HARVEST MOON (NINTENDO DS) IN SOUTH AFRICA

Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS) Platform: Nintendo DS Condition: New Other versions of this game available from us: Platform: Pre-Owned/Used: Very Good Condition copies available Product Information Plan, design and build a custom farm Play Harvest Sprite Casino Games Marry a maiden, mermaid, witch or goddess Spend some hands-on time with your livestock and pets through innovative Touch Screen features Water and harvest an extensive variety of crops on your own or hire Harvest Sprites to lend a hand Court and marry local girls or invite over favourites from Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town! Product Description Get back to nature and live a happy life on the farm!Cross over to a brand new world!Fans of the Harvest Moon series will soon see that they're tilling familiar soil with the Nintendo DS version. Setting up your farmstead while maintaining relationships w 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 youve tired yourself out with your daily chores though theres 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 shell agree to marry you. As fun as all this is though its 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 its 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 its not nearly enough to tempt you if you have one of the more recent GBA versions. If you havent though, its a reasonable, if unambitious, introduction to the series. HARRISON DENT