Harvest Moon: Magical Melody

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
North American cover art for the GameCube
Developer(s)	Marvelous Interactive
Publisher(s)	JP: Marvelous Interactive NA: Natsume Inc. PAL: Rising Star Games
Director(s)	Tomomi Yamatate
Designer(s)	Yasuhiro Wada
Artist(s)	Igusa Matsuyama
Series	Story of Seasons
Platform(s)	GameCube, Wii
Release	November 10, 2005 GameCube JP: November 10, 2005 NA: March 28, 2006 Wii EU: March 14, 2008 AU: April 3, 2008 NA: August 25, 2009
Genre(s)	Role-playing, social simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (牧場物語 しあわせの詩 for ワールド, Bokujō Monogatari: Shiawase no Uta for Wārudo, "Farm Story: Song/Poem of Happiness for World") is a social simulation video game for the GameCube developed by Marvelous Interactive. It is an updated version of Bokujō Monogatari: Shiawase no Uta (牧場物語 しあわせの詩), which was released on March 3, 2005 in Japan. The updated GameCube version was released in the United States by Natsume Inc. on March 28, 2006.^[1]

A European release by Rising Star Games with Nintendo of Europe handling distribution was planned, but this release never saw the light of day.^[2] Instead, Rising Star Games commissioned an updated version for the GameCube's successor, the Wii instead, which was released on March 14, 2008, with Nintendo of Europe remaining as distributor.^[3] The Wii version was later released on April 3, 2008 in Australia, and in North America the following year on August 25, 2009. The game was not released on the Wii in Japan. The Wii version in all territories added motion-sensitive controls for actions such as fishing, mining and foraging^[4] but removed the option to play as a female character.

Besides Yasuhiro Wada, Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is the first entry without the involvement of the main developers from Victor Interactive Software.