Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2007-04-13
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Number of items: 1

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

Hard at first, exciting then boring...
When I first got this game I didn't play on it much but when I got the hang of it I stated playing on it a lot more. You have to play on it a lot though to get far and when I got married and had a child on it it suddenly became a bit boring. I think this game is a good chill out game
because you can look after your animals, plant crops, dig in mines, cook and even play some mini games. I think that this game is for a girl or a boy who likes farming or just looking after animals.
13 months after my game got deleted. It is very easy for this game to get deleted...

love it!
I originally played this games on the playstation and i found it as addictive then as i do now. its a game that you find hard to put down. the graphics are good an so is the sound.

if u loved the playstation version you will love this. i reccommend u buy it without hesitation.

Harvest Moon=Awesome
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.