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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Plan, design and build a custom farm
- Play Harvest Sprite Casino Games
- Marry a maiden, mermaid, witch or goddess
- Spend some hands-on time with your livestock and pets through innovative Touch Screen features
- Water and harvest an extensive variety of crops on your own or hire Harvest Sprites to lend a hand
- Court and marry local girls or invite over favourites from Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town!
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
While gentler games like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing: Wild World have become the best selling games on the DS, the Harvest Moon series has been ploughing very much the same field for nearly a decade now. As always the game starts with you inheriting a farm and most of the game revolves maintaining and growing your crops of vegetables and herds of animals. You have to work pretty hard at it too, planting crops, watering them and then harvesting them. Animals have to be watered and feed too, eggs collected from chickens, cows milked and sheep shorn.
Once you’ve tired yourself out with your daily chores though there’s a whole village to explore around you, as you collect wood to make new buildings or harvest fruit and other rare items to sell at the shop and expand your business. Your main goal in town though is to find yourself a sweetheart and woo her enough so that she’ll agree to marry you. As fun as all this is though it’s exactly how the Harvest Moon games have worked since the original SNES game and this version takes almost no advantage of the DS.
The touch screen is used merely as an inventory and as a means to pet your animals - other than that it’s almost entirely superfluous. Even worse, the graphics seem identical to a GBA game and not even a particularly good one at that, with some very poor animation. There are a few new features, such as a mini-casino run by the harvest sprites, but it’s not nearly enough to tempt you if you have one of the more recent GBA versions. If you haven’t though, it’s a reasonable, if unambitious, introduction to the series.
HARRISON DENT
Product Description
Get back to nature and live a happy life on the farm!Cross over to a brand new world!Fans of the Harvest Moon series will soon see that they're tilling familiar soil with the Nintendo DS version. Setting up your farmstead while maintaining relationships w
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I bought this game wondering what the fuss was about, now I am completely addicted and find myself planning what to do next when I'm away from my DS. It's quite slow to begin with but earning money is so easy. All you have to do is walk round town meeting people and picking flowers and fruits from the community gardens and deposit them in the transport bin. You can also find plenty of materials to pick to make your own buildings. Although the character's stamina is not very good until you upgrade your tools. (You have to gather material from the mine). Plant loads, get the sprite's working for you and the job's a good 'un. The instructions aren't very clear and to start with I felt a bit thrown in at the deep end but read the manual and with a bit of investigation through the net and reading people's reviews all over the place you soon pick it up. Excellent and highly addictive game. 5*'s
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
When I first got Harvest Moon I thought it was going to be a really broing game, completly based around farming and way too easy, but I am very pleased to say I was absolutely wrong.
1) It is definetly not boring, with hundreds of things you can do and even more you have to do it is impossible to say "there is nothing to do"
2) Similarly, Harvest Moon is definetly not completely based on farming. Yes, it's a farming game, but there is so much more to do. You can collect produce, mine, get a wife, help the sprites and so much more.
3)Harvest Moon is also quite challenging. in the first month or 2 when you are struggling for cash, it does get pretty hard, but once you get into the swing of things it does get slightly easier and you can focus on progressing in the game
Basically I think Harvest Moon is the best game there is for DS and anyone at all would enjoy it. You may think it's for babies, but just give it a go and I guarantee you will like it.
1) It is definetly not boring, with hundreds of things you can do and even more you have to do it is impossible to say "there is nothing to do"
2) Similarly, Harvest Moon is definetly not completely based on farming. Yes, it's a farming game, but there is so much more to do. You can collect produce, mine, get a wife, help the sprites and so much more.
3)Harvest Moon is also quite challenging. in the first month or 2 when you are struggling for cash, it does get pretty hard, but once you get into the swing of things it does get slightly easier and you can focus on progressing in the game
Basically I think Harvest Moon is the best game there is for DS and anyone at all would enjoy it. You may think it's for babies, but just give it a go and I guarantee you will like it.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game is fantastic.
There is always something going on,you start off trying to earn money and plant crops. Also you raise baby animals and you can marry and have childeren, but for an adventure there always has to be someone unhappy with what you're doing.The picture quality is good.I love this game and play on it every day. (From Mum: yes, but what about your homework?) So I give this game 5 stars
BUY IT ITS GREAT
By
Francesca Age:10 (A VERY happy kid) and with a little help from Mum
There is always something going on,you start off trying to earn money and plant crops. Also you raise baby animals and you can marry and have childeren, but for an adventure there always has to be someone unhappy with what you're doing.The picture quality is good.I love this game and play on it every day. (From Mum: yes, but what about your homework?) So I give this game 5 stars
BUY IT ITS GREAT
By
Francesca Age:10 (A VERY happy kid) and with a little help from Mum
Most Recent Customer Reviews
harvest moon nintendo game
fun and easy game to play, appears to run smoothly without complications, would be suitable for the younger age group, product arrived in timely manner,
Published 8 months ago by Linda Mary Sprous
Addictive and Fun!
Harvest Moon is a great game for teenage girls and boys. You start off my naming your character, your pets and what you want to call your farm. Read more
Published 15 months ago by BookWorm
Harvest moon
This game is great if you don't want something that requires fighting skills or is violent. Its fun, but in the way where you are living out the life of a farmer. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Camy
Harvest Moon Ninteno DS
A little frustrating to start with, not bad when you get going however it is long winded and the working days tend to fly past little too quick. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Queen Bee
Read this before you buy the game!
The GOOD: This game is REALLY good fun, and VERY addictive and I LOVE IT!!! You start off with a very basic farm and just a dog and a cat to keep you company and slowly you get to... Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by Ellie
not as bad as i thought!
So this is my 2nd attempt to review this product, as I decided to give it a second chance! My original review gave it 2 fun stars and 2 overall stars, so it has certainly been... Read more
Published on 13 May 2010 by Larewen Evenstar
Get it love it!!!
This game was the first harvest moon game i bought and i thought it was fantastic!!! when i first got i could stop playing but after a few months i stopped. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Eleanor Taylor
DS fun
Daughter is hooked, she loves the interaction of the game, the challenges and basically everything about it. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by Kiatora
Completely, Utterly, ADDICTIVE!!
Now this is a bit long but I can't help it cos its just SOOOO GOOD!
This is a game where you need to start from scratch and build your own farm. Read more
This is a game where you need to start from scratch and build your own farm. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2009 by WooHoooo
Stick with Animal Crossing, this is too much like hard work !
I bought this as a birthday present for my little cousin, who loved Animal Crossing (As do I!). I thought this would be a fun and similar to the sweetness of Animal Crossing... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2009 by Kate Allen
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