Review Kittycanes7 5/5 · May 29, 2026
Nostalgia
The memories of this game still have it towards this day
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (2003)
3.79 from 439 ratings
973 members have it in their collection · 17 playing now · 168 backlogged · 143 wish listed
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will span a lifetime on the farm and follow the drama that goes with it. Not only must you build and successfully run a farm, but you must also build a successful life with family and friends! This new Harvest Moon experience will take the best qualities of the series and add more...more animals, more …
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will span a lifetime on the farm and follow the drama that goes with it. Not only must you build and successfully run a farm, but you must also build a successful life with family and friends! This new Harvest Moon experience will take the best qualities of the series and add more...more animals, more vegetables and more drama! What sort of life will you live?
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Details
- Developers
- Marvelous Interactive
- Publishers
- Marvelous Interactive, Natsume Inc., Nintendo
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
- Themes
- Open world, Romance, Sandbox
- Franchises
- Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons
- Series
- Harvest Moon (old)
Release dates
- Sep 12, 2003 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo GameCube
- Mar 16, 2004 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo GameCube
- Mar 26, 2004 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo GameCube
Also available on
- Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life (2004) · GCN
- Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition (2004) · PS2, PS3, PS4
- Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life - Limited Edition (2023) · NSW, PS5, XSX
- Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life - Premium Edition (2023) · NSW
Related
Remakes
- Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (Jan 2023) · NSW, PC, PS5, XSX
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Rating distribution
5 stars
107
4 stars
165
3 stars
138
2 stars
23
1 star
5
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Review sparkeythehamster 4/5 · Sep 26, 2016
One of my Favourites of the Series
Loved this game, one of my favourite in the series, however there is a massive variation in the PS2 and Gamecube versions.
The Gamecube version has less content and the game takes longer to finish but the graphics are better and loading times are almost non-existent. The PS2 version has more content but loading times get really annoying - I …
Loved this game, one of my favourite in the series, however there is a massive variation in the PS2 and Gamecube versions.
The Gamecube version has less content and the game takes longer to finish but the graphics are better and loading times are almost non-existent. The PS2 version has more content but loading times get really annoying - I don't know if the PS3 Store fixed this.
Overall though I loved how there was an actual plot feel to the game as the world around you changed and your kid grew up - something I would have loved to see in other Harvest Moon Games. It's on a smaller scale than the others, but the feeling of progression really helped to make up for that.