Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a ported Gamecube game that was brought to the Wii.  Unfortunately the changes done to the game isn’t all that great.

If you have played any harvest moon game before you should know that this game plays like them.  It’s just the fact that you’re starting over, playing with different characters, in a different town that gives this game its uniqueness.

Like any Harvest Moon game you’re given the freedom to do anything you want.

Pro:	Resembles the old harvest moon games with cute chibi (small) characters. Compared to the new released ones this harvest moon runs a lot faster Has multiplayer Tons of things to do from courting, growing crops, collecting items, taking care of animals, etc
Con:	The multiplayer isn’t great…or even good… You can’t play the female character (you could in the original)

Harvest Moon: Musical Melody Gameplay

Gameplay

Oh no!  The harvest Goddess has been turned into stone.  It’s up to you as the main character to save her from collecting musical notes.  Musical notes can be found by doing anything, taking a step, raising animals, growing crops, etc.

What does that mean?  It’s just an objective for you to accomplish!  It’s for you lazy people out there who only care about making money in this game >.< (me included).

Aside from gathering musical notes, you play just like any other Harvest moon game:

• You buy seeds
• Plant them
• Water them
• And then gather the crops to sell for massive profits.

Generally that’s all I focus my stamina (think of it like your hp, if you’re out you faint and waste the day) on.  Afterwards I do other stuff until the end of the day where I go to sleep and repeat the cycle.

Now that’s not the only thing you do.  You can:

• Raise animals – Feed them, talk to them, and brush them
• Go fishing
• Go mining
• Decorate your house
• Build more houses
• Talk to people and make them like you
• Talk to girls, give them gifts, and eventually marry them.  Afterwards you get to get your own kid!
• Celebrate festivals such as watching the moon with one of the girls or competing with your rivals in contest, etc

Now that doesn’t exactly sound as boring as simply raising and selling crops, now does it?

Harvest Moon: Musical Melody Multiplayer

Now the game does have multiplayer, but it’s just mini games.

Mini-Games

The games are really simple and you should get the game for its single player and not for its multiplayer.  The mini-games are just competitions you do during the festivals.  You can play with up to 4 friends. XD

Conclusion

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody certainly lives up to the series name.  Which mean this game is superb game if you’re into simulation farming games.

Now the game is simple repetitive stuff, but if you’re a fan you’ll learn to love it.

My only complaints with the game are: why did they remove content, ex: not that I play the female character anyways…  No seriously I don’t.

Finally I prefer this Harvest Moon game over the other ones made for the Wii.  Why?  Those games run slowly and I’m very impatient.  Not saying this game runs fast, but it’s at least bearable for impatient people that loves harvest moon.

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