Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition is a blast from the past, but with mixed results. It's great to revisit this unique take on the farming sim, where the focus is on family and watching your child grow. But man, the graphics feel outdated, the controls are clunky, and some of the new stuff... (looking at you, weird new marriage candidates) are kinda cringey. Still, if you loved the original and crave nostalgia, it's worth a try, but newcomers to the franchise might be better off with a different Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game.

Nunca achei que seria marcado por um joguinho de fazenda, que é leve e simples, bem colorido e bobinho no que se propõe a fazer, mas que te toca de um jeito...

Desconheço um jogo de fazenda melhor.

Apesar do jogo inteiro se passar apenas num único cenário, não fica cansativo, pois a rotina que você inicia é o bastante para não deixar as coisas monótonas.

Os animais são todos uns fofos e fazem você se importar de verdade com cada um deles, principalmente a vaca que você já ganha logo no início. A variedade de animais que você pode ter também é um ponto forte.

A trilha sonora casa perfeitamente com a ambientação, várias cutscenes tendo uma melodia que se encaixa perfeitamente pra situação, e todas as músicas são bem chiclete, mas de uma forma boa.

Sei que existe uma vasta coleção de jogos desta franquia, mas este em específico foi o único que me interessou; já tentei jogar um outro de Super Nintendo mas não me pegou.

Quero um dia poder voltar pro jogo e aproveitar mais dele, pois nunca o completei e sei que ainda tem mais coisa pra ver.

P.S: Uma vez deixei minha vaca morr3r de fome sem querer. Comecei a chorar depois da cutscene.

Awful port. The graphics and performance are a big downgrade over the GameCube version.

The PS4 version isn't much better. The load screens are still long. You character's movement is janky. The same can be said for the overly sensitive camera control.

This doesn't fix any of the issues with the original version (mainly the lack of content and things to spend money on).

I feel the need to say you should not get this version of this game. But it is the one I played as a kid + revisited recently, so even with its many issues its very near and dear to my heart. A farming sim unlike any other I've ever played — this game is honestly more like a boku no natsuyasumi game than most other Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games, and I think that's absolutely to its benefit. It is at once brisk and ambling—while its ingame years are shorter than your average farming sim, this is in service to its in-depth exploration of the passage of time. Getting married and having a child are key early game events, but as time goes on, your child grows, as do other children in the town. Your neighbors age, and in time, pass — the Valley's inhabitants come and go as their lives unfold alongside yours. A Wonderful Life is a game that breathes, and invites you not to shape its world, but to exist within it. It's clunky, it's dated, it looks and runs horrendously, but I don't even care. There will never be a Harvest Moon game crafted more to my sensibilities than this one.


...Well, other than the remake that lets you be gay.