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An awsome non-violent RPG.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Before I get to the details, I've just got to say this game is not for everyone. A lot of people are into action RPGs, and this is not one. Okay, now to the details. The game is all about the life of a 20 year old boy. His grandpa just died and wants to give a shot at raising his farm. The game is a little diffacult at first, but you'll get the hang of it. Now, the game is seperated into 6 chapters. Unlike the rest of the Harvest Moon games, this one ends because you die. By the sixth chapter you are old and your child is grown up and is married. But you have to get married too! You can choose from 3 girls. Muffy, a hot chick who's dad owns Blue Bar, Celia, a quiet, sweet orpan girl whom lives on Vesta's Farm with her brother, Merlin, and Nami whom is very shy and moody, lives at Inner Inn, and who can move away if you don't marry her. If you don't propose by the end of the year, the girl you have the highest hearts with will propose. If you you refuse, the game will end and you go back home. The second chapter is the most fun in my opinion. You now have a boy child. He takes after the girl you choose to marry. He has green eyes and blond hair if you marry Muffy, Brown eyes and hair if you marry Celia, and red hair and blue eyes if you marry Nami. Chapter one in Harvest Moon AWL is all about getting used to the controls, getting your farm started, becoming friends with everyone, and wooing your wife. The second chapter is more compilcated. It's all about getting more animals, giving breeding your animals a try, meet this guy who will make hybrids, and leading your son on a career path. Your son's career is very importent. The job choices are rancher, a farmer, an artist,a scientist, a musician, and an athlete. Muffy's son would like to be an athlete and a rancher, but is bad at ranching but good at being an athlete. Celia's son is really into animals and farming, but is better at farming. Nami's son loves art and animals, but is really good at art, not so good at ranching. Be careful about what you influence your son to, his career choice depends on it! Back to the chapters. Chapter 3 is mostly the same as Chapter 2, except that your child is about 10 and that Hugh and Lumia are teenagers. Your son has his own room now, which also means you can invade his personal space. He also has a diary now, which helps you know what things he is into. Your son also has a bunch of books, which also helps you know career he wants. Chapter 4 is diferent. your son is now a moody, independent teen. Now you should really check up on your son's diary, since it tells you whom he has a crush on. You now look older, so does everyone else. Chapter 5 is basiclly the same as Chapter 4, but now your child is a young adult. You look even older than you did in Chapter four. This chapter is your last chance to choose your son's career. Chapter 6 is the final chapter. Your son is now grown up, has a job and has a wife. After this chapter the game ends. But trust me, it doesn't happen as quickly as it sound. It takes at least a year to compleate the intire game. Now, you're wondering: How do I know if Muffy/Nami/Ceila loves me? Well, all three girls have diarys. Muffy's diary is the easist to get to. You can get to it anytime that Blue Bar is open. Her diary is hidden in that ugly lamp at the north end of Blue Bar. I really would had perfered if they put it in her room, but, oh well. Celia's is the second easist to get to. It is hidden in her room, under her bed. But you can't get into her room half the day, since she works. Nami's diary is SO hard to get to. You have to catch her while she is in her room, which is any time between 4:00 AM and 10:00. It is on one of the tables in her room. Now, that's about everything to go over. You can see I know a lot about this game, and that's because I love it so much! But remember, Harvest Moon has no action whatsoever, so it is not for some people. Thank you for reading my review!

~Libby~
P.S Please excuse the grammer mistakes. Thank you.

my own experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: June 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, Harvest Moon AWL is a wonderful game. Let me tell you what you can do: you buy sheep, horse, goat, cows(4 types), and chickens. Also, you will get ducks, a mouse, a lizard, a cat, a racoon, an owl, and that's about it.(these last ones are pets, along with your dog) you milk the cows, you shave the sheep, you milk the goat, you ride the horse, and you pick up eggs from ducks and chickens. Then comes seeds...You can plant and harvest several varieties of seeds, or you can make fabulous recipes to share with your friends of Forget-me-not-Valley or with your wife and son. To get a wife, you must talk to her and take things that she likes to her. When you get married, you get a baby son, which grows into a boy, then a teenager, and finnally an adult that ends up being married with either Kate, or Lumina (2 girls from the game). Your son can also choose a career. And other activities include: 3 mini-games,fishing, horse back riding, excavations, making hibrids, and making friends.

