Review!!
The Harvest Moon games have been around for yonks - since 1996, to be precise - and they all follow a similar style. You inherit a little farm and must help make it successful by growing crops, raising animals and selling your produce in the local town. If you like your games to be stuffed with non-stop action, this probably isn't the one for you!
It's not all about the business of running a farm either. You have to build relationships with other characters and, if you fall in kissy-kissy lurve, you can even get married and have children! Hey, who knows when you might need an extra pair of hands to gather up those turnips?
This is also a pretty silly game at times. There are new circus animals added to the usual cows and horses, and you can ride any animal you like. Apart from ducks. And worms. That would be ridiculous.
Life on the farm doesn't have to be all early mornings and pig poo, you know. Dip into the latest entry in the farming RPG series, Harvest Moon, where you can ride a giraffe instead! Wait, what?
That doesn't mean that Animal Parade is boring though, it's just more interested in solving problems with your brain than with a gun and big muscles. It's a sweet, quiet sort of game that can easily keep you playing for hours and hours once you get into it.
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade was never going to be the coolest game of the year, but it's perfect for a quiet evening. If you've got any of the other games in the series there's not really much here that you won't have seen before, but apart from that it's well worth trying.
