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Money Secret!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Here are the main ideas of this wonderful game! (look at the bottom for the money secret)

You are a girl and only a girl! You can marry 3 different guys. they are Marlin, Gustafa, and Rock( if you want a bigger selection, try HM Magical Melody, you can chose from ten cute guys!) Oh and a tip. If you don't want to marry rock, do not talk to him at all!
You have a son in the second chapter of you life. ( you can only have one child and it's always a boy. The boy looks different an likes different things depending on your husband)

Thanks for reading! Buy this game i know you'll love it! ( unless your a boy that likes bloody and violent games like HALO)

Psssst! Here is a little cheat to get more money! Plug in a second controller in slot three. Press the START button continuesly on the second controller while playin on the first. Stop pressing START on controller 2. Now, press START on controller 1. ( just to look at the menu) See how much more mula you have? you should be thanking me!

Peace Out!

~jkw

The ups and downs of another wonderful life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: August 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good Things
-You age and eventually die
-You can have a kid and influence his career
-You can marry someone
-You can become friends with the townspeople
-The townspeople have different personalities
-You can see yourself going into a different part of the town unlike Save the Homeland
-There is different seasons and weather
-You have a cowbell to call your animals in and out of the barn,unlike Save the Homeland
-The boys all like someoe else,so it's interesting to watch
-There is a lot of places to fish,also unlike Save the Homeland
-When you exit Carters dig,it stops raining(if it was raining)
-The horse rolls in the dirt(its funny to watch)
-You can change and buy clothes
-There's alot of cutscenes
- Vesta's farm generates electricity using windmills and its cool
-You can train your dog

The Bad Things
-You are forced to marry someone or the game ends
-You always have a son(why can't you have a daughter instead?)
-There is only 3 different people to marry
-Rock is too easy to marry
-The town is really small
-When you link to your gameboy,you don't go to somewhere else,like animal crossing, and my friend and i where a little disappoiinted cause we were expecting to get to go to Mineral Town
-You can't go into the ocean
-The cow only gives one milk when you milk him
-You don't have the Very Fertile Field anymore!=(
-You're stuck in Forget-Me-Not Valley
-There is only 10 days in a month and only 4 months in a year(whats up with that?)
-The cow only gives milk for a certain amount of time
-You can't grow sweet potatoes anymore(It's not that much of a loss though)
-Chris and Wally always go to Mineral Town so if you want to give tham something or talk to them, you have to plan very carefully
-Nina dies,and she was so nice,I really liked her
-People walk through other people and it's kinda freaky
-Tim hardly ever goes out of the Inner Inn
-Some poeple may not know when an event is and then they might miss it
-You can't have the lizard or turtle
-It would be fun if your horse could have offspring
-You can't pick what gender of horse you want
-The goat only produces milk for a certain period of time
-The pond is really stupid,it justs takes up room in your field
-You have to put fertilizer in your field!
-The music can get quite boring and you only get new music if you link to More FOMT
-There is no harvest goddess
-At one point the harvest sprites say that if you don't fish in the spring then a harvest goddess might come and if someone dosen't know that you can't ever have a harvest goddess than it might lead them to stop fishing in the spring in hope that a harvest goddess that dosen't exist might come
-You can't really tell which is the bathroom and wich is the shower when you get a kitchen
-Murrey sometimes steals from the food storage so im always afraid to put something in there
-The shows on the TV are really boring

Overall this game is really quite fun even though it could be better in some things. I like that it's so close to real life and that you have to be responsible for animals and crops if you want them to live and the townspeople ask you questions that you have a choice in what you say. I would definately suggest getting this game if you haven't already.

Great! <3 it so much!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I Just reveiwed MFoMT, and I said in the end to buy this game so that you could connect and recieve the benifits from Van's shop (i.e. records not available otherwise) and just plain gossip about the people of both communties in the games. I've played the first one, and was very pleased with it, I've played almost all Harvest Moon games still in circulation, finally the silly blue hat was gone. When I heard about this new one for girls, I instantly placed my order, people fail to notice the extra clothes she gets, the mirror, and all the other hidden quirks. And is it just me or does the game run smoother than the last one? Meh. Also how can the two-star reveiwer complain about watering?! GET A GRIP! In the end I say this is better in some little ways than the boy version, but or course that's my opinion, to each his or her own. SO, buy this game before they are snatched up by some crazy collector (like me, jk).

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is great. Many people did get mad that they could no longer duplicate ruby spice but even thought they took that out they lowered prices a lot. i am really happy to be able to play as a girl (i am one). If you are a harvest moon fan this game is a must. only one complait.....I WANT A BABY GIRL. why do we always have to have a boy??????????????? Great game anyway. :).

The BEST game in the WORLD!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game because it is very FUN! Why? Well i'll tell you.

