Harvest Moon 64~!!

I have been playing it on and off this past week as my go-between game after Trails in the Sky sessions, as well as my Nostalgia Season title for the time being

The series has come a long way since these days. Heck even the title that immediately follows this one sees a slew of quality of life improvements, but even despite that, if you can get in a groove with it, Harvest Moon 64 is still a ton of fun to play and really super weird at times. 

BEATEN: Super Mario Land

 

Sitting on the front stoop of my house back in 1991/92, swapping between this and Spider-man on my older brother's OG Gameboy was the only time I can actually remember ever playing this particular title. I picked it up the other day to kick off the Nostalgia Celebreation and plowed through it in less than an hour.

Nostalgic Celebration has begun!

Every spring/summer, I like to shift my game time away from more modern releases to classics from the 64bit and prior. There is just something about the warmer weather that brings that drive to play older games to a boil.

So kicking things off, I played through Super Mario Land for the first time since the very early 90s. I remember playing it last on the OG Gameboy that my brother owned, sitting on the front porch. 

Now, I am playing Breath of Fire 3 for the first time in several years, and it looks beautiful on the OLED screen on the Deck. 

Probably gonna watch a few movies from 97/98 as well throughout the day. 

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Okami

 

I can't remember the last time I played through this game. Probably on the PS3 or PS4, maybe? Either way, I'm playing it on Steam Deck now and am loving it just as much as I did on my first run with the Wii version way back in 2008. 

This is one of those games I would put in my "Timeless Classic" tier of video games. One that has very few faults or possesses oddities that would date it as time flowed on. It sits up there with Chrono Trigger and Sonic 3 & Knuckles as far as games that will be able to be played a hundred years from now and still hold up then as they did at launch/today.