YMMV / Harvest Moon

• Awesome Music:
  • The spring song has an eargasmic flute that will leave you tranquil.
  • The summer theme sounds very up-beat, go-lucky, fresh, and just plain summer-like.
  • The fall sounds pretty wild, and exactly what you would expect a fall-themed song to be like.
  • The winter theme is so calming and good, which combined with the calming snow visuals makes the boring winters more interesting.
  • The Star Night Festival song. Punctuated right in the middle of Winter, it comes off as an inverse Lonely Piano Piece. Sure, at the moment your farm is running on storage and could be falling apart at the seams, but for one night, as long as you have one person you care about, none of that matters.
• Cult Classic: It's certainly one of the more expensive SNES games out there and isn't as popular as future Harvest Moon games. The Virtual Console releases have helped remedy some of it.
• Game-Breaker: Unlike later games in the series, night doesn't have a timer like daytime does, so you can do as much farmwork as you want in a single night so long as you visit the hot spring to restore stamina when you run out.
• Fanon: Before the Player Character's name was confirmed to be Pete, the fandom widely dubbed him "Jack", due in-part to the Jack and the Beanstalk-styled sidequest.
• Fridge Brilliance: A possible bug in the game: Eve, unlike every other wife, suffers a relationship penalty instead of a bonus when you go to bed with her. However, on second look, this makes perfect sense: she has attachment issues and has trouble maintaining a stable relationship, even with people she loves, resulting in a tumultuous marriage that takes a lot more effort to make work. This bug also makes her ideal for a player who stays up late at night to do farmwork. She also happens to be the easiest girl to court if you were like that before you got married, since the bar stays open all night, so you don't have to waste daylight hours giving gifts to her.
• Fridge Logic: In the first game, the first time you try to sell a chicken, the wandering peddler will offer you a Power Berry instead of the usual 500G from the livestock seller. If you do this, the livestock owner will be mad at you, even if you have another chicken to sell him. Talk about sour grapes...
• Periphery Demographic: It's the most popular Harvest Moon title amongst speedrunners, due in part to the memey bad ending run that skips straight to failing.
• Sequel Displacement: To the point where fans even complained how Magical Melody ruined Mary. It's gotten a little better thanks to the Virtual Console release though.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Thanks to her short hair, Ellen's sprite can look masculine.

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