The mod swapped the player’s gender between the two versions of the game, allowing players to engage in same-gender relationships without any downplaying for the first time ever.
In 2013, a fan made mod for Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town released called the True Love Edition. Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town – True Love Edition
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Especially since Jamie reappears again in Harvest Moon: My Little Shop in which they’re never gendered.Īfter Harvest Moon DS Cute and Magical Melody, the series would stop playing with the idea of LGBT representation for quite a long time. While this is done to maintain hetero-normative marriage, it’s not an unfair reading to see Jamie as non-binary or possibly gender fluid. But after the Harvest Goddess bestows a groom’s tuxedo and a bride’s dress onto the player and Jamie, one of the Sprites proclaim that Jamie is a good-looking boy or girl. Jamie is also the first character that can be married regardless of the player’s gender.įor most of Magical Melody, Jamie is simply not gendered in the game. In the game, the player has a rival named Jamie. Another game where the series started tip-toeing outside of hetero-normative relationships. That same year we also saw Harvest Moon: Magical Melody for Nintendo Gamecube. The difference is that they will never say yes. In a particularly cruel way too, as the player can raise their relationship level with the bachelorettes and even propose to them. However, when the game was released in North America, this feature was removed from the game. While the game refers to the relationship with bachelorettes as “best friends”, it functions the same way as marrying the bachelors. In the Japanese release of the game, the player can marry both the bachelors and some of the bachelorettes of the game. This leads us to 2005’s Harvest Moon DS Cute, the first female title released for Nintendo DS. In the 2000s, most of the Harvest Moon games would split the games into a male title and a female title. When the series hit Game Boy in 1997, the option of playing as a female farmer and marry one of several bachelors was put into the game, though it wouldn’t become a series standard until much later. The game was localized as Harvest Moon for North America in 1997 and Europe in 1998 and the franchise had become an instant success. In the game the player would play as a male farmer and one of the game’s various goals involved getting married to a bachelorette. The series began its life in 1996 as Bokujou Monogatari on the Super Famicom. Let’s have a look at the very brief history of LGBT romance in Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons. While this is a first for an official release of a Harvest Moon or Story of Seasons game in the west, the inclusion of LGBT romance in the series has a bit more of a history to it. Whether playing as a male or female character, each bachelor and bachelorette is accessible as a romance route.
But perhaps the biggest and most important thing added to the game is the ability to date and marry characters of the same gender. The game has been fully recreated in 3D and features new content, character designs and various quality of life improvements.
Originally released in Japan at the end of 2019, the game is a remake of the 20 Game Boy Advance games Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. Earlier this month, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town released for Nintendo Switch and Steam in the west.
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