Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GameCube)

Advantages: Fun family games
Disadvantages: The sound could be better.

Harvest Moon. A couple of months ago, game had an offer where you could take 4 of your games and 99p, and swap for any new game prices £39.99 or less. I’d bought quite a few games on a whim in there previous sale for £1.99 each, that turned out to be not so good, so I took these, and 2 £1.00 coins to Game to trade. I got Metal Gear Solid for the Gamecube (Which was a disappointment, but that’s for another review), but there was nothing ...
...the charts was something called Harvest Moon. I didn’t know anything about it, and the description did not appeal, but I thought that if I bought it as part of the offer, I could always trade it in for around £15 at Gamestation, and still make £5 profit, so I bought it. About a week later, I was just about to take it to trade in, but I decided to give it a go first, and I am so glad I did. It is possibly the most absorbing, entertaining, ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining, playable
Disadvantages: Time-consuming, can be repetitive

I'm not much of a gamer. I've always liked Mario games, harking back to my days as a six-year old with the awesome playing power of a NES, but I'm not one of those people who is into all the latest offerings on all the latest consoles (hence my writing a review on a game that's two years old!). My boyfriend thought he was being helpful by buying me this game. At the time, he was into some PC game, and, feeling guilty by the fact that I was spending ...
...me with 'Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life' for the Gamecube. Being the argumentative type, I demanded to know what on earth he was thinking, buying me a computer game about farming?! Unimpressed by his attempt at romanticism, I started playing this game with a nonchalant attitude. I struggled to maintain this attitude, when, after about an hour, I was hooked. You guide a little man around his farm, tending to crops, milking cows and collecting eggs. ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant fun very addictive and good story line :)
Disadvantages: Can become repeatative after first 3 years

...They one neat thing about harvest moon is that you can link up the your game boy to the gamecube, and get some extra items. Graphics the graphics are clean and crisp the characters are all easy on the eyes. The buildings and scenery looks goods, even know they are some minor glitches with the game. Sounds The sound isnt the strongest part of the game but the animals make the noises the cows moo the chickens cluck. when you go fishing you can ...
...Gameplay This is probably the best part about this game because its really easy to move from one place to the other especially when you have your horse this makes it much quicker. The interaction with the characters in the game is fun. Even the fishing is like its own little game. Final Thought This game is a great game because not many of us have the chance to farm so this is the nearest we will get to it. Its also fun, rewarding and enjoyable ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful, addictive gameplay.
Disadvantages: Lasts a bit too long.

Harvest Moon? You must have heard of it by now. If you have played it, you will know what to expect. If you haven’t, you probably don’t like the genre, or that it is aimed at little children, and you couldn’t possibly play a farming simulation now could you? …..Yes, you could. You take on the role of a rather young child, who’s father has unfortunately passed on, and left you a farm in the charming, ‘Forget-me-not Valley’. Great! You have a new ...
...bustle of the city. Trouble is, you don’t have animals yet! That is where your fathers best friend comes in. The seemingly dejected Takakura. The bushy eye-browed man is willing to help you every step of the way. Everything you need to know about farming will be inside the cranium of this man. He is so keen on making your farm successful, he has bought you a cow. They don’t come cheap y’know! After you have been shown the ins and outs of successful ... Read review

Advantages: A truely addictive game
Disadvantages: A bit cartoony for some

...enough to write this review. Harvest Moon started way back on the Snes, but this is the first version to be properly 3D with a very cartoony feel. So what is it? You have been left a farm by your father and with the help of his best friend you enter into Forget-Me-Not Valley and your life as a farmer. To start with all you have is a dog, a couple of seeds, and a cow. It is up to you what you do with it all as you try and find a wife and build a ...
...a fan of the earlier Harvest Moons then you are almost guaranteed to love this. Some of the aspects of the earlier games have changed like the festivals aren’t given to you, they are more like events that you kinda walk into, the whole 3 x 3 crop thing has changed so that now you plant one seed in one square from each seed bag and the Goddess is no longer in the game. Apart from these changes the game is just bigger, there are more people, more things ... Read review