While Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town retains all of the same characters, the world design and basic mechanics of the GBA game (which itself was a remake of the Playstation One game Harvest Moon: Back to Nature), Mineral Town on Switch is a top-to-bottom remake. Now that the game has been remade from the ground up for Nintendo Switch, I was eager to explore my old stomping grounds to see if my memories hold up. That said, nothing can match the nostalgia of Mineral Town, my companion and retreat through high school and college. I reviewed their first game under this new name several years ago and thought it was quite good. In the intervening years the Harvest Moon IP has gone through a name change the original publisher kept the name, whereas the developer, Marvelous Interactive, kept making farming sims under the new title Story of Seasons. So on my way out of the Polaris Meijer that weekend, I carried a GBA SP, Metroid Zero Mission and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. When I was picking up my very first Game Boy Advance a couple years later, the saleswoman with the electronics key told me to treat myself and buy a second game. There were times I wanted to take a vacation to that little town. It was fairly primitive by today’s standards, but I fell in love with the rustic charm, friendly townspeople, and the novel concept that a hard day’s work would earn you a decent living. The first Harvest Moon game I played was Harvest Moon 64.
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