Harvest Moon Forever: Island of Happiness and Tree of Tranquility Guides

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Island of Happiness and Tree of Tranquility Guides

My Island of Happiness Guides should be available online at IGN on the day that the game is released in the States, but I will not be able to write online guides for Tree of Tranquility as I accepted an assignment to write the Official Strategy Guide for Brady Games. That printed guide, the Tree of Tranquility Official Strategy Guide is available now for pre-order at a number of sites, including Amazon.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...: Ahh thats so awesome:) So then we'll definitely be seeing you name(or are you using a different alias?); July 25, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Freyashawk said...: I have requested that Brady give both my name and 'Freyashawk' as the author of the guide, but that is up to them.; July 29, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Anonymous said...: That's fantastic, Freyashawk! It's such an honor. I'm sure the ToT guide will be awesome. ^_^; July 29, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Anonymous said...: I'll definitely buy that! ^-^; July 31, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Anonymous said...: Awsome! I'll definitely buy the guide and convince my friends to buy it too! ^_^; August 4, 2008 at 3:09 AM
Freyashawk said...: Your support touches me! It is a good game and I think the guide is comprehensive. I never realised how long my online guides were, though, until I wrote a guide for print and was told that my guide was twice as long as most of the guides they published.; August 5, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Anonymous said...: I am so getting that! I totally love all of your guides and i can't wait to see your ToT game guide!!!; August 6, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Alyssa said...: I can understand that--I printed out one of your recipe guides once and ended up with about 60 pages of text! My parents nearly had a conniption fit when they saw that we were running a bit low on ink, toner and paper. :-)

It's worth it, though! There's nothing in any guide you write that I don't end up using. I will definitely be buyng the ToT guide along with the actual game, and I will be watching for the IoH guides!!! Thanks!; August 8, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Anonymous said...: So, just to clarify, you're writing the offical guide for ToT? As in, the one you buy in stores? If so, that is seriously sweet. I've been using your guides since I first got into Harvest Moon several years ago. You're really awesome, and I really appreciate all of the work you do. =); August 8, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Jadis said...: Awesome! Looks like I'll be out hunting for the guide sooner or later... *grins* Great job on getting it published though.

Oh, and sorry for the late response, but I'll tell you once I have my child with Skye. It's taking a bit longer than I'd have liked it to be though - the sprites are hard to get, even though I've gotten Skye to quite a high heart level.; August 9, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Freyashawk said...: Thanks, Kalypsocry. There does appear to be a glitch that is preventing some players from having a child with Skye. I'm still totally involved with IoH and struggling to have comprehensive guides on ALL aspects of that game before the release date of IoH, which now is set for 26 August.

ToT has been further delayed to September. And yes, the guide I wrote for Brady will be the 'official guide', available in book shops and places like Amazon. Unlike my internet guides, however, it has been edited by other people. Certain passages and bits were cut out of it, but that could be positive, I suppose. My internet guides are very long and tend to be quite personal. The official guide will be a little less 'personal' and more Americanised actually but Natsume is an American company after all, not a British one. I can't force my spelling and vocabulary on every one.; August 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...: I haven't had a problem with having a child with Skye...it hasn't been born yet but everthing seems normal so far...I hope this helps a little, and I'm really looking forward to buying ToT and your guide XD; August 13, 2008 at 1:13 PM

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As Freyashawk, I have written about 150 guides for games, most of which have been guides for Harvest Moon games. These are published on IGN. IGN has given me the title of 'Mistress of Harvest Moon' and I strive daily to earn the right to maintain that title. Although there is a link page on IGN that lists all the guides published there, they are not organised by game, but rather given in alphabetical order. I therefore created this page in order to provide links to the guides I have created for each Harvest Moon game. If you access the General Guide for any game, links should be included to all other guides for that game in a section at the end. I will try to add links to ALL guides as time permits, but until I do, you always can refer to my user page at IGN for the complete list.

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