All 3 Switch Story of Seasons Games Ranked! 

I really loved the backstories for the villagers in FOMT. One lost their wife and child to an unfortunate accident, another struggles with his family, one seems very lonely with her daughter being gone and her drunk husband, one is in love with another villager but can't have her because she's already married, etc. It really fleshed out the characters and made them feel more "real" instead of being generic background characters.

The acronym for Pioneers of Olive Town being POOT cracked me up and made me think of Poot Lovato 😭 For my personal tastes, Friends of Mineral Town is my favorite. I have a really warm special feeling when I play it. I do wish that the sprite art was closer to the original artwork but I loved the 3D Modeling and atmosphere. The map felt like the perfect size. I do agree the after marriage life could be improved though.

For me, HM AWL is the best HM ever made. I'm playing SOS AWL right now and yeah it is so fun to play and so nostalgic as well. But a couple of things that made the original feel real have already been taken out on this remake such as "animal's death". It makes the remake quite easier and less complex.

Great video! Enjoyed that you ranked categories instead if just the games against each other.

This video was amazing ❤ I haven’t played these yet but played the originals as a kid this was super informative! I think pioneers of olive town looks really fun I’ll check it out

Thank you for this wonderful video. It helped me decide on getting Pioneers of Olive town!

Mineral town will always be my favorite. I started playing harvest moon on Nintendo 64 and the characters are very similar and I really love the graphics in mineral town it gives me such a nostalgic vibe.

Very thorough. I really appreciate it. I picked up Pioneers just now 😊 I'll eventually get the others too

you can put the egg in the incubator in PoOT you just need to upgrade your chicken coop. And in MT you can give cooking food to the goddess and if you finish her wishlist you will be rewarded too and also you can sell your dishes to the merchant man at the beach for pretty good price

Nice job. You helped me a lot here. I'll pick Wonderful Life right now.

What isn’t mentioned is that both chickens and other livestock in Pioneers of Olive town are tied to the skill level similar to farming. At around level three of that skill you unlock breeding. There still isn’t an incubator but you can have as many barns as you want and the largest barn holds 10 animals each, and one pregnant animal each. Breeding is free and also has a purpose, as the animals have generations and higher generations give higher value products. On random days (increasing the higher your skill level is) animals have a chance to give you extra products. All skills in Pioneers of Olive town have benefits to leveling those skills up (which includes fishing as well but haven’t explored that one as much).

this was a very helpful video tysm!

I'm new to your channel and I love your content ❤ I'm just in the middle of SOS AWL !!

I never got Pioneers. It felt like a modern Harvest Moon game to me, and still does. I don't regret my non-purchase. On the other hand, FoMT and AWL are phenomenal.

As an OG player of the Harvest Moon series (HM BTN was my childhood *S/O to Popuri), I started playing the original BTN & AWL on PS5 about a week ago. I peeped that they made remakes & then saw PoOT, but noticed that many ppl didn't appreciate it. I haven't played a newer title since A New Beginning, but decided to give PoOT a try & I thoroughly enjoy it! Things are always up to one's preference, that's why I say try things for yourself & see, before passing your final judgment on it.

I really like this Analysis and Raking style of video. I think it's interesting for farming because of the sprites you like FOMT the least but also for animals you like FOMT the most cause of sprites. I know giving them all gifts is tedious but I remember having a file with them all maxed out. I could spend the whole day just mining cause they can do more than just water they can also take care of animals ect. Having the farm be completely automated was such a stress relief. Though I am curious as to how many hours I played before getting to that point lol It was probably a lot. WAIT A DAMN SECOND CAPYBARAS!!!!! YOU CAN HAVE CAPYBARAS 😭. While I don't mind the Chibi style for FOMT I am very glad they didn't reuse that style for PoOT and AWL.

Thank you so much for a great video. I'm choosing between AWL and POOT next as I already have the other and you've helped me conclude it'll be AWL for me. Nostalgia all the way too. If the other is ever super cheap, I'll be in.

