Game is basicaly an upgraded version of Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town on the Advance.
User Rating: 6 | Bokujou Monogatari: Colobocle Station DS
I was so looking forward to this game as I actually bothered to preorder it at EB games. I got it, and inserted it into my DS System, and I the first thing I noticed was how the main character looked exACTLY , no kidding EXACTLY the same, as the one in nintendo advance, there were no change or improvement in visuals at all. I started the game and immediately noticed the sound factor wasn't that great either, or rather the music.. wasn't that great. As the game intro rolled along, I was put into confusion.. although I had played Harvest Moon before, on Ps, Ps2, and gamebody Advance.. I have never been confused whatsoever by the intro, because it has always been straightforward, and easy to follow. The start of this game puts you in a WTF situation. After the Harvest Goddess, and the Witch square off, (at which point you should be thinking WTF?, what does THIS have to do with anything?) , AFTER they square off and the witch makes the Goddess disappear and all that stuff.. and you Actually BEGIN the game.. you still have no idea what the hell is going on.. there are almost no tutorials on how to do stuff, unless you ARE an already experienced Harvest Moon player. I explored the town and quickly found that although the backgrounds and visuals HAVE improved a SLIGHT bit.. they are still graphics which you can put on a gamebody Advance game. The characters are dull, immiedietly, in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, you start to like characters, because they are presented well, and have good dialogue to them. The girls are cute and you would actually think about which girl to pick as your wife. But in Harvest Moon DS, you wouldn't actually want any of the girls to be your wife, now there is the option of plugging in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town into your DS, which makes the girls from that game go to the DS version of the game when you are playing, but if you choose to marry them, your game immiedietely ends because you have to move to mineral town. Seriously I've played this game for about 5 hours now.. and I am already so sick of it.. there is seriously NOTHING new to the game at all, the cute presentation of taking care of animals is really the only thing that uses the touchscreen.. but other than that, and the shift in scenery, its basically the same game as the gameboy Advance version, only worse. If your a Harvest Moon fan, rent this game first, before buying it. Don't want anyone to waste money on this game..
