I tried playing Harvest Moon on the SNES today and having played Stardew Valley for hours, I thought I'd try and see how tolerable the original Harvest Moon was in comparison. I know and understand it is unfair because there's a 20 year gap between Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, while also discrediting Harvest Moon's later entries since there's more than one.

Harvest Moon to me is a bit hard to revisit. Having to get used to only carrying two tools at the same time, your farm doesn't seem as big, you don't have a way to know that you're tired as readily, you just have to watch for the signs and the village you visit doesn't seem as characteristic. It's a basic farming sim, it has to start somewhere.

But Stardew Valley does so many things that it is easier to revisit.

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[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I played Goldeneye at an arcade recently that had an N64 set up and actually had a great time. But people who hadn’t grown up with it and tried to join in found it pretty frustrating. So I can see that going either way tbh.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it already had inferior controls at the time if you were familiar with FPS gaming on computers. But it was still a ton of fun and when I went back to it some years ago I fell back into the n64 controller muscle memory no problem

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The key is to change the layout, then the only problem is really replacing a mouse with the joystick.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah you can use two controllers to mimic the more modern twin stick ones that have become standard, but I don't think too many people figured that out back then. Still though, controller will never be as good as mouse + keyboard for FPS games.