Thursday, December 3, 2009

Secrets of the Kappa in Harvest Moon

Although there are far more important aspects of Animal Parade to cover still, I couldn't resist the opportunity to deal with traditional mythology in Harvest Moon, one of my favourite subjects. Here is a little video about the Kappa as he appears in FoMT, MFoMT, Harvest Moon Boy & Girl and Animal Parade.



There was another old GBA game that featured the Kappa. I seem to recall that you could catch him and force him to give you special items in the form of weapons and armour. If any one can remember which game this was, post a comment. It may have been 'Lunar Legend' but I am not certain...

2 comments:

Cali said...

He also is in the PS 1 version, Back To Nature. The red sprite tells you he likes cucumbers, but it doesn't make much sense because he just bursts out with that little bit of information without telling you where the kappa resides. However if you throw a cucumber into the place by the waterfall near where you find the harvest goddess, he comes up.

Freyashawk said...

Cali, the 'boy' version of Harvest Moon Boy & Girl essentially IS the old 'Back to Nature' game. Obviously, FoMT and MFoMT are somewhat based on the same game as well. By FoMT, the dialogue of the Harvest Sprite had been modified to mention that it was the KAPPA who loved Cucumbers!