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Like previous Harvest Moon titles, time passes as you perform chores outside (it's usually paused when you're indoors) and you'll work each day to accomplish whatever tasks you set out to do. As you'll find out shortly into the game, it's the player's job to not only successfully build a life for him or herself, but also ring the five elemental bells of the land and restore power to the Harvest Goddess.Īt its core, Harvest Moon: Animal Parade is a fixed camera role-playing game and farming simulation, all rolled into one. Finn, as he darts about nervously, insists that the player needs to find and assist the Harvest Goddess, who is suffering from some sort of illness or lack of power. At the start of the game your character arrives at the ranch he or she just recently purchased with a small harvest sprite named Finn in tow. Nestled near the quaint seaside buildings of Harmonica Town, your ranch is your home and also base of operations for your various farming activities. Players tend to crops, raise animals, court the locals and develop their humble little ranch, just as they have done in the Harvest Moons of yore.Īnimal Parade allows players to select either a boy or girl farmer and then start a long journey towards building up a successful country ranch. Following in the footsteps of Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Animal Parade reintroduces players to the delights - and occasional downsides - of farm simulation. How fitting, then, that another of the super cute Harvest Moon games comes to me in the form of Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for the Wii. Furthermore, one of the first games I reviewed here at IGN was a Harvest Moon title. Although I haven't kept up with every version of Natsume's farming simulation franchise, I can still remember enjoying the unique appeal of the original Super Nintendo game while growing up. I am not a stranger to the Harvest Moon experience.