If you have played Animal Crossing and liked it, you would love Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a Virtual Life/Strategy game with fun, colourful animation and whole lot of excitement with plenty to do. Once you stat playing you'll get addicted.

Even though it is a Virtual Life/Strategy game, it does have somewhat of a plot. The main aspects of the plot are: that the Harvest Goddess: The Goddess which governs over harvesting/farming/cultivating, out of melancholy over the townspeople's disregard, has turned herself into stone. To free her from the stone, you must collect musical notes in the game whilstachieving various tasks and events in the town and on your farm/property.

So as stated before, the objective of the game is to collect musical notes to save the Harvest Goddess. To save her you must obtain atleast 50 out of the 100 musical notes throughout the game. To do this you are running a farm, and throughout the game, you plant and grow plants, raise and take care of farm animals, increase your farms wealth and size and live amongst the townsfolk to get to know them and become of common member of the town. After you save the Goddess, you can continue taking care of your farm throughout the seasons but you also have the next objective of wooing and marrying one of the townsfolk. Each Gender has a choice of ten characters of the opposite sex for their spouse and also the choice of your rival: Jamie who is available to both genders.

When you start the game, you have a choice of three locations. Each has it's benefits and disadvantages. After choosing a location, you start of with your house, your dog, the necessities for you house and all the tools in beginner form. You will pretty much begin by fishing or picking up stuff and selling it to get money, but you will later be able to get seeds for growing plants, then you will be able to buy a chicken coop, some chickens and then you will eventually get a barn.

I enjoy this game very much because, like animal crossing, it is very unique in its way that it is not like majority of games. It does not have big plots that makes the game exciting until the plot is over, and then the game loses its excitement, it doesn't have levels, health points or fighting in it and it you discover new things constantly because has so much to it. There are four seasons and in the each season there is a lot to do; also, when you come back to a season it isn't the same as the last time cause your farm and people have changed a lot by the time you get there.

So if you want a game that keeps on giving, without the need of violence/fighting or big, complicated plot lines then you will have lots of fun playing Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.

Drayomi :P

I recommend Banjo-Kazooie as a must-play game.

Banjo and Kazooie is a game for N64. The Protagonists are a bear named: Banjo and a bird named: Kazooie. The Antagonist is a witch named: Gruntilda. The helper characters are a mole named: Bottles, who teaches you how to play/fight and gives you special abilities throughout the game, and a shaman named: Mumbo, who uses his shaman magic on you to transform you into to different things throughout the game to help you complete the levels, after you collect enough "Mumbo Skulls". The other character who is important is Banjo's sister: Tootie.

The plot is: that the witch: Gruntilda asks her magic cauldron to tell her who is the most beautiful girl in all the land and he tells her that Tootie, Banjo's sister, is the most beautiful girl. This causes Gruntilda to become angry, so she hops on her talking broomstick and flies down from her mountain lair to kidnap Tootie. Her lazy brother: Banjo, happens to be sleeping while Tootie is captured. So his sidekick: Kazooie wakes him up because he heard Tootie's cries. When they exit there house, Tootie is gone and their friend: Bottles the mole tells them that she has been taken up to Gruntilda's lair. In Gruntilda's lair, Gruntilda plans to transform Tootie's beauty to her, and her ugliness to Tootie. So Banjo and Kazooie decide to go up to her lair to save Tootie.

So the object of the game is to defeat Gruntilda and save Tootie, but unfortunately it isn't that easy. Throughout her entire lair are magical doors that prevent you from going deeper in her lair. The only thing that can break the spells on the doors are "musical notes" and each door needs a certain amount of them. the only way to collect these notes is to enter the worlds throughout her lair but you must open them must. The only way to open levels is to complete their puzzles, but you must use magic al, golden puzzle pieces called: "Jiggies" and you must collect them in the worlds. The first world only needs one "Jiggy" and that Jiggy is in the entrance way to the lair.

Their are: 100 "musical notes", 10 "Jiggies" and 2 "Honeycomb peices" (If you collect 6 of these, your health bar goes up. Your health bar begins with 5. Also you have a number of "lives") in each world. When you collect "musical notes" in a world, they are saved to your musical note total. But before you leave a world you should make sure you have 100 notes. This is because each world has a total number of notes (100) and the amount you got when you leave is your note "high score" (ex. 67/100) but unfortunately when you go back to the world you have to collect all the notes again. So if you collected 33 out of 100 note sand left the world, you would have to collect those 33 notes again before your score can go up, which means that your grand total of notes won't go up by those first 33 notes, it will only go up by the other 67. This adds a challenge to the game because you eventually will have to go back and raise your note scores in worlds that you didn't collect all 100 notes, and these worlds you will have to go back too will probably be the world's you had the most trouble with.

