The game is a mix of fun and happiness on a new Island with fun names for shops and characters, its just plain fun.
User Rating: 9 | Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility WII
I FINALLY found this game a few months ago after searching for quite a long time. I immediatly plugged it in and turned on the wii. After a brief opening sequence where your on a vacation to the Island, the seas get rough very fast and your knocked unconscious. When you wake up your in the clinic, and then from their on, your taken to the Inn where you stay until your house is built. There are three locations to choose from when you speak to the Mayor about your house. The Seaside, the Town, and the Hilltop Plot. All are in walking distance of each other, and all have advantages. I myself chose the hilltop plot simply because it sounded better. After choosing your house, you are told to wait a few days...and so...the horrible tutorial begins. For people like myself who already know the rules of Harvest Moon, this process proves to be boring and repetitive. In a mini-game type setup, your instructed to water, weed, and pick crops from a field, all over a period of days. You are timed when you do this, and thats not a problem due to the large amount of time your given, but I'm sure it would make some uncomfortable. After meeting ALL of the people in town and staying for a few days, your house is finished. Its pretty cramped and small, but luckily its cheap to upgrade it until about level four, which gives you a lot of space. Planting crops is easy! But the thing I didn't understand until a few days was that strangely, seeds don't spread in a 3x3 formation, instead, its a 1x6 formation, and it takes a little time to be accustomed if your used to the 3x3, which in my opinion was much easier. Weeding by hand is tedious and wastes a lot of stamina until you are able to get a sickle. Now we'll move onto animals and livestock. There have been two new additions to the farm this time around. The Silkworm, which produces cocoons that can be spun into silk yarn and dyed, and the Ostrich, which is rideable and lays large eggs. The animals are Cows, Horses, Sheep, Goats, Ostriches, Chickens, Ducks, SilkWorms, and they all produce at different rates and qualities depending on if you feed them and how many hearts they have. When you buy a chicken coop or a barn, your field springs to life (which contains nothing but grass and is where your animals stay when you let them go outside, which is done by ringing the bell outside the barn) and the field contains more than enough grass to cut to last through a whole year, maybe even two if you constantly cut. I didn't understand why they still let you buy grass seeds if they give you like 30 squares of it that will never die...moving onto rainbows. In this game your required to restore rainbows. Each rainbow requires specific ingredients that can be gotten throughout the different seasons. When you unlock rainbows, you can trigger events and people moving in which can unlock new things. Marriage in this game is a simple but long task. You are required to do tasks and visit the backelor or bachelorette in order to gain hearts, and each person has their own things that they like, love, or hate. You are able to have pets in this game as well, and THIS proved to be more difficult than Animal Parade. It takes a very very VERY long time to get hearts for any animal, but you are allowed as many pets as the level of your house. I've been able to scrape ten hearts out of my turtle and cat, but I am not going to try to get anything else, just because it is such a long and boring task. Overall, this game is amazing. Its a true Harvest Moon game and if your like me, it'll provide hours of fun and won't get old for a long long time.
