We can make our gardens wherever we please, am I right?Īnother thing that bugs me about these games is having to water your crops every day. The graphics weren't as good, but we could break any soil anywhere we wanted to on that game. That's one thing I liked better about Magical Melody than this game. I find that strange that the creators of these games seems to think trees can only be planted in a "tillable" field. This game won't allow you to plant plants where ever you want either. No one ever HAS to build something just because they own some land. It appears that the carpenter thinks you need to build a house on every plot of land you buy on this game too. We haven't made it to winter yet, but Peanut is hoping to get a hat and mitten when the time comes. Tree of Tranquility gave us a jacket for fall. He have laughed about the poor farmer girl on Magical Melody running around in shorts and a short sleeved shirt in the winter. The kids appreciate the fact that the makers were thoughtful enough to give the poor farmer warmer clothes as the seasons get colder. I was glad that my children were smart enough to realize that wouldn't happen in real life since they often grumbled about the game programmers. Like two days would really make that much of a difference. Just because the game says that plants can only be grown in the fall doesn't mean you can't plant the seeds in the end of summer, right? It was just crazy! Sometimes a plant would be only a day or two from maturation and it would die because the season changed.
We thought that was really stupid since temperatures rarely ever change so rapidly that something would die so quickly. One of the features that really annoyed me on the other games was the fact that as soon as the season changed all of the crops instantaneously died.
It would be nice if the game gave you the option of butchering your animals, but I suppose some people think that this might be too much information for children to handle or something. Ostriches lay eggs that you can either sell or hatch. (Boy did that upset Peanut!) As nice as horses are, I like the idea of adding new animals into the mix. (Not that I'd ride an ostrich in real life or anything, I'd probably break the poor thing's back!) I hate to take up space in my barn with animals that don't produce useful products which is the reason I starved my poor goat to death on A Wonderful Life. I appreciate the fact that you can buy either a horse or an ostrich to ride on this game. So far no one seems to have a seed maker for sale anywhere. You seem to need a maker for everything on these games. I dislike that so far there is no way to hybridize veggies or make seeds like we did on A Wonderful Life though.
This is the first one I am aware of that does the same for rocks that you mine. Other games had varying degrees of vegetables and fruits you could grow by using fertilizers, tools, or planting in different soils. I like the fact that it teaches the children that there are different qualities of metal ores.
#Harvest moon tree of tranquility recipes trial
We're figuring things out by trial and error so far. It is taking us some time to get to know the ins and outs of this game since there aren't many people out there sharing their experiences with it yet. As with most Harvest Moon games, there are similarities and differences between the games that came before it. Peanut got the newest Harvest Moon video game for her birthday last month from her uncle.