Wheeler ends the blog on the note that he hopes, “you’ll join me as we bridge the gap between the past and present for a new and yet wonderfully familiar experience.” One minor but important change for the North American and European releases of Friends of Mineral Town is that the “heart icon” indicating a marriage candidate’s romantic affinity for the player will display for all marriage candidates from the start of the game, where in the Japanese release it will only display for same-sex candidates after you confess and start dating.” “This has been a very long time coming in the STORY OF SEASONS series, and the producer has been supportive of our decision from very early in development. “In our version, this will just be called “marriage,” and the relationship between same-sex couples will be given identical treatment to opposite-sex couples,” says John Wheeler from XSEED Games. This obviously read as… a little funny, at best, to queer players because it was very, “oh my god, they were roommates.”īut the western localization of the game is doing away with any pretenses. It’s practically everything that marriage is - the ceremony is even basically a marriage ceremony - except in name. This system allows you to form a lifelong partnership with a character of the same sex. This would later seemingly come in the form of the “Best Friends” system in the Japanese version of Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. Hashimoto had said that this was less a response to the much more LGBT-inclusive and modern Stardew Valley, which is heavily inspired by Harvest Moon, and more a part of building plans for the series.
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Producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto had told Polygon in 2016 that the team knew same-sex relationships had to be included in the series sometime in the future, though there were development complications the team had to overcome. The original games and the Japanese version of the remake maintain the heteronormative system of being able to technically marry only men as a woman, and only women if you’re playing as a man. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is a remake of the 2003 titles Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends Of Mineral Town.
This will be the first time in the history of Story of Seasons, also formerly known as Harvest Moon in North America, that the player will be allowed to be queer. In the first localization blog for Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, XSEED Games has announced that the western version of the game will let you have a same-sex marriage.
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