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Get Harvest Moon It's A Wonderful Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | Tessa from Santa Ana/California/USA says (14/Mar/2005): | Hi everyone! My name is--wait, I'm not here to explain about me, i'm here to explain about-tada! Harvest Moon AWL! Well, first off, I think it's a really great game. I give 2 thumbs up for the graphics, man, they are very realistic. I still have fun playing it as I did when I first got it! If u like games that have to do with life, u'll love this game! It's sorta like the Sims...well, anyway, I really love this game. I have 2 files, one of them I marries Celia and am on year 2 and the other, I'm still single and planning to marry Nami. Well, advice for those who plan to get this game or already have it and is still on year 1: DON'T MARRY CELIA!! Y? Cuse she's sooo boring! She just stays in the house all day long. Oh, and if u have this game, I got a few cheats for ya. Broke? k, first ya make friends with Ruby.(oh, u have to be on the 2nd year)Then u have to see her in her kitchen when she's ALONE. Then she'll give u Ruby's Spice. Go to ur kitchen, pick a recipe, and for the ingrediants, do RUBY'S SPICE ONLY!! Then u'll end up with TWO ruby spices! Sell them to Van (they're 100g each!) and before u know it, u just earned urself over a thousand by cooking! Still broke? Buy a banana seed, and put the bananas in a seed maker. (get a free one from the scientist if ur friends with him) They'll eventually turn into 2 banana seeds. Sell them to Van. Oh, did I mention? They each cost 750g! Well, i've talked enough for today. Remember...GET HARVEST MOON IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE!!! :) Trust me, u WON'T regret it.
| An absoulutely awesum game. | | Claire from Haddon Heights, USA says (19/Mar/2005): | Oh my friggin gosh. The second i saw this game at the store i was like YES! A GAME WORTH MY MONEY! Definately an absolute. This was the first havest moon i got,but already after seeing the others i definately knew this was the best so far. I love how you get to pick your own wife and have an ADORABLE kid. So far i have only married Nami and Celia, cause they are so cool. Both kids are extremely cute and nice. Then theres the cows, the chickens, HORSE WHICH IS I THINK THE BEST ANIMAL YOU CAN GET,and duckies, goats(friggin thing stopped giving me milk and i cant sell it...) a doggie, and some other coolio stuff like cats and lizards and sheep. I love this game so much i definately reccomend buying this game. its worth your hard earned cash. After playing it non stop for about 3 weeks i got to a point where it bored me just a little, and i stopped playing for a bit. But then during one of your really boring school subjects it pops back into your head and you wanna play it another 3 weeks straight. which i did. and still am. I would totally give it a couple thumbs up. When you want a break from the hard life of kicking butt in Zelda and Halo, reach for harvest moon. I guarantee you wont be bored.
| Could be better, could be worse | | Leigh from Pittsboro, USA says (27/Mar/2005): | I am a big fan of Harvest Moon. I've played three of the gameboy versions, 64, BTN, STH, and, of course, AWL.
Of all of the ones I've played, this is my second least favorite, only surpassed in least favoritism by STH. Here's my opinions on why:
Graphics (9/10)
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I love the original 64 style, but this is just pretty, almost as beautiful as STH. But this isn't about STH. This is about AWL.
The facial expressions make it lots of fun. <3
Sound (6/10)
I wasn't too pleased with the sound. When you go anywhere near the trail that allows you to link up with the Gameboy FoMT, it just gets kinda weird. Eerie. Then again, you don't go down there too often.
If memory serves, the only real music is at the farm? There might have been other places where there was music, but I can only remember music on the farm. The record player was a cute touch, being able to change the music when it got old, but not having more records available at certain times was a nuisance.
Gameplay (8/10)
God, could they have thought of a better idea? Long time to play, you get to raise your kid... *dreamy sigh* However, there are a few things that drag the score down.
1. The days get so tedious. Water your plants, tend your animals, water your plants again, run around like mad trying to give people gifts and court your female of choice, then sleep, water your plants, tend your animals... And you have to water your plants square by square by square by square...
2. The females. Yes, there's variation, but three females makes it a bit less fun. Either you get cold Nami, nice Celia, or flirty Muffy. But their conflicts made it... only somewhat fun. Celia's (does this count as a spoiler...?) arranged marriage, Nami's travelling habits, and Muffy's... flirtyness. (I suppose that's the end of the semi-spoilers) I miss Karen, Ann... and Cliff... <3 Cliff was the best of them all. Even though he wasn't a female you could marry. I always married Karen just so Cliff would marry Ann and would stay longer. x3
3. That cursed goat. One of the most evil aspects of the game.
4. The village. Who's bright idea was it to have the only way to actually sell things be through Van, or setting up a shop (which took me forever to figure out you could actually do)? Real smooth there. It made the game _so_ much better.
