Pros: A wonderful little condensed version of Harvest Moon on SNES. A couple new features that weren't in SNES include a cheese and butter maker, additional crops with carrots, eggplants, peanuts, and I think broccoli, there's buying food to eat for meals, being able to play as a female player (huge series first right there), owning a pet cat (d'aww!), a complete underground mine where you can use a pickaxe to, well, mine, as well as forage for mushrooms and fish in a pond, being able to trade items and animals with other players (which is how you get a golden chicken! Something I could never achieve...) and also, last but not least, the game lasts forever!
Cons: All of that at the expense of these features that were in the SNES version; a town you can walk around in, an entire forest and mountain area to explore, being able to woo a spouse (that's a big one for a lot of folks), limited festivals, and being limited to four of each farm animal. Otherwise, this is a very faithful version of Harvest Moon, and with all of those differences (I hope I didn't miss any major ones) It stands on its own very well too.
What it means to me: Whew, wow, okay, so Harvest Moon means a lot to me. The SNES game in particular, I'll talk about in the SNES review, but it was a game I only ever rented, could never find or afford the actual game for myself, but, when the GB version rolled around, my brother and I jumped at the opportunity, and so this, was our first Harvest Moon that we owned, and we savored the hell out of it, we played it night and day, on a Game Boy during our travels and at home on the Super Game Boy peripheral, and then later, on the Game Boy Color with the GBC version. This was a game that was very near, and very dear, and we cherished like it was a, well, second life. We'd go on to enjoy future games in the series more than this one, but this one marked the occasion of finally having a Harvest Moon to ourselves. Very important game to me and my brother.
Cons: All of that at the expense of these features that were in the SNES version; a town you can walk around in, an entire forest and mountain area to explore, being able to woo a spouse (that's a big one for a lot of folks), limited festivals, and being limited to four of each farm animal. Otherwise, this is a very faithful version of Harvest Moon, and with all of those differences (I hope I didn't miss any major ones) It stands on its own very well too.
What it means to me: Whew, wow, okay, so Harvest Moon means a lot to me. The SNES game in particular, I'll talk about in the SNES review, but it was a game I only ever rented, could never find or afford the actual game for myself, but, when the GB version rolled around, my brother and I jumped at the opportunity, and so this, was our first Harvest Moon that we owned, and we savored the hell out of it, we played it night and day, on a Game Boy during our travels and at home on the Super Game Boy peripheral, and then later, on the Game Boy Color with the GBC version. This was a game that was very near, and very dear, and we cherished like it was a, well, second life. We'd go on to enjoy future games in the series more than this one, but this one marked the occasion of finally having a Harvest Moon to ourselves. Very important game to me and my brother.