In this game you come to a farm after your father died, at the farm is his best friend, he helps you the first few days. In the "farm" it's not all a farm it's a town, but you live on a farm. On your farm you can get TONS of animals. You start off getting a dog and cow, then you can get a horse, sheep, chicken, rooster, bull, and when get to new chapers (there are 6 chapters) you can have a better chioce of animals.For example, when you get to chapter 2 you have a goat. O.K lets talk about the people.

There are many people in the town, and they all have VERY different personallities. Even though there are lots boys in town you can only have the choice of wooing 1 of 3 men. IF you choose not to woo, your game will end at the end of the first chapter. And by the way... in this game you have to be a girl.

I would go on more but i don't want to spoil the game!
Thanks for listening to my review!

Harvest Moon fans, incoming!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Harvest Moon is fun for all ages, but has some typos. Example:when your trying to buy a sheep it will say "Mae only".(Mae is male) I like this game because you basicly crate your own life! I'm still reseaching if HAVE to marry Celia, Muffy, or Nami.

Good characteristics:
-> You can be a farmer, rancher, or both.
-> You can have friends that give you things in exchange for you giveing them gifts.
-> Cows give birth (if you have a male cow that's old enough) and milk.
-> If you have Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, it connects to that.

Bad characteristics:
-> Typos and glitches
-> Sometimes when you give a friend a flower he'll say "you've got something really tasty there, can I have it?"

If your a Harvest Moon fan, this game was made for you!

(If you know if you have to get married or not, write a review and at the end of your review, write what you know)

I TRUELY LOVE IT!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok I'v been a "Harvest Moon" fan for like my whole video game playing life, and this was the best one yet. After the most horrible Harvest Moon game they came out with (Harvest Moon save the homeland) its about time they came up with some good ones. I got this game for X-mas along with "Animal Crossing" (which I don't really like)and I was completely taken by it. I think they should come up with a Harvest Moon game for the older kids.....like a PG 13. (All the older players probably agree with me) But I thought this one was pretty funny.... I cracked up when Muffy said she got dumped again by a married man. I am yet to conplete the game, but I havn't got tired of it yet...

My only complaint is: How time consuming this game is.... its like each day is so long.... They nead a speed up button like on "The Sims"

OMG OMG O. M. G!! SOOOO FUN!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hi, my name is Kate, and I'm currently writing a review of my favorite game in the world. I came across it when a friend of mine showed me her A Wonderful Life. I thought it sounded pretty interesting, so I went to the video store and rented this one. I didn't really like it, because:

1: My cow got sick and wouldn't get better.
2: I had done everything! Rock had 4 hearts in his diary, and I showed him my blue feather a million times. But he just laughed at me and said "That makes me want to fly like a bird". How lame is that?
3: I had spent all my $$$ on a chicken.

So I returned it. But later, I was at the hospital (I wasn't sick. It was just a checkup) and they had a demo of the game in the waiting room. I realized how much I missed the game, so after the checkup, my mom and I went down to the video store and...

*crying* THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT!!! :( (Note: There are not enough sad faces and exclamation marks in the world to describe my extreme disappointment)

So I checked Blockbuster and they didn't have it either. But then came EB Games! They had it, and my mom got it for me (I traded in a Bratz video game that I didn't play anymore). And this time I loved it. Here's my feedback on the available guys:

Rock: Kind of dumb and ignorant, flirts with other girls (Sorry, Rock fans!). But I might give him another chance someday. If I do, I'll probably name our baby Thomas.
Gustafa: He might not exactly look like Prince Charming, but just you wait and see! He's poetic, charming, shy, and accepts the blue feather as soon as you give it to him. His baby is really cute. I'm currently married to him and my baby's name is Matt.
Marlin: I don't have anything to say about him...

Oh, BTW, never show a guy your blue feather unless he has 4 hearts in his diary.

Overall, this is the best game ever and if I could, I would give it ten thousand nine million 301 stars. But, I can only do five *sob*.

Kate

This Game Broke My Heart!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It COULD have been great!!

This Game is worth the trouble. (but it will also take out a huge chunk of your life.)
Below may contain spoilers for some people and fair warning to others. Decide which you are before continueing.

I have to begin by admitting that I this is really the first game that held my attention to the end. These games usually bore me but there isn't that much out there that appeals to a girl.
I also did not play the other games that are mentioned in these reviews.

I am first going to complain about the game and then tell you why it is worth buying.

First of all, I would never want any teenage girl of mine to play it. She might subconciously pick up the idea that she should expect and accept this kind of treatment in life. (I hope that isn't the idea!)
If you aren't in the know already, If you don't like any of the three choices for husband.. and if you refuse the really lame excuse for a proposal at the end of the first year..(Usually Rock cause he likes everybody.) The game ends! Without warning except an inadequate one tucked into the documentation.
No matter HOW successful you have made the farm in that year you get kicked off without your horse, without anything but the backpack you wore in. End of story, no do-overs unless you were wise enough to keep another game saved before that point.
(To be fair, I hear the male version does the same things.)

