Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a unique new farming simulation and adventure game. Choose to become either a boy or a girl, then start a new life in a small farming village. As you build up your farm, you'll watch your character grow into adulthood -- and guide them toward marriage and a happy family life.
Features:
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Take over a small farm, as you raise all sorts of plants and animals
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Make sure your grazing animals don't escape - and make sure they're protected from wild dogs
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Develop your fishing skills to enhance your diet and your farm's success
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Interact with town folk and make friends and business contacts -- and maybe even fall in love
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119 of 130 found the following review helpful:
A Wonderful ImprovementMar 31, 2006
By Amy If you have played Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, you'll find that Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is immensely better. While the graphics may not be "realistic," the "cutesy" graphics are a part of Harvest Moon's legacy, and fit the mood of the game. There is plenty to do in the game to keep you from getting bored. You can farm, fish, mine for jewels and other things, go to a variety of festivals, become friends with other villagers, and much more! You now have a rival, which for all you competitive people like myself, will give you just another reason to keep playing. The layout of the town and controls have a slightly different feel than previous Harvest Moon games. At first it might seem like the town is too big or the controls are a bit tricky, but it's easy to quickly figure out where everything is in the town and the controls really aren't that complicated. Overall, HM: Magical Melody makes up for a lot that was missing in HM: A Wonderful Life, and offers great things new and old to the Harvest Moon series.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
The best Harvest Moon yetAug 04, 2006
Hi, I'm 16 years old, and I have recently purchased Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. I am not dissapointed! The graphics are cute and fun, and all the characters have their own voice. Ray sounds a lot like Tarzan, it's so amusing. There is A LOT of stuff to buy, so money here is very important. Stamina plays a great role in this game, so it is important to upgrade your tools so as not to tire out easily. You can play as a boy or a girl in this game, and for each gender there are 11 possible people whom you can marry. If you marry Jamie, however, the game will end, and go back to the last point you saved. Jamie is your rival, and makes the game 10 times more interesting. Mining has been improved, and now there are mini games to play. Also, the point of the whole game is to collect musical notes to revive the harvest goddess. These notes are fun to collect. I play as the girl, and every time a notw is recieved she says "lucky!". It's just so cute! The animals are adorable, fishing is fun...Just everything has been improved in this game. There is lag sometimes, but it's never a problem. And yes, there is a lack of cutscenes, but come on. If they made this game perfect, no one would want to buy the next harvest moon. Overall, you will not be dissapointed with this game.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Hard, but funNov 09, 2006
When I rented this game, I knew it would be fun, and it was, but, it was really hard. It is definitly the hardest Harvest Moon game and probably the funnest once you get to understand it. That's the tricky part, getting used to the game.
PROS
1. It's fun
2. You can get married
3. You do have a kid
4. The graphics are cool
5. The town is bigger and better than other Harvest Moon games
6. All of your animals can reproduce
7. There are contests and festivles
8. If you are lucky, you get a kiss from your beloved in the winter
CONS
1. Really hard
2. Your character walks really slow
3. Long cut-scene at the beginning
4. Takes a while to get used to
5. Confusing
6. Items are a lot more expensive
7. You have to have 8 to 10 hearts to marry someone
I just listed some, but if you like to be challanged, buy this game, if you like easy games, you might not like this game.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Harvest Moon: Magical GameApr 22, 2006
This game is the next big Harvest Moon game. Its new features and its pros are:
You can now play as a boy or a girl in one game disc. It has been annoying for Harvest Moon fans to have to buy one boy's version and one girl's version.
Appropriate for all ages. It is a wonderful game for families to share.
Teaches life skills. It teaches responsibility through spending you money wisely and other things.
An enhancement of marriage choices. Now a whopping 10 with one extra secret choice.
It has a nice storyline.
It stays fairly true to the series.
You do not have to be a long time Harvest Moon fan to understand this game.
You can do multiple things in one day. To name a few I'll mention fish, plant crops, go mining, and socialize with other villagers.
You now have a rival to compete against for your farming accomplishments and other categories.
The pause screen keeps track of all your fellow villagers affections for you.
Festivals where you can just have fun.
Multiple pieces of land that you can buy. You can have multiple barns and chicken coops.
Now for the very few cons:
Some might think the graphics to be cutesy.
It gets tiring to hear the villagers say the same thing over and over, only to change when you raise their heart level for you or at festivals.
There might be a few more but at the moment I can't think of any.
In closing, this game is fun for all ages. But if you only like fighting games, this game is not for you.
-Keaton
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
The Best HM GAME!!!Jun 19, 2006
I've had over 4 games of HM and I love all of them! But this is a totally new version to it, more people to marry, girl or boy, and very cute graphics! It's sooo chibi!! You now get to build your life by choosing which location you want to live in, your birthday season(not the date sadly) and gender. You can get a pig if you buy a barn, but you first get a puppy! It's a very good game if you like RPG stuff. And it's not disgusting to get married, nothing really bad happens, anyways I've fallen in love with the game and today I played for 3 HOURS! My brother said to get off but you can't, it's just too fun! So buy the game, you even get a child. But you'll have to play for yourself! Take my word for it! (NOTE:you gotta buy a lot of stuff in the game a challenge) Also, you get a rival that is the opposite sex of you. You can marry your rival, Jamie, but the game will end. The point of the game is to save the Harvest Goddess from being stone, to save her you must get notes, you get notes for doing a special thing, attending festivals is one way, every time you get another 5 notes go to the spring(harvest lake) to get an instrument, when you create a symphony, you free her! But the game doesnt' end, get married, when you have at least 8 hearts from wooing that special someone, you have to get the level 3 house and big bed, then the mayor will tell you to climb a cliff and get the feather to propose(i know a feather is weird but...)so do it and the next day you get married. so buy this game right now! you'll have loads of fun! getting to be a farmer is a blast! you just gotta plant, raise livestock, and get married to have fun!
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