I loved this game so much as a kid, I was only like 4-5 years old but I would watch my older brother play it a lot, it was just a really nice wholesome game. After my brother passed away recently I'm thinking about doing a playthrough in honor of him

I think HM64 might be my favorite game of all time. From the rival marriages with their own kids, to the optional side quest to save the vineyard, there is a atmosphere and charm to Flower Bud Village and it's cast that I haven't seen captured anywhere else.

There's a special element to hm64 that makes it so different from other Harvest Moon games. It's truly a masterpiece and those of us fortunate enough to have experienced it growing up can still identify with the games timeless charm. Despite wishing for a remake for decades, I can see how it would be extremely difficult to recapture Hm64's pure expression.

This game is the reason why I chose my career path. I’m so happy I got it when I was young 👨‍🌾

This was my first Harvest Moon game. Fond memories that will always warm my heart.

My absolute favorite game! I loved seeing the other couples get married and have kids. It is one of my favorite features of the game and the reason Animal Parade is my second favorite Harvest Moon❤

I just remember the cover art when I was at the store, and bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it. I just thought the art was cute. Fell in love with the series, and is actually one of the 3 N64 games I still own, after my house burned down, because I had brought it to a friends to play.

The festivals and sense of place are the main reason Harvest Moon 64 sticks out to me so much. It's the same town as the first game, with some buildings even in roughly the same spot, but very different and some of the festivals are also similar but maybe evolved over the last 50 years or so between the two games. Anna also usually gives a brief run-down of the cultural side of each festival iirc, and that bit always felt really important to me. By comparison to festivals in games like Olive Town, which seem like just silly little activities to do with tourists wandering around that would stop the minute they stopped earning the town money, Flower Bud Village felt more like a small town with its own customs and things going on that existed long before you did and will continue long after you're gone. Also, Maria best girl.

Harvest Moon 64 is my favorite game of all time! I think I love it so much because it is everything I love about the entire Harvest Moon series (and the farming game genre it inspired honestly) in it’s purest form. Yes, it’s simple, but every detail is so well thought out and executed perfectly. When I heard that this game was essentially the developers doing everything they had been unable to do with the first because of hardware limitations, it made a lot of sense to me. You can tell so much love went into this game, and I think that’s why I can’t stop coming back to it.

For me it was Back To Nature, I loved this game so much and it shaped my love for farming games overall

This game is certainly one that deserves a remake. However, I'm afraid that too much of what makes 64 so unique and special would either be removed or censored to be more 'family friendly'. I would personally prefer slower days, but I would be fine with the days still being shorter compared to others in the series to keep that sense of planning like you mentioned in the video.

Wow! this is my new favorite video from your channel, Josh! I remember when I was a kid asked my dad to buy me a game and he took me to the store. Back then there was no internet or reviews so box covers and my gut feeling was all I relied on when buying games. When I was the cover for this game I was immediately drawn to the art of the kid and his dog, at first I thought it was a regular adventure game like Zelda. When I got home and played the game for a few hours and realized what it was I fell in love with it. My favorite bachelorette was always Elle. I was so sad when her grandma dies in the game. The music and the whole vibe of the game is so wholesome and beautiful. So much nostalgia!! This was the first game I played in the genre and to this day I love the farming games. I cant wait to see your video on Back To Nature, my second favorite game along side this one.

I really miss how the older games had quirky things, or dark themes. The games now seem to be too cute and pretty. I still usually enjoy them but I have a greater love for the older games. (And I don't think it was just because I was a kid lol)

This is the game that made me a life-long fan of the series! Also, really miss rival marriages-its just strange when your character is the only one getting married and having kids.

Completely agree, I like distinct seasons! Also bug and bird noises I prefer slower time.

I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I was young, but I still loved the game. Learning years later that there's so many hidden mechanics and objectives, it really made the game that much more interesting. Plus just the overall design choice and art style of the game was always so charming.

This game started my love for farming sims ❤

HM64 was also my first video game ever. I love it so much 😭 I was literally just playing it earlier this week.

Karen was my marriage candidate of choice. Always wanted the drinking mini game to come back. Would be awesome if they remake it. My cousin was totally infatuated with this game.

I really miss the character elements in the more modern Farm Story games. I feel like HM64 and BTN really tackled the idea of the characters being flawed people with realistic issues. I remember being instantly interested in the whole vineyard situation after the first cutscene that plays when you get there. I feel like this game was more willing to get into the nitty gritty of the social side of things. I remember a lot of the later games the characters felt extremely uninteresting and generic. Though I think Trio of Towns was at least somewhat back to form, though Olive Town quickly threw all of that out the window. And I REALLY miss rival marriages. It just feels so wrong that the girls I didn't pick all just have to settle for being single for the rest of their lives. Rival marriages helped give the feeling that the entire world didn't revolve around you.

