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Amazon Minimum Age: 60 monthsBinding: Video Game Brand: Natsume, Inc. EAN: 0719593100072 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Item Dimensions: Label: Natsume, Inc. Manufacturer: Natsume, Inc. Model: NDS10007 MPN: 10007 Platform: Nintendo DS Publisher: Natsume, Inc. Release Date: August 26, 2008 Studio: Natsume, Inc. Features:
Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: You're shipwrecked! Luckily no one was hurt and most of the passengers set sail for their destinations, but you found an abandoned homestead on a remote island. With hard work and skillful farming, you will prosper and help your adventurous shipmates establish a new village with roads, bridges and exciting places to visit. There's a lot of farming to do, people to date and animals to care for. It's a new beginning and a chance to raise a farming family of your own. Amazon.com: In Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness players' plans to start a new life are drastically changed when the ship you are on is destroyed by a tropical storm. Now you find yourself stranded on an isolated island with a family of four from the ship. However, it seems that the island once was inhabited before…what happened to the people that used to live there? As you develop the island by growing crops, taking care of animals and expanding your farm, others will start to move onto the island and this mystery may be solved. The better you do, the more the island will grow. Though it was not your original dream, now is your chance to create your very own paradise.
Working with your fellow refugees, your first order of business is to create a farm. With what you grow you will soon be able to feed yourself and your fellow castaways and eventually will graduate to raising animals (some of the animals included are: cows, sheep, chickens and ducks). As you build up your farm, people who have an interest in the farming business move on over to the island and seek you out. These people open up shops and facilities, contributing to the island's development, and provide you with new areas to explore and new people to speak with. Getting Married What good is paradise without someone to share it with? Once players have established themselves on the island by building and maintaining a farm and successfully raising animals on their homestead they will begin to notice that there are quite a few more people on the island than they initially suspected. Like yourself, many of these new faces are looking for someone to share their lives with. In addition to success on the farm, marriage also requires a few other requirements, but once satisfied you are free to play the field, go on dates and search available profiles for that special someone. But be careful. You will not be compatible with everyone you meet. Just a few or the bachelors and bachelorettes you will run into are:
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Solid addictive game but pure time wasterLike many of the reviewers that gave average scores, I'm a veteran HM player. I've played Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness for over fifty hours now and have been quite disappointed. It's addictive, but it's no fun and frustrating. Pros: 1. Includes both boy and girl main characters in one game. Huge plus. 2. Use of touch controls compared to HM DS. People complain about frustrating controls, but one just needs to get used to it. Note that you can use the D-pad/buttons ... Read More Rating: - A game you've played before only longerI've played nearly every Harvest Moon game on every system and this one is by far my least favorite. The main reason for this is that, in my opinion, the game doesn't really add any enjoyable elements to the series but instead places restrictions on all your activities to make them take longer to accomplish. For example, many of your crops are locked and won't be available until the second year comes or you ship a certain number of crops (likely accomplished your 3rd year or later). Does making it take ... Read More Rating:  - The Ultimate Harvest Moon Challenge'Island of Happiness' may be the ultimate challenge for players of 'Harvest Moon'. Your character can be either a boy or a girl. Having two slots for two different games allows you to play each gender independently on the same cartridge. Although the basic landscape and characters are the same for both genders, obviously candidates for marriage differ completely. This means that you effectively have two games in one when you buy IoH. In fact, rather than having only 4 possible 'Heart Events' for each ... Read More Rating: - A Great game!5 stars=great, 4 stars=good, 3 stars=fine, 2 stars=poor, 1 star=horrible Ill start with the controls. U can only control the character with touch screen. 4 **** Sound(music): The sound is good and not annoying. I dont find it being repetitive. 5 ***** Gameplay: There is tons of stuff to do. U can fish, mine,cook, do house upgrades, huge selection of stuff to build and buy. 5***** Graphics: Nothing wrong with graphics. Reminds me of HM Magical Melody. ... Read More Rating:  - fun and easyI have had this game for about a week and my person is already married and has a kid, I am 14 and this game was fairly easy for me, the only hard part was getting all of the people. Making money in the game is easy, and so is marriage. This game is fun and I think it has a really great layout, and although the person is somewhat a challenge to control, the overall game is fun and but sometimes confusing. |