Hi Eli! Great video!! I preferred mineral town to olive town, I didn’t mind the chibi style at all. I really liked the winter mine! But agree with you about the Sprites, did not enjoy the system of bribery at all but my kids liked the Sprites mini games. For olive town we also liked the mining mini game but the electric moles totally stressed me out! Lol . I really liked the sprinklers in olive town! A bit worried that in a wonderful life, I’ll have to water all the crops myself?!! Oh no, does it get tedious?? I think overall, while playing olive town, I was always mildly annoyed, which is not how you should be feeling when gaming 😂😂😂 so I’m looking forward to a wonderful life! I’m sure it won’t let me down. Can’t wait for June!

I was originally only planning to get Mineral Town because it's so cute and it's really similar to Harvest Moon 64, but then Pioneers of Olive Town went on sale and it wasn't that expensive to begin with, so I couldn't resist lol. I haven't played it yet because now I'm focused on playing FoMT. I think I might also get A Wonderful Life later on. I actually like that the rival marriages on FoMT aren't happening anymore because I don't want to be in a rush. I'm actually trying to get a red heart with every single marriage candidate before I decide to marry one of them lol

Have you done a comparison video like this for all the farming sims? Good format

Awesome video keep up the good work & I played two story of seasons games for Nintendo switch so far & Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town is still the best game in my personal opinion but I’m might get a remake version of a wonderful life for marvelous sake but I’m not happy about the ending because your character passed away at the end of the game & I can’t imagine me passing away in forgotten valley & never come back to olive town with Damon & he don’t want to be alone without me around anymore so I’m glad that I played story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive town because it is way better than a wonderful life in my personal opinion & I hope u get back playing Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town if u really want to & it is your choice right now & just u know when u talk to the marriage candidates parents after u got married to the marriage candidates they don’t say anything about their child at all & it happened to me while I’m married to Damon & I was not happy at all & I learned more about Damon backstory a lot deeper then before & u got to go deeper to the game so u get to feel emotional to the marriage candidates & since u are married to Ralph I believe u might be very lucky to being there for him because ralph feel very lonely after his mother passed away & same goes to Jack too & as for Damon well me I immediately stay by his side every single day because his parents don’t really care about him anymore so they ask me to raise their son for them & I’m his 2nd parents to damon in my game & I will be there for him right by his side no matter what

not me watching this after i bought all 3... and still have both original versions boy & girl of WL/MT,,,, (to be fair my GBA cartridges are probably long dead, to say nothing of my actual GBA...) anyway, this was a fun and informative watch! Really excited to try/get back to all 3 of them, as a hopeless farm-sim addict since harvest moon 64/SoS 64

Good that you broke it down into categories but I would have liked a category for building as upgrading the house, buying new things like a greenhouse and stuff like that is something I like a lot. Unfortunately many farming games don’t put much effort into house upgrades. You only get 1 or maybe 2 size upgrades and you can’t customise much.

thx love the video!!

I dunno if is about nostalgia, but SoS: Trio of Towns was so far my favorite, even with "no mineration mechanic" at all hahaha. In my nintendo switch my favorite is Pioneers of Olive Town, mechanics there imo was better, with more options of customization .In friends of mineral town everyone looks so chibi, so childish... I dunno, not my taste of artstyle. I can't wait to play a wonderfull life! Nice video, great wrok!!!

Defiantly looking forward for more remake and newer game for them in the future, especially those from wii like animal parade, magical melody.

I actually just got Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town on my Switch eShop not too long ago. Just need it to finish downloading 🎉❤😊

The one I care for is certainly Mineral Town! The 3D models were what ultimately sold it for me. The dialogue problem in POT is very similar to the dialogue problem in ACNH. That makes two developers who should've gone back to their roots and tried something else when what they first came up with didn't work (or vice versa).

Haha I like the complicated fishing! I loved it in PoOT and wish there was more to it in FoMT

Long time Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons fan here. I think with Olive town they were testing the waters with a bunch of different features and ended up with a bunch of different issues that were never a problem in previous games thus pissing off long time fans. I REALLY didn't like Olive town because I think I play SoS games for the social aspect and to just chill. So the pretty crappy social aspect and all the mindless grinding to do anything got to me. But because they are testing new features, I am looking forward to the new games coming out, I think they have figured out what works and what doesn't. Also, If you like Olive town you will probably like some of the Rune factory games. BTW you had some echo-y audio issues in parts of your video, mainly where you were comparing the 3 in each category.

