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    Text Box:   Harvest Moon (DS)   Harvest Moon, a series people either love or hate and now it's on DS. If you've ever played a Harvest Moon (HM from now on) game you'll know what to expect. Grow and sell crops, raise animals and try to find yourself a wife. However HM DS manages to stay true to the formula while adding a couple of new things. First off the Harvest Goddess has been banished by the rather foolish spells of the Witch Princess, as have 101 Harvest Sprites, little fellow that help you on your farm. Your quest is to bring back all the Harvest Sprites and the Harvest Goddess. This is mainly achieved through normal farming activity, shipping X amount of items will bring back Bob, having X amount of chickens will bring back Sam. Once a Harvest Sprite has been brought back, it can get to work on your farm helping you out. This does mean there is a way of seeing your progress throughout the game, whereas in previous Harvest Moons you played until you got bored and had accomplished the marriage. HM DS does utilise the touch screen. If you have Touch Panel Gloves equipped, when interacting with animals either talking/brushing/milking/shearing then you can use the touch screen to stroke the animals. While this can get tedious, you don't have to use the touch screen, you can just press the A button as normal. However if you put the work in by using the touch screen it will be more beneficial as their happiness will increase more, you can gather more milk/wool than by just pressing the button, sans "touching." For those who own HM: Friends of Mineral Town and are hoping for a bonus, you're in luck. By keeping the cartridge in the GBA slot, you will unlock new music, plus the HM:FOMT girls will actually turn up in the Valley and you have the opportunity to marry one of them rather than the new Valley girls. There are also new animals in ducks which are more productive chickens, but require a pond on your farm and also a cat, though the cat is completely useless as it can't chase off the wild dogs that your dog can. Also building construction is different. There are many more to build and are more expensive, meaning you will need to play longer to achieve everything. How the animals are housed also differs, you can have a maximum of 7 animal housing sheds, each housing 4 animals each. Bird sheds for birds and animal sheds for cows and sheep. So if you don't like the birds you can have a solely large animal farm without the wasted birdhouse. Overall it's a very fun game, though one not everyone would enjoy. If you have played HM games before and enjoy them, I'd recommend picking this up as it expands on the GBA version in a number of ways. If you dislike the HM games than this won't appeal to you anyway. By Quatters.     What you said about Harvest Moon

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Text Box: Graphics: B-   Sound: C-    Gameplay: B+   Overall: A-
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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