5. That weird thing with that bug. Something happened with my tree, and the bug came to yell at me, but it glitched and I couldn't see what it said. All I know is my tree died and my character made a weird face. But it's just a glitch, nothing life-alteringly huge.
6. The cow system. That just plain miffed me. I gave up on raising cows the moment I found out how it worked.
Overall (7.6/10)
I somewhat recommend it. If you're okay with tediousness, and a bit of irritation at certain aspects, go right ahead. You might enjoy it. I do enjoy the game, just have to stop sometimes because of either boredom or frustration.
| This is the greatest harvest moon ever! | | Joey Burrier from Ohio,USA says (30/Mar/2005): | I was a big fan of harvest moon Back to Nature. When this game came out i played it at my friends house. I thought it was the best. Just because of this game i went out and bought a gamecube and this game. The graphics are great, the music gets boring after a while. I was in my 2nd year and had 150,000 dollars. I was almost in my 3rd year but since i spent so much on the gamecube and game i could only buy a eight dollar memory card. It messed up after a week and i had to buy a new 1 and start over. Well, if you want to know how I got that much money i will tell you. You buy banana tree seeds ( I would say only 2 or 3.) If you buy more than that you will have way to many bananas. Make sure you have a seed maker. Plant the seeds in summer if you want them to be ready by next year. When the bananas start to fall put them in the seed maker. Each banana makes 2 seeds. Then you can sell each bag of seeds for like 1500 dollars each.In one summer each tree will make you about 30,000 dollars from the seeds. If you dont understand this email me at grayking03< remove me > at yahoo.com . I will explain it to you. Hope this helps you.
| I love this game!! | | Moose from Fairdale, USA says (29/May/2005): | Yeah. When we first bought this game, we all thought it looked boring.. confusing.. stupid... but then one day I was so bored I decided to give it a second chance. I got really into it once I figured out how to play it. Milking cows.. collecting your chickens' eggs.. finding ways of getting more pets.. I think it's a great game. I have never played any of the other Harvest Moon games, but I really love the graphics on this one. I love the night sky, who knew there'd be stars? That personally surprised me. One night, I even saw a red star. Not sure why it was red, but hey it was pretty cool.
Anyway, the lack of music didn't bother me at all. Not one bit. As a matter of fact I sold all of the records I've ever found because I'd rather have the money than music. I enjoy realistic games, which this game is. Except for the breeding of Sable, my cow. That was just.. disturbing.
I overall think this is one of the best games I've ever played. However there are a few little things I dislike about the game, although they don't bother me a lot. For example, you can only sell nondairy items to Van, and who knows when he'll show up? Also, I hate the dog I was stuck with. You have to take one in the beginning, then you can't sell it or give it away. Mine is named Jade, and the only thing she ever does is bark at random items and eat my failed dinners. Yes that's all I feed her. :D
Well, anyway, I overall LOVE this game and I'm pretty much addicted to it. Animal lovers will especially love it because the game is pretty realistic when it comes to raising them. They don't look realistic, although some are cute, but raising them is pretty realistic. I would recommend this game for people older than about.. probably like 10 unless you want to get stuck with the awkward "Sissy, why did the cow moo so loud?" as you breed them. O.o
| Most Adictive game EVER!! | | Chance S. from Wise,USA says (4/Jun/2005): | This game is so stup.... oops, wrong game. Harvest Moon AWL is so cool, the graphics aren't the best but still cool. I do wish you could marry more than 3 girls though. The first time i played the game i played for about 1 week straight, no lie, stopped just to eat, and sleep, then school started back but i still played it after school almost everyday. Then I took a little brake from HM, about a month, then i really got into it, playing it every day, drawing things from the game,etc. I was on my 3rd year, married to Cellia, bunches of live stock, 250,000 dollars(the tree trick worked wonders)... it was an amazing time, but then evil struck (duh duh dummm) my sister over wrote my game! I was heart broken. I went on an isolation from harvest moon. but i got back into it sometime later. As i said the graphics are awesome but peoples heads are to big and their could be more detailing in the game. The music is nice but their is not much to choose from (2 records?!) and the music doesnt change from season-to-season. And the natural sound are just... unbeliavable. I mean you can hear crickets, sand, water falls, and your footsteps' sound changes depending on what you step on (metal sand grass dirt bricks etc.). But, through every thing Harvest Moon and i have been through i still enjoy turning on the old GameCube and playing some HM. i have had inimaginable fun playing this game and i recomind it to all Harvest Moon freaks out there:)
| The Best Game for Everyone out There! | | Sarah Xenia--- from Springfield, USA says (5/Jun/2005): | It's a really great game. It's totally addicting and easy to learn. It's fun for all ages.
