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Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 27
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 22
Date: August 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

Cute Game That May Take a Few Days From Your Life!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: October 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is so addicting! You will end up playing for hours at a time! It's so much fun! I have a few complaints and a few positive remarks about the game but 1st a description...
This is a farming game. You play as a girl (if you are a boy by a wonderful life instead of another wonderful life it's the same game with just a few changes in the girls version that are very minor) You are trying to get married and run a good farm! You start out with one cow and a dog that you can name. You can name all your animals and you have to take good care of them so they will give you good products to sell and earn money for upgrades on your farm. It is nothing like being on a real farm but who wants to scoop cow dung and stuff like that! You have to feed and love your animals everyday (Its better if you take care of them and feed them twice a day but you don't have to!) and you don't have to clean the barn! The only down side compared to the boys version in this game is you have to bye fertilizer from Celia, Marlin, and Vesta and you don't have to in the guy version!

Now some complaints...
You can tell this game was meant for boys because the guys you can merry suck! I have married all of them and I have my own problems with each...

Marlin:
He is mean and doesn't do anything around the farm because of his illness. (what illness does he have anyway?!?! I think he is making it up) His kid is so cute! He has black hair and big blue eyes he looks more like you then Marlin (thank goodness!) but you can see a small resemblance to him. None of the guys work but Marlin is the only one that really has a reason why he doesn't. (even if it isn't a good reason) He can be a sweet guy and I got married to him by talking to him every day. I didn't give him almost any gifts (don't try and give him stuff when he has his hands in his pockets he wont take it!) I just talked to him daily and rejected pushy rock as much as possible and wala! We were married! He is a nice guy and I think I like him the best out of the other 2!

Gustafa:
He is a hippie! God! Why a hippie! He is a super sweet person when you get married though! His kid has brown hair like you and Gustafa and has blue eyes. He is a cute little guy 2 even if he does ask if you are square! (I think he has some problems) Gustafa is a sweet guy but he is very odd looking and *shiver* he is a hippie and dresses like a freak. I married him but didn't play with his game very much! He is pretty easy to marry (ok they are all easy to merry because the girls don't put up much of a fight like in More friends of mineral town!) you don't have to give him many gifts just find him everyday and talk to him.

Rock:
Rock is a playboy... I hate his guts but he is pretty funny! He is the easiest to marry but he is a lazy bum! He tells you when you give him a blue feather he tells you he will not work strait out so it's your fault for wanting this lazy guy! His kid has blond hair and brown eyes! He is ARORIBAL! He looks so much like his father as a teen its not even funny! You don't even have to try very hard to get Rock. Ignore the other guys and you will have his heart in no time! (or try and win marlin over some how I had to get married to rock the 1st time I was trying to get Marlin! They both had 4 hearts but something happened!
Oh well I have him now!) He is the cutest of the guys and takes little or no effort to win his heart.

The other thing is the grammar in this game is pretty bad at times. Like when you get a toy box for your kid and you click on it and it asks you "Why do you want to take out?" I think it means what instead of why but I guess its ok there are some other things in there that are pretty bad but I will not mention them all.

*Shiver* What is up with that scary teddy bear! It is soooooooooo creepy you can see it breath! Don't buy it you will regret it like I did!

The goat only gives you milk for a month! Stupid goat! At least you don't have to kill it off because it is taking up valuable barn space like in the boy version. You can just sell it this time.

They need to get some better-looking guys! They should make one for Nintendo or Playstation2 that has the guys from Mineral Town and Forget me not Valley! That would rock I would merry Cliff of Gray! I love them soooooo much! :)

Now for the good stuff...

It will give you hours of fun playing through you characters life!

You fall in love, have kids, and take care of your various farm animals!

You can name your animals!

The guys do have a good side and they can be really cute and nice when they want to be!

The babies are so cute! (enjoy them because soon the will become depressed teenagers!)

It has cheat codes (I like to use the cheat codes that give you money heheheh!)

You will get addicted! You will end up playing it in any of your spare time!

It is a super cute game that any of you The Sims players will love like me!

So you should buy it if you like role playing games and don't really care what the guys look like! Happy Farming! :)

An IMMENSELY fun game! ^^

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: October 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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! ^^

Another Wonderful Life's The Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game about a month ago, and I love it! It's better than A Wonderful Life, because there are some new options, like you can change your clothes, train your dog, create hybrid crops, and best of all, you're a girl! Also, I'm alot more succesful in this game more than A Wonderful Life, because of a money cheat, and if you're desperate for money, here it is:
Plug a 2nd controller into the 3rd slot while playing.
Keep pressing the start button on the 2nd controller, for about 5 seconds. Stop, and see how much money you have! It's alot of help! And, you get extentions for your house every year (I think). In the game, my name is Aly, I'm in chapter 3, married to Rock, and have a son named Joey, who seems about 8. A neat thing is, you can read your son's diary. Your neighbors can give you gifts, too. Like Grant (who moves in in the 2nd chapter), will give you an alarm clock. You can also do milk drinking contests. To get ducks, you need to get a pond. To make butter and milk, you need a food processing room. And, about those hybrid crops, you need a Seed Maker, but I have no clue how to make them. If you know, please write a review on how to do it. Thanks for reading!
- Harvest Moon Fan

