THE GOOD:There are many great things about this game and I will try and sum everything up as best I can.
1. Has great visual art and pictures of its characters.
2. There are a load of new features added to this game. Such as collecting 101 harvest sprites, mini games, way more bacherlorettes, and much more.
3. Exciting at times and it just immediately sucks you in after playing and getting used to the game.
4. More buildings available to buy, you can basically create your own farm, and there are way more bacherlorettes.
5. It has a great story line, with having to save the harvest sprites and the harvest goddess this game may never get boring. It also unlike many other Harvest Moon games allows you to carry up to 99 of one item in your rucksack.
THE BAD:
Along with the good there is also some bads about this game.
1. Way too many glitches. That can get very annoying and even ruin your gaming experiences.
2. There is no horse races and frisbee shoots like there was in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. Without these there is basically no point in handling your dog and horse.
3. The cat that you start out with is useless.
4. Whenever you throw anything on the ground such as weeds, flowers, wild items, or ores your affection with any of the valley's villagers will fall drastically.
5. Whenever a sick animal dies many of the villagers will grow to hate you and all of your hard work in raising friendships with them will be ruined.
SUMMARY:
Harvest Moon DS is one of the greatest games that Natsume has ever released. This isn't even a biased opinion I have heard from many other people who have played this that they love it and it can't get any better. I do have to disagree with that though but only because of one thing. This game has way too many glitches but it makes up for it with all of its new features.
Harvest Moon DS is close to the 9th game of it's series made and it's one of the best! It may even be the best, well it is in my opinion. Harvest Moon DS was released late in September of 2006. It was an instant success and sold amazingly with all of it's great new features and it's amazing plot line.
The game starts out with a constant battle between a new villager added in it known as the Witch Princess and the vastly known Harvest Goddess. Things heat up between them and the Witch Princess flys away fleeing to the Harvest Pond to try and escape her annoying fiend. She is without luck and the Harvest Goddess appears to once again annoy the worst out of her. The Witch Princess decides with not allowing this to go on so she tries and stops it but only to her horror she sees that she's turned the Harvest Goddess to stone.
If you have ever played Harvest Moon: Magical Melody the Harvest Goddess is too turned to stone in that one and since that game was made before this one I think that may have had an affect on why they put it in this game.
The Witch Princess quickly realizes what she has done and she tries again this time but to turn her back and again she screws everything up. The Harvest Goddess disappears out of no where to what we figure out is another world distant from this one. She figures out to herself that if she doesn't quickly do something to get the Harvest Goddess back she will have no one to play around and have fun with. So again the Witch Princess ruins everything by too sending all 101 Harvest Sprites to the other world with the Harvest Goddess to maybe try and bring her back.
This little story starts you out and now you have a purpose to playing this game. You must free all 101 Harvest Sprites along with the Harvest Goddess. The only ways to bring them all back is to do a number of things.
They consist of farming your land by growing crops, grass, flowers, etc. Meeting villagers and making friendships with them. Raise the affections of 14 legible bacherlorettes and get married to one, of your choice. Have a child and watch it grow up starting from a Toddler to a Child and lastly to a Teenager. Other things to past the time are fishing, collecting wild items that will be spread around the valley, cutting weeds that will appear as days go on, and raise money from all your findings to buy cattle, sheep, and poultry to raise along with your farm. But before you can even think of buying these animals you will need to have enough money to build a barn, shed, or coop for the animals to stay in.
This isn't all that you can do in Harvest Moon DS. You can even raise enough money to build newly added features such as a Mushroom shed used to grow mushrooms, and a Maker shed used for many other things. Oh and I almost forgot along with other Harvest Moon games this game too allows you to dig for Jems, Ores, and other minerals in the mines. These mines include of one entrance room and four separated mines that you will have to unlock on your own. In two of these mines you can find a lonely and very sleepy mine girl named Keria who too was newly added in with this game. She had never before appeared in any other Harvest Moon games.
There are many, many other features that go along in Harvest Moon DS but it would take way longer to add them all into this Review and I don't want to spoil everything for you guys! I have tried and summarized this the best I could so that everyone who reads this has a distinct idea of the game and I hope you do try and enjoy it. It's really a great game and if you miss the chance to play it your really missing out on a lot. Never think of it as anything less then it is and just enjoy the game the best you can.
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