History VideoGame / HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife

* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: For the most part, there is no background music when you walk outdoors outside of your farm, adding to the game's darker atmosphere. Although you do hear music as you approach the Bar when it's open, or by the villa when Lumina plays her piano in the day.

* GuideDangIt: One of Nami's heart events requires you to enter the bar when only Muffy, Griffin, and Nami are present. Getting it basically requires stalking Nami around the valley until she enters the bar and then following her in and hoping no one else is in there.

* IdiotHair: Celia has one.

** In Special Edition, you can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere straight up abandon the farm and everyone in the Valley]] by heading to the road out of town and continue to tell the Harvest Sprites you're leaving. Since the dirt path is where you connect to the Game Boy Advance in the Gamecube version.

** Your child will also age as you reach a new chapter. Both Kate and Hugh will also age too, Hugh ages more frequently as he has a similar growth rate to your child, but his is a chapter earlier.
* PrecociousCrush: In ''Another'', Lumina seems to have a crush on you in the first chapter. In ''Special Edition'' she is made old enough to be a marriage candidate.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Because players aren't asked to slaughter animals for meat, the term "Dairy Farmer" is more accurate than "Rancher".

** In Special Edition, you can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere straight up abandon the farm and everyone]] by heading to the road out of town and continue to tell the Harvest Sprites you're leaving. Since the dirt path is where you connect to the Game Boy Advance in the Gamecube version.

* If you marry Lumina she appears in her adult design afterwards. Normally she won't age up like that until your child is older.
* Your child will also age as you reach a new chapter. Both Kate and Hugh will also age too, Hugh ages more frequently as he has a similar growth rate to your child, but his is a chapter earlier.

* AnimeHair: Mark's hair is a {{Downplayed}} example

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:You die suddenly, leaving your spouse alone and never being able to see your kid delve into adulthood.]] Still, you lived a happy life with many friends, an awesome family, and doing what you enjoy. [[spoiler:It's even more bittersweet if your son takes over the farm after your death.]]

* PlotRelevantAgeUp: If you marry Lumina she appears in her adult design afterwards. Normally she won't age up like that until your child is older.

* SharedUniverse: Takes place concurrently with ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature (More) Friends of Mineral Town]]''.

** At first glance the games, especially the male one, seems to take place in the early twentieth century. However you have characters like Rock and Griffin who embody TheSixties, a retro-looking TV, and relatively modern fashions on certain characters. If you watch TV you'll notice references to ''cellphones''. Tim implies airplanes aren't even a thing in the protagonists country. It's worth noting that Mineral Town looks more modern and it's literally just a few miles away.

** The general "vague era" feel of the game is similar to the original ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSNES'', which seemed early 20th century but had a fair share of AnachronismStew.

** Lumina looks to be at most, 12. However, in Japan she's 16 and in the West she's 18. The Japanese site for the original game states she's fourteen but all games afterwards use the same model despite her aging a few years.

''Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life'' and ''Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life'' are two UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube games in the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' series by Marvelous Interactive, the latter being a [[DistaffCounterpart gender-swapped]] version of the former. An UpdatedRerelease of the first game exists as a [=PS2=] port, with an additional bachelorette and the ability to have a daughter, though this version has slightly worse graphics.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:You die suddenly, leaving your spouse alone and never being able to see your kid delve into adulthood.]] Still, you lived a happy life with many friends, an awesome family, and doing what you enjoy. [[spoiler:It's even more bittersweet if your son takes over the farm after your death]]

* BookEnds: The game starts with the protagonist deciding to become a farmer after the death of their father. The game ends with your child starting their career [[spoiler:after the death of one of their parents]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:You die suddenly, leaving your spouse alone and never being able to see your kid delve into adulthood.]] Still, you lived a happy life with many friends, an awesome family, and doing what you enjoy.

* CowLick: Celia has one

* ShowWithinAShow: The player can watch television. A romance flick, a detective thriller, a SciFi show, an infomercial, and y the weather channel, and your daily horoscope can be seen on TV.

* ShowWithinAShow: The player can watch television. A romance flick, a detective thriller, a SciFi show, an infomercial, and y the weather channel, and your daily horoscope can be seen on TV.

'''''Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life''''' and '''''Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life''''' are two UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube games in the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' series by Marvelous Interactive, the latter being a [[DistaffCounterpart gender-swapped]] version of the former. An UpdatedRerelease of the first game exists as a [=PS2=] port, with an additional bachelorette and the ability to have a daughter, though this version has slightly worse graphics.

** Instead of the usual Hearts appearing beside the name the girls have hearts in their hidden diaries. The [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonOriginalSeries original]] ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' was the same way, with each girl having a diary beside their bed with their heart levels in it.

** There are fewer typos in the [[DistaffCounterpart girl version]], though your son occasionally calls your husband his mother.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Darker, at least, due to the more adult themes explored. The ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'' installments based on this game are Lighter And Edgier, oddly enough.

* LimitedWardrobe: In the original game, everyone wears the same clothes all their lives, save for a hand full of people who get palette swaps in their older years. In ''Another'', your character can purchase more outfits for themselves, and in ''Special Edition'', everyone changes the color of their outfits based on the seasons.

** Muffy is the oldest, being in her thirties.
** Celia doesn't look past her early 20s for much of the game. Lampshaded in ''Another''.

* OneGameForThePriceOfTwo: Links to ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Friends of Mineral Town]]'' to unlock content in both. ''Another Wonderful Life'' links to ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature More Friends of Mineral Town]]'' in the same way.
** ''Special Edition'' made it that you do not need to link up (since it's obvious you cannot connect your Game Boy Advance to a Playstation 2). Instead you can collect records from villagers for different things.

'''''Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life''''' and '''''Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life''''' are two UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube games in the ''Franchise/HarvestMoon'' series by Marvelous Interactive, the latter being a [[DistaffCounterpart gender-swapped]] version of the former. An UpdatedRerelease of the first game exists as a PS2 port, with an additional bachelorette and the ability to have a daughter, though this version has slightly worse graphics.

** ''Another Wonderful Life'', along with being a DistaffCounterpart, added a lot of other new content to the game. Minigames to train your dog, the ability to change your outfit, a mirror by your bed, added difficulty in getting fodder, and making the special tools have different effects while farming. Some of these additions were included in the PS2 special edition, but not all of them.

* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: For the most part, there is no background music, adding to the game's darker atmosphere.