Slightly different from the original Gamecube version...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: July 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The above product description provided by Amazon is fairly accurate except for the fact that there are only three (3) guys to pick as a possible husband in this female version of Harvest Moon. The main reason I gave the game four stars instead of five is for the choices of the possible husbands.

The opening is very similar to the original A Wonderful Life, with the same characters from the first Gamecube game. So far, no new people (I'm still in chapter 1). Your father owned the farm and you have been living in the city. He died a little while back and you have decided that you want to escape the pressures of the big city to settle down in a small village and work on a farm. If you wish to continue past the 1st chapter, you have to get married. I think the first game had better choices of who to marry, but in Another Wonderful Life your choices are the following: Marlin, Rock, and Gustafa (personally, I would have preferred Cody as a possible choice...oh well).

Just like A Wonderful Life, Another Wonderful Life consists of four season per year and only 10 days per season. It consists if more real time action (especially in regards to the weather) than other Harvest Moons have allowed.

You'll be able to raise around four types of cows as well as horses, chickens, ducks, sheep, and even goats. Eventually you'll be able to make cheese and butter and improve the quality of your crops.

Despite the similarities, there are some new features to the game...and perhaps even more than I have found out.
Some of these changes include:

You can now sell your basic crops and seeds...not just your 2nd generational crops/seeds.

You have to fertilize your grass pasture before your animals (cows, sheep, horse) can graze on it. This is similar to the other Harvest Moon games where you had to buy and plant grass seeds (only cheaper). They do grow back after cutting the grass (just the same as the other games). Fortunately, you are provided with enough fodder to feed your beginning cow until then.

You now have a training feature for your dog.

Seeds from Vesta are now cheaper...you can get all 5 basic fruit trees with your starting money and still have change.

You can now see the affection and health levels of your animals.

I imagine that the rest of the story line is nearly a mirror image of the first Gamecube game, so if you have already played that and finished it this may not be too different - but it may also give new insight to some of the other characters that you thought you already knew.

Fantastic Farming Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: May 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Teriffic game. The first thing that struck me was how beautiful it was. Some of the characters in the game look a little odd, but the scenery is incredible. Sometimes I just step outside my farmhouse and watch the snow fall while the sun comes up. There is a zoom button that lets you look at things up close or in any direction, up, down, side to side, or even behind you. Watch the stars, the ocean waves, the sunrise in the different seasons, thunderstorms, or get a closer look at your baby.

I got Another Wonderful Life after playing the boy's version of the same game. It's fun playing as a girl. You get to change your clothes in the girl's version, and you marry one of 3 bachelors in town. There are more cut-scene events in the girls' version, which is nice. And you can see a screen which shows the happiness/health status of your animals. Each chapter runs for one "year" of game time, 6 chapters total. The boys' version runs 10 years for the same number of chapters and some players felt that it went on too long. Most things are the same as in the boy's game however. At the end of the game you do have an unlimited play option to keep going if you like.

There is one drawback. They made it MUCH harder to make money in the girls' version. You need money to do all the fun stuff in the game, buy animals, new clothes, build up your farm, etc. I solved this problem when I did a Google search on the game title and discovered a bug in the game (search on "major cheat" for "another wonderful life") that lets you have more money. Now I am playing happily.

You play the lifetime of the character. In the first year/chapter, you meet the bachelors and get married. In the second, your son is a toddler. The chapters progress until your son is an adult and your character is older. You work the farm the whole time, raising cows, sheep, goats, ducks, and chickens, and growing crops and fruit trees. There is an interesting twist on the crops in this game, you can mix them to creat hybrid crops! Cross an orange and a banana and get a new type of fruit. You can even cross the hybrid crops to make the second generation hybrids. These are more unusual and valuable to sell. All crops can also be used in recipes. Yes, you can cook in this game :-)

There is a linking feature to the game which is important. The game can be linked to "Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town" for GBA (Gameboy, hand-held game). That's the girls' Harvest Moon for GBA. Your characters can't go into the other game, but there is a traveling salesman character who does travel between them. This is how you get some special items in the game. New records are the most important in my opinion. Records allow you to change the music in the game. After farming for a couple of years to the same game music, those new records become pretty important! But you can have a successful farm and family without linking. If you choose to link, you will need a game link cable.

