Harvest Moon Iceberg Explanation

[@JuvenileStacks]

0:00-1:14 - intro 1:14-6:22 - The Sky 6:22-20:38 - Tip of the Iceberg 20:38-38:58 - Shallow Water 38:58-57:47 - Body of the Iceberg 57:47-1:15:14 - Deep Iceberg 1:15:14-1:21:59 - Bottom of the Iceberg 1:21:59-1:22:58 - End Credits

[@ohyouknowthisonejeffrey9753]

TY!!!!! the inro is so cringe

[@LittleWolfie08]

42:33 In Japan, you typically start a grave visit by washing the grave. It's a kind gesture to the deceased and keeps the place pure. It's not really all that strange!

[@Ritacuore3]

I thought everyone in the world washed the graves of their loved ones

[@LittleWolfie08]

@@Ritacuore3 Probably in most places. In America for example though, we don't; it's typically expected of the graveyard workers to upkeep the graves and keep them clean. It's one of the reasons why it's so expensive to buy burial space.

[@hestiashearth478]

When we had larger space in cemeteries in my country, we used to go as a family on family graves, wash them thoroughly every year. ever since the government decided to renovate the cemeteries into shelves/columbariums where you only clean a small stone tablet. no more family cleaning happened. it's just wiping the stone tablet

[@deanna1554]

Those extra pet rumors in Wonderful life haunted me as a kid. I'd keep reading online it was possible, like if you had high friendship with Vesta she'd give you the raccoon. I wanted it so bad!

[@KupoTunes]

Same. I literally found out this year during the remake WHAT the animals actually do 😂 when i was a kid id replay over and over trying to get the extra animals

[@HerKneeUgh]

@@KupoTunesWhat do they do? I still don’t know 😅

[@adrianen4644]

@@HerKneeUghthey come out to show which areas will be best to fish by that day- tortoise for the pond, lizard for the river/goddess pond

[@KupoTunes]

@@HerKneeUgh they are indicators of good luck. They let you know when you are going to have a good day fishing or at the digsite (chihuahua) where you will have better pulls and faster pull times

[@Iris-nw1xs]

Me too!! I had read the rumor as a kid that you could get the lizard by befriending Daryl lol

[@foxbuns]

I have such a vivid memory of AWL where I married Nami and had my kid go into the artist path (befriending the sculptor). The most terrifying moment came when my kid was doodling on paper and said only "Wound...wound..." It took me far too long to realize he just couldnt pronounce his Rs yet, and that he was not threatening to wound me. 😭😰

[@error-try-again-later]

That's what he wanted you to think.

[@wasperine]

what is he supposed to be saying??

[@Gurofluff]

​@@wasperine round.

[@Namadu7]

I have that same memory from when I was a young'un watching my sisters play the game! Harvest Moon kids can be scary...

[@Bellestissa]

But Thoma IS the Harvest King! It would explain why he is always able to retrieve the ball and why he is always on the deeper levels of the mines. Plus when you get a giant crop he is the one to retrieve it (and ship it) while commanding the Harvest Sprites for help while knowing their names! And he seems to have beef with the Orange Team Leader based on the winter quest, meanwhile normal characters can't see the Sprites!

[@chocomelo454]

I'm sold.

[@chxrryxsoru]

this is the best theory i've ever read about thomas ♡

[@pu_dinn]

Also the bell tree joke is because in japanese "kane" is bell and "okane" is money, so it's also a bit of a joke in animal crossing, too!

[@kinomotomaria728]

Actually, kane could mean money (金) and bell (鐘), the お (o) at the beginning is a honorific prefix that it's commonly placed before nouns to add politeness in Japanese ^^

[@zangooose]

​@@kinomotomaria728adding onto this even more (sorry lol) a lot of games from this era use very few, if any, kanji because of sprite size and storage issues. so if you're a japanese player, you would just see かね, no kanji dictating which meaning it has.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

@@zangooose Well that and games of that era were understood to largely be for kids, and one of the things that means in Japanese culture is that you don't use a lot of Kanji because kids are still learning all of them over time (and there's a lot of Kanji to learn - it takes years). So to be safe, they stick with hiragana and katagana.

[@zangooose]

​@@MidlifeCrisisJoeThat isn't fully true though. Children learning kanji, which is every kid that isn't in preschool, are going to know basics by the time they're midway through their first year of school, which is quite a few kanji. They also use furigana for kanji they don't know. Later Pokemon games, for examlle, were no longer held back by the limitations and gave the option to play with kanji sans furigana if you were old enough to read more high-level kanji. It was entirely a space issue, not a reading issue.

