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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1790 in Video Games
• Brand: Natsume, Inc.
• Model: DSSVGG 719593100010
• Published on: 2006-09
• Released on: 2006-09-12
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .62" h x 5.01" w x 5.74" l, .25 pounds

Features

• 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!

Customer Reviews

great game
Some people below are not taking into account that not everyone has played all the harvest moon games. I haven't played a Harvest Moon game in a long time. I felt like I should hold out for a while and let the improvements collect a bit before purchases another one.

As far as the graphics go, I think it looks great. Not every game needs to be the latest and greatest 3d to look good. Everything is 2d, but it is beautiful 2d IMO. We didn't stop painting once we learned to sculpt.

The game seems to take all my favorite aspects from the different Harvest Moon games and lump them in together. I like variety in these games and this installment has variety in spades. There are plenty of animals for the farm (now we have ducks as well). There is a large selection of crops. In some of the previous game they cheaped out on the crop selection, which I think is a big mistake consider this is a farming sim. Cooking is around in this game, and there are a large variety of recipes to work out. I believe this is the most bachlorettes there has ever been in a game(if you link up with a mineral town game you get even more bachlorettes choices). Marriage is included as well as children. They have included harvest sprites as hired labor, which is nice consider the large amount of fields you are given. They are tons of improvements for your farm both cosmetic and functional. Structures can be built out of a variety of material giving it varying amounts of durability. If you spend alot of time adding buildings and add-ons to your farm is can get very large, which makes the harvest sprites a great blessing. Festivals are included in this game and I believe seem to happen at a greater interval. There is a casino as well in this game, which allows you to gain some useful items. Mining is back agian and has a large variety of items to unearth. You get a dog and cat at the start of the game and a horse later on. As in real life, the cat is worthless. It just lays around the farm. They should make it chase off mice or something. The only thing it's good for is impressing the girls. They all seem to love the cat. The dog if trained will chase away wild animals. The horse as usual is good for riding and has a pack to assist in harvesting. Almost every aspect of harvest moon has been magnified. Plus it's on a portable system, which is where I believe Harvest Moon belongs. The touch pad is used for all the game's menus.

If you haven't bought a Harvest Moon in a long time, then this is the one to get.

Really, really fun... but way to glitchy
I have only recently started playing the Harvest Moon games - the first one I played was "A Wonderful Life" for the GameCube, so of course I bought "Friends of Mineral Town" for the GBA. I bought this one about 2 weeks ago and I've been playing it a lot. There is so much to do! It is so much more addicting than the other 2 I've played.

The downside - and it is a major problem - is the glitches. I've had the game freeze on me several times. One of the latest freezes was when I just tried to talk to a character in the game, and instead of the touch screen showing him, it showed a toddler (what I assume would be the main character's future child - looked like the child in AWL) then froze. So I restarted from my last save and just didn't talk to that character, no problem. But then, I decided to save and quit, and the next time I wanted to load the game... nothing. The load screen gets all jumbled up and freezes. Now I will have to start over!

It is a very fun game, but some testing should have come across these issues! Game freezes are annoying, but saved data corruption is just painfully frustrating!!


EDIT (8/11/2009): Since the first (and last) file corruption incident, I have been alternating my saving between the two file slots. I haven't had another major issue. I don't even remember the game freezing anymore, and it is a fun game if you like Harvest Moon. I just hope Natsume does more thorough bug testing on future games.

Harvest Moon is Back
Harvest Moon DS* uses the top screen for most of the "going ons" and the bottom touch screen for the rucksack, TV, Items, ect. It brings the idea of an interactive game to a whole new Lv. You can now raise ducks, sheep and cows. Along with a horse, cat, and dog given to you at the beginning of the game. With a special tool you can use the stylus and the touch screen to brush and wash all the animals. This game also makes shopping easier. All you have to do is use your phone to place an order and bam, there it is. Overall, this game is similar to the HM for GBA but it had to many new features that it's a great buy,

*I imported Harvest Moon DS (for girl's) so the version I played was in Japanese but other than not knowing "main" conversations I can play it with out a problem.