Product Description

Harvest Moon DS is a new adventure is the popular, pastoral Harvest Moon setting. The Witch Princess conjured up a prank that went too far -- now it`s up to you to restore the magic of Forget-Me-Not Valley. Seek out all 101 Harvest Sprites as you plant fields, tend livestock and find the right wife to share your farming dreams. As you find the missing Harvest Sprites they can help with chores around the farm. Some might even unlock various activities or important information.

• Raise your own cows, sheep, chickens and ducks
• Plant and grow a variety of crops and trees
• New festivals, extensions, items and minigames
• Inserting your copy of Harvest Moon - Friends of Mineral Town or Harvest Moon - More Friends of Mineral Town into your Nintendo DS will unlock many surprises in Harvest Moon DS!
   

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1389 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2007-04-13
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Subtitled in: German

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

Manufacturer's Description:
Your farm in Forget-Me-Not-Valley is waiting for you - tend to the flocks, cultivate your own seed variants into the best produce available, explore different locations, hunt for hidden treasure or even fish in the river. Use the unique touch-screen on the Nintendo DS to raise and interact with the animals by petting and caring for them. In return the happy animals will reward you with higher quality milk, eggs and wool. The bottom screen on the DS displays the menu interfaces and status screens which can be easily navigated through using the Nintendo DS Stylus, whereas the second screen allows you to view a section of the town or farm in real time which is handy if you need to keep track on any mischievous animals that may have run away from the farm.

Planting seeds, harvesting crops in the right season and looking after your cows, chickens and sheep will help you in running a successful farm which in turn will help to release the Harvest Goddess and Harvest Sprites from the world that the Witch Princess has transported them to. Freeing and unlocking the Sprites is certainly a benefit to you as they will then help you with your daily farming tasks, and in return, leave you with more time to sit back and relax.

However if all that just sounds like too much hard work and all you want to do is enjoy the calm, relaxing and social aspect of living in Forget-Me-Not-Valley by building up relationships with up to 25 villagers through chatting to them and giving them presents, then Harvest Moon DS is still the game for you.

Customer Reviews

I'm losing touch with reality!
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

Soooo Amazing!!!!
Right before I start I have to say that you should totally buy this game if you are thinking of getting it! Its amazin! Anyway, you are this like boy and you run a farm on which you can grow crops get animals cook and loads more!!!!!! Oh yea n u can get married! it is so cool! If you guys like animal crossing you will absolutely love this! And even if u didnt like animal crossing you will stiil love this!! I used to play on animal crossing non stop but since i got this game i havnt played on animal crossing in months!
This is a great game and worth every penny!!! You have to get it!
Hope i helped !!!!!
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Harvest Moon=Hardwork and Fun!
I was really looking forward to buying this game and i wasnt let down!
It is really fun but you do need to work hard on your farm. After you have read the booklet and start growing crops and earning money the game gets eaiser and funner! There is the chance to buy horses,cows,chickens and sheep. At the begging you already have a dog and cat!
The only dissapointing thing about this game is the graphics and that you hardly use the bottom screen with the stylus. The graphics are OK but could be better. The only time you use the stlus is when you interact with your livestock and looking through yuor rucksack.
Overall a good game, its worth the money! Its good for all ages!