Harvest Moon 64
| Harvest Moon 64 | |
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| Developer(s) | Victor Interactive Software |
| Publisher(s) | Natsume |
| Director(s) | Kizu Selichi |
| Writer(s) | Setsuko Miyakoshi |
| Composer(s) | Tsuyoshi Tanaka |
| Series | Story of Seasons |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64, Virtual Console |
| Release | (VC) |
| Genre(s) | Farm simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 84% |
| Metacritic | 78/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |   |
| EGM | 7.62/10 |
| Famitsu | 31/40 |
| Game Informer | 7.25/10 |
| GameSpot | 7.3/10 |
| IGN | 8.2/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8.2/10 |
| Nintendojo | 8.0/10 |
| Award | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Parent's Guide to Nintendo Games | Parent's Guide Choice Award |
Harvest Moon 64, released in Japan as Bokujō Monogatari 2 (牧場物語2?), is a farm simulation video game developed by Victor Interactive Software and published by Natsume for the Nintendo 64 video game console, and the third game in the Story of Seasons series (following Harvest Moon GB). It was first released in Japan on February 5, 1999, and was later released in North America on December 22, 1999.
Natsume initially stated bringing it to Wii U Virtual Console was not possible due to unknown technical issues, despite the Wii proving the task to be possible through homebrew emulation. However, in celebration of the series' twentieth anniversary, the game abruptly saw release on the Wii U Virtual Console on February 23, 2017. This also marked the game's debut in the PAL regions (the original had been cancelled due to time constraints), as well as the game's first official re-release (as well as the first time digital) in nearly two decades.
The objective of Harvest Moon 64 is to restore and maintain an abandoned farm left to the player by their grandfather. The player is initially given a set of tools to use in order to achieve this goal. Along with restoring the farm, there are a number of other side quests that the player may choose to partake in, including training and racing a horse, selling crops, participating in a variety of town festivals as well as random events, falling in love and getting married, collecting recipes, and collecting photographs from various achievements and events.
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