How can such a boring concept be this addictive?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game without knowing anything about it. When I did get it and found out what it was about I thought geez how boring, but turned out I found this game addictive. It's a bit of the Sims with better graphics.
There are a few things I would change but they are minor. First, I found the watering of plants/crops annoying if I wanted to build up my stock I had to spend several hours of my day watering crops. They could have easily added an irrigation system or watering can upgrade that you could purchase where you could water your field instead of each individual seed.
Second, you are given the task of finding a wife among 3 different girls, but really there is no purpose to the wife. She mentions that she's done all her work, but really she does nothing. I'd have loved to have been able to have a button or option to have her water plants/crops or cut the fodder.

As I said those two things sound major, but they didn't stop me from playing this game. The game graphics/caption chat were a welcome over the traditional unintelligible SIMS speak. The ability to fish was nice.

This game even now sounds utterly boring to me, but I am enchanted by it's farm simulation! Although I don't have the sister/connecting game for the Gameboy it has me very tempted to buy a GBA just for that!

A fun Chapter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, AWL is a game on Harvest Moon where a boy character wants to follow his dead father's footsteps, he becomes an adult when raising livestock, starting produce, but most of all, starting a family. You will be given the chance to woo 3 potential girls in town with different personalities, on the first day of summer you will be given a blue feather, you can propose to a girl you like with at least 3 hearts in her diary, to find her diary search where they live, anyways once you propose they can say yes or no, if you don't propose to anyone, at the end of the game the girl that likes you the most will marry you and you have a baby boy, when years go by more people move in, some villagers die, you become older, your son is older and new things happen around the village. it's a good game for RPGers and it's very fun. it teaches you the MEANING of LIFE. and most of all, how to become a farmer inside, you're a dad, farmer, husband, friend, and a lot more. So buy this game.

Beautiful And About Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: March 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love harvest moon I have played the very first one made for america, back when it came out for the first gameboy ever. I instantly fell in love, after that I bought every Harvest Moon that was on n64-ps2. All were great except save the farm land i was dissapointed. Anyway A wonderful life looks absolutly beautiful and stunning! Ive been reading reviews going to natsume reading about the game. You are able to raise new animals with the old favorites, get married and have a child, and this time it actually grows with time and its more indepth. As before it just stayed a baby you never got old and that was it. This game you have 30 years and work into retirment, as well as having your child help you on the farm. Also big bonus is 40 new characters so the entire game is gonna have tons to explore. I also think no matter how many times you play it, there will always be something you didnt find. You can also take friends of mineral (remake of back to nature for ps) and hook it up to your gamecube to join with this game. All and all the time wait is annoying, and im dieing as much as the next person to get it, but this I promise you it will be worth the wait im pre-ordering mine right now. I suggest if you love harvest moon you do the same! I hope this review was helpful.

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I beleive in the saying that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. I'm not here to say how the music is or anything, I'm here to reccomend this game because it is great and teaches children like myself how to maintain a family and a farm, and also helps social skills. Even if some small peices of this game are not satisfactory, the entire game is great and one of the best I've yet played. Thank you for reading this review and I hope you buy this game.

Great game but it get a bit boring after a while.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I found this game very interesting to play but after I bought Harvest Moon:Friends of Mineral Town I saw the difference. Its the same crap different day route that is making it a little bit boring now. In Friends of Mineral town theres speical days where you can interact with the townspeople, which stops the SCDD route. I still enjoy playing though but I like the other better.

TO WHOEVR SAID:It has no point. No levels. NO OBJECT!! All you do is try to impress girls, and run around on your horse. This game is very weird if you are a girl, because you play a boy, who looks like a girl.So, it is very werid to play as a boy if you are a girl. Not to mentian it is really hard to get married. You have to marry them, or die. Please, don't buy this. It has nice pretty grapics. Thats it. Buy somthing else. Animal crossing is much better.

I think you really missed the whole point of the game. Your not suposed to run on your horse all day. You have to grow crops and take care of your animals. The whole goal is to run a sucessful farm and raise a family.
Whats the big deal with a girl playing Harvest Moon?! I am Female and love these games.
Hard to get married?! Not really, all you do is bring the person your going to marry things she likes til her diary has all full hearts then propose not to hard is it.

