Harvest Moon: Animal Parade

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (牧場物語わくわくアニマルマーチ) is the second Harvest Moon game released for the Nintendo Wii.

It is marketed as the sequel to Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility; Animal Parade has improved game play elements in addition to new marriage candidates and story location. Unlike its predecessor, the Wii Classic Controller can be used as an alternative option to the motion controls.

Plot
This game begins with the player riding on the back of Cain's cart to their new house. As they travel, Cain asks them questions. The player can choose what season they were born, favorite food, and tell him their name. A Harvest Sprite named Fin will remind the player of their promise. In order to learn what is this promise, the player must obey Finn's prompting to visit Goddess Spring to find out why the island is in trouble. When the player travels to the Harvest Goddess' Spring, they will learn that the tree is dying with the power of nature fading from the island.

To restore the power of nature and the Goddess' tree, the player must ring five mystical bells guarded by Harvest Sprites: Alan's red bell of Fire, Collin's yellow bell of Earth, Ben's blue bell of Water, Daren's green bell of Wind, and Edge's purple bell of heart. Each of the bells has an individual song that will restore crucial aspects of the island. Once they do that and gain the Farm Degree title of Hero, the five bells are rung together to summon Harvest King, who restores the power of nature to Castanet Island.

Features and Changes

 * The player can choose one of four protagonist styles: Kasey, Molly, Kevin, and Angela.
 * There are a larger selection of crops to choose from, including wheat — which will replace breadfruit in cooking recipes in flour form — and coffee.
 * The map is different and twice as large.
 * Time flows twice as slowly.
 * The player can ride any livestock animal, including ostriches, horses, cows, and sheep.
 * Four celestial beings are available as marriage candidates: Harvest King, Harvest Goddess, Witch, and Wizard), making 10 marriage candidates in total.
 * New rival children: Lucy, Roy, and Vivian.
 * The player can have two children whose appearance (except skin tone) is based on their spouse.
 * Unlike other Harvest Moon games, the player's spouse and children can help them on farm.
 * There are many outfits to choose from along with an abundance of different accessories for the player and their children.
 * There is an in-game camera that allows the player to take pictures within the game and hang them in their house. They also have the option to buy photos during festivals and have family photos taken in Simon's Photos.
 * In the Japanese version, the player can use WiiConnect24 to send pictures and visit their friends who also own the game. When they do so, the player's friends can show up at festivals and events. This function is removed from Western versions due to glitches.
 * There is a circus every 22nd of season, featuring Theodore from Harvest Moon and Harvest Moon: Magical Melody as the ringmaster.
 * The player can allow a friend use a second Wii remote to help improve friendships with villagers and wild animals.

Gameplay
As the sequel of Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Animal Parade features gameplay elements from other Harvest Moon video games, such as growing and farming crops, raising livestock, fishing, mining as well as foraging. Any marriage/children system and social interactions are also a large part of the gameplay.

Characters
Bachelors


 * Anissa
 * Candace
 * Kathy
 * Luna
 * Maya
 * Phoebe
 * Renee
 * Selena
 * Witch
 * Harvest Goddess

Children
Animal Parade grants the ability to have two children. The player can pick their child's gender with their spouse' appearance will affect child's. As the child grows, players will answer questions that determine their personality, which also affects farming chores they specialize in.

Rival System
Each regular marriage candidate has a rival pairing who will marry each other before the player does so. New rival couples that were absent in Tree of Tranquility are marked with asterisk (*). The rival couples are as follows:
 * Calvin and Phoebe
 * Chase and Maya
 * Gill and Luna*
 * Julius and Candace
 * Jin and Anissa
 * Luke and Selena*
 * Toby and Renee
 * Owen and Kathy*

Two weeks after any given rival couple gets married, you will receive a letter in your mailbox announcing that the couple is having a child. Go to their house and meet the baby, but you can't interact with it yet. Two weeks later, you will receive another letter from the happy couple saying that the child has grown up and that they're going to Harmonica Photography to take a family portrait. If you visit Harmonica Photography that day, one will meet the family, and the child will introduce him or herself.

The rival children are: 
 * Dakota, Chase and Maya's daughter
 * Heath, Calvin and Phoebe's son
 * Angie, Julius and Candace' daughter
 * Van, Jin and Anissa's son
 * Matt, Toby and Renee's son
 * Lucy, Luke and Selena's daughter
 * Roy, Owen and Kathy's son
 * Vivian, Gill and Luna's daughter

Trivia

 * As the season changes, the villagers' outfits match that season except rival children.
 * On rainy days, if the player takes their in-game camera and look at the end of archway on the bridge, they can see Kappa.
 * This is the last Harvest Moon game to feature rival children resulting from rival marriages.
 * Animal Parade is the only Harvest Moon game where the player can have two children on same gender if they want, even both children can be dressed up.