I just finished HM:AWL, and with it, ended a 16 years of obsession

It will be too long and not that important, but I just want to share it. This is the most important game for me because no game ever influence me that much.

I started played Harvest Moon on PS2's SNES bootleg disc back when I was 7, and fell in love with it. Then I got AWL which I randomly bought when I was 9. Never I was addicted to a game like I was addicted to that one

Back then, internet wasn't that spread in my country, so I would visit internet cafe with my note book and wrote every walkthrough I can get. My notebook even full of calculation, like when this cow need to be bred and when that one going to be dried up.

I was already pretty far in it, and at 10 I entered a middle school. It was a dorm school in middle of mountain, far from anywhere (I'm not exaggerating). I can't play game, and kept think about it. When I went home during vacation, my PS2 broke, and I lost my AWL. It was the first time I was so enraged. After that, I never play any console because my family wasn't that rich to buy another (and it's no use because I lived in dorm).

The obsession was strong the game kept playing by itself on my mind. I also love to draw, so I draw a lot of AWL fan art, or more accurately, used it as training dummy. AWL art become the base of my artstyle that never change even today

Years passed and I graduated from dorm highschool (yes, that damned dorm school continue until HS). Every vacation, I would borrow my parents phone to play emulator that phone is capable of (for HM, it was FoMT and the GBC ones). I enter college and I got my own phone. With it, I played any HM I can get but only up to PSP and NDS. I don't have PC, so unfortunately, I still can't replay my AWL

I become an artist, and when I was 18, I finally bought my first PC. But it was potato, it can't play PS2 smoothly. There goes another chance. It can run GC and WII, but AWL on GC is different than PS2 so I never got far, but I finished Animal Parade in exchange. Then I bought better laptop in my 20. It can run AWL smoothly this time. But I didn't play it, because I was engrossed with another games

Then come this year. I'm 25, and I just finished PoOT and I hate it. Thus I decide to rummage my games to wash the feel, and found AWL PS2 sitting on the corner of emulator.

I played it.

And I never felt a wave of nostalgia that huge. Now I understand what "awaken your inner child" means, because it really feels like I become a child again. I write every walkthrough I can get (now in my phone note), do cow milking calculation, etc. I become addicted once again, play it on every free times.

And I finished it. My most beloved game that I never finished. When I watch the credit roll, I cried. I can feel that "it's all over now" vibe. It is that special for me. And then I spent the whole day, thinking about it again. Savoring the feel

Thank you and good bye

Note: I know there's AWL remake, and while I excited with it, I never see it as my old game. I just don't get the feel. And also, I'm currently drawing HM:AWL Diary fan art. I've post several on this subreddit, and you can also check it on my account

It will be too long and not that important, but I just want to share it. This is the most important game for me because no game ever influence me that much.

I started played Harvest Moon on PS2's SNES bootleg disc back when I was 7, and fell in love with it. Then I got AWL which I randomly bought when I was 9. Never I was addicted to a game like I was addicted to that one

Back then, internet wasn't that spread in my country, so I would visit internet cafe with my note book and wrote every walkthrough I can get. My notebook even full of calculation, like when this cow need to be bred and when that one going to be dried up.

I was already pretty far in it, and at 10 I entered a middle school. It was a dorm school in middle of mountain, far from anywhere (I'm not exaggerating). I can't play game, and kept think about it. When I went home during vacation, my PS2 broke, and I lost my AWL. It was the first time I was so enraged. After that, I never play any console because my family wasn't that rich to buy another (and it's no use because I lived in dorm).

The obsession was strong the game kept playing by itself on my mind. I also love to draw, so I draw a lot of AWL fan art, or more accurately, used it as training dummy. AWL art become the base of my artstyle that never change even today

Years passed and I graduated from dorm highschool (yes, that damned dorm school continue until HS). Every vacation, I would borrow my parents phone to play emulator that phone is capable of (for HM, it was FoMT and the GBC ones). I enter college and I got my own phone. With it, I played any HM I can get but only up to PSP and NDS. I don't have PC, so unfortunately, I still can't replay my AWL

I become an artist, and when I was 18, I finally bought my first PC. But it was potato, it can't play PS2 smoothly. There goes another chance. It can run GC and WII, but AWL on GC is different than PS2 so I never got far, but I finished Animal Parade in exchange. Then I bought better laptop in my 20. It can run AWL smoothly this time. But I didn't play it, because I was engrossed with another games

Then come this year. I'm 25, and I just finished PoOT and I hate it. Thus I decide to rummage my games to wash the feel, and found AWL PS2 sitting on the corner of emulator.

I played it.

And I never felt a wave of nostalgia that huge. Now I understand what "awaken your inner child" means, because it really feels like I become a child again. I write every walkthrough I can get (now in my phone note), do cow milking calculation, etc. I become addicted once again, play it on every free times.

And I finished it. My most beloved game that I never finished. When I watch the credit roll, I cried. I can feel that "it's all over now" vibe. It is that special for me. And then I spent the whole day, thinking about it again. Savoring the feel

Thank you and good bye

Note: I know there's AWL remake, and while I excited with it, I never see it as my old game. I just don't get the feel. And also, I'm currently drawing HM:AWL Diary fan art. I've post several on this subreddit, and you can also check it on my account