If you're looking forward to playing more handheld classics on your 3DS then you'll be pleased to learn that the Australian Classification board has handed out ratings for two new Game Boy Color games.
Harvest Moon 3 and Lufia: The Legend Returns have both been given a "General" rating, which is a good sign that they're coming to the North American and European 3DS eShops very soon.
https://twitter.com/infernal_monkey/statuses/461668187184963584
Harvest Moon 3 is the final entry in the series for the Game Boy Color and features the usual livestock-bothering gameplay as you try to make your farm the most productive around. The Japanese edition was actually released in "Boy" and "Girl" formats, but the western release — which occurred in 2001 — combined the two versions.
Lufia: The Legend Returns is the third entry in the semi-famous RPG franchise and its first portable outing. It gained mixed reviews upon release, but the stature of the series should ensure that many will give it a look.
Are you interested in checking out either of these two? Let us know with a comment.
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I didn't like the first GBC Harvest Moon, only HM I haven't liked so far, and not interested in Lufia.
Wait a minute...Harvest Moon 3? What happened to Harvest Moon 2?!
Besides the DS remake, I didn't even realize that there were Lufia games after SNES...
@Damien McFerran a game called Stealth Inc. 2 is coming to the Wii U exclusively.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/05/01/stealth-inc-2-announced-as-wii-u-exclusive
Well, HM3 will suck pretty hard on the VC.
You can select if you want to play as a boy or a girl, which decides if you can only take care of crops or the animals.
You can only unlock the other activities for a character, if you trade with a save file of the opposite sex..yay ?
@GamerZack7: Harvest Moon 2 was originally classified back in 2000, so it doesn't need to be classified again. Harvest Moon 3 was only just classified recently because it wasn't released in Australia at the time of its original U.S. release.
Any previously classified GBC games could too, in theory, be released in the Australian eShop, but the only ones that we can confirm for a PAL release are those that are being classified now.
@CaviarMeths : there is also "Lufia : The ruins of lore" on the GBA.
I recently repurchased Harvest Moon 2 for the GBC, so this suits me well. I'll be sure to get Harvest Moon 3 when it comes out. This Lufia game however received quite bad reviews when it first came out, so I'll probably pass on it.
The Lufia game was horrible, but I've never played HM 3.
Aw man, definitely getting Lufia: The Legend Returns.
It's not a bad game at all, it's a pretty standard JRPG which the GBC did not have much of that the time. Has some pretty great music too.
@Einherjar Are you kidding me? The GBA GAMES were the only ones I didn't play that wanted to. Is it not worth the money?
@haniwa I'm paying through the DS version and having fun with it.
That lufia was good it had random dungeons , that game was hard.
@PrincessEevee9 Harvest Moon 3 is a GBC game, not the one on GBA (That was Friends of Mineral Town, a sorta remake of Back to Nature from the PS1)
HM3 was interesting, in that it featured both protagonists at once (One taking care of the crops, one taking care of the animals) The "problem" is, that these jobs all needed a special tool (Taking care of animals needs special gloves in this game) and each character only has access to a specific set of tools.
For instance: Taking care of sheeps requires Shampoo, which is only obtainable when playing as the girl. So, if you play as the boy, neither you NOR your computer controlled female partner will be able to care for sheeps since the shampoo item is inaccessable.
If you can link up the games, its one of the better "classic" Harvest Moon games. But without that feature, its not even worth the time in my opinion.
Im not sure but there MIGHT be an option to trade between 2 save files on one cart, but its too long since i last played it.
Hope that helped you @Satsujin_Okumei
If i get around it, i might look that trading on one cart thing up.
Sweet! Looking forward to replaying Lufia!
I spent so many hours playing Lufia as a kid! I will be picking that up the moment it releases!
Lufia incoming!
Nice. Under-appreciated and innovative RPG series. I hope this means they will release the GBA LUFIA on Wii U soon!
LUFIA!!
HM 3 was also the first portable HM that allowed your character to marry and have children, unfortunately, the only marriage option was the player character of the opposite gender that you didn't choose.
So we're finally getting some Lufia on VC...and they start with the THIRD? The one comprised almost entirely of rouguelike-style randomly generated dungeons and honestly goes on too long for its own good. It has some interesting systems, but I've never finished it. Oh well, probably give it another go anyway.
Looks pretty good.
I just had a brain cramp... I forgot COMPLETELY that there was a Lufia for GBC... I think I hunted it for so long back then that I forgot all about it, or, perhaps I mistook it for a remake of a previous Lufia. I am TOTAL STOKED for this. (Stupidly huge Lufia fan... except for Lufia: Ruins of Lore and Curse of the Sinistrals... play if you want but leave them alone, lol)
Are there truly any more games left on the Game Boy Color for the 3DS VC that don't already have better counterparts on the SNES or N64 with the exception of Pokemon? Just give us the SNES and N64 for the 3DS VC, and we'll all be happy.
I just want Gba games and Snes games on virtual console.... Or an NES Final Fantasy.
I will probably pick Harvest Moon when it comes out.
Lufia: Legend Returns was a pretty decent game I think. The graphics were great for a GBC game and the music was awesome. Maybe I loved it so much because I was a kid when I played it back then and it was all I had for a while. But, if you even like RPGS, give it a try and play it for yourself.
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