Harvest Moon Another Wonderful Life
From Natsume, Inc.
In Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life, you get the classic play of the Harvest Moon series with a slight twist: Your character is a girl now. You'll still have to start a little farm and turn it into a success, while pursuing romance. Seek out the right boy in different periods of your life, while getting the chores done and making money from your hard work.
Amazon Sales Rank: #3306 in Video Games Brand: Natsume, Inc. Model: NGSVGG 719593090038 Released on: 2005-07-27 ESRB Rating: Everyone Platform: GameCube Number of items: 1 Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .30 pounds
Great Game! This is such a fun game for girls! You start out in the farm all alone. The whole 1st chapter you try to get one of the 3 bachelors to like you by giving them presents and talking to them. In the second chapter you get married to the guy who likes you the most. Here are your choices: Rock: 22 in the beginning. A young dude who has no life virtues. He cares only for his looks and having fun. Rock is the easiest to marry, but trust me, don't! Gustafa: 28. A smooth, happy musical guy. He's sort of a hippie. I would suggest him over Rock. Marlin: 33. I married him and I suggest you would too! In the game he compliments my child and teaches him life-lessons. Marry him! Whoever you marry you'll have a child. Depending on whom you marry is how he'll act and look. When they're babies they are SO cute! Then in the next chapter they're toddlers, then children, then a teenager! Love him buy giving him things he likes and talking to him often. Back to you: You spend your 24 minute days by taking care of your *adorable* cows and chickens and goats or sheep. Taking care refers to: 1. Feeding them 2. Talking and petting them daily 3. If cows or goats; milking them Your chickens and roosters are easier to care for. Just take their eggs and feed them! LOL You also have an adorable dog you get in the beginning. You can if you want feed him but you don't have to. Another thing you do during the day is taking care of plants! Plant them and water them. Typical. You can plant anything from potatoes to strawberries. You buy the seeds from another farm in town. Once the plants are grown you can give them away to people in the village, cook with them, sell them or just eat them plain. Yum. Money: You make money but selling crops, fruits, milk, sheep fur, cheese, butter, rocks and gems found in the digsite, flowers found around the town and mushrooms also found around the town. Twice a month (Harvest moon months witch takes about 1 or 2 hours) a fat rich man named Van (what a wonderful name) comes to town and sells and buys with you. You can sell pretty much anything to him and buy furniture and clothes and whatnot from him. What to spend your $ on: livestock and buildings them mostly. You can buy clothes and medicines from Van too. Money luckily isn't something you NEED witch I think is great. It's just nice to have. Pros: You don't NEED money You live in a cute, peaceful town with a beach, houses, streams and ponds called Forget-Me-Not Valley Really nice townspeople who each have different personalities Pretty good graphics. Beautiful scenery. The game doesn't take too long and doesn't end too quickly (I've been playing for more than 1 year) I love the animals! Who would've known how fun it is to farm! Great storyboard that doesn't get old. You have a family! It's so much fun to be a mom and wife. ^^ Cons: Here and there there are small typos (witch really doesn't matter at all) ummm...... I think that's it! Ending/Overall/Recap: You start on your own on your fathers farm, you get married have a kid, be a great mom, have fun farming, be friends with other people, fish, cook, and ride your hoarse! Yay that is so much fun =) Throughout the game there are happy suprises. This game is for anyone who is interested in life simulations. Because this is way better than sims+ animal crossing any other life simulation! RATING: 100% * * * * * five stars most definitely =) plus five more * * * * * buy this game! Yep yep yep good game ^^ Worth buying if you are a Harvest Moon fan One of my favorite experiences with a Harvest Moon game was with Harvest Moon 3 for the Gameboy. On that game, you could choose to be a boy or girl, and have a choice of animal (cat or dog). Since that game, though, Natsume split the girl and boy stories into two separate games for future releases -- a disappointing turn, since it's nice to have the option to play both genders. So, the question on most people's minds would be, "What would make me buy this game for $30 and not A Wonderful Life for $20?" (or, "Why should I buy this when I already have A Wonderful Life?") Put simply, this isn't just "A Wonderful Life with a girl", like others will tell you -- it's an all new A Wonderful Life (which could be called "version 1.5") with all kinds of neat updates and changes from A Wonderful Life: - First, you get a chance to play a girl, which was never really done outside of Japan since the aforementioned Harvest Moon 3. The storyline, while on the whole the same, really does change quite a bit to match your new gender (since females wouldn't treat you like the same character as in A Wonderful Life). The beginning, especially, changes for the girl character -- instead of being "given the farm" like the boy character was, the girl was bored with the hectic life in the city and decided to move out to the country (Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town also have these beginnings). - In A Wonderful Life, you have three options when viewing the diary: "Sleep", "Diary", and "Status Book". In Another Wonderful Life, this menu has been reworded and expanded into a much better diary menu: - "Save": works just like "Diary" did - "Sleep": same as before - "Assets": This is NOT the same Status Book as before. While you still have some of the same options, there are all-new lists to look at that really help plan your farm even more (such as Diary and Produce Income and Item Lists) - "Look in the Mirror": A new item that apparently works just like the mirror you can buy in Friends of Mineral Town. The mirror allows you to see your personal status -- the more tired you get, the more your character will mention it and the more tired she will look in the mirror. - A brand new feature of this game is the addition of training your dog, and this is one of the best updates to the original game. In A Wonderful Life, all you could really do with your dog was pick him up and carry him around to show your affection -- not very exciting. Now you can train your dog to Give Paw, Turn Around, Jump, and Stand Up. - You must now buy and use Vesta's fertilizer on your grass field to make it grow. - A subtle change to the game is slightly sharper and smaller graphics, and smaller, slimmer text. - New minigame challenges have been added: Teritory Capture and Milk Drinking. (These I picked up from the Assets screen, and haven't yet had a chance to play. There might also be more minigames, too...) Overall, while the goals are pretty much the same as before, there is so much that is new here that Harvest Moon fans should not hesitate to buy it. Forget-Me-Not Valley is one of the best environments to come along in the Harvest Moon universe since Mineral Town, and now there are all kinds of new challenges and features that make it worth going back to for another farming adventure. An IMMENSELY fun game! ^^ Hey, I am 13 years old and a girl, and I saw this game at a used-books store, and thought it looked really fun, so I thought I would get it here, since I had a gift card here. Well, let me tell you, I am NOT disappointed! There is never NOT anything to do here! You can milk your cows, water and harvest crops, collect eggs from your chickens, fish, dig for treasure, pick mushrooms and flowers to sell, or just about ANYTHING! ~you can also cook like a million different dishes, which is awesome. You start with just a normal cow and a dog, but over time your farm grows as you expand in livestock and mula$$! You must plan out how our farm will be, and your decisions affect everything! What you say and do matters, as well as who you choose for your husband and raising your little boy. I totally reccomend this game for everyone, it is easy to learn how to play, appropriate for all ages, and really cute! Anyone can have fun playing this game, it is great! ^^
