Robin & Ann?

[Arby_notthemeats]

Hey!

So, I heard Ape based Stardew off of 1996 Harvest Moon.
I decided to play it and noticed the two games were VERY simular. Even some characters…
If anyone has Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Classics and has played 1996 Harvest Moon, you’ll notice that this one character looks very familiar. Her name is Ann and she looks exactly like Robin. The only difference I’ve found so far is that Ann is a bachelorette and Robin isn’t.
My theory is that Ann might be a younger Robin if Ape created a loop/story to connect the too.
Anyways, does anyone know something about this? I put a picture of Ann below.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I definitely see the resemblance, even some of the outfit is shared between the two of them. I don't know enough about the character to say if it was a tribute, as Robin seems to have veered into her own character niche, but I'd be interested in learning more abt it

 

[Nonak]

Similarly I know nothing about her, but they definitely look very similar, could be some cool theories, especially if more evidence is found, but even if it wasn't intentional, it's a fun coincidence.

 

[MogBeoulve]

I remember Ann giving your farmer fish as a meal if you marry her. She handed you a big, blue fish, saying something about not being a good cook? and you swallowed it whole. She was also always working on some kind of machine.

 

[Terdin]

Yeah, Ann was always tinkering on something... The result of testing them was pretty similar to testing Maru's robot component in the heart event... So CA may have spread her over two characters to avoid being accused of plagiarism. Robin getting the looks, and Maru the tinkering.

ETA: Ann was re-used as a character in later HM games, such as Friends of Mineral Town and a few others. I haven't played those games, but I have played HM: DS, where the girls from Mineral Town appear at festivals (and one day a week if you connected it to FoMT, but that's not possible with the European version of the DS) Not sure how or if her personality or interests changed in those games, but she's the worst cook to enter the cooking contest in the DS game.

 

[LRangerR]

Hey!

So, I heard Ape based Stardew off of 1996 Harvest Moon.
I decided to play it and noticed the two games were VERY simular. Even some characters…
If anyone has Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Classics and has played 1996 Harvest Moon, you’ll notice that this one character looks very familiar. Her name is Ann and she looks exactly like Robin. The only difference I’ve found so far is that Ann is a bachelorette and Robin isn’t.
My theory is that Ann might be a younger Robin if Ape created a loop/story to connect the too.
Anyways, does anyone know something about this? I put a picture of Ann below.

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Also Maru takes up Ann's personality type as the tinkerer. The only difference is that Ann wasn't obsessed with space and AI

 

[Gridball Pom Queen]

Funny, I was just playing HM: More Friends of Mineral Town and was thinking the same thing about some of the characters.

I’ve never played the 96’ version, but she also shows up in HM: Magical Melody as an aspiring inventor. Maybe a little bit of her went to Robin and Maru. You could be on to something.

 

[LRangerR]

Funny, I was just playing HM: More Friends of Mineral Town and was thinking the same thing about some of the characters.

I’ve never played the 96’ version, but she also shows up in HM: Magical Melody as an aspiring inventor. Maybe a little bit of her went to Robin and Maru. You could be on to something.View attachment 39815

Well haley and Emily share a lot of traits with Eve, except eve wasn't all spiritual in any of the games I played, but she was this kinda stuck up bar girl who kinda stalked you when you weren't looking. Haley is 10x meaner tho, and way more into herself.

 

[Terdin]

Well haley and Emily share a lot of traits with Eve, except eve wasn't all spiritual in any of the games I played, but she was this kinda stuck up bar girl who kinda stalked you when you weren't looking. Haley is 10x meaner tho, and way more into herself.

I think there was a story behind why Eve lost happiness/love points even when the farmer went to bed with her, something the other 4 girls saw as a positive thing... One of the reasons I never married her. I didn't want to force someone so obviously not liking intimacy into having two children.

 

[LRangerR]

I think there was a story behind why Eve lost happiness/love points even when the farmer went to bed with her, something the other 4 girls saw as a positive thing... One of the reasons I never married her. I didn't want to force someone so obviously not liking intimacy into having two children.

In which version was this?

 

[Terdin]

In which version was this?

