Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Makes An Old Classic More LGBTQIA+ Friendly
The Story of Seasons series has come a long way since it was separated from its former title, Harvest Moon. Since being under the name, Story of Seasons, the series has gotten far more progressive with same-sex marriage and gender. In fact, no game remake proves this more than the upcoming Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. The remake is coming out for the Nintendo Switch in Spring of next year and shows much that would be familiar to gamers that played Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life on the PS2 or Gamecube.
Forget-Me-Not Valley has become Forgotten Valley but still looks to have a lot of the same beaches, farms, and buildings. The place also has familiar faces such as Rock, Nina, Nami, Gustafa, Mukumuku, and Lumina. However, there are some notable changes to this remake. A big one is now Story of Seasons players can have same-sex marriage and can also play as a nonbinary character.
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One group to thank when it comes to the LGBTQIA+ gaming representation in Story of Seaons is XSEED Games. It localized Story of Seasons' games to the West and that included localizing cultural expectations as well as language. One of the first games it added same-sex marriage to was also a Harvest Moon remake, called Friends of Mineral Town.
Friends of Mineral Town originally had a «best friends» system where the protagonist can live with someone of the same sex. XSEED made Story of Seasons' «best friends» system marriage between same-sex people for the West. XSEED even wrote around that time that same-sex marriage was a long time coming to the series. These LGBTQIA+ additions continued in Pioneers of Olive Town.
Not only did the localization team
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