Harvest Moon: It's a Wonderful Life

The only HM game I've ever gotten really into was Friends of Mineral Town, which I still play pretty regularly. I've always been interested in the series though, ever since the original came out on the SNES. I was pretty psyched for AWL too, until I read few reviews on it.

I just beat the third dungeon in Awakening Wood yesterday. The one with the

Emperor Bulblax

at the end. I almost crapped my pants when that thing came at me. Not as tough as the one from the first game, though, which was nice because I had about 30 red Pikmin to spare and 25 yellows still alive. I sacrificed a few too many on the purple Candypop Buds.

Ahh yes, "that" dungeon. Took him down with a ton of purples.

It wasn't anywhere near as difficult as

that mechanical spider with laser-guided machinegun attachments.

That whole LEVEL was brutal.

Challenge mode is pretty good, you can play cooperatively. I have a bit of an issue playing with my 11 year-old brother, who promptly takes all the Pikmin and usually attacks Giant Bulborbs from the front. Real great strategy there.. Oh well.

Are you as attached to them as I am? I can't even stand to lose one in battle, even though I have like 1200+ Pikmin now.

I think there needs to be a Pikmin 2 thread, or maybe just split this one..