I tried again and married Marlin.. just because he seemed the least annoying of the three dreamboats. To do this, you have to pursue HIM.. showering him with gifts even though he is obviously in love with another woman.
You are cute, a hard worker and have your own farm.. but you cannot change this. He will not notice you till you buy his attention with lots of gifts.
He treats you a little better after you bribe him, choose the most ingratiating option every time he asks you something and then propose to him. He grudgingly accepts. (SO romantic!) After you are married, he even says a couple of sweet things.. (About what a hard worker you are!) but can be suddenly insulting no matter how well you cook or how perfectly you keep the farm or how sweetly you treat him. You can't change this. ( If you marry him.. don't go to the Fall Festival. He will humiliate you in public. You have been warned.)
It is suggested that he works on the farm.. but he doesn't do anything really but wander around looking morose and complaining how he can't help. If he ever feeds or waters anything, I never noticed it.
The child that you have after you have done all this you better enjoy while he is a cute little baby...(I'm wif mommy!) cause that is the most fun he ever is. I understand that if you cuddle and play with him enough at that stage then the next chapter when he is a little boy he will treat you better, and the one after that when he is a teenager.. he gives you the minimum of static.
The strange thing I noticed, is that although (Unlike your husband) you are given a button to push to give him a hug. Every time you do he tells you in no uncertain terms and often rudely to stop it.
I was fully expecting and looking forward to the chapter when he is grown and presumably has attained a tiny bit of maturity and can accept an occasional hug from his hard working mother.. in VAIN! He NEVER wants you to show affection to him again. Except, like his father, he will accept gifts on occasion.. if you find something he likes and approach him when he is in the mood.
At least he helps out a little bit in a real way.. but mostly he moons around. You can't change any of that either. The game ends when you die. Presumably, you dropped dead from hard work. Your husband, unsurprisingly, lives on to enjoy his grandchildren. He is in good shape because he never did any work.

If this sounds like fun to you.. GO for it! You are gonna love this game.

The cut scenes that you trigger by going somewhere at the right time are sometimes funny.. but usually they are rather.. pointless and kind of weird.
I attribute most of this to bad translations from the Japanese or maybe some cultural differences that don't carry over. But they often leave you scratching your head and saying.. "huh?"
My virtual son said a few really strange things. The most perplexing is when as a grown man he sometimes looked at my virtual self with this strange expression that I don't remember seeing any other time on his face.. he is blushing furiously and he says.. "You should start thinking about learning the joys of being a woman! well, maybe."
What the heck does that mean? Even taking into consideration bad translations and culture differences.. I can't imagine this is an appropriate thing for a man to say to his mother.

Anyway, the reason that I recommend this game is that it is incredibly beautiful. Your farm overlooks the ocean, is near a magic wood and a lovely waterfall where you can dig for an archeologist. (in your copious spare time between feeding and caring for cows, watering the crops and trying to get enough sleep.)
The wind and weather change from day to day. The grass in your field blows with the breeze.. the shadows change as the sun comes up and there is a beautiful sunset that you should take time to watch. The seasons change.. the trees turn color and lose their leaves in winter.. The moon changes phases and moves across the sky (Even casting a moving moonshadow if it is full enough.) The stars come out and change, clouds drift overhead bringing rainstorms and snowstorms and the ocean and surf is lovely and peaceful.
You can ride your horse on the beach (I wish it had been a longer one) and there is even a little jump course set up. I thought the background style fit the characters very well and was a work of art in itself.

The animals are lots of fun to care for and manage.. (And the sequence when the helper gives the cow the "Miracle Potion" so she will have a calf is very funny.. not terribly misleading but not informative either.)

I enjoyed this game despite the terrible and rather depressingly thankless relationship with boyfriend, husband and child. If the people who wrote this game could write a halfway decent little romance this would do better I think.
(HIRE somebody!) And give this poor girl more and better choices then a hippie, a lazy playboy, and an introverted jerk!

Play the game anyway. It's really pretty and amusing.

Cute and addictive!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is really cute and addictive, and also somehow fun. You wouldn't think a game about farming would be fun, but it is. This one is "now targeted for girl players!" I thought all the games were targeted for girl players, but anyway. I don't think it's neccessarily for kids, though. This opinion is based mostly on the cow mating scene (it cracks me up, but I wouldn't want to have to explain that to a kid) and some of the more adult-themed jokes in it. Also, yes, the guy selection is pretty narrow and crappy, but you'll get over it. I really like the entire harvest moon series and was very happy they came out with one where you get to be a girl. Now if you can only have a daughter instead of a son...

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