johnnywander

I started playing Harvest Moon 64!!

Published: February 20th 2024, 12:56:42 am

Nintendo finally put HM64 onto the Switch for anyone who has a Nintendo Online membership! (it's in the N64 library) I've been really surprised over how much I've been enjoying it! (note: I've been using an off-brand N64 controller for switch which I really recommend)

I wanted to try and emulate the proportions and marker style of the original character designs. I'm not sure how successful I was but this was very fun! Here's what the original character designs look like:

I feel like there was a time when I tried really hard to emulate this sort of coloring style (highly rendered faux marker style with intense catchlights) when I was younger but I'm not really interested in using it anymore! IMO it makes renders look very toyetic and plastic-y, which isn't what I'm personally trying to achieve most of the time. This was really fun to play with, I want to learn how to branch out and mimic other styles and see what there is to learn.

I doubt a lot of people have played/have strong memories of this game but for the sake of thinking this out completely:

• Mystery character @ far left: Popuri analogue; uses her cheeriness for evil.
• Percy: Karen analogue; mean and makes you deal with her baggage before you can date. If you don't marry her, she'll hook up with her coworker.
• Penny: Ann analogue; boisterous sunny weirdo who wants to talk to you about her niche interests.
• Cecilia: Elli analogue; very femme and a bit serious-minded. If you don't marry her she'll hook up with someone way older than her and be really boring about it.

BTW the first ~mystery~ character is from a project Ananth and I have been kicking around for a little bit! Hopefully she'll be able to make her debut properly later!