To collect the "Jiggies" you will have to do special challenges in the worlds. Some challenges with be easier than others, like just sliding down to it or going up to it. But others will be harder and some of those will involve transforming into different things to get "jiggies". To do this you must get the help of Mumbo the shaman and he will only help you if you collect "mumbo skulls". "Mumbo skulls are pretty easy to find. They are just lying around in the worlds. Some are hidden are in hard to reach places while others are in plain view. Things you have to turn into will vary from a crocodile, to a pumpkin.

There are many skills you must collect throughout the game, and items that you must collect for those skills like flying, you have to collect red feathers in order to fly. You will learn skills by playing the game and finding the mole, who is hidden througout the worlds.

This game is full of: Action, Adventure and Comedy. So you will have fun playing this game and you will enjoy the funny aspects of this game.

So have fun Playing.

Drayomi:lol:

Halo: War Game/First Shooter/Craze. Halo is that phenomenon that the gaming world is obsessed about. But Why? What does Halo got that other games don't have?

I don't get why it is so big but it is. I didn't get into it because it was a war game/first shooter combo and I dislike first shooter games. But other people did. Other people stormed the shelves for Halo 3. But I have an idea why people got into.

There are a lot of stupid people out there. A majority of our planet are stupid; And stupid people are easily amused. Blowing stuff, and people up amuses stupid people. Holding a gun and shooting people's heads off amuses stupid people.

I am not saying that everyone who plays Halo and other shooting/war games are stupid but a lot of them are. And some of those people took Halo to the next level to make it look more idiotic then it already is. They took gameplay, that they recorded, from the game and cut and paste them into a video and voiced them over. This strange/idiotic video compilation is called: Machinima. These: "Machinima" videos are very frustrating and annoying because they are just annoying/retarded videos that make no sense.

So Halo may have been a little better before, but Machinima has lowered the quality of this game way lower then it was before.

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Q: Why do you think Halo is so popular/such a craze? If you play it then why is it such a good game/craze to you?

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Drayomi:question:

I do not get the Racing and Sports Games craze. Why is everyone obsessed with those games? Even Gamespot is obsessed. Most of those games are rated 9.

Shouldn't Gamespot be rating them lower and lower? There all the same, all that changes is the graphics and they don't change very often. Every racing and sports game can't get an "Editor's Choice".

I know who buys the most Racing and Sports games; The U.S.A does. They are the nation obsessed with sports. I am not saying that everyone likes sports there but a lot of people do.

The racing isn't as bad as the sports though, because the games can be a totally different style. But I am talking about the racing games that are made based on real racing. Those are in with the sports games. And Sports games are repetitive.

So what I am trying to say is that Sports and real life based Racing games are okay but they shouldn't be a craze and they shouldn't get such high Ratings.

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I ask you: Do you think that Sports and Racing Games are repetitive or do you think they are not repetitive? And Tell me Why you think that.

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Drayomi:?

I don't get why the rating from Gamespot for Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 is so low. It's high and all but it's not high enough. Kingdom Hearts' rating is 8.2 and Kingdom Hearts 2's rating is 8.7 but I think it should be in the 9's. The scores would be better as 9.2 and 9.7.

All the fans agree. Kingdom Hearts is one of the best game series ever. It has an awesome story line, fantastic characters with fantastic clothing/design, fun game play that you could play for hours, great Protagonists and Antagonists with great relationships/connections, creative monsters/bosses, and a comeback for more all around look to it. On Fanfiction.net, many people including me, have written fanfics/fan stories for Kingdom Hearts and lots of them are awesome reads.

All I am trying to say here. is that Kingdom Hearts needs be recognized for it's really greatest, not underrated/under appreciated. Kingdom Hearts is a great series that I would recognize. 8's is a good score and all, they didn't underrate it that much, but Kingdom Hearts Fans and I would rather it be an Editor's Choice.

Thank you for reading my rant. I just had to get that off of my chest. I was surprised when I saw the Gamespot rating, that's all. And I saw games with 9's that are un-unique/un-creative like racing and sports games. Those games are overrated.

Drayomi ;)