Sounds are a 7.8 because they get a bit annoying after a while
Reality gets an 8.9, it's as real as it's going to get. [But, I'm not counting the huge white fuzzy thing that runs around haha]
Plotline gets an 8.5..you do the same thing everday but I still love it!
9.7 as an overall rating.
GO OUT AND BUY, GET, DEAL, WHAT EVER YOU CAN TO GET THIS AWESOME, GAMECUBE GAME!!!
So worth the wait.
---Sarah
| This game is the best | | Candi from Bethlehem, Penna says (10/Jun/2005): | Harvest Moon is the best game i have ever played in my life. I am near the end of the fourth year and going on to the fifth and some amazing events have happened. I am friends with everyone in my town, my son can actually talk and enjoys helping me around the farm. When i talk to him, he says he wants to be a farmer too. But one thing that confuses me is how u can only have 1 horse. If Takakura ordered a horse for u, y can't u order more horses. I am still tryin to understand this though. Anyway, if u get to the fifth year it is totally awesome! My friend got there and said some way cool stuf happens. Srry i g2g but before i do: HM ROCKZ
| this game is o.k | | someone from somewhere says (19/Jun/2005): | this game is fun in the beginging but it gets boring and repetative. i am not gonna say much but for the record, the correct spelling of the dog that that carter will give you is chihuahua! i have two and i would know.
you start out with a fun life and stuff and u get alot of choces of what u do. but then you do everything and don't have antthing to do but watch the fodder(grass) grow. the one question of mine is where is the racetrack because i can not find it and some people say that there is no racetrack whale others disagree...hmmm
| AWESOME GAME!!!!!!!!! | | Lisa from USA, Ill says (23/Jun/2005): | This game is great! When I first got it I loved it and played it nonstop!My rating is 10, and 10 in my room means absaloutly,definetly,posativly perfect!!The graghics are great.But I have to admit I REALLY didn't take any liking to those worthless ducks, and that goat REALLY ticked me off.But it's not over yet, I put 50 cans of milk in that place across the barn in the first year that took me ALL year to get from my cow, the next day I come out and there is a cutsceen that the little hairy guy,murry!, ran off with my milk! I go into that house across the barn and there is 25 cans left! I felt like strangling that little imp!(DEEP SIGH)Put that aside and the game's great.You have to give your kid lots of attention or once he grows up he'll run away on the boat that's at the beach.Right now I'm married to Nami and on my 3rd or 4rth year while my son Eric was maybe about seven or eight.(Over a toddler) I have several chickens and five cows and a 6th baby cow on it's way.To all girl hm fans,(Like myself), Harvest moon another wonderful life and harvest moon more friends of mineral town is coming out july.26,2005.I have them both reserved.On awl there are several stages for your kid toddler,young child, teenager, and adult.He could become a farmer(???), a rancher(???),a scientest(Darl),an athlete (That guy that runs around as fast as I can walk),a uh artist (That guy who lives in a trailer),an arciolagist (Guy at dig site),and a musician(Gustafa).
| This game is so COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | A gamer from Montgomery,Alabama says (3/Aug/2005): | (forgive me about no comas)What I like about this game is that you almost get to do anything!I especially loved it when I got my horse(I always wanted to ride a horse)And I think my kid is cute .What I don't like is:that I haft to water every single plant and it takes up my time to do other stuff like go to the dig site.And all the rest of my animals love me except for that horse I named it Epona.I wash it I brush it I feed it I ride it I hug it and it still doesn't like me and it goes to sleep to much.But I don't wake it up.But I still think this game is so coooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| real as life | | wun_azn_dawg from St.paul MN USA says (3/Aug/2005): | the game is so realistic. fishing in harvest moon has always been awsome but this game makes it more like life. i saw my friend with this game and it was so cool that i needed to have one so i bought it. the game have a few errors but it fixes the errors with the tight things in it. like make'n friends and feeding your animals so they won't die. the best part of the game is when u starve and eat food. i have played so many games in my life but this game is number one. i also like this game because it changes as you play. my favorite thing in the game is the food because i like giving the food away to the towns people.
