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For anyone not familiar with the Harvest Moon world, it's really very simple.
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Now that we've revisited the game playing as a girl in Cute, it's really like taking a step back to a year and a half ago, and wishing for more from the series all over again. It's simply the fact that we've already farmed these crops, cared for these sheep, and lived in this world. In fact, at no point in playing through Harvest Moon DS was the game boring, broken, or uninspired.
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Add that time together with the year and a half it took to bring the game to America from Japan, and you've got a game that simply misses its window on the DS platform, though it has very little to do with the entertainment factor, and far more to do with the overall presentation. In short, Harvest Moon DS feels like a game that's three years too late (now nearly five, if you count Cute as a true sequel), as it combines every nuance of the GBA version along with every downside of a freshman DS effort. In addition, we now find ourselves nearly two years later on DS still waiting for the true Harvest Moon experience, and Harvest Moon DS Cute isn't exactly what we've got in mind.
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As we caught the first visuals of the game in action, however, it became abundantly clear that the game wasn't exactly what we saw in our mind's eye, as Harvest Moon DS is literally an updated version of the GBA engine, offering very little software support to the DS hardware. So when the opportunity for a Harvest Moon title on DS arose, it's no surprise fans again went nuts, awaiting a far more intuitive world, now manipulated with their finger tips. In short, the game managed to truly hit the mark, delivering a self-contained world where you yourself dictated the direction of your own life.
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As the top portable Harvest Moon title (and for some, the best in its series, period), the Game Boy Advance's Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town set the standard five years ago, delivering a graphical presentation that rivaled the days of Super NES, while adding in a ton of elements into the mix, such as a full town to explore, tons of animals and plants to raise, a family system, and countless yearly events to participate in.
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On Cube, Harvest Moon has shown players a world of realism with Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, only to then take a more stylistic approach to the world (seemingly inspired by Animal Crossing, as well as older Harvest Moon titles from years passed) with Magical Melody.įor portable fans, Harvest Moon increases its wealth in steps rather than bounds, adding a feature here, new characters there, though continuing to keep the style more simplistic and straightforward. And yet, while the console versions have propelled into the 3D realm, allowing players to truly dive into the world both on a more visual and cinematic level, the handheld versions have stayed relatively static as technology has progressed. Even still, the franchise has managed to grow and evolve over the years, adding feature after feature to the general play mechanic in an attempt to truly deliver a fully comprehensive farming RPG. With that being said, you won't find too many changes to both the core game, or to our initial review of Harvest Moon DS.ĭebuting nearly two decades ago, the world of Harvest Moon has filled an otherwise undiscovered niche, combining familiar role playing elements to one of the most unsuspecting game genres out there farming. Harvest Moon DS now stars a female lead, offers potential husbands rather than wives, and changes the story up every so slightly to gear the same overall game to girls, rather than boys.
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Harvest Moon DS Cute, like the "More Friends of Mineral Town" on GBA, is essentially a girl version of the game core Harvest Moon experience already offered. Before we dive into the world of Harvest Moon once again, a quick editor's note is needed.