HARVEST MOON CONFESSIONS

ANY INFORMATION YOU REQUIRE, PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION" PAGE BEFORE ASKING ANY QUESTIONS! THANK YOU! Ever had something you wanted to confess to the fandom, but would rather do it anonymously? Look no further! The main purpose of this blog is to share anonymous opinions from the Harvest Moon* series. Feel free to send any ask/submission on either Anonymous or by using any Tumblr -- you will not be linked to the confession in any way. * We also accept Rune Factory and HomeTown Story Confessions. ** All confessions on this blog will be treated fairly. ** CURRENT STATE OF QUEUE: Five confessions posted per day. LAYOUT LOOKS BEST ON EITHER CHROME OR FIREFOX.

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ANY INFORMATION YOU REQUIRE, PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION" PAGE BEFORE ASKING...

Here’s the new blog, everyone! Please redirect your confessions there. I will leave the askbox open for a little while longer (because we are expecting a project someone completed) but then that’s it! No more confessions or post will be posted on this blog.

Thank you again, everyone, for everything. ♥

-Mod V

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What’s this? A post? What does that mean?

It means that someone else has made a confessions blog! All confessions that are currently in our askbox will be moved to the new blog. Your anonymity will be preserved. Do not fret! After this post, I will be posting a link to the new blog.

For now, let’s answer the asks that were in our askbox for... months. My apologies.

Once again, thank you for the wonderful years you’ve given us and your confessions. We’ve seen so many beautiful ones (ones that have made me cry, I won’t lie) and seen how people have bonded over these games. Just going through these last 80 confessions had me in tears. You’ve given us so many good years and memories and we had so much fun. We’ve had people coming to us just ask us if we were okay; we’ve had some of you coming to us and pointing out our late night mistakes (mostly mine). Just know that we cared about this blog so much and it does break out heart to leave. The story doesn’t end with us, though, and a new chapter will begin with someone else holding the pen.

Good luck to the new mod and their blog!

-Mod V

qiofse submitted: Ah, the memories!

I’m digging out all my old HM faves again because I miss my old friends, my farm and all the cooking contests!

Thank you, Mods, for reminding me why I love HM and RF so much!

I’m crying as I’m going through these messages to send over to the new blog. It was messages like this that kept us going. You guys have all been wonderful!

destany89 submitted:

I made a gaming blog and I was wondering if you could share it? Its http://destanys-gaming.tumblr.com

I play mostly harvest moon and story of seasons since it is my favorite series :)

Thanks for taking a look and also you guys are one of my most gave blogs on tumblr! Have a great day!

Check them out when you can, guys!

Ness said:

First of all, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate this tumblr. I have been playing Harvest Moon since AWL/Save The Homeland were brand new, and took a 4-5 year hiatus from the series due to university. After graduation I finally found time to get back into it and am now playing MFoMT again, and that’s how I stumbled onto your tumblr. It’s just very amazing and touching to me to see such a large community of people that share the same feelings as I do, and reading the confessions instills me with both joy, laughter, and nostalgia.

I’m so glad that the confessions were able to do that to you! Words really cannot describe how I feel when people tell us that. I get teary eyed and have to walk away because I’m just blown away by it all.

Anonymous said: So if we confess through submission and you can see who actually submitted it... Will you always make them anonymous?

We always wanted anonymity for those confessing. That’s just how it was and how it is with the new blog. However, I do know that some confessors will admit to their confessions (I’ve done it plenty of times), but that’s a rare case situation. People should feel free to say what they want, but they should also feel free to say things privately.

Anonymous said: This isn't a confession I was just wondering your opinion on why Magical Melody isn't mentioned a lot. It was actually my first Harvest Moon game and I really liked it

I think it’s because many people didn’t give it a chance or didn’t like it when they did. I know we’ve had confessions about how they didn’t like the cute little voices (LOOKING AT YOU, DAN!) or the art style for the characters (bubble butts), but we’ve had some pretty amazing confessions about it, too! MM was my second HM game and I’ve always adored it. However, if you want to see confessions on MM, make them yourself! You’d be surprised by who your confessions may inspire someone to play them. Most of our followers have given games a chance because of our confessions.

