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 Harvest
Moon: Another Wonderful Life is, surprisingly, the follow up to
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life for the Nintendo GameCube and
was shown as a playable build at this years Electronic
Entertainment Expo (E3). In the title you have to build up a farm
full of animals and crops and maintain them properly in order to
make money and become successful in your life.
The
time of day passes throughout the time you’re playing as do the
seasons and although it isn’t in real-time (such as Animal
Crossing) it’s still nice to watch the sun come up over your
farm. In addition to t his the seasons change too so that adds
another level to the game play, different crops will flourish
better at different times of year and such like so its up to you
what you choose to plant and when.
One
thing they were making a big deal of is the fact your character is
female this time around and part of the game is to help you find a
husband to help with putting sockets on plugs, lifting heavy things
and just generally being manly. I would make a big thing of this,
but I’ve been told you have to find a wife in the first game,
although I still don’t necessarily see why there seems to be such
an emphasis on finding yourself a wench. In this game too there is
an option for you to have children, how they will work the labour
scenes remains to be seen; maybe hitting the A button several times
to push? Of course this would mean less work for you, making the
man you were obliged to find toil over what was originally your
hard work… grrr…
To
be honest I think I may have missed something. This game seems
reminiscent of Animal Crossing because of the living your
life thing,  but not as well presented as that. The idea of making
your own farm does have a calming sort of appeal but really I think
it would be something either extremely boring or very addictive. As
far as I’m aware the only obvious difference is that you play a
girl and I’m sorry, but that doesn’t a good sequel make.
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