snubbin:

If ur making a Harvest Moon styled game (basically a farming dating sim) the absolute must haves imo are

• Gotta make the animals fat. Thats the law. If they ain’t round as fuck then I’m going to be sad thru the whole game.
• Gotta let me kiss anybody. If you ever truly want to 1-UP Harvest Moon in any valid way that’s absolutely one thing your game will always have over them. Let me kiss.
• Make dating the characters fun. I won’t want to hold hands if I don’t care about them and ya can’t leave my hands cold like that bruh.
• Make the characters interesting in general. I want to know more about them. Additionally, you can learn a lot about a character based off of their house alone. Bonus points for making up a unique system to get to know people.
• Put weird shit in places. Do some weirdass shit. In Harvest Moon FoMT if you put gold lumber in your yard then the next morning everyone in town will call you a whore when you walk out of your house first thing in the morning–I loved that. If you click behind ur dog house you’ll find a black ball and it says “collect 9 for something special to happen 👀” which makes me as a player go absolutely buckwild. Sometimes in the game you have a 1 out of 700% chance of having dreams like fighting to the death with the girls in town. Do weird shit!!! It makes me play ur game for 3 days with no sleep trying to see more weird shit and I!!!! love it!!!!
• Once again, if ur animals aint round enough to want 72 plushies of them then whats the point