[@monotropa_uniflora]

It’s rare to see an iceberg not only made but also narrated by a big fan of a franchise. The amount of work this must have taken to research and compile screenshots/evidence for. Really thank you so much for making this!

[@Snogard45]

I was so obsessed with the witch princess as a kid I did all those terrible things for her without batting an eye and only based on very vague advice for fulfilling her wants online... I still wonder what that says about me to this day

[@Whisky-Glass-Lass]

It doesn't really say anything about you, since they're just fictional characters. Committing heinous deeds in videogames is fun because you get to see entertaining reactions without actually hurting anyone. 😁

[@Snogard45]

haha don't worry I know, but thanks for such a genuine reply! I meant my what does that say about me less as a "thinking I'm a bad person" statement and more as a reflection on how I grew up to be a lesbian that dresses like a witch everyday! @@Whisky-Glass-Lass

[@sourgreendolly7685]

Same but for me it said "NOT STRAIGHT" pretty clearly 😂

[@chocomelo454]

I feel like they intentionally made witch princess specifically for the gays. I'm not lesbian but from what I've heard girls who look like her are widely crushed on. like how Justin Bieber is with straight girls? yeah that. my evidence is that they tried to implement gay marriage for sapphic couples specifically. they knew. Marvelous knew. Had it not been for Natsume... Witch Princess would've been a much more popular bachelorette because honestly she's probably only not popular because the game she's from has many many glitches related to marrying her so not many people are willing to take the risk... I hope they make a remake of DS Cute though. specifically Cute because it's fixed, and cute. plus they'll probably have to tone down the animal sacrifice thing. they'll probably have it be like, sell 30 fertilized eggs without a full coop. since kinda a dick move lol you can't really eat fertilized eggs.

[@alchemysaga3745]

​@@chocomelo454You can eat fertilized eggs! You can either eat them before the embryo develops, or there are dishes that center around fermenting the egg once the embryo reaches certain stages of development. Balut is one example.

[@VultureSkins]

1:19:36 “we can form a nazi alliance against rick and rick lovers and charge towards natsume and forcibly torture them into making new copies of this game replacing rick…” is INSANE

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

That one was so messed up that I hesitated to include it.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

To be fair, I'm guessing the people typing this stuff up were like, 12 at the time. Their brains were not fully formed.

[@brooketilton6215]

Something Daryl said in Harvest Moon DS cute hints at the fact that his ancestors was cloning people and I believe that especially when you start looking at the timeline

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

That would explain a lot. I gotta see this line now.

[@DarkMirria1]

That explains a lot.

[@kayleighbrown459]

Oh wow. I knew he was up to something weird.. OOH WHAT IF THE TWINS ARE CLONES

[@DarkMirria1]

@@kayleighbrown459 …Identical twins are natural clones.

[@kayleighbrown459]

@@DarkMirria1 What if they're not tho. What if they're just clone clones and that's why have such different personalities.

[@RaspberryPastry]

This iceberg really has me wanting to see a harvest moon like that can function as a completely normal small town sim but has some creepy stuff if you decide to investigate weird events. If a game like Pumpkin Panic can pull off the farming under stress format so well with so little dialog, there's serious potential to make something even scarier if you make a game like that a slower burn.

[@chocomelo454]

harvest moon but Carter won't leave you alone daily sermons with carter but they go from kinda cute to normal to weird to off to scary to apartment sermon

[@DarkAsukaChan]

Great video, loved it & lots of stuff I did not know yet. I have a theory about the "Chick Beam"! Afer the pop song "Koi no Dance Site" from Morning Musume, one of their members had the "Sexy Beam" which was basically a joke dance move to enthrall their (mostly) male fans & make them swoon. It became a huge meme in Japan, and is even referenced in other video games - e.g. Dragon Quest, in which the character dances "seductively" while doing the "Sexy Beam" move. It's a move attributed to female personalities. Maybe the "Chick Beam" is the same but from Male to Female? So... Skye danced seductively in front of the player.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

I love this so much and I actually think your theory is the correct one.

[@liquid_pig]

In the new game+ mode of Silent Hill 3 you can wear a magical girl outfit and use an attack called Sexy Beam that isn't suggestive at all, just a generic magical girl attack with a goofy out-of-place name. I always thought it was strange that they named it that of all things but now I know it's a reference to this! Thanks for sharing, I learned something new today!