Thanks!😉✌🏼

If i'm not mistaken, in FoMT, they will only let you buy a new pet after your previous pet has a max friendship level... so it's really difficult to get them 😅 Anyway, right now my favourite is FoMT, i'm not a fan of the chibis and i have some gripes about it BUT i get to remember certain characters and scenes to this day and this is the only entry to use portraits for the characters wich i prefer more than those 3D models they got. But i had more time playing Poot, i think we can both agree about this game 😅

Thanks a lot for this review! I was looking for a fun game for my girlfriend and AWL seems to be the most fitting for her followed by FoMT :)

Thank you for making this video! I've been obsessed with SoS games as of lately, played PoOT but it wasn't really my thing, the characters just weren't as likable, the 3D models weren't good enough/expressive... I wish they kept portraits for them. Loving the FoMT remake though!!! (But I'm kinda done with the game AAAA) looking forward to the Wonderful Life remake.

there was actually sprinklers in the very first harvest moon too!

This video is so helpful! Thank you

I think that I’m in a very small minority since Pioneers of Olive Town was my first farming game ever. I got it after becoming burned out of Animal Crossing since it seemed to have similar features such as crafting and decorating. I personally love POOT and have over 70 hours so far. I preordered A Wonderful Life and I am very excited for it. However, I recently got Mineral Town and I find it’s very stressful honestly. The mines are so tedious and it takes me forever to water my crops. I know I can get sprites to help with my farm but befriending them and giving them gifts also takes up so much time imo.

Olive town was my favourite, as I liked the customisation, creating my character and decorating my farm. I also liked being able to marry Raegar who was my favourite bachelor in the series. Although the game did a terrible job with the animal and festival part.

I've only ever played one harvest moon game but I'm curious, do any of these games also have restoration aspects to them because that is one of the main things I enjoy and it's fun to unlock new areas. Great video also, I was literally just thinking about if I wanted to get one of these games and then this video showed up, I think its a sign lol.

I'm also not a big fan of the sprites. So when I played Friends of Mineral Town I worked very hard on getting the best tools in the game + the (I would call them) quality of life items. Which includes teleporting crystal/stone, the gifts of Kappa and the goddess of harvest. But the most useful is definitely the teleporting crystal that allows fast travel all around the map.

I will send this to a friend to see if it helps them decide which to try! But I have to mention something that is still actively making me go insane with Mineral Town. Livestock and chicken affection meters are "grown" through breeding. Which by itself, I love that concept, but there are 10 hearts in total and all animals start at 5 hearts. So every different type of cow, chicken, rabbit, sheep, alpaca, and so on ALL require to go through that breeding process that for the livestock takes so long as you have to go through the pregnancy, give birth, wait for the livestock to GROW UP, and THEN you can work on the next heart starting that process over anew. So every animal needs to go through it 5 times to get that max affection, where you can only have 2 livestock (after a barn upgrade) and 1 egg processing at a time. And then I'm mechanically naming my calves "7" to represent their affection meter and heartless selling them off once they've done their job to produce "8". I don't like the person I became going through that process, or having to explain to friends why I had 4 different animals named "6" or why I carried around miracle potions permanently so I could bolt to the barn once someone gave birth to cram miracle potions into the next victims mouth or hiss over the sheep not having wool yet so I have to decide if I wait or just go ahead and start another cow. I was ruthless in the original AWL, but I don't want my dark past to follow me

I definitely like a wonderful life the best it has my favourite marriage candidate in the series and I really like the other characters and the farming in the game. I also really like how the game has a story and progresses through years and the characters get older and your child grows up. I would like it even more though if they did some updates for the game.

I think I'm going to buy "a wonderful life" now. I want a new harvest moon and I like my games with a lot of story , so you really sold me on that game. I was already planning to buy "winds of anthos" depending on its first (still missing) trailer, but now I have another option. I only played "Island of Happiness" so far, so I'm easy to please. 😅

As someone who grew up with harvest moon ds, I would really like to see another game with both mineral town and wonderful life characters

I loved FoMT But the remake just felt like it lost so much of its magic. A wonderful life has been SO freaking enjoyable. I'm so impressed the lighting. The small town feel, the shorter months. I love it dearly.