I wish they pushed the release date and made the game better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was so excited about this game. I got it as soon as it came out with no hesitation. But, I was disappointed. This game has better graphics, more crops and animals, you can eventually make hybrids, there are new recipes, and you can dig in the ruins. That's cool. But, other than that, it's not really better. In fact, it's worse in some other aspects. The music really got to me, and I don't have the stuff needed to go to the other town (a GBA, a link cable, and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town), so I don't have much variety. Every time I started up the game I dreaded hearing Breeze or Winter. The wife and kid got pretty boring, too. The same 3 phrases, day in, day out. And the fact that the cows have to be impregnated yearly to keep producing milk can become a problem because, a baby per year per cow won't leave much room. And it costs money, and it takes so long for the baby to come and the cow to produce milk again. And the ducks still aren't doing anything except eating up my food after a few months. Also, the graphics are pretty good, but they aren't amazing. Of course they have to be decent on a GameCube, unless they try to make it crappy. And finally, there are really no holidays. I mean, you can go to the New Years party and see people have little symbols pop over their heads, but that wasn't even fun the first time. They're all pretty much the same. In previous games, there were holidays like the chicken fight, which was a mini-game, and thanksgiving, where girls give you chocolate. This is better than Save the Homeland, which I also really looked forward to, but it's not as good as Back to Nature. You just don't really have much to look forward to except at first marriage and then things like a new cow growing up. I got quite bored. If they had taken extra time to add variety and real holidays, this would be a great game. But no, all I can say is try renting it for a week or so. If it starts to get boring, it won't probably won't get better.

Farming Made Fun (spoiler alert)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those games you will either love or hate depending on how much patience you have. I loved this game! It mostly revolves around tending your farm. Other tasks include finding a wife and raising a son. Who you choose as your wife will affect your son's interests and talents. Who you make friends with in town,what toys you buy him, and what activities you do around him will also affect your son's interets.

But the best part is the farming and raising livestock! They did try to make it as realistic as possible. For instance, cows only give milk after they give birth and then they stop giving milk after a certain period of time. What you feed your animals and how often you feed them affect the quality of their milk, eggs etc. Keeping your animals happy by brushing and spending time with them also affect their output. Your animals will get sick if you keep leaving them out in the rain. Also just as in real life, you can only grow certain fruits and veggies at certain times of the year or they will go bad. I think it is this kind of realism that really attracted some people but really frustrated others.

There is LOTS of farming. To keep this from getting boring you can make hybrid plants and find things to increase the quality of your produce. You can also buy fertilizer and plow different plots of land to increase produce quality. Plant trees which take a long time to bear fruit (but are worth alot of money) or plant other fruits and veggies in the ground that grow quickly. If you give produce away or sell them to neighbors it affects how much they like you. Giving away high quality produce also affects your relationship with the ladies in your life and help you get in their good graces when it is time to propose.

Another part of the game is keeping yourself alive and well rested. Unlike in animal crossing where eating and sleeping is optional, you must eat and sleep to survive in this game. If you don't eat enough your tummy will definitely let you know. You mostly eat things from your farm and you will have to support a wife and child later on in the game. A big part of the game is cooking and finding new recipes to stop you from going hungry and keeping up your strength. You must also sleep on a regular basis or your body will get tired just like in real life. BUT you can build up your strength by using heavy tools so you don't get tired as fast.

If you liked animal crossing you will most likely love this game. Some people may still get bored because it becomes repetitious watering plants 2 to 3 times a day and taking care of animals day in and day out but its a farming game duh! What else did you expect to do?

Harvest Moon is Lacking in many ways!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like this game a lot but I feel that there isn't enough to do.
I notice that the wedding ceremony is gone. That is what I think should be in all the games. I love the fact that there is more time to tend to your farm but what about the horse and dog races. Where is the interactivity that makes a video game a video game. I notice that they have more cut scenes than actual interactivity. I notice that there is no harvest goddess or any festivals relating to the goddess. This game is a great upgrade from the N64 version but it's missing all the fun the N64 version had. The N64 version had dog and horse races but there wasn't enough time to tend to the farm. It would also be nice if there were events like hauntings and burglery. It would also be nice if the wives didn't lose their personalities after they got married or their jobs. It would also be nice if you could play the wife every now and then as well.

The graphics are nice.
There is also a lack of tunes to choose from. You only have two. The first one is good the second one is quite boring and slow.
There are also less brides to choose from but that is a minor flaw compared to the lack of things to do and interactivity.
The fact that you also can only have a male child is rather lame. Overall this game is only worth 2 1/2 stars.

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