Harvest Moon Tree of Tranquility

You have moved to an island town that was once brimming with life and energy. But now, however, the island is in trouble and it’s up to you to save it. The mystical Mother Tree that once watched over the island has disappeared, and the Harvest Goddess is nowhere to be found. The island has lost its connection with nature and the inhabitants don’t know what to do.
Till the earth, befriend and raise animals, nurture friendships, and build a family. When the giant Mother Tree is reborn, the Harvest Goddess will be able to return and bring prosperity to the island once again.
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility is filled with exciting features that are sure to delight both new players and longtime
Harvest Moon fans. There are lot of crops to grow, a variety of animals to care for, tons of festivals to participate in, and an exciting story.
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Key Game Features:
- Feel like you’re really farming with sickle, hammer and watering can functionality via the Nintendo Wii Remote.
- Play as a boy or as a girl, marry, raise a family and pass your farm on to your heirs.
- Experience more of a variety of gameplay as you work part-time jobs.
- An amazing variety of crops, animals, events, and mini-games.
- The deepest and biggest Harvest Moon to date.
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Screenshots:
 Help the island by tilling the land. View larger. |
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 Meet the townsfolk. View larger. |
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 Date and eventually marry. View larger. |
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User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Addicting
This is a great game. There are so many things to do–fishing, mining, gardening, harvesting, meeting people, gathering pets, courtship and marriage. And all that is only the daily stuff, the main goal is finding clues, opening rainbows, and restoring the Harvest Moon Goddess to the island. The seasons come and go, you can compare your yearly incomes in all your resources. It’s so awesome to play, it’s difficult to find an ending spot, cuz there’s always something you want to do the next day. The most important help I found was the refreshing spring behind the waterfall which restores all your stamina. At first you lose your stamina very quickly until you upgrade your tools, but you can go to the spring once a day and regain your stamina. The game keeps lists of all the fish you catch, crops you plant, gems you mine, etc and I like to try to complete the lists. We’ve had the game since Feb and I’ve completed it once and am doing it again, cuz I didn’t get married the first time. What I love about this game is the variety and challenge to do it all.
5 Stars Harvest Moon Wii
Great game made even more fun for the Wii. My daughter loves it and it has been a great way to spend time together when we play.
5 Stars It is an homage to past Harvest Moon games
The whole Harvest Moon series of games is very addicting. This addition certainly doesn’t lack that quality. With the addition of some new (weird) animals, it is a little more strange than the other games (the new animals are ostriches and silkworms), but it works them in well. Gameplay is smooth, load times are a little long, but not distractingly so. Sound quality is not very good, but it more than makes up for that in amount of addicting fun that the game produces. Heck, even my video game-hating girlfriend can’t put the controller down after starting a game.
This is certainly worth the money
4 Stars Nice addition to the series
I got this game the day after it came out and I was and still am very impressed with the vast amounts of improvments it has undergone.
The Gameplay: It is very simalar to Magical Melody, this time around instead of collecting notes you collect ingrediants for rainbows to revive the island. The tasks are the same–raise crops, animals, make friends and marry to have a kid but in terms of this aspect of game play more villagers, animals as well as crops have been added to keep the player busy. Rivals can get married and have a kid too which is a plus. My complaint regaurding the child you have is the fact that they don’t grow up AGAIN (Natsume and Marvelous need to bring back the ageing system in my opinion) but the plus side to this is you do get to choose the gender and once they are fully “grown” they do chores for you and you even can “play” as them; this basicaly is a new game+ where you start from the beginning with all the money from the previous file and all tools start at level three. If playing the game doesn’t appeal to you, the minigames you can play are a nice break; they range from mole whacking to stone skipping to horse racing. Overall, the game has lots packed into it for hours of play.
Graphics: They are pretty comparable to Harvest Moon a wonderful life except maybe a tad better; objects and characters have smoother outlines and more detail and the animations for characters are a bit more real. My only complaint here is…well, I am disappointed that the main character (boy) was compleatly redone from the ground up and looks nothing like any of the previous main characters (from the snes, N64, PS etc.) but overall the graphics are better.
Controls: The game offers a few ways to play here, though they aren’t that impressive. You can play with either the wii remote and nunchuk, or classic controller. The wii remote can use “motion sensitivity” with tools and such but I would hardly call it that; all you need to do is lift the remote up and bring it down…yay not…for one, it makes watering crops and such harder than it needs to be and the motion just makes me feel stupid so I wouldn’t recommend this method. The much simpler way to use tools is to just press the A button. The classic controller is ok…it’s supposed to bring a “classic” feel to gameplay but it doesn’t.
Overall: I would highly recommend this title its one of the best in the series due to the improvments although more improvments are needed. Both fans of the series and newcomers alike will enjoy this title. BUY IT!
5 Stars Hours of Entertainment
This game has taken hours and days to play. Once you start it is addicting and you will need to tell yourself that it is time to go to bed. There are so many details in the game, so many steps to take, so many things you can do….it seems the game can be played for years.
My wife, kids and I have all played and at times fight for “whose turn it is”.
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