Down Home Gamin' - Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Blog - General Entry

Down Home Gamin' - Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

On 07/09/2023 at 03:46 AM by SanAndreas

I finally got my new recording studio set up, and this is the first video I've made in four months. It covers the recently released Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life for Switch. This is a remake of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, my first farming sim and one of my favorite Gamecube games. The re-release remasters the graphics and sound, and combines elements of the Gamecube releases (which were two separate releases for male and female players) as well as the PS2 Special Edition (thankfully not the jankiness of the PS2 version).

I'm also experimenting with a new theme for my channel, considering rebranding it as Down Home Gamin'. I even licensed the theme song used in the title card from its original artist.

Comments

Cary Woodham

07/09/2023 at 07:48 AM

I think my first Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game I played was one on the GBA. Mineral Town subtitle or something. I like those games, but I have a hard time staying interested in them as much as I do Animal Crossing.

SanAndreas

07/11/2023 at 10:30 PM

Friends of Mineral Town linked up with A Wonderful Life through the GBA Link Cable.

KnightDriver

07/10/2023 at 04:28 PM

Is that TWO copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga I see?! Dear lord, that's two holy grails. When are they going to put that game in some collection, remaster it, or something?

SanAndreas

07/11/2023 at 10:11 PM

No, it's a single copy. The game came on four discs, and each case contains two discs.

This is the EU PAL version. It originally came with a cardboard sleeve to hold both disc cases. My copy, which was bought form Amazon in 2011 for the low, low price of $150, came like this. I do have all four discs and a fat instruction manual translated into English, French, and German, since this is a EU release. The game itself is in English, as it was primarily produced for the UK market. It works fine on a US monitor using an Action Replay Plus cartridge, as, like almost all Japanese games of the era where it was a fundamentally NTSC game where the bare minimum was done to get it to run in the PAL format.

Honestly, the packaging was nicer than the US version, where they basically stuffed four discs into the case with a bunch of foam padding. The EU version is also a bit cheaper despite being rarer, though I paid considerably less than most eBay listings for the game now. Maybe the PAL format puts off a lot of US collectors, which it shouldn't.

I also have Shining Force III, the US NTSC version in the case of that one. I plan to play both of these games on my channel at some point.

I agree on the remaster. Supposedly Sega lost the code, as often happened to a lot of older games, but they were nevertheless able to do a nice remaster of the first game. It would probably take a pretty dedicated team to remake this beast,.

KnightDriver

07/15/2023 at 09:52 AM

Interesting. I'd like to see gameplay of PDS.

SanAndreas

07/28/2023 at 04:06 AM

I'm thinking of dedicating one day a week to RPGs on my YouTube channel. I'm also thinking of doing a SRPG Saturday/Sunday on my channel where I play one of those. My debut for that may well be Shining Force III.