The game for SNES. You can look it up if you like. Eve might've been the easiest girl to woo, just needing to repeatedly answer her question about whether you wanted her home-made drink, in that never-ending 6 pm time.

 

[LRangerR]

The game for SNES. You can look it up if you like. Eve might've been the easiest girl to woo, just needing to repeatedly answer her question about whether you wanted her home-made drink, in that never-ending 6 pm time.

Not an SNES game teaching you to stay out late and drink so you can get an easy date.

 

[Terdin]

Not an SNES game teaching you to stay out late and drink so you can get an easy date.

Believe what you will. But it's definitely there in the SNES game from 1996. Thing was that you gained more relationship points with Eve if you answered "no" when she asked if you wanted her brew, thereby suggesting you were there to see her, not to get drunk. Even if she did offer to kiss you if you drank it. If you answered "yes", thus drinking her brew, she said she was just joking about the kiss when you talked to her afterwards.

In that game, you pretty much had to abuse the questions any girl asked, since that was the best way for raising her affection. Gifts? Maybe raised affection as much as answering one question right and for four of the girls you only had time for one gift a day with how fast daytime passed. Eve was the only one available for gifts at night. Eve, Ann, and Maria, had indoor questions, and time didn't pass indoors, so I'd consider them all "easy". I'd spend most Sundays going in and out of church to talk to Maria and Ann, even if those questions were worth half as much as most other questions. Nina and Ellen only had outdoor questions, so they were a little more difficult, but still possible to marry before the end of Fall.

But that never-ending 6 pm time was more often spent doing any outdoor farm chore that didn't involve harvesting and shipping, and gathering wood for upgrading the farmhouse.

I see the main reason people were marrying Ann, since that meant seeing her father marrying Nina's mother in the spouse ending, but the farmer's wife there always wears the same lavender-colored dress, and it clashes with Ann's hair. I went for the mayor's blue-haired daughter Maria every time.

If Maria has given inspiration to any character in SDV, I'd say Abigail. Maria spent time helping the priest and playing the organ in church on Sundays, Abigail lives in the house with a chapel and both have an unusual hair color shared by a parent. But I'd say Maria's wish to have a large family was given to Penny, and Maria's hair color was given to Emily.

 

[LRangerR]

Believe what you will. But it's definitely there in the SNES game from 1996. Thing was that you gained more relationship points with Eve if you answered "no" when she asked if you wanted her brew, thereby suggesting you were there to see her, not to get drunk. Even if she did offer to kiss you if you drank it. If you answered "yes", thus drinking her brew, she said she was just joking about the kiss when you talked to her afterwards.

In that game, you pretty much had to abuse the questions any girl asked, since that was the best way for raising her affection. Gifts? Maybe raised affection as much as answering one question right and for four of the girls you only had time for one gift a day with how fast daytime passed. Eve was the only one available for gifts at night. Eve, Ann, and Maria, had indoor questions, and time didn't pass indoors, so I'd consider them all "easy". I'd spend most Sundays going in and out of church to talk to Maria and Ann, even if those questions were worth half as much as most other questions. Nina and Ellen only had outdoor questions, so they were a little more difficult, but still possible to marry before the end of Fall.

But that never-ending 6 pm time was more often spent doing any outdoor farm chore that didn't involve harvesting and shipping, and gathering wood for upgrading the farmhouse.

I see the main reason people were marrying Ann, since that meant seeing her father marrying Nina's mother in the spouse ending, but the farmer's wife there always wears the same lavender-colored dress, and it clashes with Ann's hair. I went for the mayor's blue-haired daughter Maria every time.

If Maria has given inspiration to any character in SDV, I'd say Abigail. Maria spent time helping the priest and playing the organ in church on Sundays, Abigail lives in the house with a chapel and both have an unusual hair color shared by a parent. But I'd say Maria's wish to have a large family was given to Penny, and Maria's hair color was given to Emily.

Also abi is in a band. I forget what everyone plays

 

[LRangerR]

As far as nina goes, I see her sharing a tiny bit with abi, working at the shop and all, but it's like she's the total polar opposite of Abi. Maybe that was the intent. Kinda like a Life is Strange moment (first one). If anyone was going to be the whimsical one in HM, it was nina, and I think Emily inherited a little bit of that by design or not.