I think you’ve nailed what made this game so special when I first played it for the first time. I had just learned to read (barely) when I played this game for the first time, but even as a four year old the characters had so much depth - they were happy, sad, angry, lonely, content. They felt like they had a life that didn’t revolve around the player character. I think that’s what the series needs going forward. I know e-rated games have trouble with this but everyone complained about PoOT characters feeling so soulless but I think that was in part due to how little conflict existed in their lives. Everyone was just so happy. I have nothing against having happy characters but I’ve never met anyone in real life that was happy 100% of the time. That’s what made this game age well because small children may not even recognize these things but coming back around to them once you’ve aged, you realize how nuanced these characters were. Thanks for this review, Josh! This was the first video game I ever played so seeing it get attention in 2022 is heartening.

Kinda miss that really old day when information was not easy to get as we were now, We stuck into various rumors and a lot of unsolved mysteries. I remember when I thought I would go to City in HM BTN when i completed the game, that thing motivated me to play harvest moon everyday lol

As soon as you talked music, I thought of the Autumn theme, and then you played it 👏🏿 it’s the best autumn theme in the series imo

Harvest Moon 64 remains to this day, both the most memorable HM/SoS games I've played and my single favorite game of the series. This with all its many delightful bugs and spelling errors and even the outdated themes. The characters felt like people, they felt deeper than they actually were. In fact, this iteration of many of the characters was my favorite take on them - Popuri being the most prominent in my eyes. I loved her confidence. Every time I play it, I find a new cutscene I've never seen before or see a new line of dialogue I don't remember seeing. It's beautiful! And, I like how, if you're just playing it to have fun...no problem! Have all the fun you want! If you want a challenge, go for an all photos run, it's consistency, planning and effort, but man is it satisfying. If you want an even bigger challenge, go for the perfect ending. Again, more hard work, planning and effort. The game encourages you to play your way and that is something that makes me happy. HM64 is still my favorite of the series and I don't believe for one second that it will ever be dethroned.

aw this is so touching.I am replaying right now actually. love this game with my whole heart!

64 is still to this day, one of my favorite games. I still have my copy and will play it every once in awhile. This in AWL will always be very special.

I dont know if i want to replay this again,too much nostalgia😭

My dad used to play this until 3 or 5 in the morning.. its his favorite game 😢

the music in this game is just... so amazing. I used to fall asleep to it all the time as a kid so for me the game is nostalgic on steroids.

HM 64 wasnt released in Germany, but I used to play it with an emulator. I couldnt understand most of the English back then, but it was still so much fun

I wish they return with this clay like art style., and expand the world,.. maybe like Harvest Moon Back to Nature sequel, with the same old art style but expanded worlds with many countries and many characters and stories

18:05 Are ya winnin', son?

Late 90s was definitely when the series was in its prime, between this game and Back to Nature on PS1.

I played through, I think 20 years in this game & never got my greenhouse wrecked by a hurricane! I didn't even know that could happen. Hashtag blessed.

You can win the MOST important thing in the New Year's Festival... a tsundere's respect.

Favorite Harvest Moon by far. Loved this game.

I played this game for the first time when I was 7, my buddy brought it over and stayed up all night playing. This one and A Wonderful Life are my absolute favorites.

This may be the nostaglic covered glasses talking but I think if this game gets a remake with all the Quality Of life changes thats in SOS FOMT but keeps the same map, music, characters, festivals etc, it will be sooooo good. The remaster of FOMT felt lazy to me. The eating animation is just a jpeg shrinking into your mouth while an N64 game had a full on drinking animation. Youve made my day with this video.

One thing I’m disappointed in with more recent games is that you can only cook based on recipes. I miss being able to modify recipes to make them better.

I find myself randomly going back to HM64. It's one of my favorites from the N64 and my childhood in general. I used to be more into Ann initially, but I've grown and matured, and prefer Elli. Maybe even Maria. The reason I would have stopped playing HM64 was probably because I got Friends of Mineral Town for the GBA, and it was many times bigger and better, and I could play it anywhere/anytime as long as I had my little wormlight attached so I could see the screen. Also, I didn't play Back to Nature since I didn't have a PS1. A Wonderful Life didn't really hit with me as much, and I ended up not playing any farm sim games until Stardew Valley, and then Rune Factory 4 Special.

Wow, you did the mail man dirty

Can't wait for your next mainline HM review!

