If you've been playing video games for quite some time now, you probably encountered a phase in your gaming career when assuming the role of a bad-ass hero, a professional athlete, or a martial arts champion seemed to be getting old. Sometimes, being normal is best, even in gaming.

Enter the Harvest Moon franchise: a game series dating back from the SNES days that lets you experience the peaceful lifestyle in rural areas. It isn't quite real life, but it certainly makes living in a farm look like fun. Never has milking cows, planting crops, and talking to vegetables in the middle of a field been so cool!

The franchise is continuing that proud tradition into the next generation of gaming with Harvest Moon: Tree of Peace. It contains a lot of the same elements that made the series, but drastic improvements in the visuals and innovations in terms of controls seem to breathe life into a line of games that has been around for more than a decade. We've got a gameplay video of the upcoming game's Troublesome Town and it's looking fun at this point.

Check out the main character as he interacts with the various townsfolk in the game - in the shop, in the lighthouse, and in the docks...