I agree with you on all counts, for POOT and FOMT at least, because I haven't played AWL yet and didn't know if I should get it, but the graphics and social aspect are quite important to me because it gives the game some depth. I haven't decided if I want to get RF3 Special or AWL now for the same price, I never played either one. And then they're both on Steam and Switch, and then I have to decide which platform. So many choices 😥🥴

I loved this style of review! I'm not sure if it's on my end, but tehre is a bit of echo on foraging. Just thought I would let you know, but it didn't hinder the video!

Good job with the vid, I grew up on harvest moon for the nintendo 64, and ps1. I love the festival aspect of the games. The GameCube game I found to be boring.

Mine is 1.fomt 2.awl 3.poot ❤ you’re right about the social aspect of poot. Lol

i tried to get into poot but couldnt 😭 good dialogue is a must have in my farming games. noww we just need a harvest moon 64 remake to come out so it can be my number 1

Is there an echo to the video or am I just crazy/my phone?

In awl remake you still can get rich by making sashimi ? Feels like fishing game the old version

Friends of mineral town is charming but didn't have enough things to buy. Most of the fun I had was from the romance part.

Didnt like POOT , also not a huge of FOMT remake loved the original one on gameboy though. Super excited for WL 😊

There's actually 2 more Story of Seasons titles on Switch; that of the Doraemon series. Doraemon Story of Seasons and Doraemon Story of Seasons Friends of the Great Kingdom

HOLY SMOKES Mark Zuckerberg Voice Activated Review Harvest Moon I Like man :) Thank you

I will mention my best which is Pioneers of Olive town. I like the mini game, collecting with the museum, the upgrading farm system and animals. I hate with a passion the strawberry cow and that crap. I dont care about the dialog because i care farming not the people but yes agree is bad social aspect.

I just got olive town,( I've only played this and the 64 game) but I like it. But I hate the crafting machines, they take so long and it's so tedious & annoying. Is Friends of mineral town like this?

Why is Doraemon not included in the comparison?

But you can upgrade your tools and that’s make everything easy

Actually there's a few other category you could've used: -character designs -protagonist customization For me, Pioneers of Olive Town won that one. The protagonist and batchelor/ette character designs are phenomenal and you can customize your own character's appearance in a lot of ways. There there was also: -areas to explore

For me : 1. AWL, 2. FoMT, 3. PoOT

A wonder life is more for nostalgia imo 😅 like idc im still gonna get it and compare it to the 1st original one

Only mineral town is good because of the 2D sprites 😎

Ok looks good hope they improve on the dating and marriage thing so it is more better not the same stuff said over and over again I love the.old harvest moon games I played on my wii u but after a while the bachlor you married same the same stuff wich got boring after while I really hope this gsme is better I know also in setmber fae farms come out and soon sunny side will be comming out so hope they can compete with these new games comminh out as welln

Guys I’ve never played this series ever but played things like stardew and animal crossing from the beginning of time 🤣 is this series better on switch or pc?? Can anyone help?

I really didn’t like Pioneers of olive tree town Because it was hard to make things that you need it Especially the mining And when I gave them items to get things, I never got them

AWL is the best, except that its missing my man Iori from poot 💔

What about doraemon story of seasons

There are a bunch of things you can catch in friends of mineral town??? The fishes just become « small fish » « medium fish » « large fish » in your inventory, they’re so boring and I never bother to fish. I love fishing mini games!

I've been playing all three at the same time for the last few weeks. And I'm finding I don't like Its a Wonderful Life - being forced to get married, the shorter seasons and everything seems more complicated than I needs to be? I loved the original FoMT games (I bought MFoMT when I was living in Japan.), and I think the remake is a lovely game. I do like Pioneers of Olive Town the best though - and I like all the extra content with the DLCs.

