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Harvest Moon: Magical Melody

Flower Bud Village wasn't a blossom of a burg when you bought a plot of land. Now newcomers depend on the bounty from your land for their livelihoods. It's up to you to create a farm, raise a family and build…

75 10 November 2005 ESRB E

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is an adventure developed by Marvelous Interactive, released 10 November 2005 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is an adventure game developed by Marvelous Interactive and released in 2005. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Flower Bud Village wasn't a blossom of a burg when you bought a plot of land. Now newcomers depend on the bounty from your land for their livelihoods. It's up to you to create a farm, raise a family and build a village in the most challenging Harvest ever! -Play as a girl or as a boy! -Buy farm land next to a river, along a seashore or in a village! -Plant crops, raise livestock, dig for gems or just fish! -Beat your farming rival in the fields and at the festivals! -Unlock hidden multiplayer mini games!
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is the 18th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived 8 months after Harvest Moon DS. The next entry was Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl in 2005. Its critic score of 75 is 9 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.

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How it was received

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody launched on 10 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Mario Kart DS.

Cheats and codes

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When did Harvest Moon: Magical Melody come out?
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody was released on 10 November 2005 for Nintendo GameCube.

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