And if that’s not the most beautiful thing in the world, then I don’t know what is. :’3

Anonymous said: Hey, are you guys doing ok? I hope this isn't too much to ask right now, but do you have any ideas for a Harvest Moon themed wedding? Something that will give an old fan like me a nostalgic feel like I'm in one of the games. Take all the time you need for this, I hope you're ok. :) Thank you in advance.

How are things going? Hope they are well :)

Things are going well! While it breaks my heart that we had to close the blog, it was in our best health and interest. Thank you so much for your kind concerns.

As for a Harvest Moon themed wedding, I feel like the theme should involve the color blue? I mean, it is the Blue Bird of Happiness and you use the blue feather to propose. Maybe see if you can find someone to make custom cake toppers of your favorite farm and bachelor/ette! This is just my opinion but I’m sure someone else online can help you. :D

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Final Announcement

Okay, so, remember a few months ago when I said my computer was somewhat working? And I said I would give it a week before starting confessions? It died before the week was up. However, it’s working now but I don’t know how well it'll work. Which leads me to the next announcement.

Admin and I have decided to close harvestmoonconfessions.

It was a lot of fun when we first started the blog (Admin having started it before me), but our time has come. We're here to hang our bonnets and just say goodbye. Please know that we had so much fun with you all. We have good times and bad times, but our followers have always been amazing. Thank you so much for making these years memorable.

What does that mean for the blog name? Well... we’re keeping it? Sorry if that makes us seem selfish. However, if anyone else is thinking of making a confessions blog, let us know!

I will keep the asks open for a while. When (and if) someone decides to make a new confessions blog, please hit us up! The promotion for the new blog will be the last post and, if you’re okay with getting a ton of messages, I’ll be more than happy to send you the confessions we unfortunately couldn’t make. Once someone makes the new blog, the askbox will be closed and this place will be used as an archive of sorts. However, feel free to message me on my personal (shirostightass). And fret not. If you had any questions that are in our inbox, I’ll be sure to answer them in our last questions post before making the promotion post.

Thank you so much to everyone. Take care!

-Mod V

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Apologies for the absence!

My dog kinda ruined my laptop and it seems to be working now. Hopefully, if w have enough confessions, I can start making and posting them next week!

-Mod V

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So to me, it looks like the SoS: Trio of Towns seems to be the stronger of the two games announced at E3. Im curious to know what your opinion of them is?

I honestly didn’t want to get too involved in this (and Admin is always busy), but I guess I can kinda put my two cents in? Read more because it’s pretty long.

It’s no surprise that SoS is the stronger of the games. The Harvest Moon tag is FILLED with people’s reasons (and some going against their reasons.)

I won’t lie. I think the art style we’ve seen for Skytree Village looks cute. I was excited for it… until I realized their rehashing the villagers again. Now, this happens in games a lot. The first HM64 had a bunch of other games with the same cast (just different jobs.) Now, they made The Lost Valley and Seeds of Memories with the same cast and that’s fine! I just personally feel that a new cast would have been great.

I really like that you can do multiple things to your crops now such as watering and tilling the fields, but the animation for some actions is still slow. I played TLV and I did enjoy it, but the animations are extremely slow and waste time. I’m talking about picking up crops, watering them, using your tools. If you’ve played Magical Melody and remember how slow their animations were, then you get the idea. TLV was worse, though.

I’ve had my own distress over Natsume (over Luke’s reveal. WHO REVEALS A CHARACTER WITH “CONCEPT ART”? IT DIDN’T LOOK COMPLETE AT ALL. LOOK AT HIS HAIR! Especially when it’s art of a bachelor you had to PAY for.) That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy The Lost Valley. However, I’m not feeling Skytree Village. The art was very cute, though, and since I’m a plush hoard if they offer a nice plush for preorder, I’d get it and give it a try

 Cause that’s what I do. Different strokes for different folks.

As for Trio of Towns, of course people are going to look forward to it. It actually IS a continuation from the company that made the games for us. I like that we have three different places to go to (similar to ToTT) and I’m excited or that. I haven’t been in touch with the news as I should be (because I like to be surprised and flail when I have NO idea what I’m doing), but I like the cast! I look forward to what we can do in the game and all the cute animals that has been offered to us.