| Best Game Ever | | Amber from New Jersey, USA says (6/Aug/2005): | Omg!!! This game rocks because u can learn how 2 run your own friends so this helps alot for me cus im gonna get my own farm! Well I should be talking about cheats one way to get loads of money is to take care of your animals like brushing them washing them and loving them so your cow will give u grade A milk so you can get 750G, well for the sheep it will give u golden wool worth 600g if u wash it and love it now fertilized eggs r worth more money then regular eggs all u need is a rooster and a hen, ok people say their cow doesnt give any more milk well in the second chapter van will be selling a goat get that cus their milk is worth more money then cows milk! your horse will go longer 4 riding if u just take care of it:) To get money from crops u dont have to sell them get a seed maker put in fruit like bananas get 15 of them put them in da seed maker then sell the seeds to Van for 22,500g. To get the seed maker for free be friends with Daryl and he'll give it 2 u for free!
ok now I love this game! and im a girl and i got Harvest Moon Another wonderful Life, wich u control a girland its the as the boy, but different u just have 2 try it for yourself! but i play with both of them equally.
| The awesomest game but i need help........... | | need help!! from calgary, canada says (11/Aug/2005): | this is the most awesome game EVER! i reccommend that every1 should get it. I luv the graphics, animals and pets. (i am a REALY big animal luver). and i no a new game is coming out, another wonderful life when you r a girl, and i am totally getting it! anyways, i need help......
u see, i no u can get a lizard, raccoon, chiwawa, and cat as a pet. I am in chapter 3 (happy harvesting) but i only hav the cat. i no how to get the chiwawa, but i cant get the lizard or raccoon! I am friends with vesta and marvin so i SHOULD get the raccoon.....but i dont. And is it true that u can only get the lizard from makumaku in chapter 1?? im frustrated and confused :S. please help me, and if u hav any answers, please email me at chelseaschuster< remove me > at hotmail.com, thanks.
| HM: ANOTHER WONDERFUL LIFE!!!! | | Lisa from ILL.USA says (25/Aug/2005): | I know I already wrote a review but I finally got Another wonderful life!(HM FOR GIRLS) Well I'm so far so good! I'm married to Marlin and I'm in my 3rd year but it says 2nd. My kid is intrested in animals, how do I know that you ask? Well when you go to your diary go to i don't know if it says stats or something but it shows what your kid is intrested in.you also get a mirror and get to change your clothes by going to the dresser thing in your house!So the things are the samethat you do regaler stuff exept EACH year is only a YEAR long instead of 2 or 3 years. basically the same game...almost. they also have more friends of mineral town out in the USA. i don't know but this game seems better for some reason...you also need to put fertelizer on the grass for it to grow! but i give it a 10 THUMBS UP!!!!
| awesome game! | | A gamer from halifax canada says (29/Aug/2005): | i love it!it is the best!by the way,to get rich,while p[laying hook up a controller to the third slot and keep pressing start and to get all items press z on the controller hooked up to third.but please tell me where the harvest festival is!i soo wanna go there!e-mail if you knowit was just totally awesome i rented the boy version at glace bay video when i went to glace bay to visit my nanny this summer,and it was sooo totally awesome!i loved it!i married celia i though she was the only one you could marry.then i bought the girls version at toys r us in dartmouth at the mic mac mall.it rocks!
| At first glance a childish game, but give it a chance and find the complexity | | Derek from Norwich Ct. USA says (21/Sep/2005): | It's amazing how such a simple looking game with a simple sounding theme can capture ones attention. At first glance Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life is somewhat childish and devoid of real content. However, I gave the game a chance one day and was hooked. There are some really strong points about the game. One, you don't have to kill anyone with a gun. The game is very relaxing once you get the hang of it. Two, the game is very satisfying in that when you create a crop, raise a cow, raise chickens, cook food ETC, you really feel like you accomplished something. Three, the game changes as time goes by, you really get a feeling like you're living the life of a farmer, the game isn't in your face action by any means, rather a calm journey into the life of a digital farm sim. Four, there are MANY hidden things in the game that you must discover, a quality of many Japanese RPG's. At first it seems there's almost nothing to do in the game, but as game time passes you discover many secrets and things that breath life into the game. It isn't action packed by any means, but there's definitely a mystery about the game that keeps me hooked.