[@error-try-again-later]

​@@liquid_pig I wondered if anyone else thought of this! The fact Sexy Beam is broken af makes the joke even funnier.

[@stressra]

I am very happy that there is nothing creepy in the SNES Version of Harvest Moon, because for me it is already scary that the music completely cuts off when the night comes and you are left alone with the sound of your own footsteps. I play the game on mute most of the time because it is less scary when there is no music to begin with.

[@thewritegrump]

I am so glad you included Meryl on this iceberg because oh my god she is such a dark character in an otherwise bright and cheerful game. I just finished completing Magical Melody and for the first time I read all of Meryl's dialogue as I raised her heart level and just... Christ, get this child into therapy. I don't know what happened to her, but I just want to hug her and tell her everything will be okay. ;_;

[@lettuce2231]

The sermon about the apartment and the husband is terrifying, straight out of a cosmic horror story! I can picture it in Junji Ito’s style so well.

[@rikodesoo]

exactly like what the actuall hell 😭😭

[@error-try-again-later]

To me it sounds like a symbolic story about domestic abuse or agoraphobia, since the sermons are supposedly moral lessons? Idk.

[@chocomelo454]

​@@error-try-again-laterI can maybe see the agoraphobia but abuse?

[@GuyDude-hk8uy]

Thanks for no jumpscares. I like to fall asleep to iceberg videos and there's nothing worse than being bolted awake at 2AM by the screams of the damned from your headphones! :p I'm not very knowledgeable on these games at all, but I do know there's some weird unused items and strangely dark stuff in these games so this should be interesting.

[@KCasper-qm2wm]

I think its really wholesome that you made sure to let us know you care about our health and wouldnt scare us. I watch a lot of horror content but this specifically was so sweet i had to subscribe lmao so a strong start to the video!

[@Torqegood]

Cougars apparently sound like woman screaming. Could be an explanation for the screaming at the grave at the end. Part creepy, part well...also creepy because he could of gotten killed by a wild animal.

[@AuRelixRa]

I thought I knew about all of the fake video game rumors I fell for as a kid, only to find out through this video that there were even more fake rumors I thought were true, especially about the wonderful life games! Fantastic video.

[@Etsa]

The ghost in friends of mineral town is real

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

Are you talking about the thing with the mirror? Or did I miss something?

[@Etsa]

@@Garnet_and_Eggs yeah I'm talking about the mirror

[@PokeCastle]

Wow I never realised how much of a dark franchise harvest moon is compared to most other farming related games

[@tiacat11]

I never knew the cricket yelled at you about fertilizer. I can confirm they'll scold you for placing your crops close to trees though, it happened to me because I thought putting them diagonal counted as two squares away (it did not).

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

I think the cricket is meant to be a mole cricket (you know, those things from Animal Crossing that always make buzzing noises underground).

[@lexinicole4317]

This is the only iceberg video I have ever in my entire life remained interested in and engaged with for the entire iceberg. I’ve tried to watch several and this, this is it, the only one. You have a soothing/calming cadence while also being funny, engaging, and entertaining to listen to. I really hope you’ll make more of these some day, even though I’m sure they’re a lot of work. Thank you!!!

[@graverobbingcleric2745]

46:11 fun fact, this is Homaged in Silent Hill 2. While passing through an area, if you have the steel pipe equipped while near a particular area of water, it will prompt you to throw your pipe in. If you do, a spirit comes out of the water and asks if you dropped the Golden Pipe. Answer honestly and she gives you a gold pipe, a silver pipe, and your steel pipe.

[@friedeyeball]

It’s an old folklore story in Japan, so in both cases it’s a reference to the myth, not to HM

[@graverobbingcleric2745]

@@friedeyeball Ahh, that makes sense. Always good to deep dive the origin of references. Thanks for the info!

[@HeruruMeruru]

The bell tree thing is because the Japanese word for bell is the same as the word for money, kane. The windy noises near the path in AWL could simply be because of all the windmills nearby. You hear them when you're near the windmills as well.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

Now that I think about it, why does everyone assume it's coming from the path? I'll have to figure out where it's loudest.

[@broreece]

@@Garnet_and_Eggs It's also loud in a small corner of your farm i think at the back by the large field.

[@Whisky-Glass-Lass]

So that must be why the money in Animal Crossing is called bells! I always kinda wondered about that.

