Harvest Moon DS Cute is a customized version of Harvest Moon DS, which now has content only for girls. The original title is the first in the farm simulation series developed by Marvelous Interactive and published by Nintendo exclusively for the DS handheld consoles. The game was released in Japan on the 17th of March 2005, the 12th of September 2006 in the United States, the 13th of April 2007 in Europe and the 7th of June in Australia.
The first game is the counterpart to Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, a GameCube title. It takes place in Forget-Me-Not Valley, 100 years after Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Unlike the previous games in the series, which create new characters based on old ones, those in Harvest Moon: DS are exactly the same as the ones in A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.
The story of the game mirrors that of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody for the GameCube. The Harvest Goddess has been petrified and sent to another world by the Witch Princess and it is up to the player to restore her. In Magical Melody, this is done by collecting magical music notes, but in Harvest Moon: DS, the player must find and rescue the Harvest Sprites from the other world by doing various tasks. Once the player finds 60 sprites, the goddess will be revived.