Harvest Moon Hints (DS)

As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The local mine can be used to extract the needed material to upgrade their farming tools.

But things will only become more complicated, as the Harvest Goddess has been turned to stone and banished. Gamers will have to bring her back to "Forget-Me-Not-Valley" by finding all the 101 Harvest Sprites.

They'll be able to choose one of the 14 potential brides, including a mermaid and the ones from "A Wonderful Life Special Edition." Harvest Moon DS also features some casino mini-games.

Most of the gameplay takes place on the upper screen, while the lower one is mainly used for the inventory, status screens, and saving. The title was published by Natsume, Inc. and developed by Marvelous Interactive, Inc. It's a role-playing game-simulation and it was released on the DS on September 12, 2006.

HINTS

Easy farming and money

Equip the beginning necklace that you are given to use your tool anywhere. Later, you may purchase the upgraded form from the sprite in the tree that sells items for money (next to the sprite to assign jobs). When you do so, press and keep holding the touch screen longer to show the upgraded effect. In order to use the accessories effect, it will say that it shows your tool's effects anywhere on the map. Seeds, the fishing pole, and all tools will be allowed to be used. Equip and select the map with the stylus on the touch screen. The map on the touch screen is the one that you can chop wood, break boulders, till plants and water seeds at. Next, select the map. On any "farm-able" land, you can use the sickle to remove weeds as well as till soil, plant, water seeds, etc.

The direction you face matters later, when you upgrade your tools and use them with the next-level necklace. The tool's effect will be as if you are facing the touched plot of land, as if you were outside using the tools. Later, a special glove will allow you to do the same by "plucking" the item directly from the touch-screen map to harvest crops without going outside. This allows you to easily fish, farm, etc., because, when you are inside, time does not pass. You are able to use any tool to perform their functions without ever setting foot outside. Combine this trick with the four different energy- and fatigue-restoring drinks that can be purchased from Van on the days ending in a "3" or an "8" on the second floor of the Inn for a maximum duration.

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