town, since they're all so wonderful. >n< (I de eventually end up picking a favorite and marrying them though. ;P).

For those of you who have played any of the incredible, and incredibly relaxing games from this franchise, I've actually only played a few, and have never fully finished a game (the game never really ends, but I consider it over when I have married and my kid(s) has(have) fully grown). So far, I have only played HM:MFOMT (More Friends of Mineral Town), HM:MM (Magical Melody), and HM:TOTT (Tale of Two Towns). (My favorite being MFOMT - my first HM game. :3 )

Anyways, enough about myself and the HM series. Here's the wonderful fan art that I have found! (most of which will be of my favorite bachelors)

More Friends of Mineral Town: Bachelors
Gray, Doctor (Yeah...that's his name. XD) (top), Kai (top right), Cliff (bottom left), Rick (bottom right)
I married the Doctor, but I also ended up liking Cliff a lot. :3

More Friends of Mineral Town Bachelorettes
Mary, Claire (MC), Popuri, Elli, Ann, Karen

Tale of Two Towns Bachelors and Bachelorettes + the two MCs: Lillian and Phillip (middle)

Tale of Two Towns: Lillian (MC) + Hiro (my husband in the game >w< )
He's so adorable!

Tale of Two Towns: Hirooo <3 <3 <3 (why are you so cute?!?!?)

Tale of Two Towns: Oh this person? Of course it's not the same guy from the last 2 pictures. Why would I do that? ;P

Animal Parade: I haven't actually played the game, but I know about the bachelors, and thought that this was hilarious.
The person in the third to last and second to last panel is a guy by the way (he's a bachelor actually). His name is Julius. :P

Animal Parade: Luke (loves to say words like: EXTREME!) and Owen

Animal Parade: Toby and Luke

Also, THIS (from Story of Seasons, the MC, Minori) is beautiful (you have to read the comment too, though). XD

Oh, I love these so much.

- Cherry