Harvest Moon: Animal Parade

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade
Developer(s)	Marvelous Interactive
Publisher(s)	JP Marvelous Entertainment NA Natsume EU Rising Star Games
Distributor(s)	AUS Nintendo Australia
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	October 30, 2008 Wii JP October 30, 2008 NA November 12, 2009 EU December 3, 2010
Genre(s)	Construction and management simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	ESRB: E
Media/distribution	Wii Optical Disc

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (牧場物語わくわくアニマルマーチ, Bokujō Monogatari: Waku Waku Animaru Māchi, lit. Farm Story: Exciting Animal March) is a farming simulation video game by Marvelous Entertainment released exclusively for Nintendo's Wii console. It is the second title for the Wii in the series, and has the same character designer as Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. It features many animals, all of which you can ride, including circus animals.

Story

A divine tree which once stood in the middle of the Harvest Goddess' pond has begun to weaken, the creatures are beginning to leave the land, and the five bells have lost their power. Only the strength of the Harvest King can revive the earth and bring the tree back to life, but he is nowhere to be found. You must ring the five bells, bring the Harvest King back to the island, and help revive the Goddess' Tree, while at the same time running a large farm plantation. The release of this game for Wii allows the player to use the Wii Remote as an axe, shovel, watering can, fishing pole, milking the animals, and has many other uses. The player must grow and sell their crops to make money to buy things and furnish your ranch house. There are lots of crops to grow, including beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and many more.

Children

Eventually after the player is married, their wife will have a child in the town clinic. (If the player is female, the scene skips from the morning to when the child is already born). The player will have to wait in the waiting room. Afterwards, the nurse will present them with their new son or daughter. The player will be able to play with their child while he or she is a toddler. There are special events in the child's life such as "Crawling", "Walking", "Talking", and "Growing Up."

One of the benefits of marriage is that the player can ask their spouse and children to handle some of the farm responsibilities. Another benefit of marriage is that they can take their spouse and children to festivals by taking them on walks.

Unlike Tree of Tranquility and other Harvest Moon titles, apart from Harvest Moon SNES, the player is allowed two children to their family instead of the previous only child option.

Depending on the person the player marries, their child can have different attributes and types of personalities. They can have the same hair and eye color as the player's spouse, and possess some of these traits based on their spouse's own personality: Quiet, Scholarly, Fiery, and Romantic.

Animals

Although some animals from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility return, the official website describes the game as feeling like a circus. The animals are divided into four categories: circus, livestock, poultry, and pets. Circus animals can't be kept as pets, however. Once again, Horses are not the only ride-able animal. If you have 5 hearts or more with any farm animal (excluding chickens, ducks and silkworms), you can ride them around. All the ride-able animals have different walking/running speed. Horses and ostriches are the fastest, followed by the sheep and goat, and then the cow. The higher their heart level, the faster they go. The livestock (excluding ostriches, ducks, chickens, and silkworms) can be different colors. Cows can be brown, black or white and black, horses can be white, brown, grey or black. Sheep can be either white or black, goats can also be white or black.

Products and Animals to be Bought

As with previous games, cows and goats produce milk, cheese and butter, while chickens, ostriches and ducks produce eggs and mayonnaise. In addition, sheep, who used to produce wool exclusively, can produce milk, cheese and butter as well. Silkworms, which were introduced in Tree of Tranquility, produce silk cocoons, that can be shipped as is, or turned into silk yarn.

In addition to being able to buy young animals from Hanna, such as foals and calves, you can also buy the adult forms of these animals, but at more of a cost.

See also

• Harvest Moon (series)
• List of Wii games

External links

• Bokujō Monogatari: Waku Waku Animal March official Web site (Japanese)
• Harvest Moon: Animal Parade at Natsume
• Harvest Moon: Animal Parade at Rising Star Games