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February 18, 2003

So while taking a break from working on the River King Advance 
page, I stumbled upon a Harvest Moon special feature page from 
gpara.com.  They have pages for AWL *and* FoMT. The AWL page 
covers pretty much what we already know; 30 years, 10 days a 
season, 3 girls, 40 characters, yadda yadda. The FoMT page has 
on it a new mini game though :) Besides the Chicken Sumo, Horse 
Race, and the Frisbee game, there appears to be some Harvest 
Sprite mini games!

>From what I can tell, it looks like you are in control of one of 
the Sprites. You have 60 seconds to complete the task given to 
you, but I don't know what happens if you win. Sorry, my 
translation skills aren't spectacular, but it looks like if you 
finish the games the Harvest Sprites' home(?) gets bigger. 
*Something* gets bigger anyhow...

Gpara special Bokumono page -
http://www.gpara.com/special/soft/bokumono_gc/ 

Besides the Gpara page, I found some new screen shots on 
eg.nttpub.co.jp. Unfortunatly their website went down soon after 
I saw them, but I did put up the 4 new screen shots on the 
http://www.fogu.com/hm4 site. If you'll notice, the last screen 
shot is of a woman name Luu, who wasn't in any previous version 
of Harvest Moon that I can think of. Looks like she's a new 
character :)

But wait, doesn't she look sort of like the drawing of the woman 
that we saw just the other day about AWL?

Mysterious woman artwork - 
http://www.gpara.com/special/soft/bokumono_gc/img/loo.jpg
AWL game screen shot - 
http://www.gpara.com/special/soft/bokumono_gc/img/gc1_pht2.jpg

So perhaps she travels from AWL to FoMT via the Gamecube/GBA 
link cable ;) or maybe it's even the other way around! Of course 
we won't know for fact until both games are released.

Until next time!

- Do you know why the cow jumped over the moon?
-- The farmer had cold hands!

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