[@Avalinara]

I never paid enough attention before to notice, but the spooky 13 message on the tv 4:44 says “break the curse, use the rod fifty times” backwards in it

[@gummyguts1829]

Wow... being a huge fan of both the HM franchise and horror, I was surprised to find myself getting chills from so many of the lower entries... awesome video!! :)

[@Bunni89]

Hell yeah Marian and Giorgio couple!! Glad other people got that vibe too. I only ever played Olive town and already was like "why are they being so vague about their respective fiances? And they moved to live together here? And they're always calling each other honey and darling and boasting that their fiance is the most beautiful and the two of them are the 'beautiful dreamers'" and just... how obvious is this lol. If it wasn't intentional then I can't imagine how bad you have to mess up to do all this by accident haha

[@error-try-again-later]

They both seem like they _would_ be super mysterious and dramatic about their fiances for no reason lmao

[@kirikat9365]

I always had a crazy theory that Magical Melody and Animal Parade exist on the same island. There's that strange open field in the Fugue Forest right before the Witch's house, and one of Thomas's animals (the same guy from MM) is in the swamp around her house. Plus, when the game starts your character is riding in on a cart, and the boats/water isn't working because of the Blue Bell, so you only could have got there from another part of the island. MM has that path that goes nowhere, but what if it leads to the Fugue Forest? That weird field could have been the way to MM town. Your character in AP left MM town and when you left the forest you ran into the guy who gave you a ride (I forget his name) to your new farm. Plus both games start with your character agreeing to run a farm and not inheriting it like some games. IDK just thought I'd sharelol.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

I love theories that connect the games like this. This one is actually really good!

[@Foxfiresoul411]

This was a great iceberg! It was a lot of fun revisiting all the weird stuff from this charming childhood favorite of mine. It would be cool to see you do a tierlist of best to worst SoS+HM games or a series of videos deep diving into the story of each game!

[@CamperNQQB]

This was a pretty informative and enjoyable video to watch, keep up the great work! I'm especially interested in the manga and wouldn't mind giving translating them a shot. Really curious what kinds of stories they'd tell in the manga format.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

Thanks! And let me know if you do translate any of them. I'd love to see that.

[@RanchStory]

Tried to reply a couple of times, but I think something is tripping up the automatic youtube moderation and I dunno how to really explain without doing that. But, uh, we have a bunch to translate if you wanna help out, including one book that's 250 pages worth of stuff that released between SNES and 64, which is where Claire first appears. Since I can't even vaguely point at the link maybe I can at least say to look for "ranchstoryblog"?

[@estelle5798]

Who on earth could hurt Grant so badly that his "sad" theme is THAT.

[@pansy_picnics]

i havent even finished this yet but bokumono is one of my special interests and this is SO cool you did such a good job on this wtf….. YOU EVEN GOT PRINCESS VANILLA THATS SICK!!!! OH AND ALSO 57:09 THEY ARE RELATED!!! pierre in sunshine islands mentions being a part of the gourmet family on multiple occasions!!!

[@elianewinter2638]

this video is so well-made :D even though I haven’t played any of these games myself, your iceberg was interesting and fun to watch from beginning to end ps: thank you for no jumpscares, that’s very considerate

[@willowispers3895]

This is awesome! I really appreciate the ‘No jump scares thing’ And, the kappa throwing stones in AP seems weirdly familiar to me, too- Really well-made though! Keep up the good work!

[@theedwardian]

I'll jump scare you... ... ... 👻!

[@akeminovaes9888]

I absolutely loved this iceberg. Harvest moon is so nostalgic for me and I loved revisiting these stories that sometimes we don't even notice while playing! This franchise is gold!

[@shelbyhurd]

Around 42:00, you talk about the cutscene where the Goddess hits her head on the surface of the water when trying to leave the pond. This is a real cutscene! I got it in my most recent playthrough. It's pretty funny!

[@purplemist7]

This was a really entertaining watch. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into not only creating this iceberg explanation video, but the iceberg itself. Great job!

[@sophiavolkvo1399]

I would love to see a Rune Factory version.

[@cultreader9751]

I made one about a year ago, it's been sitting in my files since then. I need to edit it a bit more, I always add joke entries, and have found some new information that needs to be added.

