Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon (牧場物語, Bokujō Monogatari) is a Farming/Ranching RPG Simulation game. There are many versions of Harvest Moon the original Super Nintendo version, a Nintendo 64 version, game cube, wii, play station 1, 2, portable (PSP) and most likely but not confirmed one for 3 will come out one day, there are smaller versions for the gameboy, gameboy advance and DS. This is a causal game that would be extremely fun to some or dull to others depending on your gaming preference. Depending on the version depends on which gender you have and what you can do.  I am going to talk about the versions I have played to a good enough extent to actually know them.

In the Original Harvest Moon you could only be male and had the choice of courting and marrying 1 or 5 village girls. To do this you have to restore your farmland, raise and care for live stock, expand your house twice, befriend most of the village and of course make sure the girl likes you, dating all 5 wouldn’t be good. Once you do all this you propose to the girl of your choice with the blue feather and you get married you live with your new wife living the same, farming and caring for your animals working hard to make money and more profit, you even have a child or two if you get married early enough. All this is done in 3 years at the 3 year mark your father comes to visit and see how you are doing, you get your results and you beat the game, this version is small.

The Nintento 64 version is basically the same, better graphics though, you restore the land, raise animals, marry a girl, except in this version once you reach your three year mark you can opt to keep going and you just keep living forever, never aging, your child will never be older then a toddler in this version.

The gameboy versions are the same as well as the play station ones to my knowledge I have not played them as much as I would have liked to sadly. The gamecube version is also the same with a few added details, there is a female version of each game with this one where you get to marry the boys, yay.

The wii versions I must say are my favorites you have to do all you did in the past games plus move, for example in tree of tranquility you have to find and restore each harvest spirit’s rainbow by collecting ingredients for them, which is harder then you may think, then you have to restore the Harvest Goddess’s tree. In Animal Parade you have to with the help of your little harvest spirit’s advice restore the land and its former glory by finding all the harvest spirits who have lost their energy, which then revives the harvest spirit and you will also get to meet the harvest King, I have no finished this game.

The Games are all basically the same which is why I say depending on the types of games you like to play would depend if you like this one, I give the series a 9 out of 10 for great improvement.