The long-running farming strategy series, Harvest Moon, is now in its tenth year and is well known for its relaxed gameplay and tranquil premise. Tree of Tranquility once again sees you take control of a farm and cultivate crops in order to bring prosperity to the land.

There is a legend on the troubled Waffle Island that a Harvest Goddess once ruled, and helped it flourish with life and energy, in co-ordination with the island’s Mother Tree – a direct connection between the land and the ... more >>

The long-running farming strategy series, Harvest Moon, is now in its tenth year and is well known for its relaxed gameplay and tranquil premise. Tree of Tranquility once again sees you take control of a farm and cultivate crops in order to bring prosperity to the land.

There is a legend on the troubled Waffle Island that a Harvest Goddess once ruled, and helped it flourish with life and energy, in co-ordination with the island’s Mother Tree – a direct connection between the land and the nature the Goddess nurtures. One day, the Mother Tree dies, and nothing is quite the same again. Storms are frequent, crops don’t grow and hardships fall on the town inhabitants. As a newcomer to the island, you are tasked with managing crops, nurturing animals and restoring balance to nature itself. No pressure, then.

Only when the island flourishes once more, the legends tell, will the Harvest Goddess will return and bring prosperity once more. Boasting the biggest adventure in the entire Harvest Moon series, Tree of Tranquility lets you build your own farm from scratch as a boy or girl character, expand over time by buying more land, and populate your property with cows, ducks, chickens, horses and even ostriches. The Wii Remote provides an interactive way of cutting, watering and planting crops, and there are many adventures to be had in the part-time jobs to sustain your farming funds.

If a life in the country is ideal for you, then you could do worse than dive headfirst into a copy of Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. << less