I also like the XSEED will be taking the localization. They did well with not only Story of Seasons, but Rune Factory 4. The company has allowed things in the games that Natsume would NEVER allow. Not only that, but XSEED LISTENS to us. I remember when they were discussing Mistel’s name and how they were thinking of changing it. Instead of going through with their decision, they listened to the fandom and Mistel’s name was kept. Plus, Marian’s character in general was kept, something that would have been removed it Natsume took the game.

Thats pretty much all I have to say about the situation. If you guys want to discuss it further, feel free to reblog this! I won’t be posting asks about my opinion. If you DO have asks to send, then do so at my personal.

Just remember this, though:

You are allowed to be excited for Skytree Village

You are allowed to be excited for Trio of Towns

You are allowed to be excited for both

You are allowed to dislike Skytree Village

You are allowed to dislike Trio of Towns

You are allowed to dislike both

Don’t let anyone make you feel bad for what you like. Even if it’s true that these new Harvest Moon games aren’t from Marvelous, you are allowed to enjoy them. You will see some negative things about Natsume and the games in the tag for some time and this is something that can’t be stopped. Fans have strong feelings about what Natsume is doing and they are allowed to. Just keep swimming and remember that it’s okay for you to like these games.

And I’m rambling so I’m leaving. Take care everyone!

-Mod V

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(not a confession) Did you guys hear there is supposedly two new HM games coming out?

By Natsume? If you mean by Natsume then I was not aware. However, I do know that Natsume has a new game coming out and so does Marvelous. In a way, you can consider it two new Bokumono games, but only Story of Seasons is considered a REAL one.

Does that make sense?

-Mod V

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I'm the one that sent consseion about disabled peoplenin harvest moon and did see that anon message :)

Whoot!

-Mod V

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My first RF game was RF3 and I fell in LOVE with it! But after playing RF1, and falling in love with that, and going back, it kind of lost its.. luster. Which is weird, since RF3 has such better mechanics! There is just something about it now that I can’t seem to get into. And that makes me a little sad.

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Playing RF4, I ended up going after Leon because he looked the most interesting. But as time went on, especially after marriage, I noticed he talks a lot like my IRL husband. I read him a few things Leon said, and he agreed right off the bat they do sound like things he’d say! So now when I’m playing and he says something like that I say stuff like ‘okay sweetie’ and we joke around about it.

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My mother was watching me play AnWL and she sometimes gets into the games and makes stupid comments. I went to give Murrey some soup and my mother blurts out “and here is Captain Caveman”. I laughed so hard there were tears in my eyes.

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I'm hoping you can help me? I'm trying to trigger nadis pink flower event in story of seasons and it won't trigger. I have all requirements according to fogu but he never goes to that side of town. I'm in summer so not sure if it goes by season? Or does girogio need to be in west side of town? I'm hoping one of you or a follower might know what in doing wrong? I have seen all flower events up to pink and he's red flower. Thank you!

I hope someone can help!

-Mod V

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I wish the family would help out around the farm like in Animal Parade again. It was really helpful and saved a lot of time. It also gives another reason to keep playing after marriage.

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Full Confession:

I never understood why some girls wanted to marry Carter from FoMT so badly. To me, it seemed like blasphemy that people desired someone from the church… But then, I learned about him and developed this not-so-healthy, shameful kind of… “fetish” for him. I still don’t want to see him as a Bachelor, but the idea of Claire cheating on her husband with him makes me weirdly amused and interested. I sometimes feel awkward being a bit voyeuristic over fictional characters.

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I’m playing it and I think Seeds of Memories is rather charming….

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Not a confession: I would like to thank the person who sent the ask about wanting disabled people in Harvest Moon. As a disabled person myself, I started playing HM because I wanted to be able to feel like I could do more things, but it would be nice to see myself represented in the series, y'know?

I hope the confessor gets to see this! uwu

-Mod V

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I’ve been playing Animal Parade recently and every time winter rolls around, I make sure that my sheep have a full coat of wool and I never sheer them in that season. I don’t know if this has any effect on their heart levels but I still do it. I care about my sheep too much to let them freeze in the winter season.

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Many people seem to dislike Mistel because he is “creepy”. I adore him! In fact, he’s probably the only bachelor in SoS I like. The first time I saw him, I knew I wanted to go after him. The funny thing is that I’m a huge fan of possessive/borderline yandere/yandere characters, and I didn’t even know Mistel fit into that type. I seem to have a force dragging me towards those characters now.