Festivals
Most games in the series feature annual festivals which the player can attend. Some of these may just be simple social events, while others may be contests with prizes available to the player. Sometimes festivals are akin to real life holidays, such as Thanksgiving and the Starry Night Festival, which seems to be reminiscent of Christmas Eve. Livestock-themed festivals often take place, where the player can submit their animals to compete against other farms. Animals who win these contests often receive benefits; for example, a cow that wins might gain the ability to produce gold milk.
Players can always choose to not attend these events, but all stores also close on these days and shipped items are not picked up either, leaving few choices available outside of attendance.
[edit] Getting married
The Harvest Moon games offer many choices for potential love interests. As the player spends time with the various potential love interests, he or she learns his or her likes and dislikes, showers him or her with gifts, and eventually proposes. If a player fails to marry a character, then there are usually rival characters who will marry whoever the character didn't. Developers of the series have taken to producing both male and female versions of Harvest Moon games in recent years, allowing for different lineups of potential spouses. More recent games have begun offering a gender choice when starting a game. Only one Harvest Moon game has yet allowed players to pursue the possibility of living with someone of the same sex, the Japanese version of Harvest Moon DS Cute. The feature is rumored to have been removed from the US version and Natsume refuses to comment on the matter. A special friendship ceremony can be performed between the main character and another of the special girls instead of marriage with one of the men in the game.
[edit] Children
In many versions, it is possible to have children, but usually only a boy, with the exceptions being Harvest Moon, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition, and Harvest Moon 3. In Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town, when a girl is played, a baby girl can be born. This event occurs usually about a month after marriage. Harvest 3 is also the only versions where the player can have multiple children. "Harvest Moon:DS", Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and their spin-offs are the only games in the series where the player can experience a child's growth from toddler to full-grown adult.
You can't have children on Harvest Moon GB, Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland and on Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon, you can't because the main pearson is a robot looking like a human in Dreamcast and Playstation.
In Harvest Moon 64 your child skips his first steps.
[edit] Features
Many Harvest Moon games fanciful content as well, such as Fairies, Harvest Sprites, a Harvest Goddest, a Kappa, a Witch, a Mermaid and various forest guardians. In some games, special events such as solar eclipse and legends about a red lake were included. In the older series players increased their stamina by eating Power Berries which are around the valley, this feature is replaced in later games by using various jewelry and clothing to reduce stamina loss.
[edit] Defeating monsters
The first time the player can fight monsters is in Harvest Moon DS, in the mines, but it is not advanced or a major part of the game. Your character could possibly live their entire in-game life without knowing that the monsters even exist. In Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon you can also fight monsters. A player could use farming tools, or swords and axes. In Harvest Moon: Back to Nature the chickens are able to compete and fight each other in a festival. Also in Back to Nature, wild dogs will attack livestock, the player must fight them off with their tools and dog.
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oo:11 middle one is creepy
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