![]() One can harvest crops one of two ways: Baskets are provided to harvest your crops, but these are given at random, it seems. Your crops grow and eventually become ready to be harvested. For example, chickens can be used to eat up freshly sowed seeds, but, these animals can also be used against you in the same way. Animals are also provided to use to distract and prevent other players from tending their crops. ![]() As you farm using the tools provided, your crops will tell you what they need (water, fertilizer) with tiny graphic indicators. Each crop is colour-coded to denote which player owns which crop. Each player is given seeds, watering cans and fertilizer to use to tend to their crops these tools are provided at random. You play over the course of “four seasons” (or 4 to 8 minutes, depending on preference). It seemed relatively easy…You are given a plot of land you share with three other “players” (the Nintendo DS’s A.I. The first thing I did when I fired up the game was try out the in-game tutorial so I knew what I was up against. Puzzle de Harvest Moon is a strategy game, the objective of which is to compete against opponents to harvest as many crops as possible to gain the most points. The developers calling the game Puzzle de Harvest Moon was simply to make it sound exotic, I guess? Because, this game isn’t great and I suspect it needed a little sophistication to help get people to play it beyond adding Harvest Moon to the title. Well, people, it turns out, this game is in English. In any case, when I found the game yesterday, the hubs said I should take my DS out of cobwebs and see if there is an English option within. ![]() Addressing the latter concern around French, I haven’t read or spoken French in ages, and being surrounded by Anglophones doesn’t help, but I figure if there are subtitles in English, at least I should be fine. So, it has taken me a long time to be excited enough to go in and try any Harvest Moon. So you can guess how long I lasted with a game like Farmville (one week, tops)… Harvest Moon, I hear, is fun, but I assume similar. I have never liked having my life dictated to by a video game…that is unless I am getting paid to do so. Now, to address the former concern: in my mind, I equated Harvest Moon to Farmville a time-management-type farming simulator game where you have to adjust your personal life to log in, farm and harvest crops by making sure you water them on time or else risk your virtual livelihood. Oops! I should do something with this, I thought.įull disclosure on two counts: I have never played a Harvest Moon game before now, and it’s been a LONG time since I have delved into anything French (20 years). I was cleaning up my living room and discovered the cartridge in a catch-all basket under my side table yesterday along with three other DS games. A friend gave him a Nintendo DS game cartridge without a manual or case…He said to me, “Here…a French Harvest Moon game for you…” Um, thanks…? I stored the game away until this weekend. Last year, my husband returned from the Spring Waterloo Game Swap with a gift for me.
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