Year of Harvest Moon Speedrunning: April Update

Year of Harvest Moon Speedrunning
April Update

Game:       Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Category:   Any% (Various Endings)
Likely to run again:        Yes

I began routing StH ages, closer to when I started streaming, after someone in chat recommended due to it having actualy endings and goals. I played it and enjoyed and got excited at the thought of routing an All Endings category. A couple years later I finally get round to doing runs of the game, although I only did Any% runs as I have a few problems with some of the endings that have prevented me from fully routing All Endings.

At the end of the month, I managed to complete runs for 5 of the 9 different endings, which I am pleased with, especially because I did what I felt were the more fun categories, with possibly the exception of missing the Horse Race ending. In terms of how the runs were, A lot of them can be improved either by playing on console, which is difficult for me as it requires getting an American PS2, or by enumlating on a system which lags less, which is definitely more achievable.

Part of me would still like to run All Endings at some point, though I don't see it happening any time soon. As for the regular Any%/New Game+ endings, I think there's a good chance I'll go back to some of the shorter/more interesting categories.