Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

The Harvest Moon series is unique in a sense that it doesn't involve guns, violence, and racing cars. It's a race to save a farm in a small yet charming villiage with interesting neighbors. Each has a distinct story to share, and it's your choice whether to engage in friendship or ignore them and carry on with farm chores! This game is great for everyone, especially for the whole family!

What makes the Harvest Moon series so addicting? Is it the cute little farm animals such as cows, sheep,  and horses? Or the tedious planting and watering in order to produce cash for house upgrades and farm equipment? Maybe it's the option of whooing a girl and raising a family? With all of the options available, it's very hard to become bored with life on the farm.

A Wonderful Life is the newest addition to the series with many new surprises!

A few of the features:

* Over 40 character to become socially active with

* New farm animals such as ducks and a goat

* A new marriage system where you can check on the girl's feelings in her diary

* Storyline involved in 6 chapters expanding over 30 years

* New plants and the ability to grow hybrid crops

* New way to cook and more recipes

* Realistic weather patterns ex: rain, snow, sunset

* Ability to raise a child with the option of 6 career choices for him

With so many new features, it should keep everyone from running out of things to do! Unlike the previous games, this one is more focused on building a successful life instead of saving the farm. You do this by marrying one of the three potential girls, and raising a son. Family is the key to this game. The downside is that there are only three where there was 5 girls to choose from in the past games. You have the sweet farm girl that everyone loves (Celia), the shy traveling girl (Nami), or the happy girl (Muffy) that works at the bar. The blue feather is still a must in order to propose. Failure to propose will end the game at the end of the year. So marriage isn't really an option.