It was my first HM game. It was just such a good game. The characters had stories, people got married and not just you, like time really felt like it was moving. The festivals were fun and it just seemed so peaceful

I was 10 when I got this. If you told me then I'd become a lifelong farm sim addict, I wouldn't have believed you. But HM64 is in my top 5 N64 games and probably in my top 10 of all time. I rented it from my local video store, fell in love, and bought it asap. This was a great video!!

It is a powerful thing when you can fall in love with dozens of characters who only have 5 to 10 lines of dialogue.

I haven't played until finish, but it's quite challenging in order to get Perfect Ending. Loved this since it shows living in the real life, how the player had to have the great time management. One more challenging in this game is fishing. It's super fast, just around 0,5 seconds for you to pull the reel. Hope this review help 😍😍😍

The music in the very first few HM (well story of seasons now) was just AMAZING. I miss it

Still an absolute classic. My favorite part of Harvest Moon 64 is all the festivals you can partake in.

Gosh so many good memories playing this game. I used to wake up at 6am everyday from excitement to play this since I had to share the N64 with my 4 siblings so the earlier I woke up the more time I had ! I really hope they remake this

I really hope now that the SNES version is on Switch Online, that we will get Harvest Moon 64 released on Switch Online as well in the West (not just Japan).

I grew up playing Harvest Moon & always loved it. A Wonderful Life was my top favorite & also loved Magical Melody! I really want to play HM64 as well

Great video. I always was confused as a kid about the recipes and not being able to cook especially because in HM:BtN you were able to build and stock a kitchen for cooking the recipes you were given. Also I remember as a kid when talking about this game with a friend and us discussing that a rumor where if you played the game up to year 10 you found blueprints for a boat and would sale away from the town after it was built. Things were wild back then lol.

I prefer the more laid-back titles. When time moves too fast I get frustrated that there's so many things I wanted to do or had planned on checking out but don't get around to. That's what I like about the games which just go on forever; if you cannot get around to it this year, you'll be able to the next, or maybe even in 10 years.

ooo, love this series of going down all the games to be reviewed ✨✨✨✨

mine was Back To Nature on PS1, which led me to favor non-violence games in general and has been my all time beloved game. nowadays we have many new great farming games like story of seasons or stardew valley but i will always return to BTN like going back home, to a sanctuary comfort zone.

Cant wait for your BTN video!

Out of all the Harvest Moon games, this is the one that I want a remake of. 64 is bursting with charm.

My favourite is Friends of Mineral Town/More Friends of Mineral Town. It has a special place in my heart, so cozy and warm ❤️ For some reason, Mineral Town, Back to Nature, N64, DS, all share quite a lot of similarities, especially in art direction, some even have the same characters

I love that the stamina & fatigue system were not explicitly displayed. It gave a more organic feeling to the game. Harvest Moon DS as this item that reveals your Stamina and Fatigue. Once I got it the game just felt like you were just in a game managing number now as oppose to living life in your little virtual village. I like min maxing in RPG but it that case it just felt wrong.

This game is so well polished. All the events are fleshed out and modern games still can't match. The drinking festival is funny. The horse and dog races were really fun. I loved being able to invite people to festivals and all the bachelorettes are fun. The only change I would want in this game is adding a female protagonist because a lot of the rival characters are also pretty cool.

Oh my gosh the nostalgia I got from watching this

Back to Nature was my favorite because it was basically an improved, deeper version of Harvest Moon 64. That said, I played 64 a lot more. I had a file with 30+ years played.

I just want this remade. I know TECHNICALLY friends of mineral town that came out recently is the remake, but it isn't for me. The characters and relationships between everyone are too different in FoMT and I never understood why they changed everything. This was my first harvest moon game ever when I was 10 and I still have great memories from it. It needs some adjustments, and polish...but it's one that I hold on hope for that it gets a remake

Dude 64 is still like.... the best one to me, especially for the time. You can still play this and it's so fun (Though the menus and camera things can be frustrating). It has so much content and variety, is connected to the first game, has so much drama, has so many secret things, it's hard and has purpose, has multiple endings, etc.. I learn new stuff about this game every time I watch something about it. I learned new things in this video!!! I LOVE fomt and btn too, but it frustrates me to no end that the characters were rewritten so much. They were meant to be seen in the way they were presented in 64.. Eve in SNES worked at the bar, her grandchild is Karen. Ellen in SNES is Elli's grandma and you have to witness her die (my wife in SNES too 💔). So many connections like this were lost in fomt. But idk if we will ever see a true rerelease of this game because of the success of fomt and btn which is a shame because I loved how they all were originally. (Again though still love fomt/btn for what it is)

I played this one years after I fell in love with HM Back to Nature. Such nostalgic games

I struggled so much with this game as a kid because I didn't understand that I needed to use the hoe to plant crops. Thankfully I understood that in Friends of Mineral Town and Rune Factory 2. I would be a wildly different person today if I didn't learn that lol.

