Is there a master romancer for only each species, or for each derivative of each species?

For example, do I need master romancer for all colors of flutterscotch, ot any on the colors will do?

Romancing the variants doesn't get you anything extra, however, mating the new species does. The Flutterscotches are considered different species, and therefore, you can get Romancer and Master Romancer with each.

The only bad thing is that when they mate, they just make a white one (must suck to *always* get albino kids), so you have to feed them the appropriate flower to turn them.

How do you "level up" your garden? Someone mentioned it but mine's the same size as it was in the beginning. Any insight would be appreciated.

Mine just happened. I believe the crazy old guy wheeld out and said I was a master gardener and gove me a bigger plot. I am not sure at what level it happened, but I think I read online it was about 11. Have you planted a bunch of different species?

Yeah, I meant mating/roamncing same thing. Make 'em do the naughty dance. Man, getting master romancer will take forever if you have to do it that way.

So I need to mate blue flutterscotches, have 5 additional in my garden at the same time (all blue?)?

I must be close. I hit Level 10 earlier today.

This game would be perfect on a handheld. Like other games like it (Nintendogs, etc.) it works better in multiple short bursts through the day as opposed to a big marathon.

You level up your garden by doing positive things for it.

You can watch your leveling up with the petals around the clock. Each time the petals are all lit up, you gain a level. As you get higher, some petals have blue dots,as the petals all get filled up each time, a dot disappears. When all dots are gone, and the petals are all filled up again, you gain a level.

You'll know you gained a level when leafos tells you your garden is improving.

Each new species that visit gives you a boost.
Each new species that enters your garden gives you a boost.
Each new species that becomes a resident gives you a boost.
Mating two of a species for the first time gives you a boost.
Mating a species five times to get master romancer gives you a boost.
Finding variants and new species from existing species gives you a boost.
Growing flowers and trees gives you a boost.

There are a ton of things that give you experience to gain levels.

I'm currently level 36 or 37 I believe.

That's exactly correct. This is how I did it, and it didn't take an awfully long time to do all the colors.

1. Get two White Flutterscotches and turn them into the same color (blue, pink, whatever)
2. Have them mate to get the Romancer award.
3. Continually buy more White Flutterscotches from Gretchen using the express service. Also, have Daisies in your garden so that other visiting Flutterscotches will become residents. As soon as you get a new one, turn it into the appropriate color.
4. Once you've got the Master Romancer for that color, sell off all but one of them. If you have 3 differently colored Flutterscotches in your garden, you can attract a

Hope that helps.

Wow, this game is very addicting. I just started tonight and played for like 3 hours straight. I've just been tinkering with things but I have found that in the short time with the game I have been running out of room between houses, plants and pinatas.

Question though.... My wife is very interested in the game. Is it possible to have two seperate gardens on the same Xbox? The game said something about sharing level/money or something like that? I don't want to screw up what i've started by tinkering around with it if it doesn't work like that. Any help would be appreciated!

I'm pretty sure you can. If nothing else, just set her up a seperate gamertag. My wife and I both have our own gamertags and gardens.

Yup that is what I did, I have a 2nd gamertag for the 2nd garden.

I was thinking about selling off everything in one garden and just grow cash crops, and use another garden for pinatas.

Can you carry cash over from one garden to the next??

yup, if you start a new garden under the same profile, you bring the cash with you. So each profile has only 1 bank that is used for all gardens.

That is definitely good to know. I started a new profile for my wife on the Xbox. It's sad... I never realized that multiple profiles could utilize multiple saves!

Definitely. It's worked that way across every game my wife and I have both played.

Heh... probably never knew because my wife doesn't really play that many games. Now that I know about this though I can let her play Lego Star wars without having to worry about my save

I'll probably have to pick this up after the holidays. I watched the preview on my xbox and it looks like loads of fun.

There is a free gamer pic up in the market place. Only catch it's only up for 2 days, get it while it lasts.

damn you Dragon Fly - your stupid review made me go get this stupid game. God I love it. I just got access to the mail lady so I'm WAY early. but it's pretty damn cool

yeah, I picked it up over the weekend. Pretty cool. How do you check what level you are?

Ummm... not sure. In the journal maybe? I know I am over 10 because I got that acheivement.

When you hit X to go into the menu, there should be a number kind of in the lower left-hand portion of the screen. You can also check your level in the Journal somewhere as well.

Thanks. The game throws so much at you so early and so fast. It is definitely more challenging than I thought it would be.

The game is fun but I've sort of hit a wall. I can't get any new species to come and all I can breed is those stupid worms, which get eaten. After a while I can sell a couple of them and make 400 bucks but by then I've probably spent that money on healthcare or a few vegetables.

I feel like I'm playing Ayiti: The Cost of Life.

I found myself just slowly working my way up the food chain. Breed the worms to get Master Romancer. Then start on sparrows and fudgehogs. Now i'm working on mice, frogs, and flies. I'm ignoring the newts for now.

I did have a horse wandering the outside of the garden and really wish i could figure out how to entice him into the thing and get him - he looked cool.