I love Harvest Moon. There are so many violent video games on the market, and so few where players can build something more positive than a kill score or a weapons cache. I don't know how many kids are playing, compared to adults, but it would be a wonderful game experience for a kid. It's simple enough for them, and complex enough for adults. Make sure to get a separate memory chip for each player for the saved games. You don't want to take the risk of a friend or family member saving over your game after weeks of play.

Great game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For starters, this Harvest Moon is a great deal shorter than the first Wonderful Life. This game plays through in 6 game years compared to 30. Yes the days and years can seem like forever to get through but any quicker (with this change) and it would take some of the fun out of it. Your son ages with each year as well, which makes ending a year that much more gratifying. I do agree somewhat about giving you the option to speed up a day though, as in the Sims. But if you are doing everything you can get in, in a game day, then you shouldn't have that much spare time.

You can still only have a baby boy in this version, if you want to have a girl, buy the Special Edition version (although keep in mind that you can only play as a male in that one). I have bought them all because they each have something unique. The first WL has the length (30yrs), the second has the girl character, and the third has the baby girl and boy. There are other differences as well but these are what attracted me to the games.

I gave the game the 4 star rating because I think instead of only having a girl character it should have had the option of either a male or female and it should have had the male and female babies. I have spent a lot of money on these games where I wouldn't have had to if they would have just added the features to start with. I do highly recommend the game to anyone who would just prefer to play as a female character and cannot wait for Magical Melody coming out later this year. Or just buy it to own the entire collection of HM games. So give it go, you will appreciate it if you are a fan of the series.

Great Game! : )

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really love this game! If anybody told you its boring they're just to old for it.As a matter of fact on some days theres TOO much to do! Your life starts in a farm. You can easily make money to buy livestock. (The cows are so cute!)You also make food for yourself or eat plants and pick your future husband.Once you marry him you have a baby.(You don't see the birth don't worry)Then your true farm life begins.You make money but selling eggs and milk,make friends,and figure out the game and all it's features. This game isn't like most life simulations games.There are nice people you can make friends with and a nice neiborhood to live in.There's even a beach! The towns easy to get around especially when you get your hoarse. This game is easy to learn and even more fun to play! There are happy and unexpected suprises waiting for you throughout your life.This game is the best game I have EVER played.Please buy this game if you love cute livestock,friendly people,nice towns,cute baby boys, and altogether fun!Thank you for reading. -Christi Age 11- Now excuse me, I think my cows's giving birth. (Just Kidding!) :)

this is the life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

harvest moon is about you! see, your dad just died and you want to go check out the farm life your friends dad had! anyway, you move in to your own farm were you can have chickens, cows, horses to ride and sheeps. also later in the game you can buy a goat! you have to take care of all these animals, such as feed them brush them and give them baths. you also have to hug and see if their not sick and so on. anyway while your doing that your also trying to manage living in a new town filled with people and you have to make friends with them. like give them discounts when your saleing them things or give them things and be nice to them. beyond all that your trying to find a husband. you have three boys to choose from-my husband is blonde boy named rock. you have to make sure that husband you choose will work and will handle a family. in chapter two you have a son(you cant have a daughter) every son looks diffrent depending on who you marry. you have to hug your son and buy him toys and make him foo-you HAVE to learn to cook as in what kind of ingriedients to put in-you have to try to have money to buy a pond so you can have ducks and you may buy a milking room to milk your cow. you can also buy a room to make cheeze or butter to sale or make cakes out of. you also have to try to give your husband gifts evryday to make him happy. you get a alarm clock toward chapter 3 or 4 to wake you up anytime you want. oh yah, you get to choose a dog in the begening and you have to feed it love it and teach it tricks!!! i got a cat also and my gaming time is more better! 12 minutes in real life is like one day in harvets moon! you also have to give your cow a mate(you dont have to but its fun!!) so your cow can have a cute calf. a cALF IS ALLOT of work so try having a calf when your son is a teenager! you get one hollyday that no one celebrates. harvest is the farm life to have. your child, you and your husband will grow. your child will have to have a carrer in mind in witch you pursue him in! it is also fun to play some games once in a while. harvest moon has 3 minie games that are fun but real hard. ie: kilk drinking contest! or a grave digging game. through the game an old couple will have a tradegie because his wife will die in witch that is her grave. people also grow up sp dont be suprised that you dont reconize someone. you get 5 chapters and in each chapter there is seasons. you have to grow plants or food by season.(check your harvest moon instruction booklet)or talk to the person who sells them! overall harvest moon is a great game that will keep you intrested in it for a long time. if your a boy buy harvest moon A WONDERFUL LOFE. BUT if your a girl buy harvest moon ANOTHER WONDERFUL LIFE. its a one player game and if you have a gameboy then you can connect!!! get it now its sooo worth it!

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