Harvest Moon - Friends Of Mineral Town (GBA)

Somewhere, in your mind, I bet you have always wanted to get away from the busy life for a little while go to the countryside taking your time planting crops, raising animal...but if you don't have time to go too far, just find Harvest Moon: Friend of Mineral Town( FoMT) on GBA, you will have a feeling of purity or coming back to the childhood... I met this game on my brother's N64 and liked it immediately.After that, I kept finding another version of it and had played three other version on Gameboy and Gameboy color in turn.The next one is Harvest Moon: Back to Nature on PS( although I don't have PS , I play by emulation on my PC) and now It's FoMT.This ...

Harvest Moon is a game centered around farming the land and tending to your livestock, and making friends in the nearby town along the way. From this limited point of view the game sounds like the worst game that has ever been released, but in fact it is one of the most addictive and fun experiences available on the Gameboy Advance and the Nintendo DS. The game begins with your character inheriting a farm from your deceased friend who you had come to visit, not knowing the unfortunate news. It then becomes your job to get the farm back to a good standard by planting crops and raising your animals. Over the course of the game you can enter various town ...

Farming game? Boring... Actually you couldn't be more wrong. I too at the thought of it turned up my nose, but I now believe this to be a hidden gem in GBA games and is the reason why I still use my GBA. I came across this game and have been hooked ever since, the amount of game play you can get out of this small cartridge in never ending. You start off as a young man (in more friends of mineral town you can be a young woman), you are greeted by a major who talks you into running a run down farm. If you agree then you get a quick tutorial of the control and a simple guide to farming. You start off with a run down farm and through saving up money by ...