Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town 2003

Is it still worth playing?

Marvelous Interactive's 2003 farming simulation for the Game Boy Advance, in which you inherit a neglected farm in Mineral Town and set out to restore it. The farm is a chain of work. You start with a few tools, earn money by clearing the field, planting crops, mining or foraging, and spend it on livestock and a bigger farm. The animals then add milk, wool and eggs, shipped and sold along with crops and flowers. The town is the other half. Villagers grow fonder of you as you talk to them and give gifts, and six bachelorettes can be married, after which you can have a son. A routine where each day's work builds on the last still gives every season its own goals today.