[@coratyrrell5957]

I loved this video! It was great to nap to and then when I woke up and rewound on the parts I had missed it was really enjoyable. This is the highest form of compliment I can give a video btw

[@_hamuko]

the best way to watch an iceberg video honestly

[@camchem]

I’ve been replaying Tale of Two Towns of all things recently, and I honestly forgot how fun it is. I love the town rivalry, the cooking contests, the marriage candidates, the horse cart, even the owl. I know it’s far-fetched, but I’d love to see a remake of this one too. I want to see rival marriages and children again too!! I miss what Animal Parade did so much 😭

[@sashash0084]

i've been playing it too! the only thing that i hate is that the japanese version gets to have an extra art in the end i think? according to ushi no tani blog but its fine i can still enjoy the game without ever getting those pretty pics T^T

[@marioxzeldagamer4511]

Its funny how you mention the timing of the 4:44 glitch being difficult to get when I once had it happen to me by complete accident and it confused me at first but then frustrated me when I realized I had to reset and lose sooooo much progress. Now I barely touch the TV unless its for the shopping channel

[@ragcat3732]

17:12 I’m pretty sure that’s an error haha. The yellow in the mouth is definitely his hair showing through and the extra tongue seems to either be a leftover from a previous version of the sprite or less likely it’s intentional to indicate motion. Perhaps they accidentally made part of the mouth transparent or made a mistake on the layer order or which layer they set to hide and which to show? Definitely a very fun entry, I love looking at old sprite work in games :D I’m also ashamed to say I never noticed the weirdness of this sprite for some reason. Anyways this is such a good video! I love hearing people talk about my favorite video games for extended periods of time. The harvest moon/story of seasons games have always been such a comfort to me. I can tell you are very enthusiastic about this topic and you are a good speaker! Great job! (I ended up making this comment way longer than originally intended.)

[@bunnybrained]

The handheld games are so unforgivable and I feel like we were all masochists playing them as kids. I had no idea about the DS game glitches. Jeez!

[@LuneLapinArtist]

Really nice video :D When I heard “Evil Farming Game” I thought of the German fan game “Harvest Moon: Mondlichts Kinder”. A game created in 2006 or so via RPG Maker. The game is similar to Friends of Mineraltown from the GBA, only it has darker themes and is decorated with horror elements.

[@moondropflower]

This video was great. Harvest Moon DS/DS Cute are my favorite games they are literally so cursed and haunted.

[@lavenderwhite8538]

This is a great video, thank you sm for uploading!! I honestly adores the creepy and mysterious easter eggs that Harvest Moon games had in their earlier releases. It adds the unique gap of a cute farming game with a creepy and disturbing lore. Guess I just like to get scared, haha

[@FriendofMineralTown]

This video kills me. I love it. There’s so many things about HM/SOS that are so mysterious. AWL is my favorite and that always had so many rumors that followed it even to the new game where even still answers can be hazy. Such as everyone’s depressed child, because are we smothering the child or not loving it enough?? Or the doors that weren’t ever used being lead to the Witch and only being able to be opened in autumn.

[@strawberisprite]

so as far as thomas being called "baldy" i found out recently that in japanese, a very rude insult is "Hage", which translates to bald. its a general insult, and is not at all only meant to refer to someone who is, in fact, bald. I think this was probably the case in the japanese version, which would have not made so much sense when translating to other languages

[@mocharoll3486]

When I was a kid I got the heebie jeebies just from hearing the sounds of the mountain at night in Back to Nature games, not to mention actually jumpscared if I heard the barking of the mountain dog (me and my sister now affectionately calls it Baskerville lmao), now as an adult I love all these scary things in other games that I didn't get to play and wish I could've experienced them all! Thanks so much for this iceberg! Love all the hard work you poured into it

[@shydoll8343]

The kappa showing up in the mirror scared me so bad as a kid to the point where I got rid of my mirror, had my mum check my room each night and then I put up a trap for him and would stay up all night so he couldn’t get me 😅

[@bcwoshi04967]

Oh I came to Harvest Moon DS without caution thinking, rather naive actually, shouldn't contain anything that creeps me out as hard as the 4:44am dark Easter egg (creepy pasta). Seriously when just watching the video as a footage still gives me the shock that creeps me out. Now recently playing SoS: FoMT Switch remake now I know there's a Kappa and that the creepy mirror was Kappa that settles me a bit about the mirror.

[@sakura_frosting]

Ah man these little easter eggs and rumors really take me back! I remember doing the even boy/odd girl trick for DS Cute and it did work but I took forever to get a child because I just HAD to see the divorce event 😂 (I’m a little surprised it didn’t make the list but it is little more than just a couple lines of text and nothing happens anyway) I emulated a japanese version of ds cute for the best friend system and married Inari only because I “thought it was cool” and there was “no way I’m gay” (which was extremely wrong and it took me like a decade after playing my first hm game to realize) Despite having been an active fogu forum user, this video had SO many things I had never even heard of or experienced in games I have played so this video was a lot of fun!

