About the player character...

[rincewind]

I love the Harvest Moon games, but something that I miss in them is being able to romance female characters while playing as female.
In this game we can play as female? And if that's possible, can we romance other females?

Thank you, and congrats for already having a release date!

[Wayward Prophet]

Yes! I'm happy to say you can play as a male or female character, and romance any of the 6 marriage candidates regardless of your gender. One of the first options in the game is whether you're interested in dating men, women, or both.

Thank you so much for the congrats! I'm excited for everyone to play =)

[rincewind]

Very nice!! And thanks for the fast answer!!
Now, I only need a little patience to get my farming and rural town life fix!

[pkfast]

is the PC a mute or they can talk back?

[Catgirl Rika]

Originally posted by pkfast:

is the PC a mute or they can talk back?

To what I remember from playing when it wasn't on KS and such yet... I don't think they do speak

[crmagic]

Protagonist is your standard player-avatar type mute.

First rule of role playing -- don't tell someone else what their characters does/says.

[Alive Deadman]

best day of my life. Came to the forums searching for this same question and got the answer right away. Instabuy

[Expectorate]

Yes, yes you can romance girls as a girl. And it's adorable.

[rincewind]

Adorable yuri? I'm more and more hyped!!
Only a bit more than a week!!

[bananaSplif]

nice I've always dreamt of being a gay girl

[Airship]

What about the writing? Does it change depending on if you're playing as a guy or a girl?

RF4 had lazy gender-neutral dialogue because you could choose between playing as a guy or a girl at the start of the game, and it led to my male character being flirted with every man on the planet as he became closer friends with them. I can assume that the same was true had I played the female character.

So? Is the dialogue in the game hand-crafted depending on the gender you pick?

[Supified]

Originally posted by Wayward Prophet:

Yes! I'm happy to say you can play as a male or female character, and romance any of the 6 marriage candidates regardless of your gender. One of the first options in the game is whether you're interested in dating men, women, or both.

Thank you so much for the congrats! I'm excited for everyone to play =)

You had me at Yes!. So glad to see a dev so involved in discussion and the community. NOW TAKE MY MONEY!

[CosyGamer✿]

Thanks for including everyone. more games should do this.

[Samantha :]]

Originally posted by Airship:

What about the writing? Does it change depending on if you're playing as a guy or a girl?

RF4 had lazy gender-neutral dialogue because you could choose between playing as a guy or a girl at the start of the game, and it led to my male character being flirted with every man on the planet as he became closer friends with them. I can assume that the same was true had I played the female character.

So? Is the dialogue in the game hand-crafted depending on the gender you pick?

At least some of it is, yes.

[Wyrtt]

Originally posted by crmagic:

Protagonist is your standard player-avatar type mute.

First rule of role playing -- don't tell someone else what their characters does/says.

stupidiest thing I ever heard of. Mute characters just make game boring.

[MegaMan]

Originally posted by Wyrtt:

Originally posted by crmagic:

Protagonist is your standard player-avatar type mute.

First rule of role playing -- don't tell someone else what their characters does/says.

stupidiest thing I ever heard of. Mute characters just make game boring.

I'm sorry that you hate games like Zelda and Fallout.