Harvest Moon Forever: Tree of Tranquility

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Stern Warning about Tree of Tranquility

Although it is frustrating to be prohibited from publishing an internet guide myself for 'Tree of Tranquility' as I wrote the Official Strategy Guide for BradyGames, it is not right for players to copy information from my guide to send to IGN or other internet sites for publication!

Is it too much to ask in view of all the free internet guides I have written and posted that players refrain from plagiarising the one printed guide I wrote?

I obviously believe in giving as much access to information as possible to players but it is rather shameful when some one copies the guide verbatim and then sends it out for publication under their own name.

Well, I am not going to belabour the point...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Updated Changes in Tree of Tranquility

Changes from the builds on which the Official Strategy Guide is based and the final retail version now have been confirmed to include the following:

1. Raw fish no longer is available at the Fish Shop. Pascal sells only 'grilled' fish;
2. Decent Cocoons no longer can be purchased from the Brownie Ranch. This does not negate the exploitation I discovered but makes it a little more difficult as you must have silkworms of your own to spin the Cocoons. There still is profit to be made using your own Cocoons by transforming them into Silk Thread, then using Blue Herb to dye them to create the product with the highest shipping value.
3. From what I have been told, Wool no longer can be purchased from the Brownie Ranch either.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Tree of Tranquility Official Strategy Guide

I finally have a copy of the Official Strategy Guide that I wrote for Tree of Tranquility... I have included a photograph of it here, although the quality of my camera is less than professional.

I see now why the editors considered it to be a very long guide. It is dense, as are all my guides... I only hope it is as comprehensive.

As always, I will be more than happy to answer game questions from players.

Like every one else, I am waiting for the game to be released in order to be able to purchase a copy for myself. I really miss the Island in ToT now, although there was a point where I had worked so hard and long on the Guide that I almost did not wish to look at it again. Fortunately, Harvest Moon games always are compelling enough to call players back to them and 'Tree of Tranquility' is no exception. After my child in ToT was born, I was able to start a 'next generation' game with him as the main character, but was not able to pursue it long enough to marry.

ToT is one game where a player can choose the gender of his/her child in a wonderful ritual wherein, after the announcement of pregnancy, you and your spouse make a prayer to the Harvest Goddess at the local Church. As I suggest in the Guide, you therefore may wish to choose a child of the opposite gender, giving yourself the chance to play both as a girl and as a boy, as the game 'ends' with the opportunity to play a new game with your child as the main character. (The game need not end at all, if you do not wish to choose this option.)

Enough said here. Take a look at the Guide if you would like more details about every aspect of Tree of Tranquility. It now is available at Amazon, which is where I ordered it myself.

Note: I have written about this in another post, but please be advised that the final retail version of the game does not allow you to purchase raw fish from Pascal at the Fish Shop. You only can purchase Grilled Fish of various sorts. There is some question as well about the availability of the Decent Cocoons at the Brownie Ranch. In the builds I played they could be purchased, along with Good Wool, once unlocked.

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.

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For all Harvest Moon fans and players

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.

I wrote the Official Strategy Guide for Tree of Tranquility for BradyGames as well.
Harvest Moon Forever!

How to Use my Guides

I write three different basic types of game guides. I usually write a General Guide for every game, which is fairly comprehensive and deals with all aspects of the game. It may or may not be in the form of a Walkthrough, dealing with game aspects as they occur. My Innocent Life General Guide is an example of a General Guide that is organised as a Walkthrough.

After writing a General Comprehensive Guide, I often write a Calendar Guide giving birthday and festival dates, with additional information that may be helpful, such as favourite gifts for each individual. For all Harvest Moon games, I usually write a number of 'mini-guides', such as Events Guides for each year of gameplay, or Recipe Guides that give all recipes one can make. Fishing, Mining, Shipping or Item Value Guides are other mini-guides that can be very useful when playing Harvest Moon. Character Guides give detailed information about every character in any specific game. My Courtship and Marriage Guide is devoted to all aspects of Courtship and Marriage, including schedules of Heart Events, Rival Heart Events and the likes and dislikes of every Eligible Girl and/or Bachelor.

Although this site is devoted to Harvest Moon, I have included links to game guides for other games. I created a separate link section for Animal Crossing Wild World as well, because I wrote more than one guide for that game.

N.B. All my game guides are published by IGN. This webpage has been created simply to allow players to find links to all my guides more easily.

Copyright Infringement Warning

It is really sad to discover that there are individuals who are willing to steal my guides and to attempt to publish them under their names. Fortunately, there are many players who recognise my guides when they see them anywhere on the internet and who are willing to alert me when some one tries to steal my material. I want to thank all those players for their help in these cases.

Some one stole one of my guides and tried to publish it on Gamefaqs under his/her name. The guide has been removed and the poster has been banned. I now have a contact in the Legal Department at CNet. I spend many months sometimes writing a guide. They are available for the private use of any individual without cost, but they are not available for theft!
If you want permission to include a link to one of my guides on your site, please contact me directly.

Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town

You will notice that I wrote far more guides for More Friends of Mineral Town than I did for the original 'Friends of Mineral Town'. At some point, I would like to publish more specific Events Guides for Friends of Mineral Town, but players should be aware of the fact that ALL Calendar Events Guides for MFoMT can be used when playing the original FoMT. The Events are the same in most cases in both games. If, therefore, you are playing FoMT and you wish to know the events that can be experienced in the third year of gameplay, refer to the 'Third Year Calendar Events Guide' for 'More Friends of Mineral Town'.