[@CatsandDragons7]

I grew up never really playing the “girl” versions of the games, and I didn’t mind because I loved the girls. Didn’t think much of it until I was a teenager and joked that I was straight irl but a video game lesbian. Jokes on me, I’m a bi non-binary person LMAO

[@ducky19991]

Now this is the content I need!! ❤ also it’s hilarious to think there’s a dark enough Harvest Moon iceberg layer to warrant a warning

[@chau5321]

this specific video scratched an itch i didn’t know i had in my brain i have binged this vid 3 times already since finding it! thank you for making this! i usually don’t like farm sim but you definitely changed my mind, so i will start playing Trio of Towns !! :D (sorry if there’s any mistake, english isn’t my first language^^)

[@venafydan]

In HM DS Cute there is a pet thing like the one for Karen in HM 64. It works with the cat and the dog on all the villagers, including the regular marriage candidates and rivals, never tried it on the special girls. But, some only like the dog, some only like the cat, and some are fine with either. You can even see it work if you have the ring equipped that shows affection/friendship. If you get the villager inside a building, you can even max out their friendship in 1 in-game day. I don't remember if the trick works in the original HM DS.

[@royalbastard]

can confirm that it works in DS too, i remember doing this for Daryl to gain access to Leia haha

[@newtable2580]

Congrats on hitting 500 subs.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

Thank you!

[@Daeymieh]

Love the video, very nice ice berg. Regarding the dog ball in HM DS: You can actually put it in your cabinet/bookshelf that you can buy from tele shopping and Thomas will not be able to "steal" it anymore. :D

[@trainer1997]

Thank you for the jumpscare warning. I'm a big fan of iceberg videos, but unfortunately can't watch a good chunk of them due to jumpscares. I wish more creators do what you do.

[@jynxx37]

I've never seen an iceberg video with a jumpscare, and I've seen dozens

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

I think jumpscares are somewhat rare, but I unfortunately have encountered a couple in iceberg videos, and I don't like the suspenseful feeling I now get when I don't know if a video will have them or not.

[@koiyune]

awoop jumpscare

[@P_uddles]

How do you only have 674 subs!? This iceburg video was wonderful! It's nice to see someone touch on the glitchyness that was the Harvest Moon DS game. I never see it talked about anywhere!

[@KupoTunes]

I was listening to this while working on other stuff so maybe i missed it, but were the animals in AWL explained? I just learned what they do this year after yrs of growing up playing that game 😂 For those who don’t know. They are luck indicators. Chihuahua digsite luck, raccoon lizard owl and turtle fishing luck, they indicate good luck at the spot nearest to them. Having extra luck increases your chances of good pulls and how fast you catch/dig.

[@hellspawn32x66]

I’ve listened to this video so many times now. Thank you for all your hard work putting this together!! You absolutely deserve more subscribers!!

[@Lukke0]

FINALLY A HM ICEBERG!! Amazing video and editing! Definitely a new sub! And they definitely go all out with the weird creepy stuff in friends of mineral town. And i still cant believe that they didnt let me date the girl in the mines from wonderful life

[@joelbowyer]

i’ve been playing these since mineral town on my gameboy, completely forgot about so many of these “guides” that led me to believe 99% of this stuff 😭 thanks for the nostalgia

[@kateprescesky3060]

Okay this was incredible. I've been playing the HM/SoS games since 64, and am back in deep with the AWL remake... And I have learned SO MUCH from this vid! Bless you.

[@Alstroemeria_107]

Great video! Wanted to add for glitches stopping marriage candidates from being marriageable- in ToT, a glitch in some early copies stopped you from completing Calvin’s 5th heart event, so he was unmarryable. I was heartbroken when I learned both me and my best friend had glitched copies, but was so excited when I could finally marry him in AP!!

[@UnknownFlyingPancake]

I remember you could mail in your glitched copy and they'd send you one with the bug fixed.

[@animeplushie9689]

I'm certain that the cricket telling you off at your doorstep for planting something next to a tree is totally a thing, at least in the GameCube version of Another Wonderful Life. I remember it happening to me as a kid and it really freaked me out.

