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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will span a lifetime on the farm and follow the drama that goes with it. Not only must you build and successfully run a farm, but you must also build a successful life with…

85 12 September 2003

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Marvelous Interactive, released 12 September 2003 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Marvelous Interactive and released in 2003. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"He wasn't unhappy. But he didn't seem to have a direction in life. One day, I went to see him. I told him about the farm you left to him. Your son didn't seem to know much about farming, but he was willing to give it a try. So I brought him to Forget-Me-Not Valley." True to its name, this is the first Harvest Moon game that progresses through the main character's entire adult life, from young adulthood to old age. However, numerous years are skipped as the game is progressed. NPCs in the game, including the main character's son and wife also grow older as time passes. The game takes place in a new setting for the Harvest Moon series - a small village called Forget-Me-Not Valley, populated…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are open world, romance and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is the 12th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. The next entry was Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town in 2003. Its critic score of 85 is 19 points above the series average of 66. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life launched on 12 September 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Age of Mythology: The Titans. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans.

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When did Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life come out?
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life was released on 12 September 2003 for Nintendo GameCube.

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