As a kid who didnt socialize much, I spent my time mostly indoors either playing video games or with family. My father enjoyed getting games, even though he played only a handful of them. This was 95% of my childhood, there was something about it that provided me with comfort. I am in my 20s, the game is still on my laptop and it continues to bring me the comfort and nostalgia. A very beautiful game indeed.

Oh my, I miss rival marriage from old game. My first HM/SoS game was Harvest Moon Back to Nature. It was not really different from Harvest Moon 64. I really really love HM BTN 😂 It was very popular back then in my neighbourhood. I remember I married Popuri there, then one day I got Rick and Karen's wedding invitation. I was so surprised and happy at the same time 😂 It felt like I got new family member since the MC's family was unknown. I hope they will bring back rival candidate/marriage for the future game. I don't want to be the only one who make a family and whenever I can date all the marriage candidates, I feel horrible 🥲😂 I want them to be happy too with someone they love

My favorite part is how the publisher misspelled their name on the title screen. Natume.

My first Harvest Moon game. Such an impactful experience. I had only ever played action games/platformers up until this point, and before playing HM64 I didn't even understand how this could be a viable concept for a game.

The N64 is still impressive.

I've played a lot of these kinds of games, and this one's my favorite. I was surprised, because I hadn't considered it before until you said it, about how much I care about these characters despite there not being that much dialogue. My second favorite is Rune Factory 4. I treasure that one because of how much dialogue there is, and until this point I thought that was the most important thing thing to me about these games, but the characters in HM64 managed to characterize themselves so well despite this disadvantage.

Back to nature was the game my late mom love so much.o remembered she was so happy getting the golden egg.

I spent so many hours playing Harvest Moon as a kid. Emulating in on the Deck now!

The Fall Theme is one of the best songs in video game music history. This is one of my favorite games of all time.

i have never come across a topic for a youtube video that is more relevant to the core of who i am as a human being than this exact video topic right here -- BLESSED be the algorithm today

i love when the times a day was ridiculously fast

This was my first game of the series and will forever be my favorite. I have never ever played a video game so much. I hope they end up doing a remake.

I started with AWL and FoMT but I always wanted to play 64. When I finally did play this game years later, it over delivered. Still one of my favorites and will always have a place in my heart❣️

This was my first HM game, I never get tired of playing it 💖

During 1 playthrough, I managed to get married on the very same day as a calf was born. Having a wedding anniversary was handy.

HM64 is definitely one of my favorites. I would love to see the greenhouse available in another farming game. so many unique things in this game that sets it apart.

I was always attracted by the visuals in this game in various magazine previews I saw back in the day, but sadly we never got it in PAL territories. Will definitely be picking it up before the Wii U eShop goes down though.

the atmosphere!!!! incredibly charming and cute world, my favorite graphics and music of any game ever

Very nostalgic!

Harvest Moon 64 was its era’s Stardew Valley. I’m glad I came across it at blockbuster and bought it outright after that.

My mom randomly bought me this game for Christmas the year it came out and I played it for most my life not knowing how to sell my crops. Didn’t learn how to use the shipping bin until the tutorial in Back to Nature lol.

Harvest Moon FoMT and Back To Nature are my childhood games, spent a lot of times to play and I really loved it

I love this game. I have played it since it first came out when I was a kid. It is my favourite game of all time and despite that, I've only ever managed one perfect game. It is extremely difficult to do and requires a ton of planning and luck. Not to mention restarting over and over again to become the next year's king.

Thank you for making a video of my favorite game :')

I remember going to the wine place and making lil dude get buzzed xD

I wish they would remake it to the Switch! This one and the DS version!

This isn't spelled out in the game, but if you win the swimming festival and get the Invincible Katori, that protects against losing your greenhouse to a typhoon.

So happy this finally came to Nintendo Switch Online!

i recently tried playing it and man, that clock is insane...

visually he is the most charming to me. Honestly, a lot of n64 games are extremely charming.

this was my absolute favorite game growing up!

The ds one was my first game but now i really wanna play this one. It looks similar. I now see its been added to 64 switch virtual console! Hyped😊

My first Harvest moon was Save the Homeland, followed by A Wonderful Life.

My favorite was, A Wonderful Life, only one I have played really, I'm glad they are releasing a new version.