[@cerealmonster15]

21:44 omg a blast from the past with the Karen dog trick! I actually lost my dog forever from doing that as a kid lol. One of the days I was going to show it to her, I was holding it when I entered her home and triggered her sick in bed heart event. My character had the dog with him, but it was automatically dropped from his hands and running around during the cutscene in her room… And then the player auto leaves her room. He left the dog there. And since you can’t enter their bedrooms during normal gameplay, my dog was gone forever :”) Love this video! Very fun revisiting urban legends I’d read all the time on video game forums for the older games lol

[@KaizouKazurei]

I really loved the video! In a series full of rumors and misinformation you really nailed all the facts, thanks for the hard work 🎉 Subbed for sure!

[@danihydrant9767]

Omg. So when you was talking about the sad grant song. I was curious and looked it up on KZbin. And it was creepy sounding. And I came back to your video to continue watching (amazing god tier video btw) and then was hearing the sad grant song... and I felt so terrified because I thought somehow the glitch of the music never stopping had happened to me somehow in real life ??! Then realised you had been using it in the background. 😂😅

[@StarlingAurora]

I actually got the cutscene of the goddess hitting her head in my game but the sprites made it seem like if I collect enough bobbles that she will eventually come out? It sounded like "get enough achievements and the goddess will come back"

[@1xsandrax1]

Your iceberg video is fantastic! Awesome job! I learned a lot about the series that I didn't know before as someone who has been playing the Bokujō Monogatari series for 20 years now. I am currently watching your Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Game Review video and that was my first farm sim game too! 😊

[@ignightroad]

FINALLY, a HM iceberg! Thank you for this!

[@rita8274]

I mean... you technically COULD be your own grandmother but you really shouldn't be. Amazing video!

[@sk8rbug]

Rick was always my favorite as a kid in MFOMT - I have vivid memories of seeing how mad people were at him on forums and being SO angry that I didn't romance any other characters until I replayed as an adult

[@laxelford3533]

"Cant be your own grandparent... I think" Philip J. Fry enters the chat

[@kyumu]

I'm laughing- as a kid, the witch princess was the first person I married, and yes I knew the requirements. def did the fodder trick in summer, I had a quarantined section of my farm dedicated to the death sheds

[@dora-chan1]

"death sheds" 😆😂😂😂 lmao

[@lonelyshrimpart]

learning that there are these just. masses of ppm who hate/hated Rick makes me?? so sad??? he's my favourite bachelor in the series he's just a dorky dude who cares about his mom and his sister and wants the best for them (even if he can come off as overbearing) and resents his dad for seemingly abandoning them when his mother is sick. I love him sm so I was genuinly floored to learn ppl hate him sm :((( love this video though, love harvest moon so so so much. grew up playing hmds and then got into friends of mineral town on the gba and have loved the series to bits ever since

[@gersongarcia5522]

Finally I was able to finish watching this video, It Is Great!! And my only contribution to it is that I do have the "1J" HM Ds cartridge but if you touch the bottom screen as soon as the little intro start, you also get the glitched screen, not only with Leia but with glitched characters

[@RanchStory]

Fun video! Covered a lot of stuff, and the comments so far have covered a lot of others, but I wanted to mention a few other things that are fun: There's possibly another weather girl cameo, but it's a bit of a stretch. Long, long before A New Beginning released, there was a girl who looked almost exactly like Yuri as the weather girl in Save the Homeland. Same outfit, mostly similar hair (just looks neater) with the only big difference being that the StH weathergirl doesn't have glasses. Also, iirc, Popuri mentions Rod finding the cure for Lilia in the Island games!

[@AntiKaoz]

I love this! It definitely feels nice to have an iceberg that covers the dark aspects without using sudden loud noises for reactions. But anyways, about the hate on Rick, I don't know why some characters get unusually hated by a big portion of the players, in Harvest Moon: Animal Parade, when I decided to check heart events on most bachelorettes, I noticed there were a lot of mean and downright scary comments against Selena, I get that she's the female rival for anyone looking for Luke but for some reason, she'd get the most hate out of any bachelorettes, but other girls like Maya, Kathy and Luna would also get some hate, but not on the level Selena got it.

[@pandaonsteroids5154]

I totally understand that insomnia-induced reddit post. As a kid I had multiple "memories" that I was not sure were real or dreams. Some ended up being real actually. I'm an avid dreamer who always remembers my dreams when I wake up. I am 21 and still remember my dreams almost every night/morning.