Graphics: Simple and often child like, however the shadows and shading in the game is top notch, when it's summer, it really feels like summer, autumn feels like autumn etc. Night and day are distinct and evening time is beatifully lit.
Sound:Nothing impressive here, your standard Japanese RPG-ish soundtrack filled with little squeaks and blips made by NPC's in the game that only the Japanese can capture. I play with no music, just ambient sounds.
Gameplay:As good as it gets for a game of this nature. Plenty to discover, enough to do to keep one feeling like they accomplished something each game day, a visceral feeling of actually seeing the crops you create, the cattle you raise, the grass you cut etc.
One other thing I noticed is if you pay close enough attention you almost get a lesson as to what the Japanese hold dear to themselves. I could be wrong but I find it cute and charming that it seems the Japanese really have a feeling for cooking, It's adorable how much emphasis there is on cooking in this game. Every NPC loves food. I think that's really cool and kind of a simple cultural lesson about the Japanese that makes the game all that more endearing.
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, doesn't try to be an in your face kind of game, but it does exactly what it sets out to do, a farming simulator of great quality and simple charm.
| Fantastico! | | Valerie Jo from Gettysburg(SD) USA says (13/Oct/2005): | This is the best game I have ever played. It's graphics are superb, the sound is a little weak, the 3-D is amazing, there are barely any glitches(I did find that occasionally my cow spun around in circles and didn't stop), and you will be addicted!!! But no seriously you don't even have to play the game. I read a preview for this game in "Nintendo Power" and just had to have it. My brother made fun of me until he watched me play. Then he had to start his own file. My parents like to watch us play(and my parents don't understand didlysquat about video games). Some tips for you: Romana gives you 1. a cat 2. w watering can(use for trees they will grow faster); Wally gives you the ?weird? clippers; Grant gives you the alarm clock; Hardy gives you strange or weird sickle; Gustafa gives you the other sickle; Daryl gives you the seed maker; Vesta gives you the strange or the weird hoe; Tim gives you the other hoe; Ruby gives you spice; Galen gives you the "G" rod; Carter gives you an other dog; Mukumufu? gives you a lizard. In the second year Takakura will have Tartan inside his house. Tartan hybrid seeds. It works for all seeds even hybrided ones, ex. Potato and watermelon(in that order) make a bashber, while Tomato and potato(in that order) make a tobatama, and Tobatama and Bashber(in that order) make a crop that looks like a log or something that you name. What ever you do don't buy the tonto(stupid) goat until you are practically finished with the game because is stops producing milk after 40 days and you can't sell so it just ends up taking up space. There are like 10 cut scenes for Van that you can see is you walk into the Inn after he does. They are all about diets he's on and if you say the 1st option(the negative one) he wont open his shop until like 3:00 in the afternoon! So always be nice. Any way if you don't marry Nami she will leave but in the third year or chapter she will come back and you will get a cut scene when you walk into the bar at night. Any way it is a very fun, very addictive, you'll never want to put it down for the rest of your life, I wish my brother didn't go to colledge and take the gamecube with him because now I can't play it game. Buy it if you ever see it in a store because if you live in desolate places you will never see it ever again except on the internet.
| A Game That Sucks You In | | A gamer from Newport, Ky, U.S.A says (6/Nov/2005): | Harvest Moon is one of the best games I've ever played. I don't usually play games, but this game keeps me coming back. The graphics are so life like. I actually feel like a farmer. The sound in the background is soothing and helps me to concentrate. I actually think its kind of cool that they have six chapters on the game and plays out your life. I think its fun in wooing your three possibilities. It has this whole real life thing about it that its hard not to say anything good about it. Even though I don't know how to get past the third chapter I think it's an awesome game and everyone should try it.
| AWL is a good game in a lot of ways, but... | | Saichi from Philippines says (1/Feb/2006): | I have played the game until the end of winter season under "twilight" year 1 chapter where my character passed away. And I thought that the son will take over the farm, but instead after the display of credits were over, you will be asked if you want to save the game. If you choose yes, you will be given a second chance to do the things that you weren't able to do(if you hadn't done all what you're supposed to). You will now start spring, day 1 under "heaven" chapter and you'll come back younger again. For those who haven't reached this part yet, when winter season ends, you'd probably expect a cutscene for spring, day 1 as this is how the end of winter season shows. But there will be no cutscene. You go to sleep at winter, day 10 and wake up spring, day 1 and it will be year 2 already. I'm almost through with winter but there's still not much change and I haven't encountered any more cutscenes with the other townspeople. Never the less, I still look forward to the ending.
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