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 Friends of Mineral Town was originally Back to Nature, a popular if jankily isometric entry in the Bokujou Monogatari (AKA: Harvest Moon) farming sim franchise that took the base content and characters of Harvest Moon 64 and reshuffled them for the Playstation 1. FoMT, its updated remake on the GameBoy Advance, went on to be one of the most beloved entries in the franchise, giving the game some much-needed quality-of-life improvements and the benefits of portable gaming. Now, years after the name Harvest Moon was left behind in favor of Story of Seasons, the game receives another remake for modern consoles and PC with a fresh coat of chibi paint, even more quality-of-life improvements, and controversy over what's no longer on marriage candidates' heads. But we can be lesbians now, so we'll deal. Join myself, Skippy Granola, and YamiNoSenshi as we rediscover the "classic Harvest Moon" formula with our farming hero, Best on the Ew Farm. The LP This is not a 100% LP, whatever that even looks like for an old-school Bokujou Monogatari game like this. Rather, my goal is to show off as much of the game as I reasonably can in the span of two in-game years, on the way to my ultimate goal of buying the town villa for a whopping 10 million G. In full transparency, this LP was originally released to my Patreon patrons in full before being uploaded publicly. I don't do this with all of my LPs, but I do for special ones like this as thanks for their support. Patrons also voted on who I marry and gave name suggestions for the animals. ---------------------------                           --------------------------------------------- Fanart (By BrennaOkazaki) 
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Oh I am 100% here for this. I played the ever loving crap out of the old school Harvest Moon games and even just watching this first part was like meeting an old friend for the first time in years.
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Jul 8, 2021 21:50
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It's so good to hear Skippy and Yami riffing on a farm sim again!
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Jul 9, 2021 05:49
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Very wholesome. I'm hoping for a bit of petty small town bullshit that needs to be resolved though.
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Jul 9, 2021 07:26
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Best rides again!
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Jul 9, 2021 11:58
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Oh heck yes, I loved your previous farming sim LPs. Excited to hear more Skippy fawning over spherical animals 
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Jul 11, 2021 03:25
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How else to entice Skippy into a game besides adorable pet rodents
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Jul 15, 2021 20:09
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The bit about tools improving as you use them reminded me of a fun book by David Brin called The Practice Effect, about a world where that very thing happens.
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Jul 16, 2021 05:23
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Those are indeed some extremely good cows.
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Jul 17, 2021 22:06
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Welp, less than half an hour for time to cannibalism. Nature sprites/cannibals. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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Jul 18, 2021 06:25
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You're able to have same-sex relationships in this!? Awesome! I'm still so used to franchises aimed at kids/an E rating being too afraid to do that.
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Jul 18, 2021 18:25
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I can imagine Stardew Valley's success got them to go for it. It was sorta in older games as a "best friends" mechanic, mostly for the girl versions, and sadly that's kinda what the game still does in Japan, but at least it's there. Thank XSEED for making the romance non-subtext here in the Western version though.
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Jul 18, 2021 20:36
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Can't have a party without horse
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Jul 22, 2021 20:01
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I'm surprised nobody commented on the different title screen for the female character back in the first episode--the penguin got replaced by what I'm pretty sure is a capybara  Also your LP inspired me to pull our my old GBA version of the game. And holy hell, is it ever difficult starting out in that one (unless you can put up with the TV mini-game). Even if this LP wasn't being played in Easy mode, just the fact that you start with a reasonable amount of inventory space plus item stacking has to make starting out a lot easier.
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Jul 28, 2021 02:37
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Cherry learning the important lesson that sometimes you have to sacrifice lesser chickens so the better chickens can succeed. Personal note, remember to delete "butthole sunning" from google search history.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:15
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It's kind of a good thing that Carter isn't hot anymore. Makes his weirdness harder to ignore.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:07
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Kibayasu posted:Personal note, remember to delete "butthole sunning" from google search history. I... what!?  Did I completely forget something from the previous update!?
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Jul 29, 2021 23:41
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azren posted:I... what!? When Best is talking to Jennifer at 5:50.
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Jul 30, 2021 00:23
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Oh heck ground floor on a ThornBrain LP and it’s my fav Harvest Moon game?! Bookmarked so hard!
