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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[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OG XCOM has a really rough learning curve for sure. It is easy to understand the fundamentals of but it takes a lot longer to get it well enough to really enjoy. Once you do learn it I feel like it is different enough from new XCOM that you can enjoy both. I love new and old xcoms a ton.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Old XCOM also likes to bend you over and fuck you over a lot. And that's the way we liked it!

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Ah yes. Land Skyranger, open door, sectoid throws grenade into Skyranger. Evac with one survivor. Good times.

[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I will say that new XCOM can be good at that too. It really is the most important part and I'm glad they didn't leave it out of the remake!