[@malurpss]

I listened to this video while cleaning at work. I loved it! Awesome job :3

[@chaosdestructionlove]

One of the folks who translated one of the comics you listed in the comic translation section, ranch story, are still active on discord, as a wiki group and tumblr so maybe more cool things could pop up in the future. Great video though, could tell you researched exceptionally deeply with the games, was surprised to find i knew a decent amount of these (though equally had never heard of some lol). Very cool video.

[@mud4realiez]

i literally only have played some of wonderful life, and am starting story of seasons. This video was really easy to understand despite my lack of knowledge. Good video!

[@maritessa]

I always thought that Doctor is named Doctor in Katakana so his name is actually doctor. So he's a physician/doctor (医師) named doctor (ドクター)

[@valleyard8674]

16:15 "you can't be your own grandma" That just made me remember"Im my own grandpa" good stuff

[@ichi_san]

This was very interesting!! The deeper the iceberg, the more haunting this game becomes LMAO

[@UbeRDigguh]

Back when we were little, my cousins and I used to look for the tablets in the original AWL thinking Carter would give us the chihuahua 🥺

[@oceansidegraveyard3567]

great video! i learned a lot i had no idea about previously. that being said, i really wish ioh/si would have gotten more attention than just a throwaway mention, as they have a lot of interesting and obscure bits as well. the vaughn starry night glitch, the rumor about regis being a vampire, fomt/mfomt lore implications, frantic farming, etc etc. there's also entries on this iceberg that qualify for ioh/si as well but not mentioned, such as the gender of your child being set at the wedding date which is also a thing in si and is not exclusive to ds cute. i do love how you formatted and narrated this iceberg though, here's hoping for a future second edition with more love for less loved titles in the series?

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

I figured I'd be forgetting a few important things while I was making it. There was a lot for me to try to remember by myself. I now remember thinking the vampire rumor was funny. I'll definitely have to update the iceberg at some point. Comments are helping a lot.

[@eddymadison9655]

55:39 I believe "Chick Beam" is a reference to "Love Love Beam", anime meme about an attractive male/female who could swoon anyone with their charm and beauty. The "beam" itself can be described as a literal shockwave, anyone who got caught onto it will be swoon or better yet "stunned".

[@jeshirekitenkatt1212]

Hearing that Rick DIDN'T used to be Popuri's brother feels so wrong to me... I started playing in friends of mineral town to death as a child, what do you mean there's a whole AU with these characters?! :0

[@gundam4200]

same feeling bro I didn't know there was an alternate universe of harvest moon btw my first harvest moon is back to nature

[@supermart4477]

This video was so interesting!! I had no idea about some of these, similar to harvest moon I think a rune factory ice berg would be so neat!

[@TheOGSovereignDomiTheyTrix]

This was sooooo comforting to watch/relax/doze off to on repeat, especially as I’m playing thru Story Of Seasons: AWL, after playing the original as a child some decades ago.💖

[@MigMania]

Great video!! Was great learning new things about the series :)

[@TheBlazeinPanther]

There was a cheat in an Another Wonderful Life, where if you insert a controller in the third slot and hold down L+R+Z, all the inventory pages would be full of items at x99. Some of the items will switch out if you keep doing it. Unfortunately, if you did this too many times, your memory card corrupts. That happened to me. 😭 But it was cool while it lasted lol.

[@Garnet_and_Eggs]

I forgot about this one! I remember I was too scared to try it cause I thought something bad might happen.

[@AmbrosiaThorn]

The first ever game I got was Harvest moon and coincidently it was the first one I played on my first console. Sparked the excitement and helped me develop the love for games. It was then I planned to go to college and make a hobby that some parents would think is not good to make a hobby into a career . I am proof it can work out the way it shaped me and made me who I am today I’d never realize that if not for Harvest moon so I’m so happy to say my love of games is why I’m able to do what I love as a Career!

[@elly9704]

i would love love love a ds and ds cute specific iceberg

[@MehdiCheniti]

Same!

[@CheiftanLynx]

Such a cozy watch!

[@PringleTheOne]

This was great garnet and Eggs, I never knew about cliff and the shiner he had. Gdamn lol, it was savage

[@ladygalleth369]

The fact that you DIE at the end of AWL had me terrified as a child! I never, ever wanted to finish it. So I kept restarting a new save after chapter 3 or 4. But, now that I'm an adult, I am prepared to play the whole way through in the remake! 😅😅

[@MoosoppArt]

This was such a great video! Thank you for this! I'm a big fan of the game and I love learning lore about it!!!