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Jul 31, 2021 01:50
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Can't believe you stole the goddess' boot.
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Aug 5, 2021 02:35
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I'm pretty sure the "old buddy who moved out" and left the fishing rod is a reference to Greg from Back to Nature, aka 'this guy who existed to give you the fishing rod and was never relevant again': He also lived in Zack's house.Back to Nature had a surprising amount of weird barely-notable characters that the remakes quietly got rid of. Gotz's old roommate and the photographer who lived with the mayor for some reason are the others. (BTN was my first Harvest Moon and I played it a lot as a kid, so all the weird details are etched into my brain)
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Aug 5, 2021 07:05
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It's just everyday with you, isn't it Jeff Haifisch posted:I'm pretty sure the "old buddy who moved out" and left the fishing rod is a reference to Greg from Back to Nature, aka 'this guy who existed to give you the fishing rod and was never relevant again': Right! I bring that all up at some point in the LP but I don't remember when. They were otherwise-irrelevant characters from HM64 too.
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Aug 5, 2021 22:03
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You cannot tell me that this is anything other than a pair of Ken doll trousers glued to his upper lip: Also the priest - Carter? - looks shockingly like Tim Buckley, I can't get over it
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Aug 7, 2021 13:59
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There's been a distinct lack of adorable in this LP so far, so let's fix that!
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Aug 12, 2021 20:02
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Anybody who can't cook with chocolate and strawberry milk isn't trying hard enough.
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Aug 13, 2021 06:26
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At the very least, you could make chocolate/strawberry Ice Cream, right?
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Aug 13, 2021 12:05
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The addition of the flavored cows and alpacas and rabbits (and their various products) along with the changes to the breeding and affection systems... well it's still nowhere near HMDS levels of completionist spite, but I sure wouldn't want to guess how long a Harvest Goddess% Run in this version would take either.
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Aug 14, 2021 02:46
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This part has nothing to do with Kai, for the record. He doesn't show up for a couple more parts.
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Aug 19, 2021 20:01
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Ions can be negative (anions) or positive (cations). The only thing they can't be is neutral. This was covered in grade school physics. also https://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-positive-vibes NullBlack fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Aug 20, 2021 02:48
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NullBlack posted:Ions can be negative (anions) or positive (cations). The only thing they can't be is neutral. This was covered in grade school physics. I... only got taught that in 11th grade chemistry. I promise I had good schooling, but sometimes I get startled by when people learn things.
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Aug 20, 2021 22:07
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The whole ions thing is part of that health woo that gets air ionizers/purifiers sold. Which yeah they purify air but do so (at least the ones that actually do something and isnt just a blinkenbox full of LEDs) by generating ozone, which isnt great for people with asthma or other respiratory problems.
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Aug 20, 2021 22:49
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yeah, looking at a more recent article (after the studies the first one was apparently waiting for), there's some health benefits from negative ions, but you're better with natural sources (rain, rivers, fountains, apparently just water in general) rather than "ion generators" (which either have negative side effects, do nothing, or both).
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Aug 20, 2021 23:20
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Doctors prescribing new age "wellness"? Now that's some premium small town bullshit right there. But the real crime here is selling a kitchen without a refrigerator.
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Aug 23, 2021 01:58
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Gotz is a carpenter, not an appliance salesman. 
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Aug 23, 2021 23:20
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The pacing in this game, with time being so rapid inside and frozen outside threw me like crazy.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:01
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Natural 20 posted:The pacing in this game, with time being so rapid inside and frozen outside threw me like crazy. I think you got that backwards?
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Aug 24, 2021 21:55
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azren posted:I think you got that backwards? Yes Yes I did. The pacing in this game, with time being so rapid outside and frozen inside threw me like crazy.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:46
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Haifisch posted:Gotz is a carpenter, not an appliance salesman. I mean, he does sell the fridge in this game  just not the other appliances.
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Aug 25, 2021 00:46
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Time to close out a hefty first Spring. Next week, new season and a new friend!
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I only just found out about this and I'm almost up to date, but one thing stuck out to me in the one I just watched after you bought the animals, it looks like they'll bring themselves back into the barns at 8 PM? So that would mean no having to build fences and worrying about stray dogs attacking them, that's kind of nice at least.
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