I have tremendous nostalgia for this game, it was the first one I owned in a series that became one of my favorites, but in all honesty it's a fairly weak and barebones entry even by the standards of the time. It's missing a fair amount of features, such as the entire cooking mechanic, that were in the PlayStation entry Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, which was remade for GBA as Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, which is also on the Virtual Console, so if you're itching for Harvest Moon on Wii U definitely buy that instead of this, it's a much better game.