Product Description

So you've saved your homeland, lived a wonderful life, and rescued the Harvest Goddess, but can you put your green thumb to the test? Puzzle de Harvest Moon is a fast-paced, highly addictive puzzle game where you grow and harvest crops. Compete against you favorite Harvest Moon characters as you test your farming know-how!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15461 in Video Games
• Brand: Natsume, Inc.
• Published on: 2007-11
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .62" h x 5.16" w x 5.79" l, .25 pounds

Features

• A new type puzzle game, an original concept
• Utilizes the DS touch screen for all game play interaction
• Allows 4 players to play from a single card and a variety of modes of play

Customer Reviews

Obviously what you wouldn't expect from a harvest moon game
How would I even describe this game.

It's basically a race to see who can harvest the most from a square of soil.

You and your opponents have to use various items semi-randomly appearing in the list in the side to make the plants grow and harvest them.

When you plant seeds you gain possession of the square allowing you to gain a head start in the chance to harvest it when it ripens (based on other items applied to the square.)

You can of course steal each others squares, the first method being an Othello/Reversi like method, the second using the horse (one of the several animal options) that may be available from your list of usable items.

Even the beginner level computer players can be a little on the difficult side, and the pace is near frantic. This may discourage many younger players. Some player ages 13-19 may have trouble seeing past the "storybook appearance" to see there is an actual difficult and fun game. Of course, these are the same players that would have missed out on the fun of the other Harvest Moon games.

All in all, this is a very fun game, but it seems to have a drastically different game-play style than the other Harvest Moon games, and has obviously not had as much time invested in it. That's not to say it's not a good game, it's just to say don't expect a slow paced Farming Sim out of this game.

Don't buy this game
I love harvest moon and I love puzzle games.

So what could be best? a harvest moon puzzle game... it was like they made a game just for me... not!

this game sucks. what you have to do is take the stuff that scoll down on the side (like tetris), you will have a seed, a watering can, fertilizer bag or basket.

you have a board that's a garden. you are always playing against someone that's also using the same board.

you plant a seed and then water it twice and fertilize it twice and then it grows to a vegetable. then you have to rub it to "gather" the vegetable you just made.

your vegetable is only locked (meaning only you can rub it) for a few seconds than anyone you are playing against can rub it. well there are other things like animals show up on the tetris side bar thing that can mess you or your oppoent up.

i found it really hard to keep track of my vegetables because you don't want to put them too close together because when an animal shows up it could take up only a 2x2 square and if you have them close all your vegetables could be locked up. then you forget about vegetables because everything happens so fast so you just lost a batch.

what i figured out which is the only way i see winning the game is just rubbing the screen as much as possible, in hopes a vegetable from your opponets will unlock and you can grab it, since the AI sucks in this game, it's really easy to do that, I usually win by with double the next person score.

It gets really boring to just rub after a while, so it was only really playable for about 1 hours (20 minutes figuring how to play and win).

Do not get this game, there are a lot of other fun games out there, in fact why don't you just wait a month for the new harvest moon to come out.

Not much of a puzzle, very little Harvest Moon
I love puzzle games, and Harvest Moon. But this isn't much of either. The only good thing is that I didn't pay full price. Don't waste your money or time.