For me, my Top 1 is Pioneers of Olive Town, Top 2 is A Wonderful Life and Top 3 is Friends of Mineral Town I played both the older versions of A Wonderful Life and Friends of Mineral Town in PS2 (the Special Edition of AWL) and PS1 (when Friends of Mineral Town was titled Back To Nature) Sadly, these remakes didn't live up to me and despite the nostalgia that it brings, it really lacks the wow factor that it had before. The remake of AWL nerfed some of its features and despite the fact that the graphics was so nice, they changed a lot of the gameplay that it makes this game somehow "easy" compared to its GameCube and PS2 edition. As the game lost its depth, it's now blank because this game is in slower pace, others might get turned off. For FoMT, I was so disappointed with the remake. You can get rich easily with the "Van's Favorite" trick in here. It loses its charm along the way, and I don't like the chibi artstyle they've done here. The gameplay was so shallow compared to its BTN and even to its extent the GameBoy and Nintendo 64 version. The reason why Pioneers of Olive Town is for me because it reminds me the gameplay mechanics from Harvest Moon: A New Beginning in 3DS (which was I played too) and adopted some mechanics to the Stardew Valley. This game makes you really strategize to run your farm and it is not that easy. Though, it might be an ambitious farming game with a lot of features introduced and will easily confuse you with a lot of farming mechanics that you need to do, it will reward you in the end if you will succeed to create that farming setup you wanted to be. Yes, many will turn down Pioneers because of this, but for me this is by far the most serious game that Marvelous provided in the Bokujou Monogatari series which is dying lately because of the crappy gameplay mechanics that they are introducing with their newer games and nerfing classical remakes which is really not that good at all.

I hate the way in FOMT you have to breed your animals to get max hearts, it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take so long to breed cows

One thing, that you forgot to mention and it really should be mentioned, as it's for me personally quite a problem with SOS AWL is that you NEED to get married in set timeframe, or you will loose the game. That's the part that I think bothers me with that game the most.

you forgot Doraemon Story of Seasons. and Doraemon friends of the great kingdom both story seasons games. both very good games.

why does it sound like u filmed at the bus station lol good video though

What about doraemon?

Am I the only one who can't get past the 8th of 9th floor in the FOMT mines??? I can't find the ladder before I've gone through all my energy and food supply. Does anyone have tips for getting further in the mines?

I had high hopes for FoMT, but when I found out that they took away the rival marriages, it just killed the game for me. What's the point of even having a rival system if they can't get married.

Really the only thing I hated about A(n)WL growing up was the almost literal shotgun wedding…and insult to injury…the marriage options were limited and men in AnWL outright stunk. At least they let us be sapphic now (and apollian but the only decent guy personality wise was Gustafa, he just wasn’t attractive as far as Eye Candy goes) and added Cody but… it still really really stinks that they kept the Forced Romance In A Year Or You LOSE instead of idk…letting the player adopt automatically if they don’t marry anyone + making Chapter1 closer to 2-3 years and making the romance more in-depth (since the Forced To Do It +Options SUCK was a major complaint for the og). And possibly making more available to marry (like Flora, the Mermaid, and Shrine Maiden in DS; Skye from DSCute + two new guys. Skye creeps me out probably more than Rock and Marlin but he does have his fanbase from the old AnWL/DS Cute players) Like…they did so much to de-clunk the farming gameplay + even put in a river crossing, allowed players to play non-straight or non-cis characters…I just really wish the romance wasn’t Do It Or You LOSE!!

Fishing mini game makes him things an absolute no for me. Lol

I didn't like the sprites in FOMT either

I honestly don't see how anyone can say the social aspect of mineral town is better than olive town. In olive town they have a wide variety of things they can say to you. In mineral town they have 1 thing they say every single day. For months on end, the one phrase on repeat. In mineral town I can barely stand talking to anyone past the first season. Truly awful social In that game.

You don’t have to get your cow pregnant every year to get milk in the remake of AWL??? Why?

I actually played the original FoMT (both the male & female versions) & AWL (where I died of old age). I'm actually more fond of FoMT. 😅

I am on year 3, yes 3, of SOS AWL. I'm only on Spring 18 year 1 of PoOT. Let me make it very clear that SOS AWL doesn't deserve to be above PoOT. There is a mechanic in SOS AWL where you literally just waste 6 hours on purpose because there is nothing to do except give gifts twice a day and take care of animals twice a day and shake your rare trees that are fruiting. SOS AWL is a life sim before its a farming sim so that is probably why i dislike it so much. Again, I've played it up until chapter 3 so its not like I didn't try to like it. I got to end game and its boring man period

Wow this guy really doesn't like POOT, talk about a bias 😅

I love how Karen basically became a completely different girl in the remake lol