Takakura-the farm’s co-founder, your guide and your deceased father’s close friend-keeps working.

Your child finds a path in life and pursues it. The farm you poured energy, money and love into is still successful. Your spouse and child are distraught, and the townsfolk you befriended over the years gather at the town’s bar to mourn you.Īnd life continues. They end the conversation by saying you both still have work to do. One night, your spouse reminisces on how much time has passed, teasing you about your wrinkles. It can and likely will come sooner than you think. Once you finish A Wonderful Life or Another Wonderful Life, the meaning of the title becomes clear: live a wonderful life because the day will come when it’s gone. While other Harvest Moon games have endless days of farming, chatting with townsfolk and building a family, this is the only installment in which your character dies at the end. So after six in-game years in Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life, the understanding that came with the death of my virtual extension devastated me. But someone I personally knew hadn’t died. My mom would tell me stories of her sister who was killed during the Nicaraguan Revolution.

I wore a bracelet with my name on it that a family friend had gotten made before he died in a car crash prior to my birth. While Harvest Moon is one of the happiest and most light-hearted series you can play, it introduced me to my greatest fear.Īs a child, I had heard of death.

Harvest moon a wonderful life crops