Harvest Moon DS review

Addictive and cute – Harvest Moon has been a hugely popular game on other platforms – how does the quirky farming-sim translate to the DS? Will your farms be as fabulous, your animals as adorable on the pocket sized screen? We think they will – in fact we think it’s a great addition to your DS game collection. Read our review to find out why. Click here to read the full Harvest Moon DS review now!

Harvest Moon DS review
Let’s face it, the Harvest Moon games are all pretty similar. After all, there’s only so many ways you can sow seeds, brush horses and milk cattle. But upon first glance Harvest Moon DS bears such an uncanny resemblance to GBA title Friends of Mineral Town, you’d struggle to tell them apart. Graphically, it’s near identical, and the music and spot effects hardly push the DS sound chip. Even the touchscreen is initially limited to mere menu navigation. Yet after your first hour’s play, just try putting your DS down. You can’t. Harvest Moon has got its hooks into you once more.

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