I am a follower of farming games even in Facebook. As for the Nintendo DS platform, I have played Harvest Moon in all its variations and I also played Rune factory. After Harvest Moon: Island of Happines comes Harvest Moon: Sunshine Island. Natsume really chose joyful names for the Harvest Moon titles.
For those who haven't tried playing Harvest Moon Nintendo DS games or Rune Factory, you may find Harvest Moon: Sunshine Island monotonous, repetitive and boring. Basically, you start for first timers and just like other Harvest Moon games, with a plot of land that is covered with weeds, rocks and logs. Your job is to clear it out and plant crops to make money and in general improve your farm. There are four seasons with 30 days in each, and you plant crops according to the seasons, water these crops and harvest them when the time is right.
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But it is not all planting, you have to collect sun stones to open up new islands. To name these islands, you can have the Volcano Island where you can mine. another is the Animal Island in which you can feed wild animals that will collect resources for you. There's plenty to do, some of which will net you sun stones: You can chop wood and use it to upgrade your farm (with such upgrades as a chicken coop, a barn and a kitchen), befriend the residents, raise new islands by collecting sun stones, get married, obtain animals for your farm to take care of and collect resources from, cook, collect recipes, fish, mine, enter festivals and a lot more. These things do take time, but if you plan right you can steadily improve your farm and find new things to occupy your time on the islands.
Whew, that's a lot to do. But the game play can be slow during winter time when you cannot plant crops. Therefore, winter is a pretty good time to go fishing and mining, since these both use up stamina that would otherwise be used farming. There are 143 fish to catch, and whether you catch a lot of different fish depends on how often you fish, what time of day you are fishing and your location. The actual act of fishing is basically just waiting for an exclamation mark to appear over your character's head and quickly pressing the "Y" button, but in a way it's still fun.
Okay, enough talk. You can download Harvest Moon: Sunshine Island for free to get a feel of what I mean.
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