This Was A Very Good Nintendo Direct For Me, Personally, Who Never Finished GameCube Games

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Today’s Nintendo Direct saw the publisher showcase plenty of games that are sure to get the nostalgia engines a-revvin'. For the Final Fantasy 7 diehards, there was Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, a remake of the PSP spinoff, which got a December 13 release date. For Nintendo 64 kids, there was more Mario Party and Pokemon Stadium than I could ever imagine wanting to play, and the return of Rare’s GoldenEye with online and local multiplayer. Plus, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is getting more classic courses, Pikmin is coming back in a big way, and Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is launching outside of Japan for the first time.

But the announcements that had me putting on my rose-tinted glasses were a pair of Nintendo GameCube games, both of which I liked (maybe even loved one of them) but never finished: Tales of Symphonia Remastered and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life.

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For the uninitiated, Story of Seasons is the Harvest Moon series (under a different name because North American publisher Natsume kept the original one) and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life was the series' first entry on the GameCube. In it, you play as a young man taking over his father's farm after the older man's death. You can get married to one of three suitors, have a kid, farm your land, go fishing, work in a mine, hang out at the bar, and more. I played a lot of this game over the years, but according to Wikipedia, I only made it to the third or fourth of six chapters. In my memory, I put at least 100 hours into it, though, so I must not have been playing very efficiently.

Harvest Moon 64 was my introduction to the series and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town was my