Harvest Moon Forever: Harvest Sprite Teams

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Harvest Sprite Teams, Enchantments and Wild Animal Gifts

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Island of Happiness and Sunshine Islands are similar in many respects and yet, every Harvest Moon game is unique. The large number of Subsidiary Characters who pursued various traditional activities in Island of Happiness do not exist in Sunshine Islands. Instead, different Harvest Sprite Teams, much like those found in HM DS and Cute DS live on Harvest Sprite Island and can be persuaded to 'help' your Character in specific circumstances.

In Sunshine Islands, Harvest Sprite 'help' is given through 'Enchantments'. You must speak to Coral, a Member of the officiating Red Team, to organise any Enchantment. You can order more than one Enchantment at any given time and 'hire' more than one Team. As the old Latin Legal Maxim succinctly declares, however, 'Qui sentit commodum debit et sentire onus', loosely translated as: 'Who knows a benefit must know its burden'.

The 'burden' or 'price' in this case is the necessity for the Harvest Sprites involved in any Enchantment to take a rather long rest afterwards. While any Harvest Sprite is resting, you will not be able to interact with him or her.

Yes, that is another new twist to Sunshine Islands: Some Harvest Sprites are male and others are female. (One wonders if there are secret Harvest Sprite romances on Harvest Sprite Island!)

Harvest Sprite gender, like Harvest Sprite dialogue, simply is one of those very intriguing but non-significant aspects of Sunshine Islands.

Those players who truly love Harvest Moon usually love the dialogues that can be discovered at new heart levels or seasons or in special circumstances.

For example, whenever you hire Seiran, a member of the Indigo Team, to increase Friendship Levels at Carol's Inn, you will be able to experience dialogue that is much like the Wizard's Fortunes in Animal Parade.

Seiran: Freya, Mark said you and he share the same dream!!
Seiran: Freya, Dr. Trent only thinks of you as some one he meets during his travels!!
Seiran: Freya, Carol only sees you as an old customer!!
Seiran: Freya, I think you understand Lily better than anybody!!

Note that these dialogues occur randomly, so you may be obliged to speak to Seiran many times before you experience all of them.

Every Sprite has his/her own unique dialogue. Whenever a new Sprite is brought to the Island, you will experience a special little Event entitled 'New Friend'. You will be advised that a new Sprite has arrived on the Island, but you will not be told his/her identity either by name or by team. You must search for the new Member or Members and speak to him/her to introduce yourself before that Sprite will be added to the Sprite list on your Friendship Page or be available for Enchantments.

Note that a Gift to one Member of a Team is a Gift to the entire Team and that Friendship Levels are raised (or lowered) collectively. The traditional Gift of Wheat Flour is a Favourite with all Harvest Sprites on every Team, but each Team has specific likes and dislikes. You will find all details about the Harvest Sprite Teams, their likes and dislikes and their dialogues, in my Sunshine Islands Characters Guide.

Enchantments are of different potency, determined by size. Whether you can order a 'Small', 'Medium' or 'Large Enchantment depends on the number of Members of the specific Team that are living on Harvest Sprite Island. With 1-3 Sprites, you cannot order anything larger than a 'Small Enchantment'. You can, however, split the Team, assigning 1 Member to one Enchantment and another to a different Enchantment. I suggest always that players keep one Member of any Team unemployed in order to be able to continue to interact with that Team while other Members 'rest'. Otherwise, you can find yourself in a position where you cannot raise Friendship Levels of that Team for up to 10 days as a 'resting' Sprite or Sprites will not be accessible to you. I certainly never have been able to enter the Hut where they rest...

Another new aspect of Sunshine Islands is the ability to 'hire' Wild Animals with three Hearts or more to forage for items for you. Each type of Wild Animal will find a different sort of item. The actual items that they bring back on any day will be chosen randomly but higher Friendship Levels give a better chance of obtaining rare or valuable items.

These items, incidentally, are 'loaded' into the game at 6.00 a.m. when you awaken and not when you speak to Cherry to obtain them. If, therefore, you would like a chance to obtain different items, you need to save your game at 5.50 a.m. or prior to that, visit Cherry immediately at 6.00 a.m. to see what the animals netted for you and, if you are dissatisfied, reload back to the previous day.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Sprite Dance Parties

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Both in the original HM DS and in HM Cute DS, when you have rescued all 12 members of any Sprite Team, you will be invited to a Sprite Dance Party.

You must attempt to leave your house after 10.00 p.m. in order to initiate the event. It will not occur in bad weather so if it is raining or snowing on the day when you rescue the final member of the Team, the event will be postponed until the next day.

It is rather a charming event. The music, in particular, is absolutely delightful, reminding me of Renaissance formal dances. You will find yourself in the centre of a circle of Sprites and they, in measured steps, will perform a rather intricate dance. You will be thanked formally by the Sprite Team Leader and only regain control of your character the next morning.

It is suggested therefore that you save your game either before you ENTER the house after 10.00 p.m. (in case you forgot any chores that require you to be outside your house) or after you enter the house after 10.00 p.m. as when you awaken the next day after the Sprite Dance, the weather forecast for the following day will be set. If you saved your game BEFORE the Sprite Dance event, you will be able to reload to change the weather...

You will gain points towards your Farming Degree when you attend a Sprite Dance Party as well as whenever you rescue any Harvest Sprite. In most cases, you need not perform any exceptional action in order to rescue Harvest Sprites, but simply perform all your usual chores a specific number of times. There are a few Sprites who are rescued by performing peculiar actions, such as casting your Fishing Rod into your Watering Hole or into the Hot Spring... or by pressing A in front of an object. These are the exceptions rather than the rule. Essentially, most Sprites are rescued when you water a specific number of squares, catch a specific number of fish, chop a specific number of branches or stumps, smash a specified number of stones or boulders, upgrade specified tools, pet, brush or wash a designated number of animals, collect a specified number of bottles of milk and so on...

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